This is a list of sports people who have died either during their respective careers or due to career-ending injury or disease at an age when they could still have been active. It includes both on-duty and off-duty deaths, although there are separate lists for the former in sports which have an especially high number. People who had announced their retirement from sport despite still being at an age when they could still have been active are not listed.

Air sport

Does not include those who died in aircraft sport crashes such as aerobatics and air racing

Air racing

- History :The first ever air race was held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1908. The participants piloted the only 4 airships in the U.S. around a course located at Forest Park...

. Those names go in a separate article.

• Carl Boenish
  Carl Boenish
  Carl Boenish considered the father of modern BASE jumping, was a freefall cinematographer, who in 1978 filmed the first jumps from El Capitan using ram-air parachutes. These jumps were repeated, not as a publicity exercise or as a movie stunt, but as a true, recurring recreational activity. This...
  
  , 43, American cinematographer (1984)
• Patrick de Gayardon
  Patrick de Gayardon
  Patrick de Gayardon was a French skydiver, skysurfer and a BASE jumper.De Gayardon was famous for pushing the boundaries of skydiving. He was one of the first people to develop the unique style of skysurfing, in which skydivers use a snowboard to make aerobatic maneuvers...
  
  , 38, French skydiver and aviation pioneer (1998)
• Rob Harris, 28, American skydiver (1995)
• Roger Nelson
  Roger Nelson (skydiver)
  Roger Warren Nelson was a skydiver and founder of Skydive Chicago, the nation's largest skydiver training center.-Freak Brothers:...
  
  , 47, American skydiver (2003)

Arena Football League

• Johnathan Goddard
  Johnathan Goddard
  Jonathan Bruce Goddard was an American defensive end in the National Football League and Arena Football League. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions and also spent time with the Indianapolis Colts and Colorado Crush before his death in a June 2008 motorcycle accident.-Early years:Goddard was born...
  
  , 27, Colorado Crush
  Colorado Crush
  Colorado Crush were an Arena Football League team that began play as a 2003 expansion team. The Crush played in the Central Division of the American Conference until the Arena Football League suspended operations in 2009...
  
  , Defensive End
  Defensive end
  Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...
  
  , motorcycle accident (2008)
• Al Lucas
  Al Lucas
  Albert Lucas was an American football player in the National Football League and Arena Football League who died during a game while playing for the Los Angeles Avengers.-Early life and college career:...
  
  , 26, Los Angeles Avengers
  Los Angeles Avengers
  The Los Angeles Avengers was an Arena Football League team based in Los Angeles, California from 2000 through 2008. They folded on April 19, 2009.-History:...
  
  , Defensive Tackle  fatal neck injury (in-game) (2005)
• Justin Skaggs
  Justin Skaggs
  Justin Skaggs was an American football player. He died at the age of 28 from Stage III Oligodendroglioma, an inoperable brain cancer. He played college football at Evangel University...
  
  , 28, Utah Blaze
  Utah Blaze
  The Utah Blaze is a professional arena football team based in Salt Lake City, Utah and competes in the West division of the Arena Football League. Home games are played at the EnergySolutions Arena.-The original Utah Blaze :...
  
  , Wide Receiver
  Wide receiver
  A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...
  
  , brain cancer (2007)

National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

This table includes players who left the NFL for active military service. Each player is listed with team he last played for before death, rather than the team he spent most of his playing career with.

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year
Gaines Adams Gaines Adams Gaines Adams was an American football defensive end in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round in the 2007 NFL Draft and in 2009 was traded to the Chicago Bears...	26	DE Defensive end Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...	Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	cardiac arrest	2010
Jeff Alm Jeff Alm Jeffrey Lawrence Alm was an American football player who played defensive tackle for the Houston Oilers of the National Football League.-Death:...	25	DT	Houston Oilers Tennessee Titans The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. They are members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 as a charter...	suicide	1993
Ralph Anderson	24	WR Wide receiver A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...	Los Angeles Chargers San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...  (AFL American Football League The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence... )	diabetic reaction	1960
Eric Andolsek Eric Andolsek Eric Thomas Andolsek was an offensive lineman with college football's LSU Tigers and the NFL's Detroit Lions, who died in a freak accident at the age of 25.-College career:...	25	OG	Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	car accident	1992
Troy Archer Troy Archer James Troy Archer was an American football defensive tackle who played three seasons in the National Football League for the New York Giants. He began playing football at age six after his father forged his birth certificate to show he was eight years old. He was killed in an auto accident during...	24	DE Defensive end Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...	New York Giants New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1979
Brad Beckman Brad Beckman Bradley Scott Beckman was an American football tight end in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1988 NFL Draft. Beckman was killed in an...	24	TE Tight end The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...	Atlanta Falcons Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1989
Ricky Bell Ricky Bell (running back) Ricky Lynn Bell younger brother of recording artist Archie Bell, was an American professional football player who played running back in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and San Diego Chargers from 1977 to 1982...	29	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	San Diego Chargers San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	complications of dermatomyositis Dermatomyositis Dermatomyositis is a connective-tissue disease related to polymyositis and Bramaticosis that is characterized by inflammation of the muscles and the skin.- Causes :...	1984
Leon Bender Leon Bender Leon Bender was an American football defensive tackle. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the 1998 NFL Draft out of Washington State in the second round. However, on May 30, 1998, five weeks after the draft, Bender died and would never play an NFL game...	22	DT	Oakland Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	seizure Seizure An epileptic seizure, occasionally referred to as a fit, is defined as a transient symptom of "abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain". The outward effect can be as dramatic as a wild thrashing movement or as mild as a brief loss of awareness...	1998
Al Blozis Al Blozis Albert Charles Blozis was an American football player who died in World War II.-Early life:Blozis was born in Garfield, New Jersey. He attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey where he became well known for throwing the discus and shot put...	26	OT	New York Giants New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	died in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1945
Jerome Brown	27	DT	Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1992
Frank Buncom Frank Buncom Frank James Buncom, Jr. was an American football linebacker in the American Football League .-High school career:Buncom prepped at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles.-Professional career:...	29	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	Cincinnati Bengals Cincinnati Bengals The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...	blood clot	1969
Brandon Burlsworth Brandon burlsworth Brandon Vaughn Burlsworth was an offensive lineman for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team from 1996-1998...	22	OL	Indianapolis Colts Indianapolis Colts The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....	car accident	1999
J.V. Cain	28	TE Tight end The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...	St. Louis Cardinals Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	heart attack	1979
Marcus Cassel	23	DB Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	Carolina Panthers Carolina Panthers The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...	car accident	2006
Rusty Chambers Rusty Chambers Russell Francis Chambers was an American football linebacker. He played for the New Orleans Saints and the Miami Dolphins. He died in a car accident on July 1, 1981, near Hammond, Louisiana.-References:...	22	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	Miami Dolphins Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1981
Marquis Cooper Marquis Cooper Marquis Victor Cooper was an American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft...	26	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	Oakland Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	lost at sea	2009
David Croudip David Croudip David Croudip was an American football defensive back. He played for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers and the Atlanta Falcons. Croudip died on October 10, 1988 at age 28. It was later determined he had ingested a fatal dose of cocaine.-External links:*- New York Times, October 27, 1988...	30	DB Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	Atlanta Falcons Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	drug overdose Drug overdose The term drug overdose describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced...	1988
Rodney Culver	26	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	San Diego Chargers San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	plane crash ValuJet Flight 592 ValuJet Flight 592 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, and William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia...	1996
Shane Curry Shane Curry Shane Clifton Curry was an American football player in the NFL. He graduated from Princeton High School in Sharonville, Ohio. He played for the Georgia Tech and the Miami college football teams...	24	DL	Indianapolis Colts Indianapolis Colts The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....	homicide	1992
Ernie Davis Ernie Davis Ernest "Ernie" Davis was an American football running back and the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy. Wearing number 44, Davis competed collegiately for Syracuse University before being drafted by the Washington Redskins, then almost immediately traded to the Cleveland...	23	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Cleveland Browns Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	leukemia	1963†
Joe Delaney Joe Delaney Joe Alton Delaney was an American football running back who played two seasons in the National Football League . In his two seasons with the Chiefs, Delaney set four franchise records that would stand for over 20 years....	24	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Kansas City Chiefs Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...	drowned	1983
Bo Farrington Bo Farrington John R. "Bo" Farrington was an American football player for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He attended Prairie View A&M University....	28	TE Tight end The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...	Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1964
Don Fleming	25	DB Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	Cleveland Browns Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	accidental electrocution	1963
Willie Galimore Willie Galimore Willie Galimore was an American football running back for the Chicago Bears from 1957-1963. He attended Florida A&M University, working with the legendary coach Jake Gaither...	29	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1964
Blenda Gay Blenda Gay Blenda Glen Gay was a defensive end in the National Football League. He played three seasons in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers and Philadelphia Eagles and is notable for his 1976 murder by his wife Roxanne....	26	DE Defensive end Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...	Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	homicide	1976
Howard Glenn Howard Glenn Howard Earl Glenn was an American collegiate and Professional Football player. He played collegiately at Linfield College and professionally with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and in the American Football League...	26	OG	New York Titans New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...  (AFL American Football League The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence... )	neck injury (in-game)	1960
Larry Gordon Larry Gordon Larry Gordon was a former American football linebacker who played seven seasons in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins...	28	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	Miami Dolphins Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	heart attack	1983
David Griggs	28	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	San Diego Chargers San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1995
Roger Hagberg Roger Hagberg Roger Hagberg was a professional American football player who played running back for five seasons for the Oakland Raiders-References:...	31	TE Tight end The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...	Oakland Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1970
Chris Henry	26	WR Wide receiver A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...	Cincinnati Bengals Cincinnati Bengals The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...	road accident	2009
Thomas Herrion Thomas Herrion Thomas Herrion was an American football player for the San Francisco 49ers. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Herrion, a 6-foot-3 , 310-pound guard, played college football first at Kilgore College at the junior college level before transferring to the University of Utah where he blocked for current...	23	G Guard (American football) In American and Canadian football, a guard is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team....	San Francisco 49ers San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...	Ischaemic heart disease Ischaemic heart disease Ischaemic or ischemic heart disease , or myocardial ischaemia, is a disease characterized by ischaemia of the heart muscle, usually due to coronary artery disease...	2005
Mack Lee Hill Mack Lee Hill Mack Lee Hill was an American college and professional football player. He played running back at Southern University and for the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs for two seasons , before dying while undergoing knee surgery, days after a game against the Buffalo Bills.He made the...	25	FB Fullback (American football) A fullback is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback...	Kansas City Chiefs Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...  (AFL American Football League The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence... )	pulmonary embolism Pulmonary embolism Pulmonary embolism is a blockage of the main artery of the lung or one of its branches by a substance that has travelled from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream . Usually this is due to embolism of a thrombus from the deep veins in the legs, a process termed venous thromboembolism...	1965
Marquise Hill Marquise Hill Marquise Hill was an American football defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Patriots in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft...	24	DE Defensive end Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...	New England Patriots New England Patriots The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...	drowned	2007
Chuck Hughes Chuck Hughes Charles Frederick "Chuck" Hughes was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League from 1967 to 1971. He is, to date, the only NFL player to die on the field during a game.-Early years:...	28	WR Wide receiver A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...	Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	cardiac arrest (in-game)	1971
Stone Johnson Stone Johnson Stone Johnson was an Olympic sprinting athlete and American football kick returner/running back for the Kansas City Chiefs....	23	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Kansas City Chiefs Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...  (AFL American Football League The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence... )	neck injury (in-game)	1963††
Bob Kalsu Bob Kalsu James Robert "Bob" Kalsu was an All-American tackle at the University of Oklahoma and an eighth-round draft pick by the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League in 1968....	25	OL	Buffalo Bills Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...  (AFL American Football League The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence... )	killed in Vietnam War Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...	1970
Fred Lane	24	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Carolina Panthers Carolina Panthers The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...	homicide	2000
Bob Laraba Bob Laraba Robert Edward "Bob" Laraba was an American collegiate and Professional Football linebacker and quarterback who played college football at Texas-El Paso and professionally in the American Football League. He played for the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers...	28	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	San Diego Chargers San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1962
Eugene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb Eugene Lipscomb Eugene Allen Lipscomb was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League and a professional wrestler.-Early life:...	31	DT	Pittsburgh Steelers Pittsburgh Steelers The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...	drug overdose	1963
Jack Lummus Jack Lummus Andrew Jackson Lummus, Jr. was a two-sport athlete at Baylor University, a professional football player with the New York Giants, and an officer in the United States Marine Corps...	29	end	New York Giants New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	killed in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... , Received Medal of Honor	1945
Stan Mauldin Stan Mauldin Stanley Hubert Mauldin was a professional American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Chicago Cardinals. He died of a heart attack after a game against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1948. His number 77 is retired by the Cardinals.-External links:...	27	T	Chicago Cardinals Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	heart attack	1948
Kenny McKinley Kenny McKinley Kendrick L. McKinley was an American football wide receiver for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Broncos in the fifth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at South Carolina.-Early years:Born in Mableton, Georgia, he graduated from South...	23	WR Wide receiver A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...	Denver Broncos Denver Broncos The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	suicide	2010
Damien Nash Damien Nash Damien Darnell Nash was an American football player who was a running back for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He died after the 2006-2007 season, his only season with the Broncos....	24	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Denver Broncos Denver Broncos The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	cardiac failure	2007
Ralph Norwood Ralph Norwood Ralph E. Norwood was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He played 11 games Atlanta Falcons in 1989. He was killed in an automobile accident.- Birth :Ralph E...	23	OT	Atlanta Falcons Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1989
David Overstreet David Overstreet David Arthur Overstreet was a running back in the Canadian Football League and National Football League.A native of Big Sandy, Texas, Overstreet prepped at Big Sandy High School, where one of his teammates was Lovie Smith. Big Sandy won three consecutive Class B state championships 1973-75...	25	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Miami Dolphins Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1984
Brian Piccolo	26	FB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	cancer	1970
Ron Rector Ron Rector Ronald S. Rector was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers, the Washington Redskins, and the Atlanta Falcons...	24	RB Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	Atlanta Falcons Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	motorcycle accident	1968
Lucien Reeberg	21	OT	Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	heart attack	1964
Don Rogers	23	FS	Cleveland Browns Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	drug overdose	1986
Corey Smith Corey Smith Corey Dominique Smith was an American football defensive end. He was originally signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2002...	29	DE Defensive end Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...	Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	lost at sea	2009
Dave Sparks Dave Sparks David Walter Sparks was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins...	26	DT	Washington Redskins Washington Redskins The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...	heart attack	1954
Andy Spiva	24	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	Atlanta Falcons Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1979
Korey Stringer Korey Stringer Korey Damont Stringer was an American football player who died from complications brought on by heat stroke, during training camp in Mankato, Minnesota while in training camp with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.-College career:Stringer was born in Warren, Ohio and attended...	27	OT	Minnesota Vikings Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...	heat stroke during practice	2001
Sean Taylor Sean Taylor Sean Michael Maurice Taylor was an American football free safety who played for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. Taylor was drafted in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Redskins...	24	FS	Washington Redskins Washington Redskins The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...	homicide	2007
Derrick Thomas Derrick Thomas Derrick Vincent Thomas , nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League . He played his entire 11-year career for the Chiefs after being drafted fourth overall in the 1989 NFL Draft...	33	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	Kansas City Chiefs Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...	complications from a spinal cord injury suffered in a car accident	2000
Pat Tillman Pat Tillman Corporal Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman Jr. was an American football player who left his professional career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. He joined the Army Rangers and served several tours in combat before he died in the...	27	LB Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	Arizona Cardinals Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	killed in duty in Afganistan	2004
Stacey Toran Stacey Toran Stacey Toran was an American football defensive back. He played for the Los Angeles Raiders for five seasons. He was killed in an automobile accident. A native of Indianapolis and a graduate of Broad Ripple High School, Toran was a member of the Broad Ripple 1980 IHSAA Boys' Basketball State...	27	DB Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	Los Angeles Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1989
Eric Turner Eric Turner Eric Ray Turner was a defensive back who played for the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens and the Oakland Raiders. He died of intestinal cancer at the age of 31, two weeks after claiming he was not gravely ill...	31	DB Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	Oakland Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	stomach cancer Stomach cancer Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...	2000
Fred Washington Fred Washington (defensive tackle) Fred Earl Washington was a professional American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. for one season for the Chicago Bears. He was killed in a car accident during his rookie season.-External links:...	23	DT	Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	car accident	1990
Dave Waymer Dave Waymer David Benjamin Waymer, Jr. was an American football defensive back in the NFL.Waymer graduated from West Charlotte High School in 1976. He played college football at Notre Dame, graduating in 1980, and was drafted in the 1980 NFL Draft in the second round by the New Orleans Saints, where he...	34	DB Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	Los Angeles Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	heart attack Myocardial infarction Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...	1993
Darrent Williams Darrent Williams Darrent Demarcus Williams was an American football player for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Williams was also the owner and CEO of independent record label RYNO Entertainment in Fort Worth, Texas.-High school:Born and raised in Fort Worth, Williams attended O.D...	24	CB Cornerback A cornerback is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in American and Canadian football. Cornerbacks cover receivers, to defend against pass offenses and make tackles. Other members of the defensive backfield include the safeties and occasionally linebackers. The cornerback position...	Denver Broncos Denver Broncos The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...	homicide	2007

† Davis was under contract when he died though did not play in a game due to his illness.

†† Johnson was injured in a pre-season game and did not play in a regular season game.

NFL Europe

NFL Europe

NFL Europe was an American football league which operated in Europe from 1991 until 2007. Backed by the National Football League , the largest professional American football league in the United States, it was founded as the World League of American Football to serve as a type of spring league...

• Donald Sellers
  Donald Sellers
  Donald Ray Sellers was an American football player, playing professionally at wide receiver for the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe....
  
  , 26, WR
  Wide receiver
  A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...
  
  , Scottish Claymores
  Scottish Claymores
  The Scottish Claymores were an American football team from Scotland. The franchise played in the World League of American Football between 1995 and 2004, initially playing all home games at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh and latterly sharing home games with Hampden Park, Glasgow...
  
  , car accident (2001)

XFL

XFL

The XFL was a professional American football league that played for one season in 2001. The league was founded by Vince McMahon, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of WWE...

• Troy Stark
  Troy Stark
  Troy Stark was an American football offensive lineman. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1996, and was traded to the New York Jets before the regular season began. He played one season for the Jets and was released after training camp in 1997...
  
  , 28, OL, New York/New Jersey Hitmen
  New York/New Jersey Hitmen
  The New York/New Jersey Hitmen were a short-lived American football team based in Giants Stadium of the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey....
  
  , complications from surgery (2001)

NCAA football

Player	Age	University	Position	Cause of death	Year
Sal Aunese Sal Aunese Siasau "Sal" Aunese was a college football player who played for the University of Colorado. Aunese was from Oceanside, California in San Diego County and was of Samoan descent...	21	University of Colorado Colorado Buffaloes football The Colorado Buffaloes football program represents the University of Colorado at Boulder in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level. The team is currently a member of the Pacific-12 Conference, having previously been a charter member of the Big 12 Conference. Before joining the Big 12,...	quarterback	stomach cancer Stomach cancer Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...	1989
Avery Atkins Avery Atkins Avery Atkins was an American football cornerback. A highly touted prospect, he attended the University of Florida in his freshman season, but legal trouble cut his football career short. He died from an Ecstasy overdose in 2007....	20	University of Florida Florida Gators football The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference...	Cornerback Cornerback A cornerback is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in American and Canadian football. Cornerbacks cover receivers, to defend against pass offenses and make tackles. Other members of the defensive backfield include the safeties and occasionally linebackers. The cornerback position...	MDMA overdose Drug overdose The term drug overdose describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced...	2007
Eraste Autin	18	University of Florida Florida Gators football The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference...	fullback Fullback (American football) A fullback is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback...	heat stroke	2001
Marlin Barnes	22	University of Miami Miami Hurricanes football The Miami Hurricanes football program competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the University of Miami. The program began in 1926 and has won five AP national championships...		homicide	1996
Nick Bell	20	Mississippi State University Mississippi State Bulldogs football The Mississippi State Bulldogs football program represents Mississippi State University in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing as a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference. Mississippi State has produced 38 All-Americans, 171 All-SEC selections, and 124...	defensive end Defensive end Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...	brain cancer	2010
Heath Benedict Heath Benedict Heath Benedict was a Dutch American football player. An offensive tackle, Benedict was considered to be one of the top offensive linemen prospects for the 2008 NFL Draft....	24	Newberry College Newberry College Newberry College is a liberal-arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located on a historic campus in Newberry, South Carolina.The college has 1,025 students and a 19:1 student-teacher ratio...	offensive tackle	enlarged heart	2008
Brook Berringer Brook Berringer Brook Warren Berringer was an American quarterback for the University of Nebraska football team in the mid-1990s. Berringer came to Nebraska from Goodland, Kansas, and played a back-up role to Tommie Frazier...	22	University of Nebraska Nebraska Cornhuskers football The Nebraska Cornhuskers represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in college football. The program has established itself as a traditional powerhouse, and has the fourth-most all-time victories of any NCAA Division I-A team. Nebraska is one of only six football programs in NCAA Division I-A...	quarterback Quarterback Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...	plane crash	1996
Kendall Berry	22	Florida International University FIU Golden Panthers football The FIU Golden Panthers football team represent Florida International University in Miami, Florida in the sport of college football. The FIU Panthers are a mid-major NCAA FBS college football team in the Sun Belt Conference led by Mario Cristobal and play at the on-campus FIU Stadium.-History:On...		homicide (stabbed)	2010
Austin Box	22	University of Oklahoma Oklahoma Sooners football The Oklahoma Sooners football program is a college football team that represents the University of Oklahoma . The team is currently a member of the Big 12 Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...	linebacker Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	drug overdose Drug overdose The term drug overdose describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced...	2011
Thomas E. Bloom	21	Purdue University Purdue Boilermakers Boilermakers is the official nickname for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Purdue University. As is common with athletic nicknames, it is also used as colloquial designation of Purdue's students and alumni at large....	fullback	car accident Car accident A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...	1963
Taylor Bradford	21	University of Memphis Memphis Tigers football The Memphis Tigers football team represents the University of Memphis in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. The Tigers compete in Conference USA...	defensive tackle	homicide	2007
Teddy Craft	22	Georgia Southern University Georgia Southern Eagles football The Georgia Southern Eagles represent Georgia Southern University in football as part of the Southern Conference under head coach Jeff Monken. The Eagles have won an unprecedented six FCS national championships and eight Southern Conference championships and have produced two Walter Payton Award...	wide receiver	motorcycle accident	2009
Mario Danelo Mario Danelo Mario Danelo was an American college football placekicker.-High school career:Danelo was an all–Los Angeles linebacker at San Pedro High School in San Pedro, California. Danelo was also a fullback and kicker at his high school...	21	USC	kicker	fell off a cliff Point Fermin Light -History:The original fourth order Fresnel lens was removed in 1942 and a wood replica lantern was installed in 1974. The lighthouse was saved from demolition in 1972 and refurbished in 1974, and a new lantern room and gallery were built by local preservationists...	2007
Devaughn Darling	19	Florida State University Florida State Seminoles football The Florida State Seminoles football team represents Florida State University in college football. The Florida State Seminoles compete in NCAA Division I-FBS and are members of the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference...	linebacker Linebacker A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...	cardiac arrhythmia, possible sickle cell complications	2001
Berndt Diettrich		Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser Clan Simon Fraser Clan are the athletic teams that represent Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.SFU's teams formerly played in the United States National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for all sports. In 1997, Simon Fraser sought to join the U.S. NCAA as a Division II...		drowned as a result of heart failure
Keeley Dorsey	19	University of South Florida South Florida Bulls football The South Florida Bulls are a Division I FBS college football program that plays its home games in Tampa, Florida. The team began playing in 1997, holding its first team meeting under a shade tree as the school had no proper football facilities on campus...		long QT syndrome Long QT syndrome The long QT syndrome is a rare inborn heart condition in which delayed repolarization of the heart following a heartbeat increases the risk of episodes of torsade de pointes . These episodes may lead to palpitations, fainting and sudden death due to ventricular fibrillation...	2007
Kwane Doster	21	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt Commodores football The Vanderbilt Commodores football program is a college football team that represents Vanderbilt University. The team currently competes in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Southeastern Conference...	running back Running back A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...	homicide Homicide Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...	2004
Aaron Douglas	21	University of Alabama Alabama Crimson Tide football |TeamName = Alabama football |Image = Alabama Crimson Tide Logo.svg |ImageSize = 110 |Helmet = Alabama Football.png |ImageSize2 = 150 |CurrentSeason = 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide football team...	offensive tackle	found dead in a house in Fernandina Beach, Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...	2011
Todd Doxey	19	University of Oregon Oregon Ducks football The Oregon Ducks football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of Oregon located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The team competes at the NCAA Division I level in the Football Bowl Subdivision and is a member of the Pacific-12 Conference. Known as the Ducks, the...	defensive back Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	drowned	2008
Trent DiGiuro	20	University of Kentucky Kentucky Wildcats football The Kentucky Wildcats football team is a college football program that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the East Division of the Southeastern Conference.-History:Paul "Bear" Bryant Era...		homicide	1994
Butch Duhe	21	Louisiana State University LSU Tigers football The LSU Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, represents Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States in NCAA Division I FBS college football. Current head coach Les Miles has led the team since 2005. Since 1999 when Nick Saban took over as...		brain hemorrhage	1970
Brandon Fails	18	Texas A&M Texas A&M Aggies football The Texas A&M Aggies football team represents Texas A&M University in college football. The Aggies have competed in the Big 12 Conference since the conference's inception in 1996. They will join the Southeastern Conference in July 2012. Texas A&M football has earned one national title and 18...		blood clot in leg Venous thrombosis A venous thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a vein. A venous thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a vein. A venous thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a vein. (Thrombosis is a medical term for blood clotting (Haemostasis) occurring in the wrong place, i.e...	2002
George Gipp George Gipp George "The Gipper" Gipp was a college football player who played for the University of Notre Dame. Gipp was selected as Notre Dame's first All-American and is Notre Dame's second consensus All-American , after Gus Dorais. Gipp played multiple positions, most notably halfback, quarterback, and...	25	Notre Dame Notre Dame Fighting Irish football Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the football team of the University of Notre Dame. The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly.Notre Dame competes as an Independent at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level, and is a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series coalition. It is an...		strep throat infection Infection An infection is the colonization of a host organism by parasite species. Infecting parasites seek to use the host's resources to reproduce, often resulting in disease...  and pneumonia Pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...	1920
Vernon Grant	22	Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State Cowboys football The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program represents Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in college football. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference and completes at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. The Cowboys are led by Mike Gundy, who is in his seventh year as...		car crash	2005
Michael Guliford	19	University of Florida Florida Gators football The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference...		motorcycle accident	2007
Brandon Hall	19	University of Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers football The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers are one of the oldest programs in college football history. They compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. The Golden Gophers have claimed six national championships and have an all time record of 646–481–44 as...		homicide (shooting)	2002
Danroy “DJ’’ Henry Jr.	20	Pace University	wide receiver and defensive back	killed in police shooting	2010
Brian Hiemer	21	University of Nebraska Nebraska Cornhuskers football The Nebraska Cornhuskers represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in college football. The program has established itself as a traditional powerhouse, and has the fourth-most all-time victories of any NCAA Division I-A team. Nebraska is one of only six football programs in NCAA Division I-A...		suicide	1985
Jasper Howard Jasper Howard Jasper Tyrone Howard , was a cornerback for the University of Connecticut Huskies from 2007 to 2009. He was fatally stabbed on October 18, 2009, hours after UConn's win over the Louisville Cardinals.- Early life :...	20	University of Connecticut Connecticut Huskies football The Connecticut Huskies football team is a collegiate football team that competes in NCAA Division I-A and the Big East Conference. Connecticut first fielded a team in 1896, and participated in Division I-AA until 1999. The Huskies began their two-year Division I-A transition period in 2000, and...		homicide (stabbed)	2009
Jawan Jackson	19	Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois Huskies football The Northern Illinois Huskies football team represents Northern Illinois University in the Mid-American Conference of the NCAA's Division I-Football Bowl Subdivision.-History:...		died during conditioning drills	2002
Sean Matti	22	Purdue University Purdue Boilermakers football The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...	Running Back	drowned in lake	2011
Chucky Mullins Chucky Mullins Roy Lee "Chucky" Mullins was an American football player at Ole Miss best known for the devastating football injury that left him a quadriplegic....	21	University of Mississippi Ole Miss Rebels football The football history of the University of Mississippi , includes the formation of the first football team in the state and is 26th on the list of college football's all-time winning programs...		complications from a spinal cord injury Spinal cord injury A spinal cord injury refers to any injury to the spinal cord that is caused by trauma instead of disease. Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged, the symptoms can vary widely, from pain to paralysis to incontinence...  suffered in an on-field collision in 1989	1991
Naeshall D. Menard	20	Louisiana State University LSU Tigers football The LSU Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, represents Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States in NCAA Division I FBS college football. Current head coach Les Miles has led the team since 2005. Since 1999 when Nick Saban took over as...	Center	suicide	1998
Aaron O'Neil	19	University of Missouri Missouri Tigers football The Missouri Tigers football team represents the University of Missouri in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The team has competed in the North Division of the Big 12 Conference since the conference's inception in 1996...	defensive back Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	heat stroke	2005
Greg Page	19	University of Kentucky Kentucky Wildcats football The Kentucky Wildcats football team is a college football program that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the East Division of the Southeastern Conference.-History:Paul "Bear" Bryant Era...	defensive end	neck injury sustained in practice	1967
Bryan Pata Bryan Pata Bryan Sidney Pata was an American football defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes and was majoring in criminology.-Career:...	22	University of Miami Miami Hurricanes football The Miami Hurricanes football program competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the University of Miami. The program began in 1926 and has won five AP national championships...		homicide	2006
Cole Pittman	21	University of Texas Texas Longhorns football The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate football team representing The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. The team currently competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National...	defensive tackle	car crash	2001
Ereck Plancher	19	University of Central Florida	athlete	heat stroke	2008
Greg Pratt	20	Auburn University Auburn Tigers football Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...	fullback	collapsed on practice field	1983
Mike Reily	21	Williams College	center and middle linebacker	Hodgkin's disease	1964
Joe Roth Joe Roth (American football) Joe Roth was a college football player, an All-American quarterback at the University of California, Berkeley. Roth played the 1976 season with melanoma and died 3 months after his last regular season game , in February 1977...	21	University of California	Berkeley California Golden Bears football The California Golden Bears football team is the college football team of the University of California. The team plays its home games at California Memorial Stadium, however the team played at San Francisco's AT&T Park in 2011 while Memorial Stadium was being renovated, the team will return to...	melanoma Melanoma Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes. Melanocytes are cells that produce the dark pigment, melanin, which is responsible for the color of skin. They predominantly occur in skin, but are also found in other parts of the body, including the bowel and the eye...	1977
John "Button" Salmon	22	University of Arizona Arizona Wildcats football The Arizona Wildcats football team is the football team of the University of Arizona, located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The team competes in the Pacific-12 Conference at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level.-Early years:...	quarterback	car crash	1926
Daniel Schatz	19	University of Missouri Missouri Tigers football The Missouri Tigers football team represents the University of Missouri in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The team has competed in the North Division of the Big 12 Conference since the conference's inception in 1996...	quarterback	car accident	2010
Derek Sheely	22	Frostburg State University Frostburg State University Frostburg State University is a four-year university located on a campus in Frostburg, Maryland, in Western Maryland, and is part of the University System of Maryland. FSU is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.-History:...	fullback	brain injury from a helmet-to-helmet hit in practice	2011
Shannon Smith	20	University of Hawaii	kicker	drowned	1997
Freddie Steinmark	22	University of Texas Texas Longhorns football The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate football team representing The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. The team currently competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National...	defensive back Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	osteosarcoma Osteosarcoma Osteosarcoma is an aggressive cancerous neoplasm arising from primitive transformed cells of mesenchymal origin that exhibit osteoblastic differentiation and produce malignant osteoid...	1971
Artie Steinmetz	19	University of Kentucky Kentucky Wildcats football The Kentucky Wildcats football team is a college football program that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the East Division of the Southeastern Conference.-History:Paul "Bear" Bryant Era...	defensive tackle	vehicular homicide	1998
Rodney Stowers	20	Mississippi State University	nose guard	pulmonary hemorrhage after suffering a broken leg in a game	1991
Owen Thomas	21	University of Pennsylvania Penn Quakers football The Penn Quakers football team is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. The Penn Quakers have competed in the Ivy League since its inaugural season of 1956, and are currently a Division I Football Championship Subdivision member of the National...	defensive end Defensive end Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...	suicide	2010
Jack Trice Jack Trice Johnny "Jack" Trice was a football player who became the first African-American athlete from Iowa State College...	21	Iowa State University Iowa State Cyclones football The Iowa State Cyclones football team represents Iowa State University in college football. The Cyclones compete in the Big 12 Conference in the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. ISU started playing football in 1892, however, it did not become an official sport until 1894...		lung hemorrhage and internal bleeding due to injuries sustained in game against the University of Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers football The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers are one of the oldest programs in college football history. They compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. The Golden Gophers have claimed six national championships and have an all time record of 646–481–44 as...	1923
Garrett Uekman	19	University of Arkansas Arkansas Razorbacks football The Arkansas Razorbacks football program is a college football team that represents the University of Arkansas. The team is a member of the Southeastern Conference's Western Division, which is in Division I's Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...	tight end Tight end The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...	cardiac arrest Cardiac arrest Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...	2011
McCollins Umeh	18	University of Arizona Arizona Wildcats football The Arizona Wildcats football team is the football team of the University of Arizona, located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The team competes in the Pacific-12 Conference at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level.-Early years:...		enlarged heart	2004
Rashidi Wheeler	22	Northwestern University Northwestern Wildcats football The Northwestern Wildcats football team, representing Northwestern University, is a NCAA Division I team and member of the Big Ten Conference, with evidence of organization in 1876...	defensive back	heat stroke	2001
Curtis Williams	24	University of Washington Washington Huskies football College football has a long history at the University of Washington. The Washington Huskies have won 15 Pacific-10 Conference championships, seven Rose Bowl titles, and three national championships. Washington's all-time record of 653-398-50 ranks 20th by all-time winning percentage and 21st by...		complications from a spinal cord injury Spinal cord injury A spinal cord injury refers to any injury to the spinal cord that is caused by trauma instead of disease. Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged, the symptoms can vary widely, from pain to paralysis to incontinence...  suffered in an on-field collision in 2000	2001
Earl Wilson	24	US Naval Academy Navy Midshipmen football The Navy Midshipmen football team represents the United States Naval Academy in NCAA Division I-A college football. They are a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision independent school and coached by Ken Niumatalolo since December 2007...	quarterback	neck injury sustained in a game against Villanova University Villanova Wildcats football The Villanova Wildcats football program represents Villanova University in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision . The Wildcats play at Villanova Stadium with capacity of 12,500.-History:...  in 1909	1910
Marcellis Williamson	22	Ohio University Ohio Bobcats football The Ohio Bobcats football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Ohio University. The team represents the university as a member of the Mid-American Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the Division 1 Bowl Subdivision level...	defensive lineman	heart attack	2011

• Marshall University
  Marshall University
  Marshall University is a coeducational public research university in Huntington, West Virginia, United States founded in 1837, and named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States....
  
