- 1905 Pete Browning, American baseball outfielder (AA batting champion 1882, 85 Louisville Eclipse/Colonels; Player's League batting champion 1890 Cleveland Infants), dies of asthenia at 44
- 1924 Walter Lees, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 26 wickets), dies at 48
- 1930 Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricket all-rounder (25 Tests, 4 x 100s, TS 204; Transvaal), dies from self inflicted gas poisoning at 48
Cy Denneny (1891-1970)
Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame left wing (NHL leading scorer 1923-24), dies at 78
- 1972 Sidney Pegler, South African cricket leg spinner (16 Tests), dies at 84
- 1976 John Heaton, American sledder (Olympic silver skeleton 1928, 48, bronze bobsled 1932; American team's flag bearer 1948), dies at 68
- 1978 Ronnie Peterson, Swedish auto racer (World F1 C'ship runner-up 1971, 78), dies in crash during Italian F1 GP at 34
- 1985 Jock Stein, Scottish soccer manager (Dunfermline Athletic, Hibernian, Scotland [1965, 78-85], Celtic, Leeds United), dies from a pulmonary edema at 62
- 1989 Jeff Stollmeyer, West Indian cricket batsman (32 Tests 4 x 100, HS 160; Trinidad & Tobago) and executive (President WI Board of Control 1974-81), dies from wounds suffered in home invasion at 68
- 1991 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 83
- 1995 Molly Hide, English cricketer who captained England for 17 years, dies at 81
Patty Berg (1918-2006)
American golfer (15 major titles, US Open 1946), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 88
- 2022 Frank Cignetti Sr., American College Football HOF coach (West Virginia Uni, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; career college record 199–77–1), dies at 84
- 2023 Hernán Carrasco, Chilean soccer manager (El Salvador; CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1967 Alianza FC, 1969, 70 CD Atlético Marte, 1968 CD Águila), dies at 100
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