   Thundering Herd football team
  Marshall Thundering Herd football
  The Marshall Thundering Herd football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Marshall University. The team represents the university as a member of the Conference USA Eastern division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the Division 1 Bowl Subdivision...
  
  , 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970)
• Wichita State University
  Wichita State University
  Wichita State University is a NCAA Division I public university in Wichita, Kansas with selective admissions. WSU is one of six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The current president is Dr. Donald Beggs....
  
   Shockers football team, most of the starting players and coaches died in an airplane crash
  Wichita State University football team plane crash
  The Wichita State University football team plane crash refers to a 1970 plane crash. On Friday October 2 in that year, at 1:14 p.m., a Martin 4-0-4 aircraft flown by Golden Eagle Aviation crashed into a mountain eight miles west of Silver Plume, Colorado...
  
   (1970)
• Cal Poly
  Cal Poly Mustangs football
  The Mustang football team is the college football team of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. The team plays its home games in Alex G. Spanos Stadium. The current head coach is Tim Walsh, who began his tenure in 2009....
  
   Mustangs football team, 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash
  Cal Poly football team plane crash
  The Cal Poly football team plane crash occurred on October 29, 1960, at 22:02 EST, when a twin-engine C-46 propliner, registration N1244N, operated as a domestic charter flight by Arctic Pacific, carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team, crashed on takeoff at the Toledo...
  
   (1960)

Association football (soccer)

Does not include footballers who died on the pitch during a game or training, or because of injuries or other health issues suffered on the pitch. Those names go in a separate article. Please refer to the article List of footballers who died while playing.

Player	Age	Nationality	Position	Cause of death	Year
Nikolai Abramov	27	Russian	defender	heart failure	2011
Martin Aldridge Martin Aldridge Martin James Aldridge was an English professional footballer.-Playing career:Northampton-born Aldridge joined Coventry City as a schoolboy, but was released in 1990. As a sixteen year old, he then played for Ford Sports Daventry , and joined Braunston Rangers on a Sunday to play with his brother...	25	English	forward	car accident	2000
Alemão	23	Brazilian	striker	car accident	2007
George Allan George Allan (footballer) George Allan was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool in the late 19th century.-Life and playing career:...	24	Scottish	forward	tuberculosis	1899
John Allan		Scottish		Battle of Arras Battle of Arras (1917) The Battle of Arras was a British offensive during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German trenches near the French city of Arras on the Western Front....	1917
Shalva Apkhazava	23	Georgian	striker	heart attack	2004
Georgi Asparuhov Georgi Asparuhov Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....	28	Bulgarian	striker	car accident	1971
Valerio Bacigalupo Valerio Bacigalupo Valerio Bacigalupo was an Italian association football goalkeeper from Vado Ligure, Savona. He started his career with home province side Savona. After a brief spell at Genoa he moved to Torino where he won Serie A four times in a row.Bacigalupo older brother, Manlio Bacigalupo, also played...	25	Italian	goalkeeper	Superga air disaster Superga air disaster The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, 4 May 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the...	1949
Aldo Ballarin Aldo Ballarin Aldo Ballarin was an Italian football player.He played for 5 seasons in the Serie A for U.S. Triestina Calcio and A.C...	27	Italian	defender	Superga air disaster	1949
Dino Ballarin	23	Italian	goalkeeper	Superga air disaster	1949
Harry Bamford Harry Bamford Henry Charles "Harry" Bamford was a professional footballer, who played for Bristol Rovers for his entire professional career...	38	English	defender	motorcycle accident	1958
Maurice Banach Maurice Banach Maurice "Mucki" Banach was a German footballer.-Biography:Banach was the son of a German seaman and an American GI, and rose to become one of the most hopeful talents in 1980s German football....	24	German	striker	car accident	1991
Patrick Banda Patrick Banda Patrick Banda was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-References:...	22	Zambian	striker	Gabon air disaster	1993
Mike Barrett Mike Barrett (footballer) Michael John 'Mike' Barrett was a professional footballer who played for Bristol Rovers from 1979 until his death in 1984.-Early life:Barrett was born in Bristol and was a pupil at St Bede's Catholic College until 1978...	24	English	winger	cancer	1984
Elson Becerra Elson Becerra Elson Evelio Becerra Vaca was a Colombian footballer.A national team player, Becerra participated in the 2001 Copa America as well as the 2003 Confederations Cup, where he became noted for trying to save the life of the collapsed Marc-Vivien Foé...	27	Colombian	striker	homicide	2006
Mario Beltrán	23	Colombian	midfielder	car accident	2009
Julio César Benítez Julio César Benítez Julio César Benítez Amodeo was an Uruguayan footballer, known for his time in FC Barcelona from 1961 until his surprising death in 1968....	27	Uruguayan	defender	food poisoning	1968
Geoff Bent Geoff Bent Geoffrey "Geoff" Bent was an English footballer and one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster.-Career:...	25	English	defender	Munich air disaster Munich air disaster The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes",...	1958
Filippo Biondi	20	Italian	defender	car accident	1996
Einar Örn Birgisson	27	Icelandic	midfielder	homicide	2000
Milo Bongiorni	28	French	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
Luc Borrelli Luc Borrelli Luc Borrelli was a French football goalkeeper.-Career:Borrelli was born in Marseille and began his career with ASPTT Marseille. In 1986 he moved to Toulon, where he played almost 150 times...	33	French	goalkeeper	car accident	1999
Othman Boughanmi		Tunisian	defender	heart defect
Gary Bownes	26	Northern Irish	striker	suicide	2005
James Boyd		Scottish		Battle of the Somme	1916
Robert Bradley		English	defender	died during his sleep	1934
Thomas Bradshaw	26	English	winger	consumption Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...	1899
Shane Brennan	23	Irish	winger	collapsing roof accident	2005
Shamil Burziyev Shamil Burziyev Shamil Gasanovich Burziyev was a Russian professional football player.-Club career:Dagestan- born Burziyev played the majority of his career in the lower leagues of Russian football. With Anzhi he also featured in the Russian Premier League and helped them to avoid relegation after reaching the...	25	Russian	midfielder	car accident	2010
Richard Butcher	29	English	midfielder	cardiac arrhythmia	2011
Barry Butler	31	English	defender	car accident	1966
Roger Byrne Roger Byrne Roger William Byrne was an English footballer and captain of Manchester United F.C.. He died at the age of 28 in the Munich air disaster....	28	English	defender	Munich air disaster	1958
Eusebio Castigliano Eusebio Castigliano Eusebio Castigliano was an Italian international footballer who played as a midfielder.-Career:Castigliano played professional club football for Pro Vercelli, Spezia, Biellese and Torino where he was part of the Grande Torino team that won four consecutive league titles.Castigliano also earned...	28	Italian	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
Ramiro Castillo	31	Bolivian	midfielder	suicide	1997
Luciano Re Cecconi Luciano Re Cecconi Luciano Re Cecconi was an Italian midfield footballer, who was nicknamed l'Angelo Biondo — 'The Blond Angel' — for the colour of his hair....	28	Italian	midfielder	shot during practical joke	1977
David Efford Chabala David Chabala David Efford Chabala , popularly known as Efford Chabala was Zambia's first choice goalkeeper from 1983 until his death in a plane crash off the Gabonese coast in 1993 and is probably Zambia’s most capped player, an achievement which has often been attributed to Kalusha Bwalya, his former team...	33	Zambian	goalkeeper	Gabon air disaster	1993
Whiteson Changwe Whiteson Changwe Whiteson Changwe was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-References:...	23	Zambian	defender	Gabon air disaster	1993
Wisdom Mumba Chansa Wisdom Mumba Chansa Wisdom Mumba Chansa was a football player who began his career in the youth team at Zambian club side Rokana United before moving to their city rivals Power Dynamos FC. He soon established himself in the Power Dynamos side. He first played as an out-and-out striker before he adapted himself to a...	29	Zambian	midfielder	Gabon air disaster	1993
Moses Chikwalakwala Moses Chikwalakwala Moses Chikwalakwala was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-References:...	19	Zambian	midfielder	Gabon air disaster	1993
Samuel Chomba Samuel Chomba Samuel Chomba was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:Choma played club football for Kabwe Warriors F.C...	29	Zambian	defender	Gabon air disaster	1993
Andriy Chopenko	26	Ukrainian	midfielder	car accident	2003
Dave Clement Dave Clement Dave Clement was a football player. Clement was a right fullback who developed with Queens Park Rangers through the club's youth set-up...	34	English	defender	suicide	1982
Ludo Coeck Ludo Coeck Ludovic Coeck was a Flemish-Belgian footballer who played as left winger or central midfielder. His clubs included Berchem Sport, Anderlecht, Internazionale and Ascoli Calcio...	30	Belgian	midfielder	car accident	1985
Eddie Colman Eddie Colman Edward "Eddie" Colman was an English football player and one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster....	21	English	midfielder	Munich air disaster	1958
Ernie Cooksey Ernie Cooksey Ernest George Cooksey was an English footballer, who was described as a utility player. He could play as a left-sided defender and midfielder as well as in a central-midfield role. He started as a trainee with Colchester United, before joining non-League clubs Heybridge Swifts, Bishop's Stortford,...	28	English	midfielder	skin cancer	2008
Davie Cooper Davie Cooper David "Davie" Cooper was a professional football player. He was a Scotland international and played as a left winger....	39	Scottish	winger	brain haemorrhage	1995
Hernan Córdoba	19	Colombian	striker	car accident	2009
Federico Crescentini Federico Crescentini Federico Crescentini was a Sammarinese football Defender. He was international with his country in eight opportunities.-Club career:...	24	San Marinese	defender	drowned	2006
Enrico Cucchi Enrico Cucchi Enrico Cucchi was an Italian professional football player.His father Piero Cucchi also played football professionally.-External links:*...	30	Italian	midfielder	cancer	1996
Laurie Cunningham Laurie Cunningham Laurence Paul "Laurie" Cunningham was an England international footballer. When he joined Real Madrid, he became the first English player in the club's history....	33	English	striker	car accident	1989
Duncan Currie		Scottish		Battle of the Somme	1916
Mattia Dal Bello Mattia Dal Bello Mattia Dal Bello was an Italian professional football player.He played his only Serie A game on May 24, 2003, the last game of the 2002/03 season for A.C. Milan against Piacenza Calcio...	20	Italian	midfielder	car accident	2004
Vitaly Daraselia Vitaly Daraselia Vitaly Kuhinović Daraselia was a Georgian football player.Born to a Georgian father and Abkhaz mother, Daraselia played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi and Soviet Union national team...	25	Soviet	striker	car accident	1982
Alan Davies Alan Davies (footballer) Alan Davies was an English-born Welsh international footballer whose regular position was on the right wing, although he could also play on the left. Davies began his football career with Manchester United, before spending time with Newcastle United, Charlton Athletic, Carlisle United, Swansea...	30	Welsh	winger	suicide	1992
Jimmy Davis Jimmy Davis (footballer) James Roger William "Jimmy" Davis was a footballer who played for Manchester United, Royal Antwerp, Swindon Town and Watford, as well as the England youth teams, who was killed in a car crash on the M40 in Oxfordshire on 9 August 2003, aged 21, when twice over the drink-drive limit.-Career:Davis...	21	English	winger	car accident	2003
Ruud Degenaar	25	Dutch-Suriname	defender	Surinam air disaster	1989
Sébastien Demeersman	37	Belgian	winger	suicide	2008
Dener Dener Dener Augusto de Sousa, usually known simply as Dener , was a Brazilian football center-forward...	23	Brazilian	striker	car accident	1994
Kazimierz Deyna Kazimierz Deyna Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish footballer, who played as an offensive midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation.-Early life:...	41	Polish	midfielder	car accident	1989
Vladimir Dimitrijević	20	Serbian	defender	heart attack	2001
Danilo di Vincenzo Danilo Di Vincenzo Danilo Di Vincenzo was an Italian footballer. He played as a striker. He played in Serie B with Cosenza and Castel di Sangro and in Serie C with various other teams. He died in the morning of 10 December 1996 in a car accident.-External links:* *...	28	Italian	striker	car accident	1996
Stan Docking		English	midfielder	heart attack
Lloyd Doesburg Lloyd Doesburg Lloyd Doesburg was a Dutch football goalkeeper. During his career he served Elinkwijk, Vitesse, Excelsior Rotterdam and AFC Ajax...	29	Dutch-Suriname	goalkeeper	Surinam air disaster	1989
Hussein Dokmak Hussein Dokmak Hussein Dokmak was an association football player who died from the results of a car bomb outside the Al Manara Stadium in which Lebanese politician Walid Eido was killed...	25	Lebanese	defender	car bomb	2007
Steve van Dorpel Steve van Dorpel Steven van Dorpel was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he played for FC Volendam....	23	Dutch-Suriname	striker	Surinam air disaster	1989
Marcio Dos Santos	28	Peruvian	striker	heart attack	2002
Ibrahim Dossey Ibrahim Dossey Ibrahim Dossey was a Ghanaian football goalkeeper.-Career:Dossey was born in Accra, Ghana...	36	Ghanaian	goalkeeper	car accident	2008
Angus Douglas Angus Douglas Angus Douglas was a Scottish international footballer who played for Chelsea and Newcastle United....	29	Scottish	winger	Spanish flu Spanish flu The 1918 flu pandemic was an influenza pandemic, and the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus . It was an unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin...	1918
Johnny Doyle Johnny Doyle Johnny Doyle was a Scottish footballer who played as a winger. Born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Doyle started his senior career with Ayr United, whom he joined from juvenile side Viewpark in 1970....	30	Scottish	midfielder	electrocuted	1981
Peter Dubovský Peter Dubovský Peter Dubovský was a Slovak footballer who played as a forward.After starting his career with Slovan Bratislava, he played seven years in Spain, amassing La Liga totals of 151 games and 19 goals for two teams....	28	Slovakian	striker	diving accident	2000
Gustavo Eberto Gustavo Eberto Gustavo Daniel Eberto was an Argentine soccer goalkeeper, lately of the Club Atlético Boca Juniors. He played for the Argentina Under-20 team in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship....	24	Argentine	goalkeeper	testicular cancer	2007
Edivaldo Edivaldo Martins Fonseca Edivaldo Martíns da Fonseca, best known as Edivaldo was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward....	30	Brazilian	striker	car accident	1993
Duncan Edwards Duncan Edwards Duncan Edwards was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid 1950s, and one of eight players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster.Born in Dudley,...	21	English	midfielder	Munich air disaster	1958
Lutz Eigendorf Lutz Eigendorf Lutz Eigendorf was a German football player.-International career:He made his debut for the GDR in an August 1978 match against Bulgaria, immediately scoring his first two goals in a 2–2 draw. He went on to collect six caps, scoring three goals...	26	German	midfielder	car accident	1983
Youssef Elbai Youssef Elbai Youssef Elbai was a footballer, who last played for Division d'Honneur side AS Orly. He played as a right-back.-External links:* at chamoisfc79.fr...	30	French	defender	accident	2009
Ernest Ellis		English		Battle of the Somme	1916
Robert Enke Robert Enke Robert Enke was a German football goalkeeper.Enke played at leading clubs in several European countries, namely Barcelona, Benfica and Fenerbahçe, but made the majority of his appearances for Bundesliga side Hannover 96 in his homeland.He won eight full international caps for the German national...	32	German	goalkeeper	suicide	2009
Andrés Escobar Andrés Escobar Andrés Escobar Saldarriaga , nicknamed "The Gentleman of Football", was a Colombian footballer who was shot and killed in Medellín. It is widely believed that he was murdered due to his own goal in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which supposedly would have caused gambling losses to several powerful drug...	27	Colombian	defender	homicide	1994
Roy Evans Roy Evans (footballer born 1943) Royston Sidney "Roy" Evans was a Welsh international footballer who played professionally for Swansea City between 1962 and 1968, making 214 league appearances. Evans also played for Hereford United. Evans died in a car-crash on 20 January 1969, alongside Brian Purcell.-External links:*...	25	Welsh	defender	car accident	1969
Rubens Fadini	21	Italian	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
Rommel Fernandez Rommel Fernandez Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez was a Panamanian footballer who played as a striker.The second Panamanian footballer to play in Europe, he played almost his entire professional career in Spain, amassing La Liga totals of 104 games and 32 goals - 162/56 both major levels combined - in representation of...	27	Panamanian	striker	car accident	1993
Aaron Flahavan Aaron Flahavan Aaron Adam Flahavan was an English football goalkeeper who played for Portsmouth.- Life and career :Flahavan played for the Southampton youth team before turning professional with Portsmouth at age 18 in 1994...	25	English	goalkeeper	car accident	2001
Milton Flores Milton Flores Milton Javier Flores Miranda was a Honduran football player.-Biography:Flores was born in La Lima, Honduras, near sports recreation park named "Polideportivo Chulavista." He started playing baseball, but later was discovered as a goalkeeper talent. He attended elementary school Manuel Bonilla,...	28	Honduran	goalkeeper	homicide	2003
Andrea Fortunato Andrea Fortunato Andrea Fortunato was an Italian football player who played as a left-back for Juventus and, on one occasion, the Italian national team....	23	Italian	defender	leukemia	1995
Wendel Fräser Wendel Fräser Wendel Fräser was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. He suited up for Feyenoord Rotterdam and RBC Roosendaal in his brief career, cut short when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo, at the age of 22.Fräser was a postman in Rotterdam and played in the...	22	Dutch-Suriname	forward	Surinam air disaster	1989
Francisco Frione Francisco Frione Francisco Frione, also known as Francesco Frione was an Uruguayan-Italian professional football player...	22	Uruguayan-Italian	midfielder	pneumonia	1935
Guglielmo Gabetto Guglielmo Gabetto Guglielmo Gabetto was an Italian former soccer player. He played as a striker. Aside from goalkeeper Alfredo Bodoira he is the only player to win the Italian championship with both Torino FC and Juventus FC....	33	Italian	striker	Superga air disaster	1949
Hubert Gad Hubert Gad Hubert Gad, also known as Hubert God was a Polish soccer player, a very skilled and aggressive forward, who for a while was the top scorer of Poland....	24	Polish	forward	swimming accident	1939
Niccolò Galli	17	Italian	defender	motorbike accident	2001
Ibragim Gasanbekov Ibragim Gasanbekov Ibragim Gasanbekovich Gasanbekov was an Azerbaijani professional football player. He also held Russian citizenship. He died when the car he was driving collided head-on with a Kamaz truck.-Honours:...	29	Azerbaijani-Russian	striker	car accident	1999
Sirous Ghayeghran Sirous Ghayeghran Sirous Ghayeghran was a famous Iranian footballer and former captain of Iran national football team. He is notably referred as the legendary player of Malavan Bandar Anzali Football Club, and is one of the most popular icons in the city of Bandar Anzali.-Club career:He played most of his club...	35	Iranian	midfielder	car accident	1998
Lenar Gilmullin Lenar Gilmullin Lenar Ildusovich Gilmullin was a Russian football full-back of Tatar origin who played for FC Rubin Kazan and the Russia Under-21 team.-Death:...	22	Russian	defender	motorcycle accident	2007
Frits Goodings Frits Goodings Frits Goodings was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he played for FC Utrecht and FC Wageningen. He died at the age of 25, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo.Goodings played in the youth teams of FC Utrecht alongside his...	25	Dutch-Suriname		Surinam air disaster	1989
Tommy Goodwill	22	English	midfielder	victim of World War I World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...	1916
Harry Goslin Harry Goslin Henry Goslin MC, , better known as Harry Goslin, was an English footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for the whole of his professional career. He played in defence....	34	English	defender	killed in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1943
Jefferson Gottardi Jefferson Gottardi Jefferson Gottardi was a Bolivian footballer.-Club:Gottardi began his career in his native Bolivia, attending the prestigious Tahuichi Academy , and playing for Oriente Petrolero and Bolívar in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.He secured a loan move...	27	Bolivian	striker	Lou Gehrig's disease	2003
Craig Gowans	17	Scottish		training ground accident	2005
Tom Gracie Tom Gracie Thomas "Tom" Gracie was a Scottish professional footballer and, latterly, a corporal in the 16th Battalion of The Royal Scots. He was the joint-leading scorer in the Scottish Football League in the 1914-15 season....	26	Scottish		leukemia	1915
Ruggero Grava	27	French	striker	Superga air disaster	1949
Giuseppe Grezar Giuseppe Grezar Giuseppe Grezar was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.-Biography:...	30	Italian	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
Alan Groves Alan Groves Alan Groves was an English professional footballer. He played as a midfielder.Groves joined hometown club Southport from Blowick in December 1968 and went on to play for Chester, Shrewsbury Town and AFC Bournemouth before beginning a long spell with Oldham Athletic in February 1974...	29	English	winger	heart attack	1978
Jerry Haatrecht Jerry Haatrecht Jerry Haatrecht was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served Cambuur Leeuwarden as well as a bunch of amateur clubs including VV Neerlandia '31. He died at the age of 28, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo...	28	Dutch-Suriname		Surinam air disaster	1989
Jeff Hall Jeff Hall (footballer) Jeffrey James "Jeff" Hall was an English footballer who played as a right back for Birmingham City and England....	29	English	full-back	polio	1959
Jimmy Hampson Jimmy Hampson James "Jimmy" Hampson was an English professional footballer. He spent eleven seasons at Blackpool, where he remains record goalscorer with 252 goals in 373 games, and is still regarded as one of the best centre forwards to play for the club.-Club career:Born in Little Hulton, Lancashire, Hampson...	31	English	striker	boating accident	1938
Austin Hayes Austin Hayes Austin William Patrick Hayes was an English-born footballer of Irish descent, who played once as a full international for the Republic of Ireland in 1979, the same year that he collected a Football League Cup runners-up medal with Southampton.-Football career:Hayes was born in Hammersmith, London...	28	English	winger	lung cancer	1986
Conrad Hendricks Conrad Hendricks Conrad Hendricks was a South African football player last playing as goalkeeper for Moroka Swallows....	26	South African	goalkeeper	car accident	2006
Dean Horrix Dean Horrix Dean Horrix , was an English footballer.He joined Millwall as a striker and made 65 league appearances plus 7 as substitute, scoring 19 goals. He was sold to Gillingham in 1983 and joined Reading later the same year. He formed a successful striking partnership with Trevor Senior and was very...	28	English	striker	car accident	1990
Peter Houseman Peter Houseman Peter Houseman was an English footballer.-Chelsea:Born in Battersea, Houseman signed professional terms with Chelsea in 1963, having played for the Chelsea Juniors...	31	English	midfielder	car accident	1977
Ralph Hunt Ralph Hunt Ralph Arthur Robert Hunt was an English footballer.-Playing career:Hunt began his career at his hometown club Portsmouth, where he only made five appearances. After a spell at Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic he moved on to Norwich City...	31	English	striker	car accident	1964
Besian Idrizaj Besian Idrizaj Besian Idrizaj was an Austrian professional football player who last played as a striker for Swansea City. He was ethnic Albanian.He died of a suspected heart attack on 15 May 2010 at the age of 22.-Liverpool:...	22	Austrian	striker	heart attack	2010
Zdeněk Jánoš	32	Czech	goalkeeper	car accident	1999
Daniel Jarque Daniel Jarque Daniel Jarque i González was a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender.Jarque played his entire career with Espanyol, and was named team captain one month before his death from a heart attack, at the age of 26....	26	Spanish	defender	heart attack	2009
Virgall Joemankhan Virgall Joemankhan Virgall Joemankhan was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he played for AFC Ajax and Cercle Brugge...	20	Dutch-Suriname		Surinam air disaster	1989
Jack Jones Jack Jones (association footballer born 1874) John Thomas "Jack" Jones was an English professional footballer who made 35 appearances in the Football League playing for Small Heath.-Playing career:Jones was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire...	29	English	forward	Typhoid fever Typhoid fever Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...	1904
Mark Jones Mark Jones (footballer) Mark Jones was an English footballer and one of eight Manchester United players to lose their lives in the Munich air disaster...	24	English	defender	Munich air disaster	1958
Ray Jones	18	English	striker	car accident	2007
Rolston Jones		Trinidad and Tobagan		shot dead
Godfrey Kangwa Godfrey Kangwa Godfrey Kangwa was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-References:...	29	Zambian	midfielder	Gabon air disaster	1993
Ihab Kareem Ihab Kareem Ihab Kareem was an Iraqi footballer who played in an attacking midfield position for Al Sinaa.He died in a hospital after bombings in Baghdad on February 18, 2007, at the age of 26.-References:...	26	Iraqi	midfielder	injuries from bombing	2007
Dick Keith Dick Keith Richard "Dick" M. Keith was a footballer who played at right-back for Newcastle United between 1956 and 1964. He played 233 games and scored 2 goals....	33	Northern Irish	defender	accident dismantling a garage door	1967
Oliver King-Onzila	19	English	midfielder	stab wounds	2008
Alexei Klimenko		Soviet		execution by German soldiers during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...  (see The Death Match The Death Match The Death Match was the Soviet propaganda name for a non-official association football match in 1942 between the local workers of a bakery factory — former professional footballers from Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv — and soldiers of the Nazi German Wehrmacht... )	1943
Andro Knel Andro Knel Andro Charles Willem Knel was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served Sparta Rotterdam and NAC Breda. He died at the age of 21, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo...	21	Dutch-Suriname	midfielder	Surinam air disaster	1989
Ruben Kogeldans Ruben Kogeldans Ruben Kogeldans was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served VVV-Venlo and Willem II Tilburg. He died at the age of 22, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo. His father was also a footballer and was played for the Suriname...	22	Dutch-Suriname	defender	Surinam air disaster	1989
Nikolai Korotkykh		Soviet		execution by German soldiers during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...  (see The Death Match The Death Match The Death Match was the Soviet propaganda name for a non-official association football match in 1942 between the local workers of a bakery factory — former professional footballers from Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv — and soldiers of the Nazi German Wehrmacht... )	1941
Yiannis Koskiniatis Yiannis Koskiniatis Yiannis Koskiniatis was a Greek footballer who played for Diagoras F.C. He played 61 games and scored 4 goals for the team....	25	Greek	midfielder	suicide	2008
Nikola Kotkov Nikola Kotkov Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....	32	Bulgarian	striker	car accident	1971
Marek Krejčí Marek Krejcí Marek Krejčí was a Slovak footballer who played as a striker.- Career :Born in Bratislava, he started his career with local club Inter Bratislava, moving to Spartak Trnava in November 2000...	26	Slovak	striker	car accident	2007
Mykola Kudrytsky Mykola Kudrytsky Mykola Ivanovych Kudritsky was a Soviet Ukrainian professional football player.-Honours:* Soviet Top League champion: 1988.* Soviet Top League runner-up: 1987, 1989.* USSR Super Cup winner: 1988.* Soviet Cup winner: 1989....	31	Ukrainian	midfielder	car accident	1994
Ernst Künz Ernst Künz Ernst Künz was an Austrian football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Austrian team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He played all four matches as defender. He died in World War II-External links:*...	32	Austrian	defender	military action during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1944
Ivan Kuzmenko		Soviet		execution by German soldiers during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...  (see The Death Match The Death Match The Death Match was the Soviet propaganda name for a non-official association football match in 1942 between the local workers of a bakery factory — former professional footballers from Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv — and soldiers of the Nazi German Wehrmacht... )	1943
Pedro Lavoura	26	Venezuelan	striker	car accident	2000
Adam Ledwoń Adam Ledwon Adam Ledwoń was a Polish football player. He was born in Olesno, Upper Silesia, Poland and died in Klagenfurt, Austria.-Career:...	34	Polish	midfielder	suicide	2008
Gift Leremi Gift Leremi Mpho "Gift" Leremi was a South African football midfielder for Mamelodi Sundowns, in the Premier Soccer League, and South Africa...	22	South Africa	midfielder	car accident	2007
Mahicon Librelato Mahicon Librelato Mahicon José Librelato da Silva, was a Brazilian footballer.Mahicon died when his car crashed in Florianópolis, in 2002....	21	Brazilian	striker	car accident	2002
Ortwin Linger Ortwin Linger Ortwin Linger was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he played for HFC Haarlem. He was a passenger on Surinam Airways Flight PY764 when it crashed in Paramaribo on June 7, 1989. He died three days later, at 21 years of age, due to his injuries suffered in the crash...	21	Dutch-Suriname	defender	Surinam air disaster	1989
Ezio Loik Ezio Loik Ezio Loik was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.-Biography:...	30	Italian	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
David Longhurst David Longhurst David John Longhurst was an English footballer. During his career, he played for Nottingham Forest, Halifax Town, Northampton Town, Peterborough United and York City. He died on the pitch during a match for York City against Lincoln City in 1990.-Career:Longhurst was a pacy striker who began his...	25	English	striker	cardiac arrest	1990
John Lyons John Lyons (footballer) John Patrick Lyons , was a Welsh footballer who played as a forward in the Football League.Lyons committed suicide at his home in Layer de la Haye on 11 November 1982 only hours after appearing for Colchester United at Layer Road.-External links:*...	26	English	striker	suicide	1982
Michael Maidens Michael Maidens Michael Douglas Maidens was an English footballer who played as a midfielder. He started his career with Hartlepool United in 2004, making his debut in the League Cup against Crystal Palace in September 2004....	20	English	midfielder	car accident	2007
Derby Makinka Derby Makinka Derby Makinka was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:...	26	Zambian	midfielder	Gabon air disaster	1993
Stephen Malcolm Stephen Malcolm Stephen Malcolm was a Jamaican international football player. His position was defensive midfielder or defender.During his club career he played for Seba United....	30	Jamaican	midfielder	car accident	2001
Jarl Malmgren	33	Finnish	midfielder	military action in World War II Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...	1942
Dragan Mance	22	Serbian	striker	car accident	1985
Lesley Manyathela Lesley Manyathela Lesley Phuti "Slow Poison" Manyathela was a South African football player for Orlando Pirates and South Africa.- Career :...	21	South Africa	striker	car accident	2003
Virgilio Maroso Virgilio Maroso Virgilio Maroso was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.-Biography:...	23	Italian	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
Dennis Marshall Dennis Marshall (footballer) Dennis Marshall Maxwell was a Costa Rican footballer as a left defender who last played for Danish Superliga club AaB and for the Costa Rican national team.-International goals:-Death:...	26	Costa Rican	defender	car accident	2011
Danilo Martelli	25	Italian	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
Moses Masuwa Moses Masuwa Moses Masuwa was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Reference:...	22	Zambian	striker	Gabon air disaster	1993
Jason Mayélé Jason Mayélé Jason Nono Mayélé was a footballer from Democratic Republic of the Congo.- Career :Mayélé played as a striker or winger and was a member of the Chievo team that qualified for Europe in their first Serie A season which he was signed in October. He had represented his country at the African Cup of...	26	Congolese	striker	car accident	2002
Valentino Mazzola Valentino Mazzola Valentino Mazzola was an Italian footballer and captain of the legendary Grande Torino side, killed in the Superga air disaster. He is considered one of the best football players of all time and perhaps the first modern all-around footballer, as he was an attacking midfielder who could score,...	30	Italian	striker	Superga air disaster	1949
Norrie McCathie Norrie McCathie Norman "Norrie" McCathie was a Scottish professional footballer best known for time with Scottish club Dunfermline Athletic....	34	Scottish	defender	accidental carbon monoxide poisoning	1996
Bobby McKean Bobby McKean Robert Munro McKean was a Scottish professional footballer.McKean started his career at local club Blantyre Victoria before moving to St Mirren in 1969. After five seasons in Paisley he joined Rangers for £50,000 in September 1974.He enjoyed a successful spell in Govan and won the league twice in...	25	Scottish	midfielder	accidental carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after enough inhalation of carbon monoxide . Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being colorless, odorless, tasteless, and initially non-irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect...	1978
Tommy McLaren Tommy McLaren Thomas "Tommy" McLaren was a Scottish footballer who played as a midfielder.He moved from Berwick Rangers to Port Vale in November 1967. He spent ten years at Vale Park, racking up 369 league and cup appearances...	29	Scottish	midfielder	suicide	1978
Tommy Meehan Tommy Meehan Thomas "Tommy" Meehan was an English footballer who played at half-back.Meehan played for Rochdale during the First World War, before moving to Manchester United in 1919. He made 53 appearances for United, scoring six goals, and signed for Chelsea in 1920 for £3,300...	28	English	half-back	encephalitis lethargica Encephalitis lethargica Encephalitis lethargica or von Economo disease is an atypical form of encephalitis. Also known as "sleepy sickness" , it was first described by the neurologist Constantin von Economo in 1917. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless...	1924
Romeo Menti Romeo Menti Romeo Menti was an Italian football player.Born at Vicenza, Menti debuted in his city's Serie C club in 1935, in the same stadium that was to be dedicated to him a few years later....	29	Italian	striker	Superga air disaster	1949
Vittorio Mero Vittorio Mero Vittorio Mero was an Italian football player.-Career:Born at Vercelli, he started his career with an amateur team, Belvedere, in 1990-1991, and made his debut at the professional level at the age of 17 for A.S. Casale Calcio. The following year Mero signed for Parma F.C., playing with the...	27	Italian	defender	car accident	2002
Gigi Meroni Gigi Meroni Luigi "Gigi" Meroni was an Italian football player who played for Torino. He died at the age of 24 after being hit by two cars while crossing the main street "Corso Re Umberto" near "Via Legnano" in Turin, Italy. His friend and teammate Fabrizio Poletti was also hit but survived...	27	Italian	winger	car accident	1967
Claudio Milar Claudio Milar Roberto Claudio Milar Decuadra , or simply Claudio Milar, was an Uruguayan football striker, who played last for Brasil de Pelotas.- Career :...	34	Uruguayan	striker	bus crash	2009
Michael Millett Michael Millett Michael Millett was an English footballer who played for Wigan Athletic. Millett was regarded as a talented youngster who could play in defence or midfield. He had represented England at U16 and U18 level, and made his first-team debut for Wigan towards the end of the 1994-95 season...	17	English	defender	car accident	1995
Gionata Mingozzi Gionata Mingozzi Gionata Mingozzi was an Italian footballer. He last played for Treviso in Serie B.-Career:Mingozzi started his career at Ravenna. He followed the team promoted from Eccellenza to Serie C2 within 2 years...	23	Italian	midfielder	car accident	2008
Damián Lucas Molina	20	Argentine	goalkeeper	respiratory problems caused by heart defect	2004
Emiliano Molina	17	Argentine	goalkeeper	car accident	2005
Lester Morgan Lester Morgan Lester Morgan Suazo was a Costa Rican professional football goalkeeper.-Club career:...	26	Costa Rican	goalkeeper	suicide	2002
Eddie Moussa Eddie Moussa Eddie Moussa was a Swedish football player. He carried both Swedish citizenship and Lebanese citizenship and was of Assyrian descent.-Career:...	26	Swedish-Lebanese	striker	homicide	2010
Eston Mulenga Eston Mulenga Eston Mulenga was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:Mulenga played club football for Nkana F.C. in Zambia....	26	Zambian	midfielder	Gabon air disaster	1993
Winter Mumba Winter Mumba Winter Mumba was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Reference:...	23	Zambian	defender	Gabon air disaster	1993
Kelvin Mutale Kelvin Mutale Kelvin Mutale was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:Mutale played club football for Nkana F.C...	24	Zambian	striker	Gabon air disaster	1993
Richard Mwanza Richard Mwanza Richard Mwanza was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:Mwanza played club football for Kabwe Warriors F.C....	33	Zambian	goalkeeper	Gabon air disaster	1993
Numba Mwila Numba Mwila Numba Mwila was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Personal:...	21	Zambian	midfielder	Gabon air disaster	1993
Timothy Mwitwa Timothy Mwitwa Timothy Mwitwa was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:Mwitwa played club football for Nkana F.C...	25	Zambian	striker	Gabon air disaster	1993
Hussein Naeem Hussein Naeem Hussain Naeem was an association football player who died in a car bomb outside the Al Manara Stadium which killed Lebanese politician Walid Eido. He was always a Nejmeh player. He joined in 2001 and joined the youth team.- Football career :Naeem was a youth player with Nejmeh...	20	Lebanese	striker	car bomb	2007
Alan Nicholls Alan Nicholls Alan Nicholls was an English football goalkeeper.Alan started his career as a trainee at Wolverhampton Wanderers but never made the first team...	22	English	goalkeeper	motorcycle accident	1995
John Nicholson John Nicholson (English footballer) John Purcell Nicholson was an English footballer.-Playing career:Nicholson joined Port Vale for a £2,000 fee from Liverpool in August 1961. He made his debut in 1–1 draw at Northampton Town on 2 September 1961, and 208 consecutive appearances later, on 8 September 1965, he had broken a club record...	30	English	defender	car crash	1966
Antonio de Nigris Antonio de Nigris Antonio de Nigris Guajardo was a Mexican footballer who played as a striker.During his career, which was cut short at 31 by a fatal heart attack, he played in six different countries, also representing twelve clubs in nine years.-Club career:Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, de Nigris became...	31	Mexican	striker	heart attack	2009
Rogério Oliveira Rogério Oliveira da Costa Rogério Oliveira da Costa was a Brazilian-born football striker and naturalized Macedonian citizen.-Career:...	30	Brazilian	striker	heart attack	2006
Piero Operto	22	Italian	defender	Superga air disaster	1949
Franco Ossola	27	Italian	striker	Superga air disaster	1949
Josheph Ouhm	32	Cameroonese	striker	pulmonary edema	2009
Maksym Pashayev	20	Ukrainian	defender	car accident	2008
Fred Patrick Fred Patrick Frederik Arnold Patrick was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served AZ Alkmaar and PEC Zwolle. He died at the age of 23, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo...	23	Dutch-Suriname	midfielder	Surinam air disaster	1989
Simon Patterson Simon Patterson (footballer) Simon Patterson was an English footballer. He was born in Harrow, London, and signed for Watford on leaving Nower Hill High School in 1999....	24	English	striker	car accident	2006
Serhiy Perkhun Serhiy Perkhun Serhiy Vladimirovich Perhun was a Ukrainian footballer. He is the only player to date in the history of the Russian Premier League to die from injuries sustained during an official game.* 1993 - 1998 Played for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk...	23	Ukrainian	goalkeeper	brain hemorrhage as a result of head injury	2001
David Pegg David Pegg David Pegg was an English footballer and one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958....	22	English	winger	Munich air disaster	1958
Mark Philo Mark Philo Mark William Philo was an English professional footballer. He was born in Bracknell, Berkshire and spent his whole professional career at Wycombe Wanderers. He died on 14 January 2006 in a road traffic collision.- Career :...	21	English	midfielder	car accident	2006
Clément Pinault Clément Pinault Clément Pinault was a French football defender who last played for Clermont Foot.- Career :...	23	French	defender	heart attack	2009
Federico Pisani Federico Pisani Federico Pisani was an Italian professional footballer who played for Atalanta and Monza. Pisani died in a car crash on 12 February 1997, and his squad number was retired as a mark of respect.-References:...	22	Italian	striker	car accident	1997
Danijel Popović Danijel Popović (footballer) Danijel Popović was a Croatian footballer who played as a forward.Playing for Vukovar '91, Popović established himself as one of the most talented Croatian footballers of his generation. After impressing in the first two seasons, he was loaned to Bastia...	20	Croatian	midfielder	car accident	2002
Abdón Porte Abdón Porte -Club career:Porte played for Colón from 1910. He moved to Libertad in 1911 before transferring to Nacional in the same year.Playing for Nacional Porte won four league titles...	37	Uruguayan	defender	suicide	1918
Kiyan Prince Kiyan Prince Kiyan Prince was a 15 year old British boy who attended the London Academy in Edgware, in the London borough of Barnet. He was fatally stabbed on 18 May 2006, receiving a single lethal knife wound, while intervening to prevent the bullying of another boy...	15	English	midfielder (youth team)	homicide	2006
Brian Purcell Brian Purcell Brian Purcell was a Welsh professional footballer who played for Swansea City between 1959 and 1968, making 165 league appearances. Purcell also played for Waun Wen and Hereford United. Purcell died in a car-crash on 20 January 1969, alongside Roy Evans.-External links:*...	30	Welsh	defender	car accident	1969
Antonio Puerta Antonio Puerta Antonio José Puerta Pérez was a Spanish footballer who played solely for Sevilla.Mainly a left midfielder who could also operate as an offensive left back, he died on 28 August 2007, affected with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, three days after suffering a series of cardiac...	22	Spanish	midfielder	heart attack during La Liga match	2007
Avi Ran Avi Ran Avi Ran was a goalkeeper at the Israeli football club Maccabi Haifa. Widely considered one of the greatest football players in Israel, he had a promising future which was cut short by a fatal accident.-Football career:...	23	Israeli	goalkeeper	hit by speed boat	1987
Mel Rees Mel Rees Melvyn John "Mel" Rees was a Welsh professional footballer who made over 50 appearances in The Football League as a goalkeeper before he died from cancer at the age of 26.-Career:...	26	Welsh	goalkeeper	cancer	1993
Régis		Brazilian	defender	bus crash
Renato	28	Brazilian	midfielder	homicide during robbery	2004
Claudinei Resende Claudinei Resende Claudinei Resende was a Brazilian football player who played for the Swedish club Helsingborgs IF.Without telling the club, he returned to Brazil in May 2004....	26	Brazilian	midfielder	homicide	2004
Mario Rigamonti Mario Rigamonti Mario Rigamonti was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.-Biography:...	26	Italian	midfielder	Superga air disaster	1949
Dale Roberts Dale Roberts (footballer born 1986) Dale Roberts was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Roberts started his career in his native North-East with the academy sides at Sunderland and Middlesbrough before he moved to Nottingham Forest. He failed to make Forest's first team and had loans spells with Eastwood Town and...	24	English	goalkeeper	suicide	2010
David Rocastle David Rocastle David Carlyle Rocastle, nicknamed Rocky, was an English football player, who spent the majority of his career at Arsenal...	33	English	midfielder	lymphoma	2001
Nick Ross	31	Scottish	defender	consumption/tuberculosis	1894
Miro Rys Miro Rys Miro Rys was a Czech American soccer forward who played professionally in the North American Soccer League. Rys earned three caps, scoring one goal, with the U.S. national team...	20	Czech-American	forward	car accident	1977
Silvester Sabolčki Silvester Sabolčki Silvester Sabolčki was a Croatian footballer who played as a winger....	23	Croatian	defender	car accident	2003
Holger Salin	32	Finnish	striker	missing in action during World War II Continuation War The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...	1943/1944
Diego Santa Cruz Diego Santa Cruz Diego Anibal Santa Cruz Cantero is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.-International career:...	22	Parguayan	striker	car accident	2005
Mirko Saric	21	Argentine	midfielder	suicide	2000
Andy Scharmin Andy Scharmin Andy Scharmin was a Surinamese-Dutch footballer. During his career he served FC Twente. He died at the age of 21, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo. He was the captain of the Netherlands U-21 team...	21	Dutch-Suriname	defender	Surinam air disaster	1989
Julius Schubert Július Schubert Július Schubert was a Slovak football player. He played for Slovakia. In his country he played for ŠK Slovan Bratislava. In Italy he played for Torino F.C.....	26	Hungarian	striker	Superga air disaster	1949
Sergio Schulmeister	25	Argentine	goalkeeper	suicide	2003
Kenan Simambe Kenan Simambe Kenan Simambe was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-References:...	19	Zambian	defender	Gabon air disaster	1993
Matthias Sindelar Matthias Sindelar Matthias Sindelar was an Austrian footballer.He played centre-forward for the celebrated Austria national team of the early 1930s known as the Wunderteam, which he captained at the 1934 World Cup....	35	Austrian	striker	officially carbon monoxide poisoning (see Matthias Sindelar#Death and myth)	1939
George Smith George Smith (footballer born 1879) George Smith was an English professional footballer who played for several clubs at the beginning of the 20th century.-Playing career:...	28	English	defender/striker	heart attack	1908
Nicol Smith Nicol Smith Nicol Smith was a Scottish footballer who played for Rangers.Born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Smith played as a fullback for local sides Vale of Irvine, Royal Albert and Darvel, earning junior international selection, before joining Rangers in 1893...	32	Scottish	defender	enteric fever	1905
John Soko John Soko John Soko was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:Soko played club football for Nkana F.C. in Zambia....	23	Zambian	defender	Gabon air disaster	1993
James Speedie		Scottish		died in action, World War I	1915
Adam Stansfield Adam Stansfield Adam Stansfield was an English footballer who played as a striker. He played for Cullompton Rangers, Elmore, Yeovil Town, Hereford United and Exeter City.-Career:...	31	English	striker	bowel cancer	2010
François Sterchele François Sterchele François Sterchele was a Belgian footballer who played for Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006-07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident on May 8, 2008.-Club career:...	26	Belgian	striker	car accident	2008
Nick Stienstra Nick Stienstra Nick Stienstra was a Dutch-Suriname footballer and coach. During his playing career he played for SV Robinhood...	33	Dutch-Suriname		Surinam air disaster	1989
Anatoli Sylka Anatoli Sylka Anatoli Anatolyevich Sylka was a Russian professional football player. In 2009, he played in the Russian Second Division for FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk.-External links:* -References:...	30	Russian	defender	heart attack	2009
Sándor Szűcs Sándor Szucs Sándor Szűcs was a Hungarian football player. He started to play for Szolnoki MÁV, but he spent his best years playing for Újpest FC as a defender and helped the club win the Hungarian League in three consecutive years from 1945 to 1947.Between 1941 and 1948 Szűcs played 19 times for Hungary,...	30	Hungarian	defender	execution by the communist regime for defection attempt	1951
Giuliano Taccola Giuliano Taccola Giuliano Taccola was an Italian professional football player.He played for 2 seasons in the Serie A for A.S. Roma....	24	Italian	striker	heart attack	1969
Tommy Taylor Tommy Taylor Thomas "Tommy" Taylor was an English footballer, who was known for his aerial ability. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster....	26	English	striker	Munich air disaster	1958
Otilino Tenorio Otilino Tenorio Otilino Tenorio was an Ecuadorian footballer.-Biography:Tenorio was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. His nickname was 'Spiderman', because when he scored a goal in a football match he would cover his head with a Spider-Man mask as he celebrated.He joined Emelec of Guayaquil when he was eleven, and went...	25	Ecuadorian	striker	car accident	2005
Donald Thobega Donald Thobega Donald Thobega , often known by his nickname Boboza, was a Botswana footballer who played as a midfielder. A sergeant in the Botswana military, he last played for Botswana Defence Force XI...	29	Botswanan	midfielder	car accident	2009
Alfredo Tomassini Alfredo Tomassini Alfredo Tomassini was a Peruvian football player. He was a forward for the club Alianza Lima, until 1987 when he died in an airplane crash known as the 1987 Alianza Lima air disaster. He survived the initial crash but due to a broken leg was not able to stay afloat...	23	Peruvian	midfielder	drowned	1987
David Di Tommaso David di Tommaso David di Tommaso was a French football player.-Early life:Di Tommaso was born in Échirolles, Isère. His father Pascal Di Tommaso and uncle Louis Di Tommaso both played in Ligue 2 for Grenoble Foot 38 in the 1980s...	26	French	midfielder	heart attack	2005
Mickey Trotman Mickey Trotman Mickey Trotman was an football player from Trinidad and Tobago who played in the United States with the Dallas Burn, the Miami Fusion and the Rochester Rhinos, as well as representing the Trinidad and Tobago national football team...	26	Trinidad and Tobagan	midfielder	car accident	2001
Nikolai Trusevich		Soviet	goalkeeper	execution by German soldiers during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...  (see The Death Match The Death Match The Death Match was the Soviet propaganda name for a non-official association football match in 1942 between the local workers of a bakery factory — former professional footballers from Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv — and soldiers of the Nazi German Wehrmacht... )	1943
Raimundo Tupper Raimundo Tupper Raimundo Tupper Lyon was a Chilean professional football player, best known for his years with Universidad Católica. He was a left back.-Career:Born into a family of five children...	26	Chilean	defender	suicide	1995
Petea Vâlcov Petea Vâlcov Petre "Petea" Vâlcov was a Romanian football player...	32	Romanian	striker	killed on the Eastern Front	1943
Ferry van Vliet	20	Dutch	midfielder	car accident	2001
Edy Vasquez Edy Vasquez Edy Vásquez was a Honduran football midfielder, who played for Motagua. He died in a hospital in the morning of May 12, 2007, following a car crash in Colonia Las Brisas, Tegucigalpa. Vasquez played 63 matches wearing Motagua's blue shirt and scored 7 times...	23	Honduran	midfielder	car accident	2007
Elfried Veldman Elfried Veldman Elfried Romeo Veldman was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served De Graafschap. He died two days after his 23rd birthday, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo...	23	Dutch-Suriname	midfielder	Surinam air disaster	1989
Florian Vijent Florian Vijent Florian Vijent , was a Dutch-Suriname football goalkeeper. During his career he played for Telstar. He died at the age of 27, when on June 7, 1989, he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo. He is not related to Ed Vijent.Vijent's large build was one of the reasons...	27	Dutch-Suriname	goalkeeper	Surinam air disaster	1989
Karl Wallmüller Karl Wallmüller Karl Wahlmüller was an Austrian football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics....	30	Austrian	midfielder	military action during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1944
Wang Donglei Wang Donglei Wang Donglei was a Chinese footballer. He played for Nanjing Yoyo in Chinese Jia League....	23	Chinese	midfielder	car accident	2008
Robert Watiyakeni Robert Watiyakeni Robert Watiyakeni was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.-Career:Watiyakeni played professional club football in South Africa for Dynamos F.C....	24	Zambian	defender	Gabon air disaster	1993
Harry Wattie	23	Scottish		Battle of the Somme	1916
Walter Werginz Walter Werginz Walter Werginz was an Austrian football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Austrian team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He played all four matches as forward and scored two goalsWerginz was killed in the Second World War in Russia.-External...	31	Austrian	forward	military action during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1944
Liam Whelan Liam Whelan William Augustine Whelan , also known as Billy Whelan or Liam Whelan, was an Irish footballer and one of the eight Manchester United players who were killed in the Munich air disaster...	22	Irish	striker	Munich air disaster	1958
John White	27	Scottish	midfielder	hit by lightning	1964
Dave Wiggett Dave Wiggett David "Dave" Wiggett was an English footballer who played for Lincoln City and Hartlepool United before losing his life in a car crash....	20	English	defender	car accident	1978
Frank Wilson	22	English	centre forward	"maniacal exhaustion caused by football and excitement"
Whayne Wilson Whayne Wilson Whayne Wilson Harris was a Costa Rican professional footballer.-Club career:...	29	Costa Rican	striker	car accident	2005
Zhang Yalin Zhang Yalin Zhang Yalin was a Chinese football midfielder.-Biography:In 2003, Zhang was selected to the China national under-23 football team but injured in the training. He also linked with an unknown Ligue 1 club that year. In 2006, Zhang married Jia Nini , a Chinese model and actress...	28	Chinese	midfielder	lymphoma	2010
Mikhail Yeremin Mikhail Yeremin Mikhail Vasilyevich Yeremin was a Soviet football goalkeeper.- Career :Mikhail Yeremin started played for CSKA Moscow in 1986...	23	Soviet	goalkeeper	car accident	1991
Gábor Zavadszky	31	Hungarian	midfielder	embolism Embolism In medicine, an embolism is the event of lodging of an embolus into a narrow capillary vessel of an arterial bed which causes a blockage in a distant part of the body.Embolization is...	2006
Hicham Zerouali Hicham Zerouali Hicham Zerouali , nicknamed 'Zero' or the 'Moroccan Magician', was a Moroccan footballer. He played as a forward for a number of clubs across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He was a Moroccan international who won 17 caps.-Aberdeen:...	27	Moroccan	striker	car accident	2004

Athletics

Athlete	Age	Nationality		Cause of death	Year
Abebe Bikila Abebe Bikila Abebe Bikila was a two-time Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia. A stadium in Addis Ababa is named in his honor.-1932–1959:...	41	Ethiopian	long distance runner and two-time Olympic gold medalist	complications from spinal cord injury suffered in a car accident	1973
Lillian Board Lillian Board Lillian Barbara Board, MBE was an athlete from Great Britain, who won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece...	22	British	400m sprinter, middle distance runner and Olympic silver medallist	cancer	1970
Richard Chelimo Richard Chelimo Richard Chelimo was a Kenyan athlete, and a former world and world junior record holder over 10,000 m...	29	Kenyan	long distance runner and Olympic silver medalist	brain tumour	2001
Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan was a middle distance runner from Romania, best known for winning a bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Born in Maieru, she set personal bests in both 800 and 1500 metres during the games...	29	Romanian	middle distance runner	car accident	2007
Ivo Van Damme Ivo Van Damme Ivo Van Damme was a Belgian middle distance runner.Van Damme was born in Dendermonde. He played football until he was 16, but then switched to athletics...	22	Belgian	middle distance runner and two-time Olympic silver medalist	car accident	1976
Foy Draper Foy Draper Foy Draper was an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics...	31	American	sprinter	military actions during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...  (Battle of Kasserine Pass)	1943
James Duffy James Duffy (marathoner) Jimmy McNiff/Duffy was a distance runner from Canada. He was the winner of the 1914 Boston Marathon....	24	Irish	marathon runner	KIA during Second Battle of Ypres Second Battle of Ypres The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in the First World War and the first time a former colonial force pushed back a major European power on European soil, which occurred in the battle of St...	1915
Pål Arne Fagernes Pål Arne Fagernes Pål Arne Fagernes was a Norwegian javelin thrower. He represented Asker SK and IK Tjalve during his active career.As a junior, Fagernes competed on top national level in cycling, athletics and cross country skiing....	29	Norwegian	javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...  thrower	car accident	2003
Piotr Gładki	33	Polish	long distance runner	car accident	2005
Nils Uhlin Hansen Nils Uhlin Hansen Nils Uhlin Hansen was a Norwegian long jumper and resistance member during World War II. He had a successful athletics career before the war; holding the Nordic record in the event...	25	Norwegian	long jumper	killed as a resistance fighter during World War II	1945
Rudolf Harbig Rudolf Harbig Rudolf Harbig was a German middle distance runner best known for the 800 metres world record that he set in Milan in 1939.-Life:...	30	German	middle distance runner	military actions during World War II	1944
René Herms René Herms René Herms was a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.Herms was born in Dohna, Germany. He won the silver medal in 4 x 400 m relay at the 2000 World Junior Championships, became European junior champion in 2001 and finished seventh at the 2002 European Championships...	26	German	middle distance runner	myocarditis Myocarditis Myocarditis is inflammation of heart muscle . It resembles a heart attack but coronary arteries are not blocked.Myocarditis is most often due to infection by common viruses, such as parvovirus B19, less commonly non-viral pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi or Trypanosoma cruzi, or as a...  caused by a viral infection	2009
Kinue Hitomi	24	Japanese	sprinter and jumper and Olympic silver medallist	tuberculosis	1931
Owe Jonsson Owe Jonsson Owe Jonsson was a Swedish sprinter, ice hockey player and bandy player.Prior to his death, Jonsson was a rapidly improving sprinter who competed over 100, 200 and 400 metres. He broke the Swedish national record six times over 200 metres, his strongest event...	21	Swedish	sprinter and European gold medalist	car accident	1962
Yutaka Kanai	30	Japanese	long distance runner	car accident	1990
Władysław Komar	58	Polish	shot putter	car accident	1998
Janusz Kusociński Janusz Kusocinski Janusz Tadeusz Kusociński was a Polish athlete, winner in the 10000 m event at the 1932 Summer Olympics....	33	Polish	long distance runner and Olympic gold medalist	executed by the Gestapo in 1940 during Nazi Germany's occupation of Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... .	1940
Francisco Lázaro Francisco Lázaro Francisco Lázaro was the first Portuguese Olympic marathon runner and standard bearer of the Portuguese legation in the nation's first ever Olympic games, the 1912 Summer Olympics, in Stockholm, Sweden....	21	Portuguese	marathon runner	dehydration Dehydration In physiology and medicine, dehydration is defined as the excessive loss of body fluid. It is literally the removal of water from an object; however, in physiological terms, it entails a deficiency of fluid within an organism...  due to high temperature	1912
Wilhelm Leichum Wilhelm Leichum Wilhelm Leichum was a German athlete who competed mainly in the long jump and 100 metres.Leichum was born in Hesse...	30	German	jumper and sprinter	military actions during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1941
Luz Long Luz Long Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long was a German Olympic athlete, notable for winning Silver at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for giving advice to his competitor, Jesse Owens, who went on to win the gold medal for the broad jump as a result of Long's advice.Long was killed in...	30	German	jumper and Olympic silver medalist who is most famous for befriending Jesse Owens Jesse Owens James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the...  during the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...	military actions during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1943
Bronisław Malinowski	30	Olympic	champion 3000m steeplechaser	car accident	1981
Sally Meyerhoff	27	American	long distance runner	bicycle accident	2011
Wesly Ngetich	30	Kenyan	long distance runner	murdered in the Kenyan political crisis' riots	2008
Sueo Ōe Sueo Oe was a Japanese athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.He competed for Japan in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the pole vault where he won the bronze medal.-External links:*...	27	Japanese	pole vaulter	military actions during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1941
Steve Prefontaine Steve Prefontaine Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine was an American middle and long-distance runner. Prefontaine once held the American record in the seven distance track events from the 2,000 meters to the 10,000 meters...	24	American	long distance runner	car accident	1975
Bob Roggy Bob Roggy Bob Roggy was a javelin thrower from the United States. He set the world best year performance in 1982, throwing 95.80 metres in Stuttgart, West Germany on 1982-08-29. Earlier in 1982, Roggy set the American record in the Javelin at the Bruce Jenner Invitational, beating Mark Murro's 12 year old...	30	American	javelin thrower	car accident	1986
Ryan Shay Ryan Shay Ryan Shay was an American professional long-distance runner. He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame. He was married to Alicia Craig, also an American distance runner...	28	American	long distance runner	collapsed during the 2007 US Olympic Marathon Trials	2007
Kamila Skolimowska Kamila Skolimowska Kamila Skolimowska was a Polish hammer thrower. She was known for her gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which made her the youngest Olympic hammer champion, as well as for her two medals from the European Championships. Her personal best throw, and Polish record, was 76.83 metres,...	26	Polish	hammer thrower	pulmonary embolism	2009
Tadeusz Ślusarski Tadeusz Slusarski Tadeusz Ślusarski was a Polish Olympic gold medalist in pole vault at the 1976 Olympics, as well as a silver medalist at the 1980 Olympics .He died in a car crash together with the Polish shot put gold medalist from Munich 1972, Władysław...	48	Polish	pole vaulter	car accident	1998
Ian Syster Ian Syster Ian Syster was a South African long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon.He was born in Prince Albert. He finished fourteenth at the 2001 World Championships and seventh at the 2003 World Championships. He also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games, but did not finish the race...	28	African	long distance runner	drowned in car accident, died a few months after the 2004 Olympics	2004
Tomoyuki Taniguchi	29	Japanese	long distance runner	car accident	1990
Kokichi Tsuburaya Kokichi Tsuburaya was a Japanese athlete who competed mainly in the Marathon. He competed for Japan in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, where he won the bronze medal, and was overtaken within the final 100 meters by Basil Heatley of the UK.After the Tokyo Olympics, Kokichi suffered from lumbago...	27	Japanese	long distance runner	suicide	1968
Samuel Wanjiru Samuel Wanjiru Samuel Kamau Wanjiru was a Kenyan athlete, who specialized in long distance running. He became a professional at a young age and broke the world record in the half marathon when he was 18 years old...	24	Kenyan	long distance runner	accident, possible suicide	2011
Geoff Watt Geoff Watt Geoff Watt was a local distance runner from Warragul, Victoria of some international note who died from exposure in 1969 while training on Mount Erica in Baw Baw National Park.* Major force behind Warragul Amateur Athletics Club....		Australian	long distance runner. First to run up and down Mount Kilimanjaro.	Died of exposure in snow.	1969
Hans Woellke Hans Woellke Hans Otto Woellke was a German athlete who mainly competed in the shot put, who won the gold medal in the men's shot put competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.Hans Woellke was in the Berlin Police force...	32	German	shot putter	military actions during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... .	1943

Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

Player	Age	Team	Position	Cause of death	Year
Dave Barry Dave Barry (Australian footballer) Dave Barry was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....	24	North Fremantle North Fremantle Football Club The North Fremantle Football Club was an Australian rules football club which competed in the West Australian Football League from 1901 to 1915.North Fremantle started out in the First Rate Junior Association, the state's second tier competition...	half-forward	run over by a train	1913
Troy Broadbridge Troy Broadbridge Troy Broadbridge was an Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Melbourne career :...	24	Melbourne Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....	defender	drowned in the 2004 Asian Tsunami	2004
Norm Collins Norm Collins Norm Collins was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, Carlton and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League ....	29	Hawthorn Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...	utility	found hanged in his garage	1933
Peter Crimmins Peter Crimmins Peter Crimmins was a rover for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL, playing 176 games and kicking 231 goals from 1966 to 1975. He was an inspirational player and captain from 1974 who wore number 5. He was a member of the Hawks' 1971 premiership team.At the completion of the 1974 VFL season...	28	Hawthorn Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...	rover	testicular cancer	1976
Ron Doig Ron Doig, Sr. Ronald Oldham Doig was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League and first-class cricket with Western Australia....	23	South Fremantle South Fremantle Football Club The South Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Bulldogs, is an Australian rules football club, based in Fremantle, Western Australia, playing in the West Australian Football League...	captain-coach	on-field injury	1932
Lyle Downs Lyle Downs Lyle Downs was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League .Downs, who also played for the Carlton Cricket Club, was a rover and played finals in his first three seasons. He played a game for Carlton with his brother Johnny in 1920...	24	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...	rover	heart attack	1921
Eddie Ford Eddie Ford Edwin "Eddie" Ford was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League during the 1940s.After arriving from Shepparton, Ford spent 1942 and 1943 with Richmond...	28	Richmond Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...		on-field collision	1946
Arthur Fox Arthur Fox, Jr. Arthur Fox, Jr was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....	29	South Melbourne Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...	wingman	motorcycle accident	1953
Ray Gibb Ray Gibb Ray Gibb was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Richmond in the Victorian Football League .Gibb, a utility player, was the son of former Melbourne and Collingwood footballer Reg Gibb...	24	Richmond Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...	utility	motorcycle accident	1953
Brian Gilmore Brian Gilmore Brian Gilmore was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the VFL during the 1950s.Gilmore was a follower in Footscray's 1954 premiership side and had the honour of having the ball in his hands when the siren sounded. He also represented Victoria at interstate football...	25–26	Footscray Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...	follower	car accident	1959
Wayne Gordon Wayne Gordon (footballer) Wayne Gordon was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League .Gordon came to Collingwood in 1974 and by 1976 was a regular fixtures on the wing...	28–29	Melbourne Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....	wingman	cancer	1983
Ron James Ron James (footballer) Ron James was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League during the late 1980s....	19	Footscray Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...	rover	waterskiing	1990
Doug Magor Doug Magor Doug Magor was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Footscray in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s....	21	Footscray Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...		car accident	1969
Darren Millane Darren Millane Darren "Pants" Millane was an Australian rules football player in the VFL/AFL for the Collingwood Football Club between 1984 and 1991.-AFL career:...	26	Collingwood Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...	wingman	car accident	1991
Richard Nixon Richard Nixon (footballer) Richard J. Nixon was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian/Australian Football League ....	26–27	Richmond Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...	utility	car accident	1992
Terry Ogden Terry Ogden Terry Ogden was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Carlton in the Victorian Football League ....	23	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...	wingman	pleurisy	1935
Fred Phillips	27–28	Hawthorn Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...	captain-coach	blood poisoning	1933
Bruce Reid Bruce K. Reid Bruce K. Reid was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....	19–20	South Melbourne Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...	half-back	car accident	1970
Maurie Sankey Maurie Sankey Maurie Sankey was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League ....	25	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...	ruckman	car accident	1965
Phil Skehan Phil Skehan Philip "Phil" Skehan was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....	26	South Melbourne Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...	follower	on-field collision	1921
Jim Stewart Jim L. Stewart James L. "Jim" Stewart was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....	24	North Melbourne North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...		appendicitis Appendicitis Appendicitis is a condition characterized by inflammation of the appendix. It is classified as a medical emergency and many cases require removal of the inflamed appendix, either by laparotomy or laparoscopy. Untreated, mortality is high, mainly because of the risk of rupture leading to...	1942
Doug Tassell Doug Tassell Doug Tassell was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League ....	24	Essendon Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...	defender	car accident	1970
Peter White Peter White (footballer) Peter White was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian/Australian Football League ....	26	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...		drowning	1996
Les Witto Les Witto Les Witto was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL.A defender, Witto was playing in just his 6th game of league football when he broke his arm in a game against Geelong, the subsequent tetanus infection causing him to lose his life.-External links:...	23	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...	defender	tetanus	1926

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

Players/umpires with an asterisk (*) are members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Minor-league players are listed with their major-league affiliations.

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year
Nick Adenhart Nick Adenhart Nicholas James Adenhart was an American right-handed baseball starting pitcher who played two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim...	22	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, United States. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The "Angels" name originates from the city in which the team started, Los Angeles...	car accident	2009
Harry Agganis Harry Agganis Aristotle George Agganis ' , nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was an American athletic star in two sports. His family origins were from Longanikos near Sparta, Greece. -Career:...	26	1B First baseman First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team...	Boston Red Sox Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...	blood clot	1955
Steve Bechler Steve Bechler Steven Scott Bechler was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles in 2002.Steve Bechler died of heatstroke at the beginning of spring training with the Orioles in 2003. An autopsy performed by Dr...	23	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Baltimore Orioles Baltimore Orioles The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...	complications from misuse of Ephedra Ephedra Ephedra refers to the plant Ephedra sinica. E. sinica, known in Chinese as ma huang , has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for 5,000 years for the treatment of asthma and hay fever, as well as for the common cold...	2003
Marty Bergen	28	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Boston Beaneaters	suicide after murdering his family	1900
Tony Boeckel Tony Boeckel Norman Doxie "Tony" Boeckel was a former Major League Baseball infielder who played six seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Braves of the National League. He was born in Los Angeles, California....	31	3B Third baseman A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run...	Boston Braves Atlanta Braves The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....	car crash	1924
Walt Bond Walt Bond Walter Franklin Bond was an American professional baseball player who appeared in six Major League Baseball seasons between and for the Cleveland Indians, Houston Colt .45s/Astros and Minnesota Twins...	29	OF	Minnesota Twins Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...	leukemia	1967
Tiny Bonham Tiny Bonham Ernest Edward Bonham was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1940 to 1949, he played for the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates . Bonham batted and threw right-handed...	36	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...	appendicitis Appendicitis Appendicitis is a condition characterized by inflammation of the appendix. It is classified as a medical emergency and many cases require removal of the inflamed appendix, either by laparotomy or laparoscopy. Untreated, mortality is high, mainly because of the risk of rupture leading to...	1949
Lyman Bostock Lyman Bostock Lyman Wesley Bostock, Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played Major League Baseball for four seasons, as an outfielder for the Minnesota Twins and California Angels...	27	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	California Angels Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, United States. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The "Angels" name originates from the city in which the team started, Los Angeles...	homicide	1978
Hal Carlson Hal Carlson Harold Gust Carlson , was a former professional baseball pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1917–1930, for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and Pittsburgh Pirates.-External links:...	38	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Chicago Cubs Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...	stomach hemorrhage	1930
Ray Chapman Ray Chapman Raymond Johnson Chapman was an American baseball player, spending his entire career as a shortstop for Cleveland....	29	SS Shortstop Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...	Cleveland Indians Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...	hit by pitch in game	1920
Néstor Chávez Néstor Chávez Néstor Isaías Chávez Silva was a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants .Chávez was born on July 6, 1947 in Chacao, Miranda State, Venezuela. He was signed as an amateur free agent in 1964 after going for a 34-3 record at the college...	21	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	San Francisco Giants San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....	plane crash Viasa Flight 742 Viasa Flight 742 was an international, scheduled passenger flight from Maracaibo, Venezuela to Miami, Florida that crashed on 16 March 1969. Faulty temperature sensors along the runway resulted in an incorrect takeoff configuration, and the aircraft was unable to gain altitude quickly enough...	1969
Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. Clemente played his entire 18-year baseball career with the Pittsburgh Pirates . He was awarded the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in... *	38	RF Right fielder A right fielder, abbreviated RF, is the outfielder in baseball or softball who plays defense in right field. Right field is the area of the outfield to the right of a person standing at home plate and facing towards the pitcher's mound...	Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...	plane crash	1972
Tim Crews Tim Crews Stanley Timothy Crews was a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers -- to . He was granted free agency after the 1992 season and signed with the Cleveland Indians on January 22, 1993....	31	RP Relief pitcher A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...	Cleveland Indians Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...	boat accident that killed teammate Steve Olin Steve Olin Steven Robert Olin was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four seasons in the American League with the Cleveland Indians. In 195 career games, Olin pitched 273 innings and posted a win–loss record of 16–19, with 48 saves, 118 games finished, and a 3.10 earned...  and injured teammate Bobby Ojeda	1993
Jay Dahl Jay Dahl Jay Steven Dahl was an American baseball player who debuted in Major League Baseball at age 17 in 1963, then died less than two years later in an automobile accident.-Career:...	19	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Houston Colt .45s Houston Astros The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...	car accident	1965
Mike Darr Mike Darr Michael Curtis Darr was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the San Diego Padres . His father, Mike Sr., pitched for the expansion Toronto Blue Jays in 1977. Brother Ryan played in the Detroit organization for many years before ending his baseball career...	25	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	San Diego Padres San Diego Padres The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...	car accident	2002
Jake Daubert Jake Daubert Jacob Ellsworth Daubert was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Superbas and Cincinnati Reds. His career lasted from 1910 until his death in 1924....	40	1B First baseman First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team...	Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....	appendicitis	1924
Ed Delahanty Ed Delahanty Edward James Delahanty , nicknamed "Big Ed", was a Major League Baseball player from 1888 to 1903 for the Philadelphia Quakers, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Infants and Washington Senators, and was known as one of the early great power hitters in the game.He was elected to the Baseball Hall of... *	35	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Washington Senators Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...	swept over Niagara Falls Niagara Falls The Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has...	1903
Joe DeSa Joe DeSa Joseph DeSa was a Major League Baseball first baseman.Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 3rd round of the 1977 MLB amateur draft, DeSa made his Major League Baseball debut with the St...	27	1B First baseman First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team...	Chicago White Sox Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...	car accident	1986
Lou DiMuro Lou DiMuro Louis John DiMuro was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1963 until his death.-Career:...	51	Umpire Umpire (baseball) In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and handling the disciplinary actions. The term is often shortened to the colloquial form ump...	American League American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...	car accident	1982
Alfredo Edmead	18	RF Right fielder A right fielder, abbreviated RF, is the outfielder in baseball or softball who plays defense in right field. Right field is the area of the outfield to the right of a person standing at home plate and facing towards the pitcher's mound...	Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...	on-field collision with teammate	1974
Cozy Dolan	34	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Boston Braves Atlanta Braves The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....	typhoid fever Typhoid fever Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...	1907
Paul Edmondson Paul Edmondson Paul Michael Edmondson was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. Born in Kansas City, Kansas, the right-hander was drafted by the Chicago White Sox out of California State University, Northridge in the 21st round of the first-ever MLB amateur entry draft in June, 1965...	27	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Chicago White Sox Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...	car accident	1970
Charlie Ferguson	25	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Philadelphia Phillies Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...	typhoid fever Typhoid fever Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...	1888
Jim Fogarty	27	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Philadelphia Phillies Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...	tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...	1891
Danny Frisella Danny Frisella Daniel Vincent Frisella , was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1967–1976, mostly as a relief pitcher. He would play for the New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, St...	30	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Milwaukee Brewers Milwaukee Brewers The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...	dune buggy Dune buggy A dune buggy is a recreational vehicle with large wheels, and wide tires, designed for use on sand dunes or beaches. The design is usually a modified vehicle and engine mounted on an open chassis. The modifications usually attempt to increase the power-to-weight ratio by either lightening the...  accident	1977
Miguel Fuentes Miguel Fuentes For the Mexican footballer with the same name see Miguel Fuentes Miguel Fuentes Pinet was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball pitcher. Fuentes was signed to his first professional contract in 1969 with the Seattle Pilots...	23	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Seattle Pilots Seattle Pilots The Seattle Pilots were an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington for one season, . The Pilots played home games at Sick's Stadium and were a member of the West Division of Major League Baseball's American League...	murdered Murder Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...  in a bar Bar (establishment) A bar is a business establishment that serves alcoholic drinks — beer, wine, liquor, and cocktails — for consumption on the premises.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Some bars have entertainment on a stage, such as a live band, comedians, go-go...  in Loíza Aldea Loíza, Puerto Rico Loíza is a small town and municipality in the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico, north of Canóvanas; east of Carolina; and west of Río Grande. Loíza is spread over 5 wards and Loíza Pueblo... , Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...	1970
Tom Gastall Tom Gastall Thomas Everett Gastall was an American baseball player who appeared in two seasons as a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles. A right-handed batter and thrower, he stood tall and weighed ....	24	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Baltimore Orioles Baltimore Orioles The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...	plane crash	1956
Elmer Gedeon Elmer Gedeon Elmer John Gedeon is one of only two Major League Baseball players killed in action during World War II. He was also a multi-sport star in college at the University of Michigan...	27	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Washington Senators Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...	died in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1944
Geremi Gonzalez Geremi González Geremis Segundo González Acosta was a Venezuelan right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs , Tampa Bay Devil Rays , Boston Red Sox , New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers . In his rookie season he led the Cubs with 11 wins, but he was unable to continue that...	33	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Milwaukee Brewers Milwaukee Brewers The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...	lightning strike	2008
Eddie Grant	35	2B Second baseman Second base, or 2B, is the second of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that player's team. A second baseman is the baseball player guarding second base...	New York Giants San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....	died in World War I World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...	1918
Greg Halman Greg Halman Gregory Anthony "Greg" Halman was a Dutch professional baseball outfielder. He played with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball during the and seasons...	24	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Seattle Mariners Seattle Mariners The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Safeco Field has been the Mariners' home ballpark since July...	homicide	2011
Josh Hancock Josh Hancock Joshua Morgan Hancock was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Cleveland, Mississippi, he lived in St. Louis during the off-season...	29	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...	car accident	2007
Willard Hershberger Willard Hershberger Willard McKee Hershberger was a catcher for Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds from 1938 to 1940.He has the distinction of being the only major league player to date to commit suicide during the season.-Life and career:...	30	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....	suicide	1940
Gil Hodges Gil Hodges Gilbert Ray Hodges was an American Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. During an 18-year baseball career, he played in 1943 and from 1947–63, spending most of his career with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers...	47	Manager Manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager is an individual who is responsible for matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership. Managers are typically assisted by between one and six assistant coaches, whose responsibilities are specialized...	New York Mets New York Mets The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...	heart attack	1972
Dick Howser Dick Howser Richard Dalton Howser was an American Major League Baseball shortstop, coach and manager. He is best known as the manager of the Kansas City Royals during the 1980s, and for guiding them to the franchise's only World Series title in 1985.-Playing career:A native of Miami, Florida, Howser grew up...	51	Manager Manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager is an individual who is responsible for matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership. Managers are typically assisted by between one and six assistant coaches, whose responsibilities are specialized...	Kansas City Royals Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...	brain cancer	1987
Miller Huggins Miller Huggins Miller James Huggins , nicknamed "Mighty Mite", was a baseball player and manager. He managed the powerhouse New York Yankee teams of the 1920s and won six American League pennants and three World Series championships.... *	50	Manager Manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager is an individual who is responsible for matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership. Managers are typically assisted by between one and six assistant coaches, whose responsibilities are specialized...	New York Yankees New York Yankees The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...	sepsis Sepsis Sepsis is a potentially deadly medical condition that is characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state and the presence of a known or suspected infection. The body may develop this inflammatory response by the immune system to microbes in the blood, urine, lungs, skin, or other tissues...	1929
Ken Hubbs Ken Hubbs Kenneth Douglass Hubbs was an American second baseman who played from to for the Chicago Cubs in the National League. He was killed in a plane crash near Provo, Utah prior to the 1964 season....	22	2B Second baseman Second base, or 2B, is the second of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that player's team. A second baseman is the baseball player guarding second base...	Chicago Cubs Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...	plane crash	1964
Fred Hutchinson Fred Hutchinson Frederick Charles Hutchinson was an American professional baseball player, a major league pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. He also was a manager for three major league teams...	45	Manager Manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager is an individual who is responsible for matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership. Managers are typically assisted by between one and six assistant coaches, whose responsibilities are specialized...	Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....	lung cancer	1964
Addie Joss Addie Joss Adrian Joss was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched his entire nine-year baseball career for the Cleveland Bronchos/Naps .-Early life:... *	31	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Cleveland Indians Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...	meningitis Meningitis Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...	1911
Joe Kennedy	28	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Toronto Blue Jays Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....	hypertensive heart disease	2007
Darryl Kile Darryl Kile Darryl Andrew Kile was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He pitched from 1991-2002 for three different teams in his career. In his first season for the Cardinals, he won 20 games in 2000 as the team reached the postseason for the first time in four years. They advanced to the...	33	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...	heart defect	2002
Len Koenecke Len Koenecke Leonard George "Len" Koenecke was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants...	31	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Brooklyn Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...	killed in fight	1935
Walter Lerian	26	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Philadelphia Phillies Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...	car accident	1929
Cory Lidle Cory Lidle Cory Fulton Lidle was an Americanright-handed baseball pitcher who spent nine seasons in the major leagues with seven different teams. His twin brother Kevin Lidle also played baseball, as a catcher for several minor league teams...	34	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	New York Yankees New York Yankees The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...	plane crash 2006 New York City plane crash The 2006 New York City plane crash occurred on October 11, 2006, when a Cirrus SR20 general aviation, fixed-wing, single-engine light aircraft crashed into the Belaire Apartments in New York City at about 2:42 p.m. local time...	2006
Steve Macko Steve Macko Steven Joseph Macko was a professional baseball player. In the Major Leagues, he played infield positions in 25 games for the Chicago Cubs during the 1979 and 1980 seasons...	27	IF Infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.-Standard arrangement of positions:In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles...	Chicago Cubs Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...	cancer	1981
Dan McGann	39	1B First baseman First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team...	New York Giants San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....	suicide	1910
Austin McHenry Austin McHenry Austin Bush McHenry , was a professional baseball player who played outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1918-1922 for the St. Louis Cardinals. He died of a brain tumor. McHenry was one of the best players in the National League in 1921...	27	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...	brain tumor	1922
John McSherry John McSherry John Patrick McSherry was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1971 to 1996. Although McSherry originally wore uniform #9 when he entered the National League, he switched to #10 in 1979 when the league reorganized the umpires' numbers and he wore that...	51	Umpire Umpire (baseball) In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and handling the disciplinary actions. The term is often shortened to the colloquial form ump...	National League National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...	heart attack during Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....  Opening Day Opening Day Opening Day is the day on which professional baseball leagues begin their regular season. For Major League Baseball and most of the minor leagues, this day falls during the first week of April. For baseball fans, Opening Day serves as a symbol of rebirth; writer Thomas Boswell once penned a book...  game vs. Montreal Expos Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 through 2004, holding the first MLB franchise awarded outside the United States. After the 2004 season, MLB moved the Expos to Washington, D.C. and renamed them the Nationals.Named after the Expo 67 World's...	1996
Mike Miley Mike Miley Michael Wilfred Miley was a professional baseball player who played two seasons for the California Angels of Major League Baseball. He died in a one-car accident in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....	23	SS Shortstop Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...	California Angels	car accident	1977
Doug Million Doug Million Douglas Lloyd Million was a baseball player who is notable for winning the Gatorade High School Baseball Player of the Year Award in 1994...	21	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Colorado Rockies Colorado Rockies The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1991, they started play in 1993 and are in the West Division of the National League. The team is named after the Rocky Mountains...	asthma attack	1997
Bob Moose Bob Moose Robert Ralph Moose Jr. was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1967 to 1976. Moose spent his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. His best season came in 1969 when he posted a 14-3 won-loss record and a 2.91 Earned Run Average working equally as a starter and reliever...	29	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...	car accident	1976
Donnie Moore Donnie Moore Donnie Ray Moore was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs , St...	35	P Closer (baseball) In baseball, a closing pitcher, more frequently referred to as a closer , is a relief pitcher who specializes in closing out games, i.e., getting the final outs in a close game. Closers often appear when the score is close, and the role is often assigned to a team's best reliever. A small number of...	California Angels Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, United States. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The "Angels" name originates from the city in which the team started, Los Angeles...	suicide	1989
Thurman Munson Thurman Munson Thurman Lee Munson was an American Major League Baseball catcher. He played his entire 11-year career for the New York Yankees...	32	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	New York Yankees New York Yankees The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...	plane crash	1979
Tom O'Brien	27	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...	pneumonia Pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...	1901
Steve Olin Steve Olin Steven Robert Olin was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four seasons in the American League with the Cleveland Indians. In 195 career games, Olin pitched 273 innings and posted a win–loss record of 16–19, with 48 saves, 118 games finished, and a 3.10 earned...	27	P Closer (baseball) In baseball, a closing pitcher, more frequently referred to as a closer , is a relief pitcher who specializes in closing out games, i.e., getting the final outs in a close game. Closers often appear when the score is close, and the role is often assigned to a team's best reliever. A small number of...	Cleveland Indians Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...	boat accident that killed teammate Tim Crews Tim Crews Stanley Timothy Crews was a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers -- to . He was granted free agency after the 1992 season and signed with the Cleveland Indians on January 22, 1993....  and injured teammate Bobby Ojeda	1993
Harry O'Neill Harry O'Neill (catcher) Harry Mink O'Neill is a former professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues in . He would play for the Philadelphia Athletics. O'Neill was one of two Major League Baseball players to die during World War II...	27	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Philadelphia Athletics Oakland Athletics The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....	died in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	1945
Charlie Peete Charlie Peete Charles Peete was an American professional baseball player. The reigning batting average champion of the Triple-A American Association who received a one-month, 23-game trial with the 1956 St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, Peete was projected by some as the leading candidate to be the...	27	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...	plane crash	1956
Gus Polidor Gus Polidor Gustavo Adolfo Polidor González [poh-lee-DOR], , was a shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels , Milwaukee Brewers and Florida Marlins . He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.His best year was 1987 with the Angels, when he hit for a .263 batting average, with 2 homers...	33	Infielder Infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.-Standard arrangement of positions:In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles...	Montreal Expos Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 through 2004, holding the first MLB franchise awarded outside the United States. After the 2004 season, MLB moved the Expos to Washington, D.C. and renamed them the Nationals.Named after the Expo 67 World's...	murdered during robbery	1995
Doc Powers Doc Powers Michael Riley "Doc" Powers was an American Major League Baseball player who caught for four different teams from to . He played for the Louisville Colonels and Washington Senators of the National League, and the Philadelphia Athletics and New York Highlanders of the American League...	38	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Philadelphia Athletics Oakland Athletics The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....	gangrene Gangrene Gangrene is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition that arises when a considerable mass of body tissue dies . This may occur after an injury or infection, or in people suffering from any chronic health problem affecting blood circulation. The primary cause of gangrene is reduced blood...	1909
Jimmy Sebring Jimmy Sebring James Dennison Sebring , was a professional baseball player who played outfield from 1902-1909. He attended college at Bucknell University. He played in the 1903 World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was the first player in World Series history to hit a home run...	27	RF	Washington Senators	Bright's disease Bright's disease Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. The term is no longer used, as diseases are now classified according to their more fully understood causes....	1909
Mike Sharperson Mike Sharperson Michael Tyrone Sharperson was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Toronto Blue Jays , Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves . Sharperson batted and threw right-handed...	34	IF Infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.-Standard arrangement of positions:In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles...	San Diego Padres San Diego Padres The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...	car accident	1996
Urban Shocker Urban Shocker Urban James Shocker , born Urbain Jacques Shockor in Cleveland, Ohio, was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns from to ....	38	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	New York Yankees New York Yankees The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...	pneumonia Pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...	1928
Chick Stahl Chick Stahl Charles Sylvester "Chick" Stahl was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who was among the most feared and consistent hitters in his time. In his rookie 1897 season with the Boston Beaneaters, he batted .354, and over his first six seasons, he averaged over .300...	34	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Boston Red Sox Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...	suicide	1907
Dernell Stenson Dernell Stenson Dernell Renuald Stenson was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw left-handed. He was 6'1" tall and weighed 230 lbs.-Baseball career:...	25	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....	murdered during robbery	2003
Alan Storke Alan Storke Alan Marshall Storke , was a professional baseball player who played infielder in the Major Leagues from -. He would play for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates....	25	infielder Infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.-Standard arrangement of positions:In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles...	Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....	general streptococcus Streptococcus Streptococcus is a genus of spherical Gram-positive bacteria belonging to the phylum Firmicutes and the lactic acid bacteria group. Cellular division occurs along a single axis in these bacteria, and thus they grow in chains or pairs, hence the name — from Greek στρεπτος streptos, meaning...  due to empyema Empyema Pleural empyema is an accumulation of pus in the pleural cavity. Most pleural empyemas arise from an infection within the lung , often associated with parapneumonic effusions. There are three stages: exudative, fibrinopurulent and organizing. In the exudative stage, the pus accumulates...	1910
Bob Swift Bob Swift Robert Virgil Swift was an American catcher, coach, manager and scout in Major League Baseball.Swift is pictured in one of the most famous photographs in American sporting history. He was the catcher for the Detroit Tigers on August 19, 1951, when St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck sent midget...	51	acting Manager Manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager is an individual who is responsible for matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership. Managers are typically assisted by between one and six assistant coaches, whose responsibilities are specialized...	Detroit Tigers Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...	lung cancer	1966
Danny Thompson	29	IF Infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.-Standard arrangement of positions:In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles...	Texas Rangers Texas Rangers (baseball) The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...	leukemia Leukemia Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...	1976
Jim Umbricht Jim Umbricht James Umbricht was an American Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Georgia. He pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Colt .45s . During his 5-year baseball career, Umbricht compiled 9 wins, 133 strikeouts,...	33	P Relief pitcher A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...	Houston Colt .45's Houston Astros The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...	malignant melanoma	1964
Dick Wantz Dick Wantz Richard Carter Wantz was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels. He batted and threw right-handed....	25	P Relief pitcher A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...	California Angels	inoperable brain tumor Brain tumor A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...	1965
Lee Weyer Lee Weyer Lee Howard "Big Lee" Weyer was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1961 until his death. In a 1987 Sports Illustrated poll of NL catchers, Weyer was rated the best at calling balls and strikes...	51	Umpire Umpire (baseball) In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and handling the disciplinary actions. The term is often shortened to the colloquial form ump...	National League National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...	heart attack	1988
Don Wilson Don Wilson (baseball player) Donald Edward "Don" Wilson, , was a Major League Baseball pitcher for nine seasons with the Houston Astros.-Career:...	29	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Houston Astros Houston Astros The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...	carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after enough inhalation of carbon monoxide . Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being colorless, odorless, tasteless, and initially non-irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect...	1975
Cliff Young Cliff Young (baseball) Clifford Raphael Young was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched parts of three seasons in the majors between and . The Indians released him at the end of the 1993 season. Shortly thereafter, Young was killed in a car accident when the car he was driving went off the road and hit a tree,...	29	P Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...	Cleveland Indians Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...	car accident	1993

Negro League Baseball

Negro league baseball

The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in...

Player	Age	Position	Team	Cause of death	Year
Josh Gibson Josh Gibson Joshua Gibson was an American catcher in baseball's Negro leagues. He played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939 and 1942 to 1946... *	35	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Homestead Grays Homestead Grays The Homestead Grays were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues in the United States. The team was formed in 1912 by Cumberland Posey, and would remain in continuous operation for 38 seasons. The team was based in Homestead, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.-Franchise...	brain tumor Brain tumor A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...  and stroke Stroke A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...	1947
Pythias Russ Pythias Russ Pythias Russ was an American catcher and right-handed batter in the Negro Leagues whose career and life were cut short by illness.Russ was a star college athlete in baseball, basketball, and track and field. He was named an All-American football player in 1924...	26	C Catcher Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...	Chicago American Giants Chicago American Giants Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball...	tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...	1930
Chino Smith Chino Smith Charles "Chino" Smith was an American outfielder in Negro league baseball who was one of the Negro leagues' most skillful hitters of the mid-1920s and early 1930s. He stood only 5'6" tall but could hit the ball with prodigious power and efficiency. In fact, Satchel Paige called him one of the two...	28	OF Outfielder Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder...	Lincoln Giants Lincoln Giants The Lincoln Giants were a Negro League baseball team based in New York City from 1911 through 1930.- Founding :Jess McMahon, a white promoter, hired Sol White, former manager of the Philadelphia Giants, to put together a club...	yellow fever Yellow fever Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family....	1932

International (men)

• Miska Alanko, Pussihukat
  Pussihukat
  Vantaa Pussihukat is one of the largest basketball clubs in Finland, based in Vantaa, Finland. With over 400 members, it includes men's, women's, juniors, and special needs teams....
  
  , car accident (1997)
• Ángel Almeida, 25, Clube Portugal Telecom, heart attack (1997)
• Davide Ancilotto, 23, Virtus Roma
  Pallacanestro Virtus Roma
  Pallacanestro Virtus Roma, also known for sponsorship reasons as Acea Virtus Roma, is a prominent Italian League professional basketball club, and is also currently one of 13 European clubs that hold ULEB A Licenses, which provide their holders with a guaranteed place in the Euroleague. The club...
  
  , brain hemorrhage (1997)
• Paolo Barlera, 27, Virtus Bologna
  Virtus Bologna
  -Notable players: Marco Bonamico 9 seasons: '75-'76, '77-'78, '80-'86, '88-'89 Carlo Caglieris 6 seasons: '75-'81 Pietro Generali 6 seasons: '75-'76, '78-'83 Gianni Bertolotti 5 seasons: '75-'80 Terry Driscoll 3 seasons: '75-'78 Eric Luc Leclerc 1 season: '75-'76 Luigi Serafini 2 seasons: '75-'77...
  
  , leukemia (2009)
• Alexander Belov, 26, Spartak Leningrad
  Spartak Saint Petersburg
  BC Spartak Saint Petersburg is a Russian professional basketball team that is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The club is currently in the Russian Professional Basketball League.-Honors:*Soviet/Russian Super League:**2 times Champions...
  
  , cardiac sarcoma (1978)
• Jonathan Bourhis
  Jonathan Bourhis
  Jonathan Bourhis was a professional basketball player for JDA Dijon. He died in a car accident on November 1, 2009 at the age of 19. He was considered a very talented player and one of the best hopes of French basketball. His death was reported to be a "bad hit" for his team.- External links :*...
  
  , 19, JDA Dijon, car accident (2009)
• Haris Brkić
  Haris Brkic
  Haris Brkić was a Serbian basketball player. He made greatest results in KK Partizan and he is still remembered for his great drives to the basket....
  
  , 26, KK Partizan
  KK Partizan
  Košarkaški klub Partizan is a Serbian professional basketball club. It is part of the multi-sports Belgrade-based club Partizan. The club competes in the Serbian League, Adriatic League and the Euroleague....
  
  , homicide (shot) (2000)
• Lavelle Felton
  Lavelle Felton
  Lavelle Felton was an American professional basketball player playing in the European professional basketball leagues....
  
  , 29, Paderborn Baskets, homicide (shot) (2009)
• Scott Fenton
  Scott Fenton
  Scott Fenton was a professional basketball player who played 140 games in the National Basketball League of Australia from 1982 until his death in 1989....
  
  , 24, Perth Wildcats
  Perth Wildcats
  The Perth Wildcats are an Australian professional basketball team competing in the National Basketball League. The Wildcats are the only team in the league representing the state of Western Australia and are based in the state capital, Perth...
  
  , car accident (1989)
• Joan Filbá, 26, OAR Ferrol, car accident (1981)
• Alphonso Ford
  Alphonso Ford
  Alphonso Gene Ford was an American professional basketball player. A 1.93 m tall shooting guard, he was one of the greatest scorers in college basketball history. Ford played professionally in both the NBA and the Euroleague, where he confirmed his tremendous scoring ability and became a...
  
  , 32, Scavolini Spar Pesaro
  Victoria Libertas Pesaro
  Victoria Libertas , full name Unione Sportiva Victoria Libertas Pallacanestro, is a professional basketball team that is based in Pesaro, Italy. The club competes in the top level Italian professional basketball league, the Lega Basket Serie A...
  
  , Euroleague
  Euroleague
  Euroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...
  
  , leukemia (2004)
• Valery Goborov
  Valery Goborov
  Valery Grigoryevich Goborov was a Soviet basketball player.He won gold medal at 1988 Summer Olympics and was a champion USSR .September 7, 1989, he died in Moscow in a car crash....
  
  , 24, CSKA Moscow
  PBC CSKA Moscow
  PBC CSKA Moscow is a Russian professional basketball team that is based in Moscow, Russia. The club is a member of the VTB United League. It is often referred to in the West as "Red Army" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army. CSKA has won two titles between 2006 and 2009 in Europe's...
  
  , car accident (1989)
• Chauncey Hardy
  Chauncey Hardy
  Chauncey Hardy was an American professional basketball player. He played for CSS Giurgiu in the Divizia A, the top-tier professional basketball league of Romania. He died on October 9, 2011 in the Romanian city of Giurgiu, where he was severely beaten in a nightclub following an altercation with a...
  
  , 23, CSS Giurgiu, heart attack following beating (2011)
• Zoltán Horváth
  Zoltán Horváth (basketball)
  Zoltán Horváth was a Hungarian basketball player. He had been part of the Hungary national basketball team from 2005 to 2009, and briefly played for PAOK Thessaloniki in the A1 Ethniki of Greece.Horváth began his career on senior level in 2003 with the team of the PVSK Panthers from Pécs...
  
  , 30, Falco KC Szombathely
  Falco KC Szombathely
  -Trophies:*Hungarian National Championship:** Winners : 2007/08** Runners-up : 1998/99** Third placed : 1999/00, 2001/02*Hungarian Cup :** Runners-up : 1997/98, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10** Third placed : 1996/97- References :...
  
  , car accident (2009)
• Kenyon Jones
  Kenyon Jones (basketball)
  Kenyon Jones was an American basketball player. He played four seasons in Greece's top league, HEBA A1.Jones, a 6'10 center from Beach High School in Savannah, Georgia, signed with coach Todd Bozeman at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
  , 27, Maroussi BC
  Maroussi BC
  Maroussi Athens B.C. , is a Greek professional basketball club that is based in Maroussi, a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. The club's full name is Gymnastikos Syllogos Amarousiou. The club competes in the Greek League. Its long-time owner was Armodios Vovos of the BVIC construction firm...
  
  , heart attack (2005)
• Yadgar Karimov, 20, UNICS Kazan
  UNICS Kazan
  UNICS Kazan is a professional basketball club in Kazan, Russia playing in the PBL. Their home arena is Basket Hall Arena.Though officially the professional club was founded in 1991 , UNICS traces its origin back to KSU's college team Burevestnik which participated in USSR student championships...
  
  , heart attack (2001)
• Radivoj Korać
  Radivoj Korac
  Radivoj Korać , sometimes also Radivoje, was a successful Serbian basketball player from Yugoslavia....
  
  , 30, Boario Padova, car accident (1969)
• Kari "Kanni" Kulonen, FoKoPo, UU, car accident (1990)
• Tapani Manninen, Pussihukat
  Pussihukat
  Vantaa Pussihukat is one of the largest basketball clubs in Finland, based in Vantaa, Finland. With over 400 members, it includes men's, women's, juniors, and special needs teams....
  
  , car accident (1996)
• Fernando Martín
  Fernando Martín Espina
  Fernando Martín Espina is considered one of the best Spanish basketball players ever....
  
  , 27, Real Madrid
  Real Madrid Baloncesto
  Real Madrid Baloncesto is a Spanish professional basketball team founded in 1932 as a division of the Real Madrid club. They play in the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto ....
  
  , car accident (1989)
• Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami
  Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami
  Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami was an Iranian professional basketball player. He was a member of the Iranian national basketball team along with his brother Samad Nikkhah Bahrami.-Career:...
  
  , 25, Saba Battery Tehran BC
  Saba Battery Tehran BC
  Saba Battery Tehran Basketball Club also known as Saba Mehr Qazvin Basketball Club was an Iranian basketball club based in Tehran and Qazvin, Iran. They competed in the Iranian Basketball Super League....
  
  , car accident (2007)
• Alexander Petrenko
  Alexander Petrenko
  Alexander Petrenko was a Russian professional basketball player. He most recently played for BC Khimki in the Russian Super League. He was born in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, and held Russian citizenship. Petrenko died in a car crash near Samara, Russia, on July 21, 2006.- References :*...
  
  , 30, Khimki BC, car accident (2006)
• Paulo Pinto, 27, Aveiro Basket, cardiac arrest (2002)
• Trajko Rajković
  Trajko Rajkovic
  Trajko Rajković was a Yugoslavian basketball player. He was born in Leskovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.During the time of Rajković’s performance on the national team, Yugoslavia won two European silvers and one bronze , one Olympic silver in Mexico City, and one World Championship gold...
  
  , 32, OKK Beograd
  OKK Beograd
  OKK Beograd is a Serbian professional basketball club. It is part of the multi-sports Belgrade-based sport club OSD Beograd.-History:The club was founded in 1945 under the name KK Metalac...
  
   (1970)
• Enrico Ravaglia, 23, Pallacanestro Cantù
  Pallacanestro Cantù
  Pallacanestro Cantù is an Italian League professional basketball club that is based in Cantù. For sponsorship reasons, it is also known as Bennet Cantù, after Bennet, an Italian supermarket chain. For past club sponsorship names, see the list below...
  
  , car accident (1999)
• Gabriel Riofrío, 23, Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca
  Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca
  Club Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca, known as Weber Bahía Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, is a sports club based in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The club is best known for its basketball team, that currently plays in the Liga Nacional de Básquet , the top division of the...
  
  , heart attack (2001)
• Chris Sandy, 28, Kouvot, car accident (2006)
• Marvin Stone
  Marvin Stone (basketball)
  Marvin Stone was an American basketball player.Stone was a native of Huntsville, Alabama. While attending Virgil I. Grissom High School he led Grissom to the school's second ever 6A State Title in 1999. The 6'10" center/power forward was regarded as one of the top recruits in the country, as a...
  
  , 26, Al-Ittihad (Jeddah), heart attack (2008)
• Robert Traylor
  Robert Traylor
  Robert DeShaun "Tractor" Traylor was an American professional basketball player.-High school and college:...
  
  , 34, Vaqueros de Bayamón (2011)
• Gregory Vallenilla, 27, Marinos de Oriente, car accident (2007)
• Heino Veskila, 22, World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1941)
• Kevin Widemond
  Kevin Widemond
  Kevin Widemond was an American basketball player...
  
  , 23, Ovarense
  Ovarense (basketball)
  Ovarense Basketball is a team of professional basketball that plays in Ovar, Portugal. The team plays in the LCB. The Ovarense created its section of basketball in 1970, with the initiative of a member entrepreneur, John Gonçalves, but in this space of time managed to assert itself as one of the...
  
  , heart attack (2009)

International (women)

• Olga Yakovleva
  Olga Yakovleva (basketball, born 1986)
  Olga Yakovleva was a Russian women's basketball player. Olga was born in Vologda, Russia and represented her country in the FIBA under-19 and under-21 World Championships. In 2009, Olga was selected as Eurobasket.com All-Russian Superleague Honorable Mention...
  
  , 24, Chevakata Vologda, drowning
  Drowning
  Drowning is death from asphyxia due to suffocation caused by water entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia....
  
   (2010)

NBA

• Ricky Berry
  Ricky Berry
  Ricky Alan Berry was an American professional basketball player in the NBA for the Sacramento Kings....
  
  , 24, Sacramento Kings
  Sacramento Kings
  The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California, United States. They are currently members of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...
  
  , suicide (1989)
• Len Bias
  Len Bias
  Leonard Kevin "Len" Bias was a first team All-American college basketball player at the University of Maryland. He was selected by the Boston Celtics as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft on June 17, but died two days later from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose...
  
  , 22, Boston Celtics
  Boston Celtics
  The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
  
   (drafted but never played in the NBA), cocaine
  Cocaine
  Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
  
   overdose (1986)
• Jason Collier
  Jason Collier
  Jason Jeffrey Collier was an American professional basketball player in the NBA. At death, the tall center Collier weighed...
  
  , 28, Atlanta Hawks
  Atlanta Hawks
  The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association .-The first years:...
  
  , cardiac arrest (2005)
• Terry Furlow
  Terry Furlow
  Terry Furlow was an American basketball player. Furlow was a 6-foot-4-inch shooting guard from Flint, Michigan. He played collegiately at Michigan State. In 1975-76, as a senior, he led the Big Ten in scoring, and finished his career at MSU with 1717 points – which places him seventh on the...
  
  , 25, Utah Jazz
  Utah Jazz
  The Utah Jazz is a professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are currently a part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
  , car accident (1980)
• Eddie Griffin
  Eddie Griffin (basketball)
  Eddie Jamaal Griffin was an American professional basketball player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He last played for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, who waived him on March 13, 2007...
  
  , 25, Minnesota Timberwolves
  Minnesota Timberwolves
  The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Founded in 1989, the team is currently owned by Glen Taylor...
  
  , car accident (2007)
• Wendell Ladner
  Wendell Ladner
  Wendell Ladner was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball at The University of Southern Mississippi where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity....
  
  , 26, New York Nets
  New Jersey Nets
  The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
   (prior to ABA-NBA merger
  ABA-NBA merger
  The ABA–NBA merger was the merger of the American Basketball Association with the National Basketball Association, which after multiple attempts over several years finally occurred in 1976.- Origins of ABA-NBA competition :...
  
  ), plane crash
  Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
  Eastern Air Lines Flight 66, a Boeing 727-225 with registration number N8845E, departed from New Orleans Moisant Field, bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport on the afternoon of June 24, 1975. The aircraft carried 124 persons, including 116 passengers and 8 crew.As the aircraft was on its...
  
   (1975)
• Reggie Lewis
  Reggie Lewis
  Reggie Lewis was an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Boston Celtics from 1987 to 1993.-Early life:...
  
  , 27, Boston Celtics
  Boston Celtics
  The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
  
  , heart failure, (1993)
• Conrad McRae
  Conrad McRae
  Conrad Bastien McRae was an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Washington Bullets in the 2nd round of the 1993 NBA Draft. McRae's professional career flourished overseas in Europe for teams in France, Italy, Greece and Turkey...
  
  , 29, Orlando Magic
  Orlando Magic
  The Orlando Magic is a professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association and are currently coached by Stan Van Gundy...
  
   (summer league), unknown but most likely heart failure (2000)
• Dražen Petrović
  Dražen Petrovic
  Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989...
  
  , 28, New Jersey Nets
  New Jersey Nets
  The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
  , car accident (1993)
• Bobby Phills
  Bobby Phills
  Bobby Ray Phills II was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers and Charlotte Hornets....
  
  , 30, Charlotte Hornets, car accident (2000)
• Malik Sealy
  Malik Sealy
  Malik Sealy was an American professional basketball player, active from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident at the age of 30...
  
  , 30, Minnesota Timberwolves
  Minnesota Timberwolves
  The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Founded in 1989, the team is currently owned by Glen Taylor...
  
  , car accident (2000)
• Nick Vanos
  Nick Vanos
  Nicolaas Vanos was an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the NBA. The San Mateo, California native was selected 32nd by the Suns in the 1985 NBA Draft, after playing for Hillsdale High School and collegiately at Santa Clara University...
  
  , 24, Phoenix Suns
  Phoenix Suns
  The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association and the only team in their division not to be based in California. Their home arena since 1992 has been the US...
  
  , plane crash
  Northwest Airlines Flight 255
  Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was a flight that originated at MBS International Airport in Saginaw, Michigan, and was scheduled to terminate at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, with intermediate stops at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit,...
  
   (1987)
• Lorenzen Wright
  Lorenzen Wright
  Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright was an American professional basketball player.-Early life and college:Raised in Oxford, Mississippi, Wright played all levels of basketball in Memphis – high school, collegiate and professional...
  
  , 34, Free Agent
  Free agent
  In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....
  
  , homicide (shot) (2010)

NCAA (men)

• Tony Penny, 21 , Central Connecticut Blue Devils
  Central Connecticut State University
  Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut, United States.The school was moved to its present campus in 1922...
  
  , heart attack (1989)
• De'Andre Adams, 20, Winthrop Eagles, car crash (2007)
• Warren Alston, 18, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Jerode Banks, 20, Baylor Bears men's basketball
  Baylor Bears men's basketball
  The Baylor Bears basketball team represents Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. The Bears compete in the Big 12 Conference. The team plays its home games in Ferrell Center and is currently coached by Scott Drew....
  
  , car crash (1994)
• Kevin Brophy, 21, Georgia Bulldogs
  Georgia Bulldogs men's basketball
  The Georgia Bulldogs basketball program is the men's college basketball team representing the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Established in 1891, the team has competed in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1932...
  
  , car crash (2006)
• Arturo Brown, 21, Boston University Terriers
  Boston University Terriers
  The Boston University Terriers are the nine men's and twelve women's varsity athletic teams representing Boston University in NCAA Division I competition. The men compete in basketball, cross country, ice hockey, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, and wrestling...
  
  , heart attack (1982)
• Ray Comandella, 18, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Chris Daniels, 22, Dayton Flyers
  Dayton Flyers
  The Dayton Flyers are the University of Dayton's intercollegiate athletic teams, which are based in Dayton, Ohio. The Flyers' home arena is the University of Dayton Arena. The name is a reference and homage to Daytonians Orville and Wilbur Wright who pioneered heavier than air flight...
  
  , cardiac arrest (1996)
• Patrick Dennehy
  Patrick Dennehy
  Patrick James Dennehy was an American college basketball player. He was born in Santa Clara, California. He was fatally shot by a teammate in 2003....
  
  , 21, Baylor Bears
  Baylor Bears men's basketball
  The Baylor Bears basketball team represents Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. The Bears compete in the Big 12 Conference. The team plays its home games in Ferrell Center and is currently coached by Scott Drew....
  
  , homicide (see Baylor University basketball scandal
  Baylor University basketball scandal
  The Baylor University basketball scandal was an incident in which the Baylor University men's basketball program was investigated and punished for numerous NCAA violations. The scandal broke out after the 2003 murder of men's basketball player Patrick Dennehy...
  
  ) (2003)
• Mike Duff, 18, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Wayne Estes
  Wayne Estes
  Wayne Vernon Estes was a 6'6" forward All-American basketball player for Utah State University from 1963 to 1965. Wayne is the third-leading scorer in Utah State history with 2,001 points and the fourth-leading rebounder...
  
  , 21, Utah State Aggies
  Utah State Aggies
  The Utah State Aggies are the athletics teams of Utah State University. The school fields men's varsity teams in basketball, cross country, football, golf, tennis, and track and field. Women's varsity teams include basketball, cross country, gymnastics, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field,...
  
  , accidental electrocution (1965)
• Nate Fleming, 20, Oklahoma State Cowboys
  Oklahoma State Cowboys
  Oklahoma State Cowboys are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma State University. Their mascot is a cowboy named Pistol Pete. Oklahoma State participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big 12 Conference's South Division. The university's current athletic director is Mike Holder...
  
  , plane crash (2001)
• Ryan Francis
  Ryan Francis
  Ryan Francis was an American college basketball player. At the time of his death, he was the starting point guard for the University of Southern California Trojans basketball team.-College career:...
  
  , 19, USC Trojans, homicide (2006)
• Hank Gathers
  Hank Gathers
  Eric "Hank" Gathers was an American college basketball star at Loyola Marymount University who collapsed and died during a game. He was the second player in NCAA Division I history to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same season...
  
  , 23, Loyola Marymount Lions
  Loyola Marymount Lions
  The Loyola Marymount Lions are the athletic teams that represent Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit institution in Los Angeles, California. The school competes in NCAA Division I, with its primary affiliation in the West Coast Conference, an organization consisting solely of...
  
  , cardiac arrest during a game (1990)
• Kraig Heckerdorn, 19, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Mike Joyner, 19, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Kevin Kingston, 21, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Dan Lawson, 21, Oklahoma State Cowboys
  Oklahoma State Cowboys
  Oklahoma State Cowboys are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma State University. Their mascot is a cowboy named Pistol Pete. Oklahoma State participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big 12 Conference's South Division. The university's current athletic director is Mike Holder...
  
  , plane crash (2001)
• Barney Lewis, 18, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Jeron Lewis, 21, University of Southern Indiana
  University of Southern Indiana
  The University of Southern Indiana is a public university in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This publicly funded institution has been among the fastest growingcomprehensive state universities in Indiana. Record fall enrollment in 2010 reached 10,702...
  
   Screamin' Eagles, enlarged heart (2010)
• Steve Miller, 20, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Keith Moon, 20, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Jeff Muriel, 19, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders
  Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders men's basketball
  The Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders is the basketball team that represent Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Southland Conference. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in...
  
  , car crash (2005)
• Tobi Oyedeji, 18, Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
  
  , car accident (2010)
• Danny Rumph, 21, Western Kentucky University
  Western Kentucky University
  Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. It was formally founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier....
  
  , heart attack (2005)
• Mark Siegel, 19, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
   plane crash (1977)
• Greg Smith, 18, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Chris Street
  Chris Street (basketball)
  Christopher "Chris" Michael Street was a college basketball power forward for the Iowa Hawkeyes. A potential NBA player, he died in an automobile accident during his junior year at Iowa.-Biography:...
  
  , 20, Iowa Hawkeyes
  Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball
  The Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represents the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, as a member of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. They currently play in 15,500-seat Carver-Hawkeye Arena, along with the school's women's basketball, wrestling, and...
  
  , car accident (1993)
• Bryan Taylor, 20, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• John Ed Washington, 21, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)
• Tony Winburn, 22, Evansville Purple Aces
  Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball
  The Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team represents the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Evansville's athletics teams were originally known as the Pioneers in the early part of the 1900s...
  
  , plane crash (1977)

NAIA

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...

 (men)

• Brandon Oldenkamp, 21, Dordt College
  Dordt College
  Dordt College is a private, Christian, liberal arts college located in Sioux Center, Iowa. It was founded in 1955 and is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church. The college name is a reference to the Synod of Dort....
  
  , climbing accident on Grand Teton
  Grand Teton
  Grand Teton is the highest mountain in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, and a classic destination in American mountaineering.- Geography :...
  
   (2010)

NCAA (women)

• Kurt Budke
  Kurt Budke
  Kurt Budke was an American college basketball coach. His final coaching job was as the head coach for the Oklahoma State University Cowgirls women's basketball team from 2005 until his 2011 death in a plane accident.-Career:...
  
  , 50, Oklahoma State University
  Oklahoma State Cowboys
  Oklahoma State Cowboys are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma State University. Their mascot is a cowboy named Pistol Pete. Oklahoma State participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big 12 Conference's South Division. The university's current athletic director is Mike Holder...
  
  , coach
  Coach (basketball)
  Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behaviour of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as well as overall physical conditioning.Coaching is...
  
  , plane crash in Perry County, Arkansas
  Arkansas
  Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
  
   (2011)
• Maggie Dixon
  Maggie Dixon
  -External links:****...
  
  , 28, Army
  Army Black Knights
  Army Black Knights is the name of the athletics teams of the United States Military Academy. They participate in NCAA Division I-A as a non-football member of the Patriot League, a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision independent school, and a member of Atlantic Hockey, the Collegiate Sprint...
  
  , coach
  Coach (basketball)
  Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behaviour of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as well as overall physical conditioning.Coaching is...
  
  , heart arrhythmia
  Cardiac dysrhythmia
  Cardiac dysrhythmia is any of a large and heterogeneous group of conditions in which there is abnormal electrical activity in the heart. The heart beat may be too fast or too slow, and may be regular or irregular.Some arrhythmias are life-threatening medical emergencies that can result in cardiac...
  
   (2006)
• Alisa Lewis, 20, University of California, bacterial meningitis
  Bacterial meningitis
  Bacterial meningitis refers to meningitis that is caused by bacterial infection.-Signs and Symptoms:*Fever*Seizures*Meningismus*Headache*Vomiting*Photophobia*Altered mental status and coma*Anorexia...
  
   (2004)
• Shawntinice Polk
  Shawntinice Polk
  -External links:* * *...
  
  , 22, University of Arizona
  Arizona Wildcats
  -Athletic program:The University of Arizona participates in the NCAA's Division I-A in the Pacific-12 Conference Arizona participates in the conference's South Division, along with Arizona State, Colorado, UCLA, USC, and Utah...
  
  , pulmonary embolism
  Pulmonary embolism
  Pulmonary embolism is a blockage of the main artery of the lung or one of its branches by a substance that has travelled from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream . Usually this is due to embolism of a thrombus from the deep veins in the legs, a process termed venous thromboembolism...
  
   (2005)
• Miranda Serna, 36, Oklahoma State University
  Oklahoma State Cowboys
  Oklahoma State Cowboys are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma State University. Their mascot is a cowboy named Pistol Pete. Oklahoma State participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big 12 Conference's South Division. The university's current athletic director is Mike Holder...
  
  , assistant coach
  Coach (basketball)
  Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behaviour of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as well as overall physical conditioning.Coaching is...
  
  , plane crash in Perry County, Arkansas
  Arkansas
  Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
  
   (2011)
• Tina Stewart, 21, Middle Tennessee State University
  Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
  The Blue Raiders are the men's and women's athletic teams at Middle Tennessee State University. MTSU athletic teams participate in NCAA Division I in the Sun Belt Conference...
  
  , stabbing
  Stabbing
  A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing...
  
   (2011)
• Shannon Washington, 20, Florida A&M
  Florida A&M Rattlers
  The Florida A&M Rattlers represent Florida A&M University in college athletics. Florida A&M is a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and participates in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision . FAMU offers men's sports in baseball, basketball, football, golf, swimming , tennis...
  
  , stabbing
  Stabbing
  A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing...
  
   (2011)

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

• Reto Capadrutt
  Reto Capadrutt
  Reto Capadrutt was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a silver medal in the two-man event in 1932 and another silver medal in the four-man event in 1936....
  
  , 26, Swiss bobsledder, crashed during the four-man event of the 1939 FIBT World Championships
  FIBT World Championships 1939
  The FIBT World Championships 1939 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy . St. Moritz hosted the two-man event for the second time after hosting it previously in 1938, along with hosting the four-man event in 1931, 1935, and 1937. Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted the two-man...
  
  
• Yvonne Cernota
  Yvonne Cernota
  Yvonne Cernota was a German bobsledder who competed from 2000 to 2004. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2003 FIBT World Championships in Winterberg....
  
  , 24, German bobsled driver, crashed during practice run (2004)
• Felix Endrich
  Felix Endrich
  Felix Endrich was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St...
  
  , 31, Swiss bobsled driver, crashed during 1953 FIBT World Championships
  FIBT World Championships 1953
  The FIBT World Championships 1953 took place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany for the third time after previously hosting the four-man event of the championships in 1934 and 1938...
  
  
• Max Houben
  Max Houben
  Max Houben was a Belgian athlete and bobsledder who competed from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St...
  
  , 50, Belgian bobsledder, crashed during practice run prior to the 1949 FIBT World Championships
  FIBT World Championships 1949
  The FIBT World Championships 1949 took place in Lake Placid, New York, United States. It marked the first time the championships took place outside of Europe.-Two man bobsleigh:-Four man bobsleigh:...
  
  
• James Morgan
  James Morgan (bobsled)
  James Patrick Morgan, known as Jimmy, but nicknamed "Nitro" was an American bobsledder who competed from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s...
  
  , 32, American bobsled driver, crashed during the 1981 FIBT World Championships
  FIBT World Championships 1981
  The FIBT World Championships 1981 took place in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy for the seventh time, having hosted the event previously in 1937 , 1939 , 1950, 1954, 1960, and 1966...
  
   at Cortina D'Ampezzo
  Cortina d'Ampezzo
  Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and comune in the southern Alps located in Veneto, a region in Northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and après-ski scene...
  
  , Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  
• Anton Pensperger, German bobsled driver, race crash during 1966 FIBT World Championships
  FIBT World Championships 1966
  The FIBT World Championships 1966 took place in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy for the sixth time, having hosted the event previously in 1937 , 1939 , 1950, 1954, and 1960. The Four-man event was cancelled following the death of West Germany's Toni Pensperger during competition...
  
  
• Sergio Zardini
  Sergio Zardini
  Sergio Zardini was an Italian bobsledder who competed from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s. He won the silver medal in the two-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck...
  
  , 34, Italian bobsled driver, slid into retaining wall during a competition in 1966.

Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive and professional bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their...

• Mohammed Benaziza
  Mohammed Benaziza
  Mohammed Benaziza was a professional bodybuilder.-Biography:Mohamed Benaziza was a soccer player in his childhood in France and he started to work out, and in the same time play soccer. He finally chose Bodybuilding and then he started competing as an amateur in France...
  
  , 31, heart attack (1992)
• Andreas Münzer
  Andreas Munzer
  Andreas Münzer was an Austrian professional bodybuilder renowned for his extremely low bodyfat levels and early death. Münzer appeared in Flex twice and Muscle Magazine International once.-Background:...
  
  , 31, liver and kidney failure (1996)
• Brian Taylor
  Brian Taylor (bodybuilder)
  Brian Taylor was a UK bodybuilding champion. He won titles including Mr. International, Mr. Yorkshire, and Mr. North-East Britain. He died in 1980 at the age of 38 from a heart attack.- The 1976 NABBA Mr. Universe Contest :...
  
  , 38, heart attack (1980)

Deaths in the ring

Name	Nationality	Death Year	Championship	Class	Opponent	Source
Pedro Alcázar	Panamanian	2002	WBO World Boxing Organization The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...	super flyweight	Fernando Montiel Fernando Montiel Fernando Montiel Martínez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division. Fernando is a former WBO Flyweight, WBO Super Flyweight and WBO and WBC Bantamweight champion.-Early life:...
Simon Byrne Simon Byrne Simon Byrne , nicknamed "The Emerald Gem", was an Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money on offer and his hopes of becoming the heavyweight champion there as well...	Ireland	1833		heavyweight	James Burke James Burke (boxer) James "Deaf" Burke , 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 200 lb , was one of England's earliest boxing champions. He trained in the area around the River Thames....
Frankie Campbell Frankie Campbell Frankie Campbell was a heavyweight boxer. His birth name was Francisco Camilli and he was the brother of professional baseball player Dolph Camilli. Campbell's professional record was 33–4–2 and one no contest with 26 knockouts wins...	American	1930		Heavyweight	Max Baer
Yo-Sam Choi Yo-Sam Choi Yo-Sam Choi was a Korean world boxing champion. He was born in Jeongeup, Jeollabukdo, South Korea.- Pro career :Choi turned pro in 1993 and won the WBC light flyweight title in 1999 with a decision win over Saman Sorjaturong. He successfully defended the title three times before losing it to...	Korean	2008		Light-flyweight	Heri Amol
Leavander Johnson Leavander Johnson Leavander Johnson was an American lightweight boxer from Atlantic City, New Jersey, who once held the International Boxing Federation version of the world title...	American	2005	IBF International Boxing Federation The International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...	lightweight	Jesús Chávez Jesús Chávez Jesús Auerelio Chávez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former NABF, WBC Super Featherweight and IBF Lightweight Champion.-Personal life:...
Duk Koo Kim Duk Koo Kim Kim Duk-Koo was a South Korean boxer who died following a boxing match against Ray Mancini. His death sparked a number of reforms in the sport aimed to better protect the health of fighters.-Life and boxing career:...	Korean	1982		lightweight	Ray Mancini Ray Mancini Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini is a retired Italian-American boxer. He held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship from 1982 to 1984. Mancini inherited his distinctive nickname from his father, veteran boxer Lenny "Boom Boom" Mancini, who laid the foundation for his son's career...
Alexander McKay	Scottish	1830		heavyweight	Simon Byrne Simon Byrne Simon Byrne , nicknamed "The Emerald Gem", was an Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money on offer and his hopes of becoming the heavyweight champion there as well...
Davey Moore	American	1963		featherweight	Sugar Ramos Sugar Ramos Ultiminio Ramos is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos. Ramos fought out of Mexico where he was adopted as a national hero...
James Murray James Murray (boxer) James Murray was a Scottish professional bantamweight boxer. He died as a result of injuries sustained in his last fight.Murray was born in Lanark, Scotland...	British	1995		bantamweight	Drew Docherty
Johnny Owen Johnny Owen Johnny Owen was a professional boxer from Wales. His fragile appearance earned him many epithets, including ‘the Bionic Bantam’ and ‘the Merthyr Matchstick’. During his brief career, he held the Bantamweight Championships of Great Britain and Europe and became the first ever Welsh holder of the...	British	1980		bantamweight	Lupe Pintor Lupe Pintor Jose Guadalupe Pintor Guzman , better known as Lupe Pintor, is a former world boxing champion from Cuajimalpa, Mexico. Nicknamed El Indio De Cuajimalpa or The Indian From Cuajimalpa, he started boxing professionally in 1974...
Kevin Payne Kevin Payne (boxer) Kevin Payne was a professional boxer. He died as a result of injuries sustained in a bout against Ryan Maraldo on March 18, 2006...	American	2006		welterweight	Ryan Maraldo
Benny Paret Benny Paret Benny "the Kid" Paret, born Bernardo Paret , born in Santa Clara, Cuba, was a Cuban welterweight boxer. Paret won the world welterweight title twice in the early 1960s and died in 1962 following an unsuccessful attempt to defend the crown in what is considered to be the first ring death witnessed...	Cuban	1962		welterweight	Emile Griffith Emile Griffith Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He is perhaps best known for his controversial third fight with Benny Paret in 1962 for the welterweight world championship...
Tosh Powell Tosh Powell Thomas Morgan "Tosh" Powell was a professional boxer from Wales. Based in Aberdare, Powell was notable for becoming the Welsh bantamweight champion and the matter of his death, caused by injuries sustained in the boxing ring....	British	1928		bantamweight	Billy Housego
Martín Sánchez Martin Sanchez Martín Sánchez , aka The Fireman , was a Mexican super featherweight boxer. He died of the injuries sustained in a boxing fight at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Clark County, Nevada....	Mexican	2005		super featherweight	Rustam Nugaev
Ed Sanders Ed Sanders (boxer) Hayes Edward “Big Ed” Sanders , was an Olympic champion boxer, was born in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, to Hays Sanders, a municipal garbage worker, and Eva Sanders.-Personal:...	American	1954		heavyweight	Willie James Willie James Reverend Willie R. James, Sr. served as an important early civil rights activist in New Jersey starting in late 1950s and helped to end housing discrimination in that state...
Angelito Sisnorio Lito Sisnorio Angelito "Lito" Sisnorio Jr. was a Filipino World Boxing Council youth flyweight champion boxer who died following a controversial boxing match in Thailand in April of 2007. The controversy over the match arose from the fact that Sisnorio's role in the fight was not officially sanctioned by the...	Filipino	2007		lightweight	Chatchai Sasakul Chatchai Sasakul Chatchai Sasakul is a former boxing champion in the flyweight division. Aside of being a professional boxer, Sasakul is also a practitioner in snooker.- Amateur career :Sasakul was an amateur boxing star in Thailand...
Robert Wangila Robert Wangila Robert Napunyi Wangila was a Kenyan boxer who won a welterweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...	Kenyan	1994		welterweight	David Gonzales

Deaths outside the ring

• Oscar "Ringo" Bonavena
  Oscar Bonavena
  Oscar Natalio "Ringo" Bonavena was a heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw. A rugged, wild-swinging puncher, he was nicknamed "Ringo" because of his Beatles haircut, and enjoyed professional success in both Argentina and the United States...
  
  , 33, Argentine heavyweight, homicide (1976)
• Roberto Balado
  Roberto Balado
  Roberto Balado Méndez was a Cuban boxer. At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a Gold medal in the men's Super Heavyweight category. Roberto Balado Mendez was marry to Anita Dorena Washington Who giving birth to his Son known as Rob Scott After his grandmother gave him the legacy of his father...
  
  , 25, Cuban world super heavyweight champion in amateur boxing, died in a crash at a train crossing (1994)
• Marcel Cerdan
  Marcel Cerdan
  Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa...
  
  , 33, French middleweight champion, killed in plane crash (1949)
• Billy Collins
  Billy Collins (boxer)
  William Ray Collins, Jr. was an Irish-American professional boxer whose career was ended after he sustained serious injuries against an opponent with illegal under-padded gloves.-Career:...
  
  , 22, car accident (1984)
• Diego Corrales
  Diego Corrales
  Diego "Chico" Corrales was an American boxer.He was the WBC, WBO, & The Ring lightweight champion, and the WBO & IBF super featherweight champion....
  
  , 29, American super featherweight and lightweight champion, motorcycle accident (2007)
• Carlos Cruz, 32, Dominican lightweight champion, killed in plane crash (1970)
• Tiger Flowers
  Tiger Flowers
  Theodore Flowers became the first African-American middleweight boxing champion, defeating Harry Greb in 1926. Known as "Tiger", he began boxing professionally in 1918 at the age of 23 while working at a Philadelphia shipbuilding plant...
  
  , 32, American world middleweight champion, complications from surgery (1927)
• Vernon Forrest
  Vernon Forrest
  Vernon Forrest, nicknamed "The Viper", was an American professional boxer who became a world champion in the welterweight and light middleweight divisions and noted for his two victories over Shane Mosley and upset losses to Ricardo Mayorga.- Early years and amateur career :Forrest began boxing at...
  
  , 38, welterweight and light welterweight, homicide (2009)
• Arturo Gatti
  Arturo Gatti
  Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer. Born in Cassino, Italy, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager...
  
  , 37, Canadian world super featherweight champion, cause of death disputed (2009)
• Harry Greb
  Harry Greb
  Harry Greb was an American boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922–1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910s & 20s could provide him, frequently squaring...
  
  , 32, American world middleweight champion, complications from surgery (1926)
• Stanley Ketchel
  Stanley Ketchel
  -External links:**...
  
  , 24, American world middleweight champion, homicide (1910)
• Julian Letterlough
  Julian Letterlough
  Julian Letterlough, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was an American boxer. Known as "Mr. KO", Letterlough was boxer who was often featured on ESPN.-Pro career:...
  
  , 35, American light heavyweight, homicide (2005)
• Sonny Liston
  Sonny Liston
  Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was a professional boxer and ex-convict known for his toughness, punching power, and intimidating appearance who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round...
  
  , 38, American world heavyweight champion, cause of death disputed (1970)
• Michael Murach
  Michael Murach
  Michael Murach was a German boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics....
  
  , 30, German welterweight Olympic champion, military actions during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1941)
• Giselle Salandy, 21, Trinidadian boxer, car accident (2009)
• Agapito Sánchez
  Agapito Sanchez
  Agapito Sánchez was a boxer from the Dominican Republic, nicknamed "El Ciclón", in the Super Bantamweight weight class. He won 37 of his 50 fights, 18 by knockout.-Pro career:...
  
  , 35, Dominican World super bantamweight champion, homicide
  Homicide
  Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...
  
   (2005)
• Salvador Sánchez
  Salvador Sánchez
  Salvador Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that, had it not been for his premature death, Sanchez could have gone on to become the greatest Featherweight boxer of all time...
  
  , 23, Mexican world featherweight champion, car accident (1982)
• Mzukisi Sikali
  Mzukisi Sikali
  Mzukisi Sikali, , was a South African boxer who served as a world champion in three different weight categories: junior flyweight, flyweight, and super flyweight.-Murder:...
  
  , 34, South African flyweight, homicide (2005)
• Edwin Valero
  Edwin Valero
  Edwin Valero was a Venezuelan professional boxer. He was born in Bolero Alto, and raised in El Vigía ....
  
  , 28, Venezuelan lightweight champion, suicide by hanging (2010)
• Pancho Villa
  Francisco Guilledo
  Francisco Guilledo , more commonly known as Pancho Villa, was a Filipino boxer. Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds , rose from obscurity to win the World Flyweight boxing championship in 1923, earning acclaim in some quarters as "the...
  
  , 23, Filipino world flyweight champion, Ludwig's angina
  Ludwig's angina
  Ludwig's angina, otherwise known as angina ludovici, is a serious, potentially life-threatening cellulitis, or connective tissue infection, of the floor of the mouth, usually occurring in adults with concomitant dental infections. It is named after the German physician, Wilhelm Friedrich von Ludwig...
  
   (1925)

Canadian Football League

Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

 

• Norm Casola, 29, Toronto Argonauts
  Toronto Argonauts
  The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...
  
  , Running Back/Receiver, cancer (1998)
• Travis Claridge
  Travis Claridge
  Travis Claridge was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he played for the Atlanta Falcons between 2000 and 2003 and for the Carolina Panthers in 2004....
  
  , 27, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...
  
  , Offensive Guard, acute pneumonia (2006)
• Cal Jones
  Cal Jones
  Calvin Jack Jones was a college football player for the University of Iowa. Jones is one of only two Iowa football players to have his jersey number retired by the school. Jones became the first Hawkeye, and the first African-American, to win the Outland Trophy in 1955...
  
  , 23, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League . They play their home games at Canad Inns Stadium, and plan to move to a new stadium for the 2012 season.The Blue Bombers were founded...
  
  , offensive guard, plane crash (1956)†
• Tom Pate
  Tom Pate Memorial Award
  Every year the Canadian Football League Players' Association presents the Tom Pate Award. It is not a "Jock Award," but rather an award given to players who display qualities that distinguish them from their peers....
  
  , 23, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...
  
  , linebacker
  Linebacker
  A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...
  
  , brain aneurysm (in-game) (1975)
• Gordon Sturtridge
  Gordon Sturtridge
  Gordon Henry Sturtridge, was a professional Canadian football player, and was one of 62 people that died on Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, on December 9, 1956....
  
  , 27, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  Saskatchewan Roughriders
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...
  
  , Defensive End
  Defensive end
  Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...
  
  , plane crash (1956)†
• Mel Becket, 27, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  Saskatchewan Roughriders
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...
  
  , Tight End
  Tight end
  The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...
  
  , plane crash (1956)†
• Ray Syrnyk
  Ray Syrnyk
  Raymond Nicholas "Ray" Syrnyk, was a professional Canadian football player, and was one of 62 people that died on Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, on December 9, 1956.Syrnyk played professionally for the Saskatchewan Roughriders as a rookie offensive lineman at the time of...
  
  , 22, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  Saskatchewan Roughriders
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...
  
  , Offensive Tackle, plane crash (1956)†
• Mario DeMarco
  Mario DeMarco
  Mario Joseph DeMarco, was a former American college football, National Football League, and professional Canadian football player, and was one of 62 people that died on Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, on December 9, 1956.Raised in Boonton, DeMarco started at offensive lineman...
  
  , 32, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  Saskatchewan Roughriders
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...
  
  , offensive guard, plane crash (1956)†

† These five players were lost in the same plane crash.

Canoeing

Canoeing

Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

• György Kolonics
  György Kolonics
  György Kolonics , nicknamed Kolo, was a Hungarian sprint canoer who won two gold and two bronze medals at four Summer Olympics...
  
  , 36, Hungarian
  Hungary
  Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
  
   sprint canoer
  Canoe racing
  This article discusses canoe sprint and canoe marathon, competitive forms of canoeing and kayaking on more or less flat water. Both sports are governed by the International Canoe Federation ....
  
  , heart attack during practice (2008)
• Rich Weiss, 33, American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   slalom canoer, drowned in accident (1997)

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

• Abdul Aziz
  Abdul Aziz (cricketer)
  Abdul Aziz was a Pakistani cricketer. A wicket keeper and opening batsman, Abdul Aziz played eight first-class matches for Karachi, before he was killed after being struck by the ball. He was a student at S. M...
  
  , 17, Pakistani cricketer, hit over heart by ball during a game (1959)
• Tamim Bashir
  Tamim Bashir
  Tamim Bashir was a First class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh who died of cerebral malaria on June 18, 2004, aged only 19.He was a talented left-arm spinner who had already played 15 first-class matches for Khulna Division and fell ill while training with the Bangladesh high performance unit...
  
  , 19, Khulna Division
  Khulna Division cricket team
  The Khulna Division cricket team is a first-class cricket team representing the Khulna Division region in Bangladesh.The club plays most of its home games at the Khulna Divisional Stadium in Khulna.-Honours:...
  
  , malaria
  Malaria
  Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...
  
   (2004)
• Charlie Bull
  Charlie Bull
  Charles Harry Bull was an English cricketer who played 175 first-class matches between 1929 and 1939, first for Kent and later for Worcestershire....
  
  , 30, Worcestershire
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
  
  , car accident (1939)
• Jock Cameron
  Jock Cameron
  Jock Cameron was a South African cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  , 30, South Africa, typhoid fever
  Typhoid fever
  Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...
  
   (1935)
• Cyril Christiani
  Cyril Christiani
  Cyril Marcel Christiani was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1934-35. He played wicketkeeper in all four Tests of the 1934-35 series.Christiani died in 1938 of malaria...
  
  , 24, West Indies
  West Indian cricket team
  The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...
  
  , malaria (1938)
• Stanley de Silva
  Stanley de Silva
  Deva Lokesh Stanley de Silva was a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played two ODIs in the 1979 Cricket World Cup....
  
  , 23, Sri Lanka
  Sri Lankan cricket team
  The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1926–27, and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation...
  
  , motorcycle accident (1980)
• Ron Doig, 23, Western Australia
  Western Warriors
  The Western Australia cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team representing the state of Western Australia...
  
  , as a result of injuries sustained while playing Football
  Australian rules football
  Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
  
   (1932)
• John Dunn
  John Dunn (cricketer)
  John Dunn was an English first-class cricketer who played with Surrey and the Marylebone Cricket Club. He also played cricket for Hong Kong later in his career....
  
  , Hong Kong
  Hong Kong cricket team
  The Hong Kong cricket team represents Hong Kong in international cricket. It played its first match in 1866 and has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1969....
  
  , 30, drowned with the SS Bokhara
  SS Bokhara
  The SS Bokhara was a P&O steamship which sank in a typhoon on 10 October 1892, off the coast of Sand Island in the Pescadores, Formosa. Of the 125 people who perished, eleven were members of the Hong Kong cricket team....
  
   (1892)
• Ken Farnes
  Ken Farnes
  Kenneth Farnes was an English cricketer. He played in 15 Tests from 1934 to 1939.Farnes was born in Leytonstone, Essex, and was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park. He made his first-class debut for Essex in 1930, aged only 19. He took 5-36 in his second county match against Kent...
  
  , 30, England, flying accident on active service with the Royal Air Force
  Royal Air Force
  The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
  
   (1941)
• Ian Folley
  Ian Folley
  Ian Folley was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler, initially a medium-pacer and latterly a spinner....
  
  , 30, English cricketer, heart attack after being hit in the face by a ball during a game (1993)
• Fred Grace
  Fred Grace
  George Frederick Grace was the youngest of the three Grace brothers to play Test cricket for England.Although his elder brothers E. M. and W. G...
  
  , 29, English cricketer, pneumonia (1880)
• Sajjadul Hasan
  Sajjadul Hasan
  Mohammad Sajjadul Hasan was a Bangladeshi first-class cricketer.Nicknamed 'Setu', he was an opening or top-order batsman for Khulna Division...
  
  , 28, Bangladesh, motorcycle accident (2007)
• Ben Hollioake
  Ben Hollioake
  Benjamin Caine Hollioake was an all rounder for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and moved to England as a boy, along with his older brother Adam...
  
  , 24, England, car accident (2002)
• Archie Jackson
  Archie Jackson
  Archibald "Archie" Jackson , occasionally known as Archibald Alexander Jackson, was an Australian cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenage prodigy, he played first grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected for New South Wales at 17...
  
  , 23, Australia
  Australian cricket team
  The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877...
  
  , tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
  
   (1933)
• Graham Kersey
  Graham Kersey
  Graham James Kersey was an English first class cricketer for Surrey County Cricket Club.Kersey was educated at Beths Grammar School. A wicket-keeper, he first entered the county scene for Kent in 1991 but after only playing sporadically he moved to Surrey 2 years later...
  
  , 25, Surrey
  Surrey County Cricket Club
  Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...
  
  , car accident (1997)
• Raman Lamba
  Raman Lamba
  Raman Lamba was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests and 32 One Day Internationals, mainly as a batsman died in the Post Graduate Hospital in Dhaka in Bangladesh after three days of vain efforts by a team of doctors, ever since he was seriously hit on the forehead by a full blooded pull...
  
  , 38, India
  Indian cricket team
  The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
  
  , died of internal hemorrhage suffered after being hit by a ball during a game (1998)
• Trevor Madondo
  Trevor Madondo
  Trevor Nyasha Madondo was a Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 13 ODIs from 1998 to 2001....
  
  , 24, Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwean cricket team
  The Zimbabwean cricket team is a national cricket team representing Zimbabwe. It is administrated by Zimbabwe Cricket...
  
  , malaria (2001)
• Tufty Mann
  Tufty Mann
  Norman Bertram Fleetwood 'Tufty' Mann was a South African cricketer who played in nineteen Tests from 1947 to 1951.-External links:*...
  
  , 31, South Africa, cancer (1952)
• Scott Mason
  Scott Mason
  Scott Robert Mason was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a left-handed batsman who averaged 27.21 with the bat in 28 first-class games and 9.42 with the bat in 8 one-day domestic games...
  
  , 28, Tasmania, heart attack while training (2005)
• Maurice Nichol
  Maurice Nichol
  Maurice Nichol was an English cricketer who played 136 first-class matches in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Other than one appearance for the Players in 1931, all his games were for Worcestershire....
  
  , 29, Worcestershire
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
  
  , unknown (1934)
• Dallas Page
  Dallas Page (cricketer)
  Dallas Alexander Chancellor Page, born at Cheltenham on 11 April 1911 and died at Cirencester on 2 September 1936, was a cricketer who played for and captained Gloucestershire....
  
  , 25, Gloucestershire
  Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
  Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....
  
   car accident (1936)
• Dudley Pope
  Dudley Pope (cricketer)
  Dudley Fairbridge Pope was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, Pope was born in Barnes and is recorded in the 1911 Census as living in Richmond, Surrey at age four. He played 159 first class matches for Essex and Gloucestershire between 1925 and his death in a car accident in 1934...
  
  , 27, Essex
  Essex County Cricket Club
  Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...
  
  , car accident (1934)
• Rahatullah
  Rahatullah
  Rahatullah was a Pakistani first-class cricketer.A right-arm seam bowler, Rahatullah played three matches for his home city of Peshawar in the 2007/08 Quaid-i-Azam Trophy...
  
  , 18, Peshawar
  Peshawar cricket team
  The Peshawar cricket team is a Pakistani first-class cricket team from Peshawar, also known as the Panthers.It plays in first-class domestic competitions...
  
  , homicide (2008)
• Manjural Islam Rana
  Manjural Islam Rana
  Manjural Islam Rana , also known as Qazi Manjural Islam, was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played six Tests and 25 One Day Internationals for Bangladesh. Born in Khulna, Rana was a slow left arm orthodox bowler...
  
  , 22, Bangladesh, motorcycle accident (2007)
• Umer Rashid
  Umer Rashid
  Umer Bin Abdul Rashid was an English first class cricketer, who played for Middlesex and Sussex....
  
  , 26, Sussex
  Sussex County Cricket Club
  Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...
  
  , drowned in Grenada
  Grenada
  Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...
  
   (2002)
• Sadashiv Shinde
  Sadashiv Shinde
  Sadashiv Ganpatrao "Sadu" Shinde was an Indian cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1946 to 1952....
  
  , 31, India
  Indian cricket team
  The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
  
  , typhoid (1955)
• Wilf Slack
  Wilf Slack
  Wilfred Norris "Wilf" Slack was an English cricketer, who played in three Test matches and two One Day Internationals for England in 1986....
  
  , 34, England, collapsed and died while playing cricket in Gambia (1989)
• Collie Smith
  Collie Smith
  O'Neil Gordon 'Collie' Smith was a West Indian cricketer....
  
  , 26, West Indies
  West Indian cricket team
  The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...
  
  , car accident (1959)
• Claude Tozer
  Claude Tozer
  Claude John Tozer DSO was an Australian medical doctor and first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales. He was the nephew of Australian Test cricketer Percie Charlton....
  
  , 30, New South Wales
  New South Wales Blues
  The New South Wales cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales...
  
  , homicide (1920)
• Haseeb-ul-Hasan
  Haseeb-ul-Hasan
  Haseeb-ul-Hasan was a Pakistani First Class cricketer. He was murdered by an unknown gunman.-References:...
  
  , 25, Karachi
  Karachi cricket teams
  Karachi cricket teams compete in the Pakistani first-class cricket tournament's the Patron's Trophy and Quaid-i-Azam Trophy. Due to the strength of cricket in the province of Sindh they have fielded more than one team in the annual tournaments....
  
  , homicide (1990)
• Maurits van Nierop
  Maurits van Nierop
  Maurits William Albert van Nierop was a Dutch cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played for the Netherlands national cricket team from 2002 until 2006, and had been named in the Dutch winter squad shortly before his death.-Biography:Born in Cape Town in 1983,...
  
  , 25, Netherlands, accidental fall (2008)
• Ken Wadsworth
  Ken Wadsworth
  Kenneth John Wadsworth was a New Zealand cricketer who played 33 Tests and 13 One Day Internationals for New Zealand as a wicket-keeper. Wadsworth scored over 1,000 runs and dismissed nearly 100 batsmen as New Zealand's regular wicket-keeper between 1969–70 and 1975–76...
  
  , 29, New Zealand
  New Zealand cricket team
  The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...
  
  , skin cancer (1976)
• Hansie Cronje
  Hansie Cronje
  Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s...
  
  , 32, South Africa
  South African cricket team
  The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status...
  
  , Plane Crash (2002)
• Cliff Burton 47 English cricketer (CLL) died suddenly of a heart attack on the field (May 1978)

Curling

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

• Solène Coulot
  Solène Coulot
  Solène Coulot was a French curler.Coulot played third on her sister Marie's team from the Besançon Skating Club. In 2009, they won the French national championship. Coulot played in the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships for France, placing 9th...
  
  , 20, French curler, suicide (2010)
• Marj Mitchell
  Marj Mitchell
  Marjorie Mitchell was a Canadian curler and World Champion. She was skip for the winning team at the 1980 World Curling Championships. Mitchell died of cancer in 1983. The sportsmanship award at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts is called the Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award in her...
  
  , 35, Canadian curler, cancer (1983)
• Scott Patterson, 34, Canadian curler, car crash (2004)
• Sandra Schmirler
  Sandra Schmirler
  Sandra Marie Schmirler, SOM , was a Canadian curler, who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler skipped her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year curling was a medal sport...
  
  , 36, Canadian curler, oesophageal cancer (2000)

Cycling

Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

Does not include those who died in wheeled sports such as cycling accident, as there is a separate list for such, please refer to List of professional cyclists who died during a race. All are road cyclists unless stated.

Road Cycling

Road cycling

Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling. It includes recreational, racing, and utility cycling. Road cyclists are generally expected to obey the same rules and laws as other vehicle drivers or riders and may also be vehicular cyclists....

• Franco Ballerini
  Franco Ballerini
  Franco Ballerini was an Italian road racing cyclist.Born in Florence, his greatest exploits as a rider came with his two victories in the cycling classic Paris–Roubaix, riding for the Mapei cycling team. In 1993 he was beaten on the line by Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle in an exciting Paris–Roubaix finale...
  
  , 46, Italian, car accident (2010)
• Beryl Burton
  Beryl Burton
  Beryl Burton, MBE OBE was an English racing cyclist and one of Britain's greatest ever athletes.She dominated women’s cycle racing in the UK, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records...
  
  , 58, British, heart failure (1996)
• Fausto Coppi
  Fausto Coppi
  Angelo Fausto Coppi, , was the dominant international cyclist of the years each side of the Second World War. His successes earned him the title Il Campionissimo, or champion of champions...
  
  , 40, Italian, malaria (1960)
• François Faber
  François Faber
  François Faber was a Luxembourgian/French racing cyclist. He was born in France. He was the first foreigner to win the Tour de France in 1909, and his record of winning 5 consecutive stages still stands...
  
  , 28, French, KIA during World War I (1915)
• Joachim Halupczok, 26, Polish world champion in amateur cycling, heart failure (1994)
• Carly Hibberd, 26, Australian , hit by a car while training (2011)
• Jose-Maria Jimenez, 32, Spanish, suicide (2003)
• Octave Lapize
  Octave Lapize
  Octave Lapize was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels.In his first...
  
  , 29, French, KIA during World War I (1917)
• Andreas Matzbacher
  Andreas Matzbacher
  Andreas Matzbacher was an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. On December 24, 2007 Matzbacher was killed in a car crash in southern Austria after he lost control of his car and crashed into an overhead signpost....
  
  , 25, Austrian, car crash (2008)
• Bert Oosterbosch
  Bert Oosterbosch
  Bert Oosterbosch was a Dutch racing cyclist. Oosterbosch was a successful track and road racer.-Early career:...
  
  , 32, Dutch, heart failure (1989)
• Carlo Oriani
  Carlo Oriani
  Carlo Oriani was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1913 Giro d'Italia.-References:...
  
  , 29, Italian, pneumonia (1917)
• Marco Pantani
  Marco Pantani
  Marco Pantani was an Italian road racing cyclist, widely considered one of the best climbers in professional road bicycle racing...
  
  , 34, Italian, drugs overdose (2004)
• René Pottier
  René Pottier
  René Pottier was a French racing cyclistPottier won Bordeaux–Paris in 1903 before turning professional. He came second in Paris–Roubaix 1905 and Bordeaux–Paris 1905, then third in 1906’s Paris–Roubaix, before winning the Tour de France in 1906.He was considered the finest climber of the Tour...
  
  , 27, French, suicide (1907)
• Dave Rayner
  Dave Rayner (cyclist)
  David John Rayner was an English professional racing cyclist who died aged 27 after an incident outside the Maestro nightclub, in Manningham Lane, Bradford...
  
  , 27, British, a fund is his name has been set up to support British road racing cyclists. (1994)
• Lucien Storme
  Lucien Storme
  Lucien Storme was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In December 1942, he was taken prisoner by the Germans for smuggling. In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, he was accidentally shot by Americans.-Palmarès:19381939-External links:*...
  
  , 28, Belgian, accidentally shot by American servicemen during World War II (1945)
• Carla Swart
  Carla Swart
  Carla Swart was a South African cyclist who won nineteen individual and team cycling titles.Ms. Swart moved to the United States when she was a teenager. She attended Lees-McRae College where she was awarded scholarships in running and cycling.-Career:Carla Swart became the first cyclist to win...
  
  , 23, South African, hit by a truck while training (2011)
• Xavier Tondó
  Xavier Tondó
  Xavier Tondo Volpini was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist who specialized in mountain stages of bicycle races- Death :...
  
  , 32, Spanish, accident with a garage door while preparing for training (2011)

Track Cycling

Track cycling

Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....

• Yulia Arustamova, 24, Russian, suicide (2007)
• Amy Gillett
  Amy Gillett
  Amy Gillett was an Australian track cyclist and rower who represented Australia in both sports before her death in a training accident when a motorist crashed into the Australian squad of cyclists with whom she was training....
  
  , 29, Australian, hit by a car while training (2005)
• Albert Richter
  Albert Richter
  Albert Richter was a German cyclist who won the world sprint championship. He was taken from a train by the Gestapo and never seen again.-Background:...
  
  , 27, German track cyclist, execution by the Gestapo
  Gestapo
  The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
  
   (1940)
• Lucien Mazan
  Lucien Petit-Breton
  Lucien Georges Mazan was a French racing cyclist .He was born in Plessé, Loire-Atlantique , a part of Brittany, now part of Pays de la Loire. When he was six he moved with his parents to Buenos Aires where he took Argentine nationality...
  
  , 35, French-Argentine track and road cyclist, road accident whilst in military action during World War I (1917)

Diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

• Gavin Brown
  Gavin Brown (diver)
  Gavin Brown , was an Olympic diving hopeful from Cottingley, Bradford in West Yorkshire, England...
  
  , 22, British diver, hit-and-run (2007)
• Sergei Chalibashvili
  Sergei Chalibashvili
  Sergo Shalibashvili was a Georgian competitive diver from the Soviet Union. He died at the age of 21 following an accident during competition at the 1983 World University Games in Edmonton, Alberta, when he hit his head on the platform while attempting a reverse 3½ somersault in the tuck position....
  
  , 21, professional diver, accident during the World University Games (1983)
• Loïc Leferme
  Loïc Leferme
  Loïc Leferme was a French diver who was the world free diving record holder until 2 October 2005, when he was surpassed by Herbert Nitsch. Loic was also a founder of AIDA in 1990 with Roland Specker and Claude Chapuis in Nice. In 2002 he set the world free diving record without any breathing...
  
  , 36, French free-diver, drowned (2007)
• Audrey Mestre
  Audrey Mestre
  Audrey Mestre was a French world record-setting freediver.- Early life :Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, to a family of snorkeling and scuba diving enthusiasts, at age two she was already swimming and by age thirteen was a seasoned scuba diver...
  
  , 28, French free-diver, drowned (2002)

Fencing

Fencing

Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

• Vladimir Smirnov
  Vladimir Viktorovich Smirnov
  Vladimir Viktorovich Smirnov was a Soviet foil fencer.Smirnov won the gold medal in individual men's foil at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He won the World Championships the following year....
  
  , 28, Olympic champion fencer, accident during a match (1982)

Figure skating

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

• Tony Austin, British, KIA in World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Brunet, 19, American, car accident (1946)
• Walter Gregory, British, KIA in World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
  
• Sergei Grinkov
  Sergei Grinkov
  Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov was a Russian pair skater. Together with partner Ekaterina Gordeeva, he was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion.-Biography:...
  
  , 28, Russian, heart attack during practice for Stars on Ice
  Stars on Ice
  Stars on Ice is a touring figure skating show produced by IMG. It was originally conceived in 1986 as a vehicle for IMG client Scott Hamilton, who had been released from his contract with Ice Capades, after being told that male skaters do not sell tickets...
  
   tour (1995)
• Morgan Innes, 14, Australian, boating accident (2007)
• Rob McCall, 33, Canadian, brain cancer (1991)
• Freddie Tomlins
  Freddie Tomlins
  Frederick William Edwin "Freddie" Tomlins was a British figure skater. He was the 1939 World silver medalist and European silver medalist. He competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics and placed 10th.He served in the Royal Air Force in World War II...
  
  , 23, British, KIA in World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1943)
• The following Americans all died in the 1961 crash of Sabena Flight 548
  Sabena Flight 548
  Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route to Brussels, Belgium, from New York City on February 15, 1961, killing the entire United States Figure Skating team on its way to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.The flight, which...
  
  :
  • Roger Campbell
    Roger Campbell
    Roger Campbell was an American figure skater who competed in ice dancing. After partnering Diane Sherbloom in 1959, he won the bronze medal at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships with Yvonne Littlefield and went on to finish eight at that year's World Figure Skating Championships...
    
    , 19
  • Dona Lee Carrier
    Dona Lee Carrier
    Dona Lee Carrier was an American figure skater who competed in ice dancing with Roger Campbell. The pair won the silver medal at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships, earning them the right to compete a month later at the World Championships in Prague...
    
    , 20
  • Patricia Dineen
    Patricia Dineen
    Patricia Major Dineen was an American ice dancer who competed with her husband Robert Dineen. The duo won the Silver dance title at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships and then the bronze at the senior level at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships, earning them the...
    
    , 24–25
  • Robert Dineen
    Robert Dineen
    Robert Dineen was an American ice dancer who competed with his wife Patricia Dineen. The duo won Silver dance title at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships and then the bronze in the senior division at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships, earning them the right to...
    
    , 23
  • Ila Ray Hadley
    Ila Ray Hadley
    Ila Ray Hadley , was an American figure skater who competed in pairs and ice dance with her brother Ray Hadley, Jr..Hadley was born in Renton, Washington...
    
    , 18
  • Ray Hadley, Jr.
    Ray Hadley, Jr.
    Ray Ellis Hadley, Jr. was an American figure skater who competed in pairs and ice dance with his sister Ila Ray Hadley.Hadley was born in Seattle, Washington...
    
    , 17
  • Laurie Hickox
    Laurie Hickox
    Laurie Jean Hickox December 6, 1945 – February 15, 1961) was an American pair skater who competed with her brother William Hickox. They won the bronze medal at the U.S. Championships, earning them the right to compete a month later at the World Championships in Prague. They also finished...
    
    , 15
  • William Hickox
    William Hickox
    William Holmes Hickox was an American pair skater who competed with his sister Laurie Hickox. They won the bronze medal at the U.S. Championships, earning them the right to compete a month later at the World Championships in Prague. They also finished sixth at the North American Figure Skating...
    
    , 19
  • Gregory Kelley
    Gregory Kelley
    Gregory Kelley was an American figure skater who competed in men's singles. He won the junior title at the United States Figure Skating Championships in 1959 and finished ninth at the 1960 World Figure Skating Championships after the top three U.S. skaters skipped the event. In 1961 he won the...
    
    , 16–17
  • Bradley Lord
    Bradley Lord
    Bradley Lord was an American figure skater who competed in men's singles. He finished fourth at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships and then placed sixth at that year's World Figure Skating Championships after the top three U.S. skaters skipped the event...
    
    , 23
  • Rhode Lee Michelson
    Rhode Lee Michelson
    Rhode Lee Michelson was an American figure skater. She placed third at the 1961 U.S. Championships, earning her the right to compete a month later at the World Championships. A hip injury forced Rhode to withdraw from the North American Championships in early February 1961...
    
    , 17
  • Laurence Owen
    Laurence Owen
    Laurence Rochon "Laurie" Owen was a Hall of Fame American figure skater. She was the 1961 U.S. National Champion and represented the United States at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where she placed 6th. She was the daughter of Maribel Vinson and Guy Owen and the sister of Maribel Owen...
    
    , 16
  • Maribel Owen
    Maribel Owen
    Maribel Yerxa Owen was an American pair skater. With partner Dudley Richards, she was the 1961 U.S. national champion and represented the United States at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where they placed 10th. She was the daughter of Maribel Vinson and Guy Owen and the sister of Laurence Owen...
    
    , 20
  • Larry Pierce, 23–24
  • Douglas Ramsay
    Douglas Ramsay
    Douglas Ramsay was an American figure skater who competed in men's singles.Known as "Dick Button Jr.", he early won the reputation of being a particularly charismatic free skater and an audience favorite....
    
    , 15–16
  • Dudley Richards
    Dudley Richards
    Dudley "Dud" Shaw Richards was an American figure skater who competed in men's singles and pairs. In singles, he won the bronze medal at the 1953 United States Figure Skating Championships and finished sixth at that year's World Figure Skating Championships...
    
    , 29
  • Diane Sherbloom
    Diane Sherbloom
    Diane Carol "Dee Dee" Sherbloom was an American figure skater who competed in ice dance. Previously paired with Roger Campbell, she had no intentions of competing at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships until a twist of fate brought partner Larry Pierce her way...
    
    , 18
  • Stephanie Westerfeld
    Stephanie Westerfeld
    Stephanie "Steffi" Westerfeld was an American figure skater.She earned a place on the United States' world team for the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships after she finished second at 1961 U.S National Championships....
    
    , 17

Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

• Seve Ballesteros, 54, brain cancer (2011)
• Erica Blasberg
  Erica Blasberg
  Erica Paige Blasberg was an American golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.-Early life:Blasberg was born in Orange, California, and raised in Corona, California. She attended Corona High School where she played on the boys' golf team.-Amateur career:As an amateur, Blasberg was the medalist at the...
  
  , 25, LPGA
  LPGA
  The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from...
  
   golfer, suicide by asphyxia (2010)
• Heather Farr
  Heather Farr
  Heather Farr was an American professional golfer.Farr won three state championships at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona...
  
  , 28, LPGA golfer, breast cancer
  Breast cancer
  Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
  
   (1993)
• Tony Lema
  Tony Lema
  Anthony David "Tony" Lema was an American professional golfer, who rose to fame in the beginning of golf's modern era, but had his young life and career cut short in an aircraft accident. His most prestigious victory was the 1964 British Open.-Biography:Lema was born in Oakland, California, to...
  
  , 32, The Open
  The Open Championship
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
  
   champion, plane crash (1966)
• Young Tom Morris, 24, The Open champion, heart attack (1875)
• Payne Stewart
  Payne Stewart
  William Payne Stewart was an American professional golfer who won three majors in his career, the last of which occurred only months before he died in an airplane accident at the age of 42....
  
  , 42, PGA
  PGA Championship
  The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...
  
   and U.S. Open
  U.S. Open (golf)
  The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
  
   champion, plane crash
  1999 South Dakota Learjet crash
  On October 25, 1999, a chartered Learjet 35 was scheduled to fly from Orlando, Florida to Dallas, Texas. Early in the flight the aircraft, which was cruising at altitude on autopilot, gradually lost cabin pressure. As a result, all on board were incapacitated due to hypoxia— a lack of oxygen...
  
   (1999)
• Bert Yancey
  Bert Yancey
  Albert Winsborough Yancey was an American professional golfer, who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour....
  
  , 56, seven-time winner on the PGA Tour
  PGA Tour
  The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
  
  , suffered a fatal heart attack while competing in a Champions Tour
  Champions Tour
  The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...
  
   event (1994)
• Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field...
  
  , 45, LPGA golfer, colon cancer (1956)

Gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

• Alexander Beresch
  Alexander Beresch
  Alexander Beresch , alternative transliteration Oleksandr Beresh, was a gymnast from Ukraine and Olympic medallist at the 2000 Sydney Games....
  
  , 26, car accident (2004)
• Joaquín Blume
  Joaquín Blume
  Joaquín Blume was a Spanish gymnast. Born in Barcelona, he competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics of Helsinki, and was a favourite for the 1956 Summer Olympics of Melbourne, until Spain boycotted the games in protest against the presence of the USSR, after their brutal suppression of the Hungarian...
  
  , 25, Spanish gymnast, plane crash (1959)
• Julissa Gomez
  Julissa Gomez
  Julissa D'anne Gomez was an American gymnast whose rapid rise through the ranks of elite gymnastics in the mid-1980s was cut short by a vaulting accident in 1988 that left her a quadriplegic...
  
  , 18, injuries due to a vaulting accident (1991)
• Christy Henrich
  Christy Henrich
  Christina "Christy" Renee Henrich was a world-class American artistic gymnast whose death from anorexia nervosa at 22 led to major reforms in the way women's gymnastics is covered on television and in the news media....
  
  , 22, anorexia (1994)
• Oxana Kostina
  Oxana Kostina
  Oksana A. Kostina, was a former Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She was born in Irkutsk, Russia.For years Oksana Kostina remained in the shadow of the two Ukrainian gymnasts Oxana Skaldina and Alexandra Timoshenko, even though she won many international events before her excellent results at...
  
  , 20, car accident (1993)
• Natalia Lavrova
  Natalia Lavrova
  Natalia Lavrova was a dual Olympic gold medalist. Lavrova won a gold medal in the rhythmic gymnastics group event at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.She was born in Penza, Soviet Union...
  
  , 25, car accident (2010)
• Yuri Ryazanov
  Yuri Ryazanov
  Yuri Sergeyevich Ryazanov was a Russian artistic gymnast. He was the 2009 World All-Around bronze medalist, the 2009 Russian All-Around national champion, and the 2007 & 2009 European All-Around bronze medalist...
  
  , 22, Russian gymnast, car crash (2009)

Handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

• Marian Cozma
  Marian Cozma
  Marian Cozma was a Romanian handball player. He was born in Tei, Bucharest and died in Veszprém, Hungary after being attacked and stabbed in a nightclub fight...
  
  , 26, Romanian
  Romanians
  The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....
  
   handball player, homicide (stabbed to death) (2009)
• Georg Dascher
  Georg Dascher
  Georg Dascher was a German field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the German field handball team, which won the gold medal. He played two matches....
  
  , 33, German handball player, military actions during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1944)
• Sebastian Faißt
  Sebastian Faißt
  Sebastian Faisst was a German handball player, who played for the professional club TSV Dormagen since 2008, coming from the professional club HSG Konstanz and was a member and captain of the German under-21 national handball team...
  
  , 20, German handball player, heart failure (2009)
• Arthur Knautz
  Arthur Knautz
  Arthur Knautz was a German field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the German field handball team, which won the gold medal. He played two matches including the final....
  
  , 32, German field handball player, KIA during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1943)
• Heinz Körvers
  Heinz Körvers
  Heinz Körvers was a German field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the German field handball team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as goalkeeper.-External links:*...
  
  , 27, German field handball player, KIA during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1942)
• Oleg Velyky
  Oleg Velyky
  Oleg Velyky was a German team handball player. He was a World champion from 2007 with the German national team ....
  
  , 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, skin cancer
  Skin cancer
  Skin neoplasms are skin growths with differing causes and varying degrees of malignancy. The three most common malignant skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma, each of which is named after the type of skin cell from which it arises...
  
   (2010)

Horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

Does not include those who died in riding accident such as equestrian or horse racing, as there is a separate list for such, please refer to List of horse accidents.

• Chris Antley
  Chris Antley
  Christopher Wiley Antley was a champion American jockey.He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida but grew up in Elloree, South Carolina. He left school at sixteen to ride horses professionally at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. His first win was on a horse named Vaya Con Dinero...
  
  , 34, American jockey, drug overdose (2000)
• Fred Archer, 29, English jockey, suicide (1886)
• Silvio Coucci
  Silvio Coucci
  Silvio Coucci was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.A New Yorker, in 1931 Silvio Coucci rode Thoroughbreds at Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico under contract with brothers John and George Coburn. His performance brought him to the attention of the extremely wealthy Mrs...
  
  , 27, American jockey, suicide (1942)
• Ron Hansen, 33, American jockey, car accident (1994)
• Frank Hayes
  Frank Hayes (jockey)
  Frank Hayes was a jockey who, in 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York. His horse, Sweet Kiss, finished and won the race with his lifeless body still atop , making him the first, and thus far, only, jockey to win a race after death.-External links:*...
  
  , 34–35, American jockey, died from a heart attack while riding his horse Sweet Kiss to victory at Belmont Park (1923)
• Don MacBeth
  Don MacBeth
  Donald MacBeth was a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Red Deer, Alberta, Macbeth rode horses at Alberta racetracks before going to race in the United States. Among horses of note, he rode Deputy Minister, winner of the 1981 Sovereign and Eclipse awards for Outstanding...
  
  , 37, Canadian jockey, cancer (1987)
• Jamie Kyne
  Jamie Kyne
  Jamie Kyne was an Irish Jockey.Kyne was the winner of an All Ireland title in youth boxing, but had told his father immediately afterwards that he wanted to be a jockey....
  
  , 18, Irish jockey, arson (2009)
• Jan Wilson, 19, Scottish jockey, arson (2009)
• Kim Hyung-chil
  Kim Hyung-chil
  Kim Hyung-chil was a South Korean horse rider. He was a silver medalist in the three day team event at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, and was the oldest member of South Korea's equestrian team...
  
  , 47, Korean jockey, died in Dec 2006 while attending the equestrian race in 2006 Asian Games
  2006 Asian Games
  The 15th Asian Games, officially known as the XV Asiad, is Asia's Olympic-style sporting event that was held in Doha, Qatar from December 1 to December 15, 2006. Doha was the first city in its region and only the second in West Asia to host the games...
  
   (2006)
• Stathi Katsidis, 31, Australian jockey, cause of death unknown (2010)
• Arron Kennedy, 34, Australian jockey, cause of death, suicide (St Patrick's Day 2007)

Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

• Vitali Anikienko, 24, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Don Ashby
  Don Ashby
  Donald Allan Ashby was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played six seasons in the National Hockey League from 1975–76 until 1980–81....
  
  , 26, NHL, car accident (1981)
• Mikhail Balandin
  Mikhail Balandin
  Mikhail Yuriyevich Balandin was a Russian professional ice hockey player. Balandin played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League at the time of his death. Balandin had also played for Salavat Yulaev Ufa, HC Lada Togliatti, HC CSKA Moscow, Mytishchi Khimik, Mytishchi Atlant and...
  
  , 31, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Bill Barilko
  Bill Barilko
  William "Bashin' Bill" Barilko was a Canadian ice hockey player who played his entire National Hockey League career for the Toronto Maple Leafs.- Personal life :Barilko was of Ukrainian descent and had a brother, Alex, and sister, Anne....
  
  , 24, NHL, plane crash (1951)
• Jeff Batters
  Jeff Batters
  Jeffrey William Batters was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played 16 games in the National Hockey League in two seasons with the St. Louis Blues, from 1993 until 1995. Also played for the Kansas City Blades in the IHL.Batters died in the summer of 1996 from injuries sustained in a car...
  
  , 25, NHL, car accident (1996)
• Derek Boogaard
  Derek Boogaard
  Derek Leendert Boogaard was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League . He was of Flemish descent. Known primarily as a fighter and enforcer, his nicknames included "Boogeyman" and "The Mountie"...
  
  , 28, NHL, multiple drug intoxication (2011)
• Luc Bourdon
  Luc Bourdon
  Luc Bourdon was a Canadian professional Ice Hockey Defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose, from 2006 until 2008...
  
  , 21, NHL, motorcycle accident (2008)
• Michel Briere
  Michel Briere
  Michel Edouard Brière was an NHL hockey player whose life and career was cut short due to an automobile accident in 1970.-Playing career:...
  
  , 21, NHL, car accident (1971)
• Martin Cech
  Martin Cech
  Martin Čech was a Czech ice hockey defenceman.Čech played in the Czech Extraliga for HC Zlín and HC Lasselsberger Plzeň before moving to Finland's SM-liiga, spending one season with JYP and two seasons with Pelicans...
  
  , 31, Czech Extraliga, car accident (2007)
• Alexei Cherepanov
  Alexei Cherepanov
  Alexei Andreyevich Cherepanov was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League . The New York Rangers of the National Hockey League drafted Cherepanov with their first selection, seventeenth overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft...
  
  , 19, KHL, heart condition (2008)
• Steve Chiasson
  Steve Chiasson
  Steven Joseph Chiasson was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers and Carolina Hurricanes.-NHL career:...
  
  , 32, NHL, car accident/drunk driving (1999)
• Gennady Churilov
  Gennady Churilov
  Gennady Stanislavovich Churilov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. Churilov played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Death:...
  
  , 24, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Luděk Čajka
  Luděk Čajka
  Luděk Čajka was a Czechoslovak professional ice hockey defenceman.Čajka was drafted 115th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft but never played in North America. He played in the Czech Extraliga for TJ Gottwaldov, HC Dukla Jihlava and HC Zlín...
  
  , 26, Czech Extraliga, spinal injury (in-game) (1990)
• Jonathan Delisle
  Jonathan Delisle
  Jonathan Delisle was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. He was drafted in the fourth round, 86th overall, of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. He played just one game in the National Hockey League, with the Canadiens during the 1998–99 season, going scoreless. He...
  
  , 28, NHL, car accident (2006)
• Pavol Demitra
  Pavol Demitra
  Pavol Demitra was a Slovak professional ice hockey player. He played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League , two in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League /Slovak Extraliga and one in the Kontinental Hockey League . Known as an offensive player, Demitra was a first- or second-line...
  
  , 36, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Robert Dietrich
  Robert Dietrich (ice hockey)
  Robert Dietrich was a professional ice hockey defenceman. He was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, in which all players and coaches from the club perished.-Playing career:...
  
  , 25, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Yanick Dupré
  Yanick Dupre
  Yanick Dupré was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 35 games over parts of three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers. He died at the age of 24 after a 16-month battle with leukemia...
  
  , 24, NHL, leukemia (1997)
• Alexander Galimov
  Alexander Galimov
  Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  , 26, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Bob Gassoff
  Bob Gassoff
  Robert Allen Gassoff was a professional ice hockey player. He played four seasons in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues...
  
  , 24, NHL, alcohol-related motorcycle accident (1977)
• Joe Hall
  Joe Hall
  Joseph Henry Hall , nicknamed Bad Joe Hall, was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played professionally from 1904 until 1919 when he died as a result of the influenza epidemic...
  
  , NHL, 36, pneumonia related to influenza (1919)
• Roland Hedberg, 62, Swedish linesman, puck shot (in-game) (2010)
• Tim Horton
  Tim Horton
  Myles Gilbert "Tim" Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in 24 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. He was also a businessman and a co-founder of Tim Hortons. He died in an...
  
  , 44, NHL, car accident (1974)
• Marat Kalimulin
  Marat Kalimulin
  Marat Natfulovich Kalimulin was a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
  , 23, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Alexander Kalyanin
  Alexander Kalyanin
  Alexander Igorevich Kalyanin was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Death:...
  
  , 23, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Peter Karlsson, 29, Swedish hockey player, homicide (1995)
• Valeri Kharlamov, 33, Soviet hockey player, car accident (1981)
• Andrei Kiryukhin
  Andrei Kiryukhin
  Andrei Anatolievich Kiryukhin was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .Besides Lokomotiv, he also played for Lokomotiv-2 , Belgorod and Kapitan teams....
  
  , 24, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Nikita Klyukin
  Nikita Klyukin
  Nikita Sergeyevich Klyukin was a Russian professional ice hockey centre who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Death:...
  
  , 21, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• John Kordic
  John Kordic
  John "Rambo" Kordic was a Canadian hockey player in the National Hockey League.Kordic played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Washington Capitals, and Quebec Nordiques, for a total of seven seasons in the NHL. He won the Calder Cup with Sherbrooke Canadiens in 1985, and a Stanley...
  
  , 27, NHL, cocaine overdose (1992)
• Pelle Lindbergh
  Pelle Lindbergh
  Per-Eric Göran "Pelle" Lindbergh was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played parts of five seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers.-Playing career:...
  
  , 26, NHL, car accident (1985)
• Stefan Liv
  Stefan Liv
  Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
  
  , 30, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Roman Lyashenko
  Roman Lyashenko
  Roman Lyashenko was a Russian ice hockey player. He played professionally in North America for the Dallas Stars and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, and also suited up for affiliate teams in the American Hockey League and the now-defunct International Hockey League...
  
  , 24, NHL, suicide (2003)
• Jan Marek, 31, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Bill Masterton
  Bill Masterton
  William J. Masterton was a Canadian-American professional ice hockey centre who played one season in the National Hockey League for the Minnesota North Stars before succumbing to an injury he suffered during a game against the Oakland Seals in 1968...
  
  , 29, NHL, brain hemorrhage (in-game) (1968)
• Howie Morenz
  Howie Morenz
  Howard William Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played centre for three National Hockey League teams: the Montreal Canadiens , the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers...
  
  , 34, NHL, blood clot from broken leg (1937)
• Stéphane Morin
  Stephane Morin
  Stéphane Morin was a Canadian ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League between 1989 and 1994 with the Quebec Nordiques and the Vancouver Canucks.-Playing career:...
  
  , 29, hockey, heart attack (1998)
• Robert Müller
  Robert Müller
  Robert Müller was a German professional ice hockey goaltender.- Draft :Müller was drafted by the Washington Capitals as their ninth-round pick in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft, 275th overall, but never played for the team....
  
  , 28, hockey, cancer (2009)
• Sergei Ostapchuk
  Sergei Ostapchuk
  Sergei Igorevich Ostapchuk was an ice hockey player. He was playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the KHL....
  
  , 21, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Karel Rachunek
  Karel Rachunek
  Karel Rachůnek was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Rachunek was the captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League when the team's plane crashed on September 7, 2011. He played eight seasons in North America in the National Hockey League...
  
  , 32, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Mickey Renaud, 19, OHL, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (2008)
• Darcy Robinson
  Darcy Robinson
  Darcy Robinson was an Italian/Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman who was a former Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick...
  
  , 26, Serie A
  Serie A
  Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
  
  , heart failure (2007)
• Rick Rypien
  Rick Rypien
  Rick Joseph Rypien was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who spent parts of six seasons in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks. After a major junior career of four years with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League, he was signed by the minor professional Manitoba...
  
  , 27, NHL, undisclosed causes (2011)
• Ruslan Salei
  Ruslan Salei
  Ruslan Albertovich "Rusty" Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft...
  
  , 36, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Terry Sawchuk
  Terry Sawchuk
  Terrance Gordon Sawchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.-Early life and playing career:Sawchuk was born and raised...
  
  , 40, NHL, heart failure from blood clot (1970)
• Maxim Shuvalov
  Maxim Shuvalov
  Maxim Alexeyevich Shuvalov was a Russian professional ice hockey player who at the time of his death would have played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Biography:...
  
  , 18, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Babe Siebert
  Babe Siebert
  Albert Charles "Babe" Siebert was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger and defenceman who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Maroons, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens...
  
  , 35, NHL, drowning accident (1939)
• Karlis Skrastins
  Karlis Skrastinš
  Kārlis Skrastiņš was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastins was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and was on board the team plane which crashed on September 7, 2011...
  
  , 37, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Pavel Snurnitsyn
  Pavel Snurnitsyn
  Pavel Sergeyevich Snurnitsyn was a Russian professional ice hockey player who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League. In August 2011, Snurnitsyn was among two players from Lokomotiv Yaroslavl selected to play for the Russian Under-20 youth national team of Russia...
  
  , 19, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Dan Snyder
  Dan Snyder
  Daniel Snyder was a professional Canadian ice hockey player. He played as a centre in the National Hockey League for the Atlanta Thrashers...
  
  , 25, NHL, complications of a car accident (2003)
• Daniil Sobchenko
  Daniil Sobchenko
  Danylo Yevhenovych "Daniil" Sobchenko was a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey player. Born in Kiev, Sobchenko spent the entirety of his professional hockey career with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
  , 20, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Dmitri Tertyshny
  Dmitri Tertyshny
  Dmitri Valerievich Tertyshny was a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who played one season in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers and four seasons in Russia for Traktor Chelyabinsk....
  
  , 22, NHL, boating accident (1999)
• Ivan Tkachenko
  Ivan Tkachenko (ice hockey)
  Ivan Leonidovich Tkachenko was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
  , 31, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Pavel Trakhanov
  Pavel Trakhanov
  Pavel Sergeyevich Trakhanov was a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Death:...
  
  , 33, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Yuri Urychev
  Yuri Urychev
  Yuri Olegovich Urychev was a Russian professional ice hockey player who at the time of his death played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League.- Death :...
  
  , 20, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Josef Vasicek
  Josef Vasicek
  Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vasicek last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and died when the team's aircraft charter crashed on September 7, 2011...
  
  , 30, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Alexander Vasyunov
  Alexander Vasyunov
  Alexander Sergeevich Vasyunov was a Russian ice hockey player who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League.Alexander Vasyunov was a prospect for the New Jersey Devils in the NHL. Vasyunov died on September 7, 2011 in a plane crash, along with his entire Lokomotiv team, just...
  
  , 23, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Georges Vézina
  Georges Vézina
  Joseph-Georges-Gonzague Vézina was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven seasons in the National Hockey Association and nine in the National Hockey League , all with the Montreal Canadiens...
  
  , 39, NHL, advanced tuberculosis (1926)
• Alexander Vyukhin
  Alexander Vyukhin
  Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:...
  
  , 38, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Artem Yarchuk
  Artem Yarchuk
  Artem Nikolayevich Yarchuk was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Death:...
  
  , 21, KHL, plane crash (2011)†
• Sergei Zholtok
  Sergei Zholtok
  Sergejs Žoltoks was a Latvian professional ice hockey center who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, Minnesota Wild and Nashville Predators....
  
  , 31, NHL, heart failure (2004)

†These 26 players were lost in the same plane crash

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash

The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...

Luge

Luge

A Luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh 21-25 kilograms for singles and 25-30 kilograms for doubles. Luge...

• Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski
  Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski
  Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki was a Polish-born British luge racer.Kay-Skrzypecki was a former pilot in the Royal Air Force. He died during one of the training runs for the first Olympic luge competition at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. Three days later, on 26 January 1964, Australian...
  
  , 50, England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
  , accident (1964)
• Nodar Kumaritashvili
  Nodar Kumaritashvili
  Nodar David Kumaritashvili was a Georgian luger, who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition in Vancouver, Canada, on the day of the opening ceremony...
  
  , 21, Georgia
  Georgia (country)
  Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
  
  , practice crash (2010)

Martial arts

Martial arts

Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....

• Gilbert Aldana
  Gilbert Aldana
  Gilbert "El Peligro" Aldana was an American mixed martial artist who competed in the Heavyweight division. His final fight was at RITC 90 - Rage in the Cage against Rich Beecroft on January 27, 2007....
  
  , 29, USA, MMA fighter, drowning (2007)
• André Brilleman, 25, Netherlands, kickboxer, gang related murder (2010)
• Ross Clifton
  Ross Clifton
  Ross Clifton was an American professional mixed martial artist and former Gladiator Challenge Super Heavyweight Champion. His most notable fight was against UFC Hall Of Famer and legend Ken Shamrock, and has a submission victory over Paul "Bear" Vasquez, a.k.a. The Double Rainbow Guy. Clifton ran...
  
  , 32, USA, MMA fighter, heart attack (2009)
• Douglas Dedge
  Douglas Dedge
  Douglas Dedge was an American mixed martial artist who was the first known American competitor to be fatally injured in an MMA fight and the first death in the modern era of professional MMA.-Death:...
  
  , 31, USA, MMA fighter, brain injury (in-fight) (1998)
• Justin Eilers
  Justin Eilers
  Justin Mark Eilers was an American professional mixed martial artist, formerly with the UFC and WEC. Eilers trained with Miletich Fighting Systems in Bettendorf, Iowa.-Biography:...
  
  , 30, USA, MMA fighter, homicide (2008)
• Ryan Gracie
  Ryan Gracie
  Ryan Gracie , was a Brazilian mixed martial artist with a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He was a member of the Gracie family, and the grandson of Carlos Gracie, one of the founders of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu...
  
  , 33, Brazil, MMA fighter, drug overdose (2007)
• Andy Hug
  Andy Hug
  Andy Hug was a Swiss Seidokaikan and Kyokushin karateka and kickboxer from Wohlen. Hug was the K-1 World Grand Prix 1996 champion and runner up in 1997 and 1998.-Biography and career:...
  
  , 35, Switzerland, karateka and kickboxer, myeloid leukemia (2000)
• Justin Levens
  Justin Levens
  Justin Robert Levens was an American mixed martial artist who fought for the UFC and, later in his career, the Southern California Condors of the International Fight League. Levens was a participant in Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting but had not fought with either...
  
  , 28, USA, MMA fighter, suicide (2008)
• Evan Tanner
  Evan Tanner
  Evan Loyd Tanner was an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He was a former UFC Middleweight and USWF Heavyweight champion with a professional record of 32 wins and 8 losses...
  
  , 37, USA, MMA fighter, hyperthermia
  Hyperthermia
  Hyperthermia is an elevated body temperature due to failed thermoregulation. Hyperthermia occurs when the body produces or absorbs more heat than it can dissipate...
  
   (2008)
• Sam Vasquez
  Sam Vasquez
  Mixed martial arts in the United States was sanctioned under Unified Rules in the states of New Jersey and Nevada in 2001. By 2011, 45 US states had sanctioned the sport....
  
  , 34–35, USA, MMA fighter, brain injury (in-fight) (2007)
• Shelby Walker
  Shelby Walker
  Shelby Rogers was a professional boxer and mixed martial arts fighter....
  
  , 31, USA, MMA fighter, prescription pill overdose (2006)
• Jeremy Williams
  Jeremy Williams (MMA fighter)
  Jeremy Williams was an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He most notably fought for the Southern California Condors of the International Fight League.- Bio :...
  
  , 27, USA, MMA fighter, suicide (2007)
• Sergio Salcido, 25, USA, MMA fighter, homicide (2011)
• Michael Kirkham, 30, USA, MMA fighter, brain injury (in-fight) 2010

Auto racing

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

Does not include race car drivers who died in race or practice crashes. Those names go in a separate article. Please refer to List of racing drivers who died in racing crashes.

• Johnny Aitken
  Johnny Aitken
  Johnny Aitken was a racecar driver from Indianapolis, who was active in the years prior to World War I.Aitken competed in the Indianapolis 500 three times. He started the race twice, in 1911 and 1916. He led the first lap of the first race . Aitken captured the pole position in 1916, but ended...
  
  , 33, Indycar
  American Championship Car Racing
  Since 1916 there has been a recognized United States national automobile racing National Championship for drivers of professional-level, single-seat open wheel race cars. The championship has been under the auspices of several different sanctioning bodies since 1909. Since 1911, the Indianapolis...
  
   driver, Spanish Flu
  Spanish flu
  The 1918 flu pandemic was an influenza pandemic, and the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus . It was an unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin...
  
   (1918)
• Davey Allison
  Davey Allison
  David Carl "Davey" Allison was a NASCAR driver. He was best known for driving the #28 Texaco-Havoline Ford for Robert Yates Racing in the Winston Cup Series. Born in Hollywood, Florida, he was the eldest of four children born to Bobby Allison and wife Judy...
  
  , 32, NASCAR driver, helicopter crash at Talledega Superspeedway (1993)
• Christian Bakkerud
  Christian Bakkerud
  Christian Bakkerud was a Danish racing driver, who competed in the 2007 and 2008 GP2 Series seasons, albeit hindered by a recurrent back injury...
  
  , 26, BF3, GP2, DTM driver, road accident near Wimbledon Common (2011)
• Edgar Barth
  Edgar Barth
  Edgar Barth was a German Formula One and sports car racing driver....
  
  , 48, Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   and sportscar racing driver, cancer (1965)
• Norman Batten
  Norman Batten
  Norman Batten was an American racecar driver active in the 1920s. He and fellow driver Earl Devore were lost at sea while sailing aboard the SS Vestris.-Indy 500 results:...
  
  , 35, Indycar driver, shipwreck of the SS Vestris
  SS Vestris
  The SS Vestris was a steamship, built in 1912. She was owned by Lamport & Holt and used in their New York to River Plate service. She is best known for her sinking, with a loss of over 100 lives....
  
   (along with fellow driver Earl Devore
  Earl Devore
  Earl Devore was an American racecar driver. Devore and fellow driver Norman Batten were aboard the SS Vestris when it sank. He is credited with saving the lives of his wife, his son, and Batten's wife. Both Batten and Devore were lost at sea...
  
  ) (1928)
• Walter Bäumer, 32, Grand Prix driver, freak road accident (1941)
• René Le Bègue
  René Le Bègue
  ----René Le Bègue was a Parisian-born French race car driver in Rally and Grand Prix motor racing. In his first year of top level racing, his best showing came at the 1936 Spa 24 Hours endurance race when he drove a Delahaye to a 2nd place finish. In 1937 he and his co-pilot Julio Quinlin won the...
  
  , 32, Grand Prix driver, asphyxiation by gas fumes of his bathroom boiler (1946)
• Derek Bennett, 44, Formula 3 driver, owner & designer of Chevron Cars
  Chevron Cars Ltd
  Chevron Cars Ltd. is a manufacturer of racing cars, founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. Following Bennett's death in 1978, the firm has remained active in various guises. The original company's designs and name continue to be utilized by Roger Andreason to build replacement parts and continuation...
  
  , hang gliding accident (1978)
• Herbert Berg, Grand Prix driver, concussion following a fall in the street (1938)
• Ulrich Bigalke, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, KIA
  Killed in action
  Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
  
   at Battle of Britain
  Battle of Britain
  The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
  
   (1940)
• Tim Birkin, 36, Grand Prix driver and member of the Bentley Boys
  Bentley Boys
  The Bentley Boys were a group of wealthy British motorists who drove Bentley sports cars to victory in the 1920s and kept the marque's reputation for high performance alive...
  
  , illness (cause of death varies from source to source) (1933)
• Georges Boillot
  Georges Boillot
  Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot.-Biography:...
  
  , 31, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, military action during World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   (1916)
• Possum Bourne, 47, Champion rally car driver, car accident (2003)
• Charlie Bradberry
  Charlie Bradberry
  Charlie Bradberry was an American NASCAR driver who ran part time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 2003 and 2004. His best finish was 6th at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in 2004...
  
  , 24, NASCAR driver, car accident (2006)
• Tony Brise
  Tony Brise
  Anthony William Brise was a British racing driver from England. He won two of the three British Formula Three Championships in 1973...
  
  , 23, Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver, plane crash (1975)
• Ernst Burggaller, 43, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, KIA
  Killed in action
  Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
  
   at Battle of Britain
  Battle of Britain
  The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
  
   (1940)
• Richard Burns
  Richard Burns
  Richard Alexander Burns was an English rally driver. He was born in Reading, Berkshire. He was the 2001 World Rally Champion, having previously finished runner-up in the series in 1999 and 2000. He also helped Mitsubishi to the world manufacturers' title in 1998, and Peugeot in 2002...
  
  , 34, World Rally Champion in 2001, brain tumour (2005)
• Shaun Carlson, 35, drag racer, Brugada Syndrome
  Brugada syndrome
  The Brugada syndrome is a genetic disease that is characterised by abnormal electrocardiogram findings and an increased risk of sudden cardiac death. It is named by the Spanish cardiologists Pedro Brugada and Josep Brugada...
  
   (2009)
• Jimmy Caruthers
  Jimmy Caruthers
  Douglas "Jimmy" Caruthers was an American racecar driver from Anaheim, California. He raced midget cars, sprint cars, and IndyCars.-Midget car career:...
  
  , 30, Indycar / Silver Crown driver, cancer (1975)
• Spencer Clark, 19, NASCAR driver, car accident (2006)
• Earl Devore
  Earl Devore
  Earl Devore was an American racecar driver. Devore and fellow driver Norman Batten were aboard the SS Vestris when it sank. He is credited with saving the lives of his wife, his son, and Batten's wife. Both Batten and Devore were lost at sea...
  
  , 39–40, Indycar driver, shipwreck of the SS Vestris
  SS Vestris
  The SS Vestris was a steamship, built in 1912. She was owned by Lamport & Holt and used in their New York to River Plate service. She is best known for her sinking, with a loss of over 100 lives....
  
   (1928)
• Christian Elder
  Christian Elder
  Christian Stuart Elder was a NASCAR driver. He raced in the Busch Series for Akins Motorsports for two years....
  
  , 38, NASCAR driver, accidental methadone overdose (2007)
• Ralph Earnhardt, 45, NASCAR driver, heart attack (1973)
• AFP Fane, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, aviation accident (1942)
• Luis Fontés
  Luis Fontés
  Luis Fontés was a British racing driver of Argentine parentage who, along with John Stuart Hindmarsh, won the 1935 24 Hours of Le Mans for the Lagonda automobile company...
  
  , Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, aviation accident (1940)
• Elmer George
  Elmer George
  Elmer George was an American racecar driver.Born in Hockerville, Oklahoma, George died in Terre Haute, Indiana. He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1956-1963 seasons with 64 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in 1957, 1962, and 1963...
  
  , 47, (father of Indy Racing League founder Tony George
  Tony George
  Anton Hulman "Tony" George was the former President and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Hulman & Company, serving from 1989 to 2009. He was also formerly on the Board of Directors of both entities. He founded the Indy Racing League and co-owns Vision Racing...
  
  ), Indycar / Sprint car driver, murder (1976)
• Peter Gregg
  Peter Gregg (racing driver)
  Peter Holden Gregg was a racecar driver during the golden age of the Trans-Am Series and a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona...
  
  , 40, sportscar racer, suicide (1980)
• William Grover-Williams
  William Grover-Williams
  William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams , also known as "W Williams", was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive inside France. He organized and coordinated the Chestnut network...
  
  , 42, Grand prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, Killed during The Holocaust
  The Holocaust
  The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
  
   as a spy for the Special Operations Executive
  Special Operations Executive
  The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...
  
   (1945)
• Kevin Grubb
  Kevin Grubb
  Kevin Grubb was an American race car driver from Mechanicsville, Virginia. He was the younger brother of former race car driver Wayne Grubb...
  
  , 31, NASCAR driver, suicide (2009)
• Bobby Hamilton
  Bobby Hamilton
  Charles Robert Hamilton, Sr. was a driver and owner in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit and the winner of the 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship. Hamilton owned Bobby Hamilton Racing, which fielded three entries in each NCWTS event...
  
  , 49, NASCAR driver, cancer (2007)
• Rudolf Hasse
  Rudolf Hasse
  Rudolf Hasse was a famous German racing driver.Hasse was born in Mittweida, Saxony, and died while serving on the Russian front during World War II, aged only 36. He won the 1937 Belgian Grand Prix....
  
  , 36, Grand Prix driver, illness during military service during the Eastern Front
  Eastern Front (World War II)
  The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
  
   (1942)
• Mike Hawthorn
  Mike Hawthorn
  John Michael Hawthorn was a racing driver, born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Ardingly College, West Sussex.-Racing career:...
  
  , 29, Formula 1 World Champion, road accident (1959)
• Ricky Hendrick
  Ricky Hendrick
  Joseph Riddick Hendrick IV , also known as Ricky Hendrick, was an American NASCAR stock car driver and partial owner at Hendrick Motorsports, a team that his father Rick Hendrick founded. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 2, 1980, and began his career in racing at the age of fifteen...
  
  , 24, owner affiliated to Hendrick Motorsports
  Hendrick Motorsports
  Hendrick Motorsports , originally named All Star Racing, is a current American auto racing team created in 1984 by Rick Hendrick. The team currently competes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with Chevrolet Impalas...
  
   owned by his father Rick Hendrick
  Rick Hendrick
  Joseph Riddick Hendrick III , better known as Rick Hendrick, is the current owner of the American NASCAR team, Hendrick Motorsports and founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group and Hendrick Marrow Program. He attended Park View High School in South Hill, Virginia, and began his career in auto...
  
  , plane crash (2004)
• Bogdan Herink, 46, Polish rally driver, heart failure (1998)
• Graham Hill
  Graham Hill
  Norman Graham Hill was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He is the only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport — the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship.Graham Hill and his son Damon are the only father and son pair both to...
  
  , 46, team boss of Embassy Racing and two-time Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   World Champion as a driver in 1962 and 1968, plane crash (1975)
• Jesse Hockett
  Jesse Hockett
  Jesse "The Rocket" Hockett was an American sprint car racer. He made his debut in 1998 and went on to win numerous events in the course of his career...
  
  , 26, American sprint car driver, electrocution
  Electrocution
  Electrocution is a type of electric shock that, as determined by a stopped heart, can end life. Electrocution is frequently used to refer to any electric shock received but is technically incorrect; the choice of definition varies from dictionary to dictionary...
  
   (2010)
• Al Hofmann
  Al Hofmann
  Al Hofmann was an American dragracer and drag car owner in the funny car division from Umatilla, Florida. He raced in the National Hot Rod Association...
  
  , 60, NHRA Funny Car driver, massive heart attack (2008)
• Al Holbert
  Al Holbert
  Alvah Robert "Al" Holbert was an American automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the IMSA Camel GT series.- Life and career :...
  
  , 41, IMSA
  International Motor Sports Association
  The International Motor Sports Association is an American sports car auto racing sanctioning body based in Braselton, Georgia. It was started by John Bishop, a former employee of SCCA , and his wife Peggy in 1969 with help from Bill France, Sr...
  
   champion, plane crash (1988)
• Denny Hulme
  Denny Hulme
  Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team....
  
  , 56, Formula 1 World Champion / sports car driver, heart attack while competing in the 1992 Bathurst 1000
  Bathurst 1000
  The Bathurst 1000 is a touring car race held annually at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia...
  
  .
• Bobby Isaac
  Bobby Isaac
  Bobby Isaac is a former NASCAR Grand National champion.-Early life:Isaac grew up on a farm near Catawba, North Carolina, the second youngest of nine children...
  
  , 45, NASCAR driver and 1970 Cup champion, heart attack while competing at Hickory Motor Speedway
  Hickory Motor Speedway
  Hickory Motor Speedway is a short track located in Hickory, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing's most storied venues, and is often referred to as "The World's Most Famous Short Track" and the "Birthplace of the NASCAR Stars"....
  
   (1977)
• Camille Jenatzy
  Camille Jenatzy
  Camille Jenatzy was a Belgian race car driver. He is known for breaking the land speed record three times and being the first man to break the 100 km/h barrier....
  
  , 44–45, Belgian racing driver, shot while impersonating a wild boar (1913)
• Andy Kirby
  Andy Kirby
  Andy Kirby , is a former stockcar driver, most notably in NASCAR. Kirby did not initially begin with NASCAR, where his career would end. Instead, Kirby quickly earned his reputation as a motorcycle racer in the Southeastern United States...
  
  , 40, NASCAR driver, motorcycle accident (2002)
• Erwin Kremer, 67, founder/owner of Kremer Racing
  Kremer Racing
  Kremer Racing is a motorsports team based in Cologne, Germany, founded by racing driver Erwin Kremer and his brother Manfred. They have competed internationally with Porsches for nearly all of their existence, and were even one of the factory-backed squads for many years...
  
  , stroke (2006)
• Janusz Kulig
  Janusz Kulig
  Janusz Kulig was a Polish rally driver. He started his career behind the wheel of a Polski Fiat 126p and during his early years in rally he also drove Toyota Corolla, Opel Kadett and Renault Clio. He became one of the top drivers while driving Renault Megane Maxi...
  
  , 35, Polish rally driver, died in an accident after his car collided with a train on a level crossing (2004)
• Alan Kulwicki
  Alan Kulwicki
  Alan Dennis Kulwicki , nicknamed "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series racecar driver. He started racing at local short tracks in Wisconsin before moving up to regional stock car touring series...
  
  , 38, NASCAR driver and 1992 Cup champion, plane crash in Tennessee
  Tennessee
  Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
  
   (1993)
• Atsushi Kuroi
  Atsushi Kuroi
  was a Japanese professional drifting driver who competed in the D1 Grand Prix series for with . He died on 2 February 2010 during the evening due to a motorcycle accident....
  
  , 40, D1GP driver, motorcycle accident (2010)
• Elmo Langley
  Elmo Langley
  Elmo Langley was a NASCAR driver and owner. Langley primarily used the number "64" on his race cars during his NASCAR career.-Racing career:...
  
  , 68, NASCAR
  NASCAR
  The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
  
   pace car driver, heart attack during an evaluation run at a NASCAR exhibition race in Suzuka Circuit
  Suzuka Circuit
  , Suzuka Circuit for short, is a motorsport race track located in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Mobilityland Corporation, the subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd..-Introduction:...
  
   (1996)
• Clarence Lovell, 26, NASCAR driver, car accident (1973)
• Percy MacLure, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, military actions during World War II
• Willy Mairesse
  Willy Mairesse
  Willy Mairesse was a Formula One and sports car driver from Belgium. He participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 June 1960. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 7 championship points...
  
  , 40, Belgian sportscar racer, suicide (1969)
• Gerry Marshall
  Gerry Marshall
  Gerry Marshall was a British saloon car racing driver, and, according to a 2002 magazine poll, one of the best drivers of all time.- Career :...
  
  , 63, British racing driver, heart attack while test driving Richard Petty
  Richard Petty
  Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series...
  
  's IROC Camaro
  Second-generation Chevrolet Camaro
  The second generation Chevrolet Camaro is a pony car by the Chevrolet division of General Motors produced for the 1970 through 1981 model years. It was introduced February 26, 1970 It was longer, lower, and wider than the first generation Camaro. A convertible body-type was no longer available...
  
   (2005)
• Colin McRae
  Colin McRae
  Colin Steele McRae, MBE was a Scottish rally driver born in Lanark.The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995, became the first British person and the youngest to win the...
  
  , 39, British rally driver, helicopter accident (2007)
• Harry Melling
  Harry Melling (NASCAR)
  Harry Melling was the team owner of Melling Racing, which won the 1988 NASCAR championship with Bill Elliott.- Background :...
  
  , 53–54, owner of Melling Racing
  Melling Racing
  Melling Racing was a NASCAR team that ran from 1982 to 2002. The team won the 1988 championship with driver Bill Elliott.-History:Owner Harry Melling first became involved in NASCAR when his company Melling Tool sponsored Benny Parsons in 1979. The team began in 1982 with driver Bill Elliott by...
  
  , heart attack (1999)
• Dick Meyer, age unknown, NASCAR driver, crashed during illegal street race (1954)
• Jimmy Miller, 20, Sprint car driver, killed in combat in Vietnam
  Vietnam War
  The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
  
   (1967)
• Rob Moroso
  Rob Moroso
  Rob Moroso was a NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series in 1989, was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award...
  
  , 22, NASCAR Rookie of the Year
  NASCAR Rookie of the Year
  The NASCAR Rookie of the Year Award is presented to the first-year driver that has the best season in a NASCAR season. Each of NASCAR's national and regional touring series selects a RotY winner each year....
  
   in 1990, car accident
• Mike Mosley
  Mike Mosley
  Mike Mosley , was an American racecar driver.Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Mosley died in an off-road vehicle accident near Riverside, California. His young son, Michael, was also riding in the van Mosley was driving, but was uninjured. He was a driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series...
  
  , 37, Indycar driver, car accident (1984)
• Gary Niece, 36, NASCAR driver, heart attack while competing in NASCAR Busch Series race (1991)
• Gunnar Nilsson
  Gunnar Nilsson
  Gunnar Nilsson was a Swedish racing driver, born in Helsingborg. Before entering Formula One, he won the 1975 British Formula Three Championship....
  
  , 29, Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver, cancer (1978)
• Carlos Pace
  José Carlos Pace
  José Carlos Pace was a racing driver from Brazil. He participated in 73 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on March 4, 1972. He won one race, achieved six podiums, and scored a total of 58 championship points...
  
  , 32, Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver, plane crash (1977)
• Benny Parsons
  Benny Parsons
  Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst on TBS, ESPN, NBC and TNT...
  
  , 65, NASCAR driver, cancer (2007)
• Harvey Postlethwaite
  Harvey Postlethwaite
  Harvey Postlethwaite was a British engineer and Technical Director of several Formula One teams during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of a heart attack in Spain while supervising the testing of the abortive Honda F1 project...
  
  , 55, F1 engineer and Technical Director, heart attack while supervising a testing session for Honda
  Honda
  is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...
  
   (1999)
• Tim Richmond
  Tim Richmond
  Tim Richmond was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series . Richmond was one of the first drivers to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars full-time, which has since become an industry trend...
  
  , 34, NASCAR driver, AIDS (1989)
• Dean Roper, 62, ARCA
  ARCA RE/MAX Series
  -History:The series started as a local touring group. Led by John Marcum, the Midwest Association for Race Cars was formed with drivers like Iggy Katona and Nelson Stacy being early drivers.The series became a part of the Daytona Speedweeks in 1964...
  
   stock racer, heart attack while competing (2001)
• Thierry Sabine
  Thierry Sabine
  Thierry Sabine was a French wrangler, motorcycle racer, and founder and main organizer of Paris Dakar....
  
  , 36, founder and main organizer of Paris Dakar, helicopter crash (1986)
• Bruce Sarver, 43, NHRA driver, Self inflicted gun shot (2005)
• Carl Scarborough
  Carl Scarborough
  Carl Scarborough was an American racecar driver. He died from heat exhaustion shortly after his 12th place finish in the 1953 Indianapolis 500, which was one of the hottest-temperature Indianapolis 500s that drivers had competed in up to 1956.He was elected to the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of...
  
  , 38, Indycar driver, heat exhaustion during the 1953 Indianapolis 500
  Indianapolis 500
  The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race, held annually, typically on the last weekend in May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana...
  
  
• Josef Schnitzer, 39, founder of Schnitzer Motorsport
  Schnitzer Motorsport
  Schnitzer Motorsport is a motorsport team based in Freilassing near Munich, Germany. From the early days of its establishment, the team has operated an automobile racing squad for BMW, and has remarkable results in touring car and sports car racing scenes....
  
  , road accident (1978)
• Richard Shuttleworth, 31, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, aviation accident (1940)
• Chris Staniland, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, aviation accident (1939)
• Ryoji Takada, D1GP
  D1 Grand Prix
  The , abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift, is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Option magazine & Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada, and drifting legend Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting...
  
   driver, truck loading accident (2005)
• Joel Thorne
  Joel Thorne
  Joel Thorne was an American racecar driver, engineer, and playboy. He died when he crashed his private plane, after what witnesses described as "stunting", into an apartment building, killing eight residents including a two month old baby...
  
  , 41, Indycar driver / industrialist, plane crash (1955)
• Lars-Erik Torph
  Lars-Erik Torph
  Lars-Erik Torph was a Swedish rally driver. He debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1980 and took his first points at his home event, the Swedish Rally, in 1984. Driving a Toyota Celica TCT, a Toyota Supra 3.0i and an Audi Coupé Quattro, he went on to finish on the podium four times...
  
  , 28, Swedish rally driver, died in a non-competitive accident during the Monte Carlo Rally
  Monte Carlo Rally
  The Monte Carlo Rally or Rally Monte Carlo is a rallying event organised each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco which also organises the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique. The rally takes place along the French Riviera in the Principality of Monaco and...
  
   (1989)
• Chris Trickle
  Chris Trickle
  Chris Trickle was a NASCAR driver who was murdered in an unsolved drive-by shooting.-Family:Trickle was the son of Chuck and Barbara Trickle, and nephew of NASCAR driver Dick Trickle.-Racing career:...
  
  , 24, NASCAR driver, drive-by shooting (1998)
• Curtis Turner
  Curtis Turner
  Curtis Turner was an early NASCAR driver. In addition to his success in racing, he made a fortune, lost it, and remade it buying and selling timberlands. Throughout his life he developed a reputation for drinking and partying...
  
  , 46, NASCAR driver, plane crash (1970)
• Fermin Vélez
  Fermín Vélez
  Fermín Vélez was a Spanish sports car racing driver, two-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring and two-time World Sportscar Championship Group C2 champion....
  
  , 43, sports car driver, cancer (2003)
• Johnny Wakefield, 27, Grand Prix
  Grand Prix motor racing
  Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver...
  
   driver, aviation accident (1942)
• Andreas Waldherr
  Andreas Waldherr
  Andreas Waldherr was an Austrian rally driver.- Career :In 2000 Andreas Waldherr achieved second place for diesel vehicles in the Rally Cup of the Supreme National Sports Commission for Motorsports of the Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club . He won the OSK Rally Cup for diesel...
  
  , 43, Austrian rally driver, crushed by a car in the workshop (2011)
• Nick Whiting, British racing driver, murder (1990)
• Carl Williams, 42, Indycar driver, motorcycle accident (1973)
• Bob Wollek
  Bob Wollek
  Bob Wollek , nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He was killed on March 16, 2001 at age 57 in a road accident in Florida while riding a bicycle back to his accommodation after the day's practice sessions for the following day's race, the 12 Hours of...
  
  , 57, sportscar driver, cycling accident (2001)

Motorboat racing

• Donald Aronow
  Donald Aronow
  Donald Joel Aronow was an American designer, builder and racer of the famous Magnum Marine, Cigarette, Donzi, and Formula speed boats. He built speedboats for the His Imperial Majesty Shah of Iran, Charles Keating, Robert Vesco, Malcolm Forbes, and George H. W. Bush. President Lyndon Johnson - in...
  
  , 59, boat builder, murdered (1987)
• Mike Thomas, hydroplane driver, construction accident (1967)
• Dwight Bale, drag boat driver, drowned whilst riding in a rubber raft through a rapid (1973)
• Bernard Marszałek, 31, Polish driver powerboat, asthma attack (2007)

Motorcycle sport

Does not include motorcycle riders who died in race or practice crashes. Those names go in a separate article. Please refer to List of deaths by motorcycle accidents.

• Norifumi Abe
  Norifumi Abe
  Norifumi "Norick" Abe 阿部典史 , or ノリック・アベ , was a Japanese motorcycle road racer who was previously a 500 cc/MotoGP rider.-Biography:...
  
  , 32, Moto GP rider, scooter accident (2007)
• John Britten
  John Britten
  John Kenton Britten was a New Zealand mechanical engineer who designed a world-record-setting motorcycle with innovative features which are still ahead of contemporary design.-Biography:...
  
  , 45, racing motorcycle designer/builder, cancer (1995)
• Andy Caldecott
  Andy Caldecott
  Andy Caldecott was an off road motorcycle racer born in Keith, South Australia. He won the Australian Safari Rally four times consecutively and was a competitor in the Dakar Rally in 2004 , 2005 , and 2006....
  
  , 41, From injuries whilst competing at the Dakar Rally
  Dakar Rally
  The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation...
  
   (2006)
• Kenny Carter
  Kenny Carter
  Kenneth 'Kenny' Malcolm Carter , was a world class speedway rider. He rode for Newcastle Diamonds , Halifax Dukes and Bradford Dukes ....
  
  , 25, British motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
  
   rider, suicide (1986)
• Edward "Teddy" Carroll, 26, board track
  Board track racing
  Board track, or motordrome, racing was a type of motorsport popular in the United States between the second and third decades of the 20th century. Competition was conducted on oval race courses with surfaces composed of wooden planks...
  
   motorcycle racer, Tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
  
   (1920)
• Frank Charles
  Frank Charles (speedway rider)
  Frank Charles was a former international motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the first ever World Championship final in 1936.- Career summary :...
  
  , 31, British motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
  
   rider, gliding accident (1939)
• Robert Dados
  Robert Dados
  Robert Dados was a Polish speedway rider has won World Under-21 titles.- Speedway Grand Prix results :- Career :* Individual World Championship** 1998 - 33rd place...
  
  , 27, Polish motorcycle speedway rider, suicide (2004)
• Matej Ferjan
  Matej Ferjan
  Matej Ferjan , was a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider who also rode for the Hungary national speedway team....
  
  , 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
  
   rider, his cause of death has not been confirmed (2011)
• Ricky Graham, 40, burns sustained from a house fire (1998)
• Steve Hislop
  Steve Hislop
  Steven 'Hizzy' Hislop was a Scottish motorcycle racer. Hislop won the Isle of Man TT eleven times and also the British 250cc Championship and British Superbike championship ....
  
  , 41, British Superbike
  British Superbike
  The British Superbike Championship is the leading road racing superbike championship in the United Kingdom.The championship is managed and organised by MotorSport Vision. The Series and Race Director is Stuart Higgs. Event marshals are provided by the Racesafe Marshals Association.Two annual...
  
   rider, helicopter crash (2003)
• Donald Jacks, 25, AMA superbike rider, road accident (1995)
• Edward Jancarz
  Edward Jancarz
  Edward 'Ed' Jancarz was an international speedway rider.-Career:Jancarz rode in the UK for the Wimbledon Dons between 1977–1982 and in Poland for Stal Gorzów...
  
  , 45, Polish motorcycle speedway rider, murdered by his wife (1992)
• Rafał Kurmański, 22, Polish motorcycle speedway rider, suicide (2004)
• Juan López Mella, 30, Spanish road racer (1995)
• Adam Neal, 35, AMA rider, suicide in late 2003 following paralyzing race crash in late 1999
• Randy Renfrow, 46, AMA rider, fall from staircase (2002)
• Billy Sanders
  Billy Sanders
  William Robert Sanders 'Billy Sanders' was an Australian international Speedway rider who won six Australian Championships and was a five time Speedway World Championship finalist with a career best second place in Germany 1983.-Australian Speedway:Billy Sanders bought his first speedway bike from...
  
  , 29, Australian motorcycle speedway rider, suicide (1985)
• Donny Schmit
  Donny Schmit
  Donny Schmit was an American motocross racer. He was a two-time Motocross World Champion, winning the 125cc title in 1990 and the 250cc championship in 1992.-Career:...
  
  , 29, aplastic anemia
  Aplastic anemia
  Aplastic anemia is a condition where bone marrow does not produce sufficient new cells to replenish blood cells. The condition, per its name, involves both aplasia and anemia...
  
   (1996)
• Dave Simmonds
  Dave Simmonds
  Dave Simmonds was a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1969, he won the FIM 125 cc road racing World Championship. The victory marked the first world championship for Kawasaki...
  
  , 32, fire (1972)
• Pascal Terry, 49, myocardial infarction
  Myocardial infarction
  Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
  
  , whilst competing at the Dakar Rally
  Dakar Rally
  The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation...
  
   (2009)

Rowing

Rowing (sport)

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

• Herbert Adamski
  Herbert Adamski
  Herbert Adamski was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the gold medal as member of the German boat in the coxed pairs competition.-External links:*...
  
  , 31, German rower, military actions during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1941)
• Hugo Strauß
  Hugo Strauß
  Hugo Strauß was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the gold medal with his partner Willi Eichhorn in the coxless pairs competition.-External links:*...
  
  , 34, German rower, military actions during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1941)

Rugby Union

Rugby football

Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...

• Nicky Allen
  Nicky Allen
  Nicholas Houghton Allen . He played nine matches including two tests for the All Blacks in 1980. He died from head injuries in rugby match in 1984.-External links:...
  
  , 26, New Zealand rugby union player, head injuries sustained during a match (1984)
• Sam Doble
  Sam Doble
  Samuel 'Sam' Arthur Doble was an English rugby union full-back who played international rugby for England and club rugby for Moseley...
  
  , 33, English rugby union player, cancer (1977)
• Yves du Manoir
  Yves du Manoir
  Yves Frantz Loys Marie Le Pelley du Manoir, known as Yves du Manoir was a French rugby player....
  
  , 23, French rugby union player, plane crash (1928)
• Nick Duncombe
  Nick Duncombe
  Nick Duncombe was a promising English rugby union footballer who won two international caps before dying aged 21 of meningitis contracted while on what has erroneously been described as a warm-weather training trip to Spain with his club Harlequins...
  
  , 21, English rugby union player, meningitis (2003)
• Ivan Francescato
  Ivan Francescato
  Ivan Francescato was an Italian rugby union player.Francescato began his career in his native city, Treviso, like his five elder siblings before him, all of whom played the game at high levels; three made the Italian National team, Bruno, Nello and Rino. He got his technical and athletic training...
  
  , 31, Italian rugby union player, heart attack (1999)
• Barry Holmes
  Barry Holmes
  William Barry Holmes was a rugby union player who played for the England national rugby union team and the Argentina national rugby union team. As of 2011 he is the only player to have been capped at senior level by both those two countries....
  
  , 21, English/Argentinian rugby union player, typhoid (1949)
• Aaron Hopa
  Aaron Hopa
  Aaron Remana Hopa was a New Zealand rugby union player. He was an All Black in 1997 where he played four matches and played for Waikato in provincial level including the Ranfurly Shield winning team in 1997 and he also played for the Chiefs in the Super 14...
  
  , 27, New Zealand rugby union player, death as a result of a heart defect, while diving (1998)
• Roy Muir Kinnear
  Roy Muir Kinnear
  Roy Muir Kinnear was a Scottish dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s, who at representative level played rugby union for British Lions, and , and at representative level played rugby league for Great Britain and Other...
  
  , 38, Scottish rugby union/league player, heart attack (1942)
• Shawn Mackay
  Shawn Mackay
  Shawn Mackay was an Australian rugby union player with the Canberra based Brumbies in the Super 14 competition. He was the son of former Eastern Suburbs rugby league player John Mackay.-Career:...
  
  , 26, Australian rugby union player, spinal cord and other injuries suffered when struck by a motor vehicle (2009)
• Alexander Obolensky
  Alexander Obolensky
  Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky was a Russian Rurikid prince and an international rugby union footballer who played for England. He was popularly known as just "The Prince" by many sports fans.-Biography:...
  
  , 24, Russia-born English rugby union player, plane crash during military training (1940)
• Dick Stafford, 19, English rugby union player, spinal cancer (1912)

Rugby League

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

• Sonny Fai
  Sonny Fai
  Sonny Fai was a professional rugby league player who played for the New Zealand Warriors.-Early years:...
  
  , 20, New Zealand National Rugby League (NRL) player, disappeared off Te Henga (Bethells Beach) in Auckland while attempting to save a family member. His body has never been found. (2009)
• Sam Faust
  Sam Faust
  Sam Faust was an Australian professional rugby league player who played for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition.-Playing career:...
  
  , 25, Australian National Rugby League (NRL) player, acute myeloid leukemia (2011)
• Hudson Irving
  Hudson Irving
  Hudson Irving was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s who at representative level played for England, Cumberland, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Halifax, playing in the Forwards, during the era of contested scrums.-International honours:Hudson Irving won...
  
  , English rugby league player, heart attack (1947)
• Frederick Kelsall
  Frederick Kelsall
  Frederick "Fred" Kelsall was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s who at representative level played for England, and Cheshire, and at club level for Widnes, playing at , i.e...
  
  , 24–25, English rugby league player, motorcycle accident (1931)
• Roy Muir Kinnear
  Roy Muir Kinnear
  Roy Muir Kinnear was a Scottish dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s, who at representative level played rugby union for British Lions, and , and at representative level played rugby league for Great Britain and Other...
  
  , 38, Scottish rugby union/league player, heart attack (1942)
• Harry Myers
  Harry Myers (rugby)
  Harry Myers was a rugby union footballer of the 1890s who at representative level played for England, and at club level for Keighley, playing at Fly-half, i.e. number 10...
  
  , 31, English rugby league player, injuries sustained in a collision while playing for Keighley
  Keighley Cougars
  Keighley Cougars are a professional rugby league club from Keighley in West Yorkshire, England. As of 2012 they will play in Co-operative Championship having won the Co-operative Championship 1 play off final 32-12 against Workington...
  
   (1906)
• Terry Newton
  Terry Newton
  Terry Newton was an English international rugby league player. He played for Leeds Rhinos, Wigan Warriors, Bradford Bulls and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, and was one of a handful of players to feature in each of the first 15 seasons of Super League...
  
  , 31, English rugby league player, suicide (2010)
• Leon Walker
  Leon Walker
  Leon Walker was a British rugby league player. His position of preference was at loose forward.-Playing career:Walker started playing rugby league for the amateur side, the Churwell Chiefs....
  
  , 20, English rugby league player, death was the result of a rare undiagnosed heart defect, and the coroner ruled that he died of natural causes. (2009)
• Adam Watene
  Adam Watene
  Adam Watene was a Cook Islands rugby league player. He played as a prop for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Bradford Bulls, Castleford Tigers and represented the Cook Islands.-Career:...
  
  , 31, Cook Islands rugby league player, heart attack (2008)

Sailing

Sailing

Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...

• Michael Bannister, drowned (competing in 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  The 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 54th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales....
  
  )
• Glyn Charles, drowned (competing in 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  The 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 54th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales....
  
  )
• Donald Crowhurst
  Donald Crowhurst
  Donald Crowhurst was a British businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Crowhurst had entered the race in hopes of winning a cash prize from The Sunday Times to aid his failing business...
  
  , 36–37, suicide (whilst competing in Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
  Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
  The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race was a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race, held in 1968–1969, and was the first round-the-world yacht race...
  
  )
• John Dean, drowned (competing in 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  The 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 54th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales....
  
  )
• Bruce Guy, heart attack (competing in 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  The 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 54th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales....
  
  )
• Hans Horrevoets
  Hans Horrevoets
  Hans Horrevoets was a Dutch sea sailor.He was among the crew of the ABN AMRO TWO. During the 7th stage of the 2005-2006 Volvo Ocean Race from New York to Portsmouth, he was washed overboard about west of Land's End in England...
  
  , 32, drowning (whilst competing in 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race
  2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race
  thumb|Pirates of the Caribbean near the finish line of last leg of 2005/06 race.thumb|Brunel finishing the New York Legthumb|The competitors at port in Annapolis....
  
  )
• James Lawler, drowned (competing in 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  The 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 54th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales....
  
  )
• Tony Philips, drowning (whilst competing in 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race
  1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race
  Final standings:Pos Boat Nat Skipper LOA/DesAggregate 1 Steinlager 2 Peter Blake 84' Ketch128 d 9 h2 Fisher & Paykel NZ Grant Dalton 82' Ketch129 d 21 h3 Merit Pierre Fehlmann 80' Sloop130 d 10 h...
  
  )
• Gerry Roufs
  Gerry Roufs
  Gerry Roufs , was a competitive sailor.-Sailing Career:In 1978, Jerry Roufs, along with crew Charles Robitaille placed second at the 470 class World Championships held in Marstrand, Sweden...
  
  , 43–44, drowning (whilst competing in 1996–97 Vendée Globe
  Vendée Globe
  The Vendée Globe is a round-the-world single-handed yacht race, sailed non-stop and without assistance. The race was founded by Philippe Jeantot in 1989, and since 1992 has taken place every four years....
  
  )
• Felix Scheder-Bieschin
  Felix Scheder-Bieschin
  Felix Scheder-Bieschin was a German sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.During World War II he served in Kriegsmarine and was killed in action off the coast of Norway....
  
  , 40, military actions during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1940)
• Phillip Skeggs, drowned (competing in 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
  The 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 54th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales....
  
  )
• Eric Tabarly
  Éric Tabarly
  Éric Tabarly was a notable French yachtsman.A former officer in the French navy who is often considered the father of French yachting....
  
  , 66, lost at sea (1998)
• Nigel Tetley
  Nigel Tetley
  Nigel Tetley was the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a trimaran.- The race :A native of South Africa, and a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy, he entered the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, which was the first non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race...
  
  , 47–48, strangulation by hanging (coroner recorded an Open Verdict
  Open verdict
  The Open verdict is an option open to a Coroner's jury at an Inquest in the legal system of England and Wales. The verdict strictly means that the jury confirms that the death is suspicious but is unable to reach any of the other verdicts open to them...
  
  ) (1972)

Skateboarding

Skateboarding

Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2002 report...

• Tim Brauch
  Tim Brauch
  Timothy "Tim" Michael Brauch was an American professional skateboarder who grew up in San Jose, California. Brauch came up in skateboarding during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period of skateboarding when professionalism meant small paychecks and little fame outside skateboarding, but lots of...
  
  , 25, American professional skateboarder, cardiac arrest (1999)
• Shane Cross
  Shane Cross
  Shane Cross was an Australian street skateboarder from Palm Beach, Queensland, who gained national and international prominence within skateboarding in the mid 2000s before dying in a motorcycle crash, aged 20....
  
  , 20, Australian skateboarder, motorcycle accident (2007)
• Harold Hunter
  Harold Hunter
  __notoc__Harold Atkins Hunter was an American professional skateboarder and actor. He was best known on screen for his part in Larry Clark's 1995 film Kids, playing the role of Harold....
  
  , 31, American professional skateboarder and actor, accidental cocaine overdose (2006)
• Keenan Milton
  Keenan Milton
  Keenan Milton was an American professional skateboarder from Atlanta Georgia. His sponsors included DVS shoes, Chocolate skateboards, and Blind....
  
  , 26, American professional skateboarder, drowned (2001)
• Jeff Phillips, 33, American professional skateboarder, suicide (1993)
• Dave Vanderspek, 24, American skateboarder, suicide (disputed as some believed it to be autoerotic asphyxiation) (1988)
• Van Wastell, 24, American professional skateboarder, fell from a hotel balcony (2008)

Skiing

Skiing

Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

Does not include skiers and snowboarders who died in competition or practice crashes. Please refer to List of skiing deaths.

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

• Kalle Jalkanen
  Kalle Jalkanen
  Kalle Jalkanen was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1930s. He won a gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the 4 x 10 km relay...
  
  , Finnish cross-country skier and World Champion, military action during the Continuation War
  Continuation War
  The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...
  
   (1941)

Ski jumping

Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...

• Paul Ausserleitner
  Paul Ausserleitner
  Paul Ausserleitner was an Austrian ski jumper. He died in a tragic accident in Bischofshofen's ski jumping hill and the hill was after the accident renamed to Paul Ausserleitner Schanze to remember him. Ausserleitner holds the hill record in the K-50 hill in Gaisberg, Salzburg with 55...
  
  , 26–27, Austrian ski jumper who crashed in Bischofshofen
  Bischofshofen
  Bischofshofen is a city located in the Salzach valley in the Alps, in the District of Pongau, in Salzburgerland, Austria.The city is an important railway hub and lies at the Tauernautobahn, a highway route through the Alps....
  
   (1952)
• Pavel Karelin
  Pavel Karelin
  Pavel Vladimirovich Karelin was a Russian ski jumper from Nizhny Novgorod who competed from 2004 until his death in 2011. He made his World Cup debut on 30 November 2007, finishing 8th in team large hill event at Kuusamo, Finland...
  
  , 21, Russian ski jumper, car accident in 2011

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

• Richard Kröll, Austrian alpine skier, car accident
• Rudolf Nierlich
  Rudolf Nierlich
  Rudolf Nierlich was an Austrian alpine skier.Born in Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut , he won a total of 8 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, and was three times World Champion , in Slalom and Giant Slalom.He died 1991 in a car accident in Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut.-World Cup...
  
  , 25, Austrian alpine skier, car accident (1991)
• Spider Sabich, 30, American alpine skier, homicide (1976)

Freestyle skiing

Freestyle skiing

Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...

• Jeret "Speedy" Peterson
  Jeret Peterson
  Jeret "Speedy" Peterson was an American World Cup aerial skier from Boise, Idaho, skiing out of Bogus Basin. A three-time Olympian, he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Peterson was found dead in Lambs Canyon, Utah on July 25, 2011...
  
  , 29 , American freestyle skier, suicide (2011)
• Sandra Schmitt, German freestyle skier, Kaprun disaster
  Kaprun disaster
  The Kaprun disaster was a fire that occurred in an ascending railway car in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn 2 railway in Kaprun, Austria, on 11 November 2000. The disaster claimed the lives of 155 people, leaving 12 survivors from the burning car...
  
   (2000)
• Sergey Shupletsov
  Sergey Shupletsov
  Sergey Shupletsov was a Russian freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, in moguls. He died in a motorcycle accident....
  
  , 25, Russian freestyle skier, motorcycle accident (1995)

Snowboarding

Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

Craig Kelly

Craig Kelly (snowboarder)

Craig Kelly was a professional snowboarder. He attended the University of Washington where he was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and studied Chemical Engineering....

, 37, American snowboarder, trapped in avalanche near Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada (2003)

Speed skiing

Speed skiing

Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line as quickly as possible. It is one of the fastest non-motorized sports on land. The current world record for skiing is 251.4 km/h , held by Simone Origone...

• Nicolas Bochatay
  Nicolas Bochatay
  Nicolas Bochatay was a Swiss speed skier who died during the 1992 Winter Olympics. Bochatay was killed when he collided with a snow grooming vehicle on the morning of the speed skiing finals. He was the nephew of Olympic skier Fernande Bochatay.-Personal life:Bochatay, a carpenter, was...
  
  , 27, speed skier, accident at the 1992 Winter Olympics
  1992 Winter Olympics
  The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 8 to 23 February 1992 in Albertville, France. They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter Paralympics...
  
  

Surfing

Surfing

Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...

• Eddie Aikau
  Eddie Aikau
  Edward Ryon Makuahanai Aikau was a well-known Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer. The words Makua Hanai in Eddie Aikaus full name means feeding parent, an adoptive, nurturing, fostering parent, in the Hawaiian language...
  
  , 31, drowning (1978)
• Mark Foo
  Mark Foo
  Mark Sheldon Foo was a professional surfer.-Life and career:Born in Singapore to Chinese photojournalists for the U.S. Information Agency, he relocated to Hawaii at age 10. Foo spent his early childhood surfing the South Shore of O'ahu...
  
  , 36, surfing accident (1994)
• George Freeth
  George Freeth
  George Freeth is often credited as being the "Father of Modern Surfing". He is also thought to have been the first modern surfer.- Biography :...
  
  , 35, the "Father of Modern Surfing", influenza (1919)
• Nick Gabaldon
  Nick Gabaldon
  Nicolas Rolando Gabaldon was an early surfer who is credited by surfing experts with being California's first documented surfer of African-American descent at a time when many beaches were segregated and opportunities for minorities more limited than today...
  
  , 24, surfing pioneer, surfing accident (1951)
• Andy Irons
  Andy Irons
  Philip Andrew "Andy" Irons was a professional surfer. Irons learned to surf on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, Hawaii...
  
  , 32, three-time American World Champion, undisclosed illness after an event in Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
  
   (2010)
• Malik Joyeux
  Malik Joyeux
  Malik Joyeux was an accomplished all-around waterman and a professional Big Wave surfer. Known by many as the "petit prince", the Tahitian goofy-foot surfer often gained attention for charging the treacherous barrels at Teahupoo, Tahiti...
  
  , 25, surfing accident (2005)
• Rick Rasmussen, 27, homicide (1982)
• Zeca Scheffer, Brazilian surfer, car accident (2006)
• Robert Wilson Simmons
  Robert Wilson Simmons
  Robert Wilson Simmons , better known as Bob Simmons, was an early surfing pioneer, and considered to be the father of the modern surfboard....
  
  , 35, drowning (1954)
• Yancy Spencer III
  Yancy Spencer III
  Yancy Bailey Spencer III was a surfer from Pensacola, Florida who was widely regarded as the father of Gulf Coast surfing.-Family:...
  
  , 60, the "Father of Surfing on the Gulf Coast," heart attack (2011)

Swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

• Shigeo Arai
  Shigeo Arai
  was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. He won gold medal for the Men's 4×200 m freestyle relay and bronze medal for 100 m freestyle in the 1936 Summer Olympics.Serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he was killed in Burma on July 18, 1944....
  
  , 27, Japanese swimmer, military actions during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1944)
• Fran Crippen
  Fran Crippen
  Francis "Fran" Crippen was an American long-distance swimmer. After being a pool swimmer for most of his career, Crippen made the transition to open water swimming in 2006 where he had tremendous success. In international competitions, Crippen won seven medals, five of which were in the open...
  
  , 26, American long distance swimmer
  Long-distance swimming
  The distances that distinguish long distance swimming from ordinary swimming are those distances that are longer than are typically swum in pool competitions. When a given swim calls more on endurance than outright speed, the more likely it is to be considered a long distance swim...
  
  , heart attack while competing in an open water swimming race in the United Arab Emirates
  United Arab Emirates
  The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
  
   (2010)
• Victor Davis
  Victor Davis
  Victor Davis, CM was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer, a well known breaststroker from Canada. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly.-Biography:...
  
  , 25, Canadian swimmer, car accident (1989)
• James Rigg, 22, American swimmer, drowned
  Drowning
  Drowning is death from asphyxia due to suffocation caused by water entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia....
  
   in campus
  Campus
  A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
  
    pool
  Swimming pool
  A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
  
   at Arizona State University
  Arizona State University
  Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
  
   (2011)
• Edsard Schlingemann
  Edsard Schlingemann
  Edsard Frederik Schlingemann, was a Dutch swimmer acting in Freestyle swimming. He took part in the Olympic Games of 1984 in Los Angeles: Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics...
  
  , 23, Dutch Olympic swimmer, car crash (1990)

Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practised throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history...

• Eliezer Halfin
  Eliezer Halfin
  Eliezer Halfin was a wrestler for the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Along with 10 other athletes and coaches he was taken hostage by Palestinian Black September terrorists...
  
  , 24, Israeli, Munich massacre
  Munich massacre
  The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September. Members of Black September...
  
   (1972)
• Richard Sanders
  Richard Sanders (wrestler)
  Richard Sanders was an Olympic wrestler from the United States. He won a silver medal in both the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, the flyweight division, and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in Germany in the bantamweight division. Both medals were won in freestyle wrestling...
  
  , 27, American, automobile accident (1972)
• Dave Schultz
  Dave Schultz (amateur wrestler)
  David Leslie Schultz was an Olympic and world champion freestyle wrestler.-Early life:...
  
  , 36, American, murdered by John Eleuthère du Pont
  John Eleuthère du Pont
  John Eleuthère duPont was an American multimillionaire and member of the prominent du Pont family who was convicted of murder in the third degree...
  
   (1996)
• Mark Slavin
  Mark Slavin
  Mark Slavin , was an Israeli Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and victim of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics....
  
  , 18, Israeli, Munich massacre (1972)
• Mikael Ljungberg
  Mikael Ljungberg
  Mikael Ljungberg was a Swedish wrestler from Gothenburg. He competed for Örgryte IS's wrestling section.Ljungberg was one of the most successful Swedish wrestlers ever...
  
  , 34, Sweden, suicide (2004)

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

The list includes wrestlers who were still active, or at least were of an age when they could reasonably be assumed to still be active if they had been fully healthy. Wrestlers who were semi-retired at the time of their deaths, or who had fully retired while healthy, are not included.Examples of such individuals include the following:

• Lillian Ellison, better known as The Fabulous Moolah
  The Fabulous Moolah
  Mary Lillian Ellison , better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah, was an American female professional wrestler. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy...
  
  , was sporadically active at the time of her death in 2007, but was age 84, and had largely retired from active wrestling for over 20 years.
• Andrew Martin, best known as Test, died at age 33 in 2009, but had announced his retirement from professional wrestling the previous year while healthy, and had not performed since. Similarly, Luna Vachon died at age 48 in 2010, but had retired in 2007 while in reasonable health.
• John Minton, better known as Big John Studd
  Big John Studd
  John William Minton was an American professional wrestler and actor who was born and raised in Butler, Pennsylvania, better known by his ring name, Big John Studd.-Career:...
  
  , died at age 47 of liver cancer in 1995, but had retired in 1990, long before his illness had been diagnosed. (Contrast with John Tenta
  John Tenta
  John Anthony Tenta was a Canadian professional wrestler known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake and later Golga, and in World Championship Wrestling as Avalanche and The Shark.-Early life:John Tenta was born in Surrey, British Columbia...
  
  , who is included because he was forced to retire from wrestling due to the bladder cancer that ultimately caused his death, and "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, who retired at almost the same time that the throat cancer he had been battling during his last years returned for the final time.)

The best-known ring name of each wrestler, which may be his or her birth name, is indicated in bold type.

Name	Ring name(s)	Birth	Death	Cause	Notes	Source
	Ace Gordon		1959
	Chris Von Erich	1969	1991	Suicide (gunshot)
	David Von Erich	1958	1984	Heart attack triggered by acute enteritis	Rumors persist that his death was drug-related, despite considerable evidence supporting the official cause.
	Kerry Von Erich	1960	1993	Suicide (gunshot)
	Mike Von Erich	1964	1987	Suicide (drug overdose plus alcohol)
		1963	2000	Heart attack	Died during World Xtreme Wrestling World Xtreme Wrestling World Xtreme Wrestling is a Northeastern-based independent professional wrestling promotion which has held events across the United States and have toured in Japan, the Middle East and South Pacific region including American Samoa and Guam....  show
	Mike Awesome	1965	2007	Suicide (hanging)
	Yokozuna	1966	2000	Pulmonary edema	Died during independent wrestling tour in Liverpool, England Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
	J.C. Bailey	1983	2010	Brain aneurysm from multiple concussions
		1901	1937	Heart attack	Died following a wrestling match against Roy Welch.
	Farmer Baldwin	1887	1911	Broken neck	Popularly billed as "Iowa’s wrestling champion". Fatal injury was suffered during a match with "Dad" House.
	Beetlejuice, "The Love Machine"	1966	1994	Unknown	The circumstances of Barr's death are contested to this day. Initial reports stated that Barr died of an aneurysm, but later reports stated that he died under unknown circumstances. A mixture of drugs and alcohol were found in his bloodstream at the time of his death, although whether or not they contributed to his death remains uncertain.
	Chri$ Ca$h	1982	2005	Motorcycle accident
	Pegasus Kid, Wild Pegasus (both during 1989–94 NJPW New Japan Pro Wrestling is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...  run)	1967	2007	Suicide (hanging)	See Chris Benoit double murder and suicide Chris Benoit double murder and suicide The Chris Benoit double murder suicide occurred over a three-day period ending on June 24, 2007. World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife, Nancy Benoit, strangled his seven-year-old son, Daniel, and subsequently committed suicide by hanging. Autopsy results...  for further details on his death.
	Bam Bam Bigelow	1961	2007	Drug overdose	Wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation World Wrestling Entertainment World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...  in 1987–1988 and in the 1990s.
	Dino Bravo	1948	1993	Homicide (shot)	Billed as "The World's Strongest Man" during late-1980s WWF run.
	"Lethal" Larry Cameron	1952	1993	Heart attack	Died during a match with Tony St. Clair
	Chris Candido, Bodydonna Skip (late 1990s WWF run)	1972	2005	Blood clot	The blood clot that caused his death was a complication of a major leg fracture suffered during the TNA Lockdown Lockdown (2005) Lockdown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion, which took place on April 24, 2005 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the first event under the Lockdown chronology and the fourth event in the 2005 TNA PPV schedule...  pay-per-view.
	Black Baron, Pit Bull	1946	1992
	Dr. Destruction	1970	2004	Unknown	Collapsed during a match with Matthew Gilbert
	Chick Garibaldi	1915	1961	Heart attack	Died following a match with Bruno Sammartino Bruno Sammartino Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino is an Italian-American former professional wrestler, best known for being the longest-running champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation , holding the title across two reigns for over 11 years in total, as well as the longest single WWE Championship reign...
	Babe Zaharias	1915	1957	Heart attack	Died following a match with Bob "Bibber" McCoy
		1913	1962	Heart failure
	"Iron" Mike DiBiase	1923	1969	Heart attack	Became ill during wrestling match
		1965	2000	Accidental prescription drug overdose	Member of the West Texas Rednecks West Texas Rednecks The West Texas Rednecks was a professional wrestling stable and country music band in World Championship Wrestling in 1999. They are famous for recording of two songs, "Rap is Crap " and "Good Ol' Boys."-History:...  stable during WCW World Championship Wrestling World Championship Wrestling, Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance , named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and...  run.
	Johnny Grunge	1966	2006	Complications of sleep apnea
	"Big" Ike Eakins	1916	1968	Heart attack
	Sangre India	1956	1979	Head and neck injury	Fatal injury was suffered during a tag team match with Leo Lopez against César Curiel César Curiel César Curiel is a retired Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler who was active in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Curiel has three sons who are currently wrestling, Neutron, Steel Man and Cat Man...  and El Vengador
	Gordon McKinley	1922	1958	Unknown	Collapsed during a match with Len Montana
	Jamal (2002–03 WWE run), Jamaal (AJPW All Japan Pro Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1972. All Japan Pro Wrestling still remains one of the most popular puroresu promotions still in operation.-The Giant Baba Era :... ), Ekmo, Umaga (2006–09 WWE run)	1973	2009	Heart attack triggered by drug overdose
	"Adorable" Adrian Adonis	1954	1988	Car accident	Two other professional wrestlers who were traveling with Franke – Victor "Pat Kelly" Arko, and Dave "Wildman" McKigney – died in the accident. The driver of the vehicle they were traveling in was injured but survived.
		1973	2000	Internal bleeding	Fatal injury was suffered during a match with Katsuyori Shibata Katsuyori Shibata is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. In professional wrestling, he is known for his hard hitting offense and his realistic bouts.-New Japan Pro Wrestling :...
	The Medic, Medic #2, Luis Hernandez		1972	Heart attack	Died during a wrestling tour in Japan
	Victor the Bodyguard	1966	2004	Heart attack	Died during an IWA Puerto Rico show
	Luther Lindsay	1924	1972	Heart attack	Died during a match with Bobby Paul
	Abismo Negro	1971	2009	Drowning
	Giant González	1966	2010	Diabetes
	Bruiser Brody	1946	1988	Stabbing	Details of his death are contested.
	Eddie Guerrero, Black Tiger II Black Tiger (professional wrestling) Black Tiger has been the persona used by five different professional wrestlers in New Japan Pro Wrestling as opponents of the four incarnations of Tiger Mask. The character is drawn from the original Japanese Tiger Mask anime...  (1990s NJPW New Japan Pro Wrestling is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...  run)	1967	2005	Acute heart failure
	Ron Dupree	1936	1975	Heart failure	Died while announcing a wrestling match in Tacoma, Washington Tacoma, Washington Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
	Bull Martin	1945	1979	Heart attack
		1924	1972	Blood clot due to heart trauma	Fatal injury was suffered during a match with Ox Baker Ox Baker Douglas A. Baker better known professionally as Ox Baker, is an American former professional wrestler and actor, and was feared for his dreaded finishing move, the Heart Punch, sometimes called the "Hurt Punch", after Baker's famous catchphrase "I love to hurt people!" He has appeared in several... .
	"Gentleman" Jim Hady	1931	1969	Heart attack
	Eric the Red, Eric the Animal	1934	1978	Head injury	Struck by a car while stranded on a Miami highway, Hanson died of his injuries a week later.
	The Blue Blazer	1965	1999	Internal bleeding from severed aorta	Fatal injury resulted from a stunt accident during a live pay-per-view Over the Edge (1999) Over The Edge was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation , which took place on May 23, 1999, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, USA...  event at Kemper Arena Kemper Arena Kemper Arena is a 19,500 seat indoor arena, in Kansas City, Missouri.It is named for R. Crosby Kemper Sr., a member of the powerful Kemper financial clan and who donated $3.2 million, from his estate for the arena...  in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties... .
		1965	2005	Brain aneurysm
	Hawk	1957	2003	Heart attack	One-half of the Road Warriors Road Warriors The Road Warriors were a professional wrestling tag team composed of Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis. They performed under the name "Road Warriors" in the American Wrestling Association, the National Wrestling Alliance, and World Championship Wrestling, and the name Legion...  (WCW) or Legion of Doom (WWF), along with Animal Road Warrior Animal Joseph Aaron "Joe" Laurinaitis is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Road Warrior Animal and Road Warrior... .
	Mr. Perfect (1988–1996 and 2002 WWF runs)	1958	2003	Acute cocaine intoxication (allergic reaction)
	Shane Shamrock	1975	1998	Shot in an altercation with police
	Miss Elizabeth	1960	2003	Accidental overdose of alcohol and tranquilizers
	El Hijo de Cien Caras	1978	2010	Homicide (shot)
		1976	1999	Internal bleeding	Fatal injury was suffered during a tag team match with Michiko Omukai against Mariko Yoshida Mariko Yoshida , is a Japanese professional wrestler best known for her work with the ARSION wrestling promotion, where she was also head trainer.-Professional wrestling career:...  and Mikiko Futugami. It is the second in-ring death involving a female wrestler in Japan.
	Rikidōzan	1924	1963	Homicide (stabbed, resulting in peritonitis)	Adopted the Japanese name Mitsuhiro Momota before beginning his wrestling career.
	King Kong Kirk	1936	1987	Heart failure	Died during a match with Big Daddy Shirley Crabtree Shirley Crabtree, Jr, better known as Big Daddy was a British professional wrestler famous for his record-breaking 64 inch chest...
	Chris Kanyon, Kanyon, Mortis	1970	2010	Suicide (apparent overdose)
	"California Red Devil" Jack Lewis		1934	Heart attack	Died after match with Harry Kent
	Dennis Clary	1925	1955	Brain tumor	Died during a match with Ali Bey Ali Ahmet Çapraz Ali Ahmet Çapraz is a retired Turkish wrestler with a claim to being undefeated. He is known widely with the nickname Alamet Pehlivan to Turkish public and used the alias Ali Bey for his international professional wrestling career.-Early life and career:Çapraz immigrated to Turkey clandestinely in...
	Crash Holly (WWE), Johnny Pearson, Erin O'Grady, The Green Ghost, Mad Mikey (TNA)	1971	2003	Suicide by apparent drug overdose
	Terry McGinnis	1911	1952
	Lance Cade, Garrison Cade (2003–04 WWE run), Cowboy Cade (2008–10, indies and Japan)	1981	2010	Heart failure
	"Bad Boy" Ricky Lawless, Jim Leon, Jim Nunna	1959	1988	Homicide (gunshot)	Murdered over an alleged extramarital affair
	Buddy O'Brien	1909	1941	Multiple injuries	Died of injuries sustained during a confrontation with a police officer.
	Tiger Mask II Tiger Mask is a Japanese manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Naoki Tsuji. The series was first published in Kodansha's Bokura Magazine from 1968 to 1969 and was later published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1970 to 1971...  (1984–90 AJPW All Japan Pro Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1972. All Japan Pro Wrestling still remains one of the most popular puroresu promotions still in operation.-The Giant Baba Era :...  run)	1962	2009	Cervical spine injury	Died after taking a back body drop from Akitoshi Saito Akitoshi Saito is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for Pro Wrestling Noah.-Before pro wrestling:Before pro wrestling, Akitoshi Saito was trained in karate by Masashi Aoyagi. Saito seconded Aoyagi in his matches against Atsushi Onita in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in 1989...  during a match. The cause of death is surmised; Misawa's family invoked a Japanese law allowing the next of kin of a deceased person to prevent disclosure of the official cause of death.
		1977	2010	Heart attack
			1923	Unknown	Collapsed during a match with L. D. King
		1977	2001	Concussion	Fatal injury was suffered during an APW Boot Camp training session with Dalip Singh
		1928	1964	Heart attack	Died after a match with Gino Brito Gino Brito Louis Gino Acocella , better known by his ring name Gino Brito is a Canadian professional wrestler. He was a popular wrestler in Montreal, and was one of the promoters in the city in the 1980s...
			1961	Heart attack	Died following a match against Billy Darnell Billy Darnell Billy Darnell was an American professional wrestler and major star of the 1940s and 1950s, with his career spanning over twenty years with championships in the National Wrestling Alliance and World Wide Wrestling Federation.-Early life:Darnell was born in Camden, New Jersey... .
	Rocco Rock, The Cheetah Kid, Colonel DeKlerk	1953	2002	Heart attack
	Flyin' Brian (1989–92 in NWA/WCW), Yellow Dog (briefly in WCW)	1962	1997	Atherosclerotic heart disease Atherosclerosis Atherosclerosis is a condition in which an artery wall thickens as a result of the accumulation of fatty materials such as cholesterol...
	Spider, Stuart	1982	2005	Head injury	Fatal injury was suffered during a match with Hi-Lite Kid. One of the first major in-ring deaths to occur on the United States independent circuit Independent circuit In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the... .
	Cowboy Russell	1896	1936	Spinal injury	Fatal injury was suffered during a match with Dick Powell.
	Junkyard Dog	1952	1998	Auto accident
	"Ravishing" Rick Rude	1958	1999	Accidental drug overdose
		1916	1964	Heart attack	Died following a tag team match with Joe Scarpa Joe Scarpa Joseph Luke Scarpa is a former professional wrestler who was best known by his famous ring moniker, Chief Jay Strongbow...  against Kurt and Karl Von Brauner.
		1896	1936	Broken neck	Fatal injury was suffered during a match with Jack Donovan
	André the Giant	1946	1993	Congestive heart failure	He suffered from acromegaly Acromegaly Acromegaly is a syndrome that results when the anterior pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone after epiphyseal plate closure at puberty... , a pituitary Pituitary gland In vertebrate anatomy the pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea and weighing 0.5 g , in humans. It is a protrusion off the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, and rests in a small, bony cavity covered by a dural fold...  condition that led to his enormous size Gigantism Gigantism, also known as giantism , is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average...  but ultimately incapacitated him and almost certainly contributed to his premature death.
	Jack Rush, Canadian Angel	1912	1955	Heart attack	Died during a tag team match with Pedro Godoy against Milo and Dick Steinborn; his partner Godoy continued the match after Rush collapsed during the second fall.
		1916	1969	Heart attack
	Bastion Booger, Norman The Lunatic	1957	2010	Heart attack
		1896	1934	Brain concussion	Fatal injury was suffered during a match with Babe Caddock.
	Davey Boy Smith, The British Bulldog	1962	2002	Heart attack	Was training for a return to wrestling at the time of his death.
	Oro	1971	1993	Brain aneurysm	Died as a result of an in-ring injury. Cause of death surmised from circumstances because no autopsy was performed at his family's request.
	Stanley Stasiak	1895	1931	Blood poisoning	The blood poisoning that caused his death was a complication of a broken arm suffered during his match against former world champion Ed Don George Ed Don George Edward Nicholas "Ed Don" George was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter.-Career:George was born in North Java, New York. He wrestled for both St. Bonaventure University and for the University of Michigan...  at the Arena Gardens Mutual Street Arena Mutual Street Arena, initially called Arena Gardens or just the Arena, was an ice hockey arena and sports and entertainment venue in Toronto, Ontario... .
	Dr. X, Guy Taylor		1968		Died following a match with Doctor X Dick Beyer Dick Beyer is a retired professional wrestler who is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.-Early life:...
	Earthquake, Avalanche, The Shark, Golga	1963	2006	Bladder cancer	Was forced to retire because of his ultimately fatal illness.
		1934	1971	Ruptured pancreas	Fatal injury was suffered during a match with Ox Baker Ox Baker Douglas A. Baker better known professionally as Ox Baker, is an American former professional wrestler and actor, and was feared for his dreaded finishing move, the Heart Punch, sometimes called the "Hurt Punch", after Baker's famous catchphrase "I love to hurt people!" He has appeared in several... .
	Big Boss Man, Big Bubba Rogers, Guardian Angel	1963	2004	Heart attack
	The Wall (WCW), Malice (TNA)	1967	2003	Heart attack
	Plum Mariko	1967	1997	Brain hemorrhage	Died as a result of head injury received during a match. The cause of death is surmised from the circumstances of her injury and events leading to it; her father requested that no autopsy be performed.
	Trent Acid	1980	2010	Accidental drug overdose
	Michel "Mad Dog" Martel	1944	1978	Unknown	Fatal injury was suffered during a 6-man tag match with Pierre Martin Pierre Martin Pierre Martin is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Somme department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:*...  and Jack Lafarb against Carlos Colon Carlos Colón Carlos Colón may refer to:*Carlos Colón, Sr., wrestler*Carly Colón, wrestler whose real name is Carlos Colón, son of the above*The Deadlines' lead guitarist, Carlos Colón...  and "The Invaders" (Invader I Jose Gonzalez (wrestler) José Huertas González, better known as Invader #1, is a former professional wrestler who wrestled in the United States and around the world, especially in Puerto Rico, and the man who killed, allegedly in self-defense, Frank Goodish, also known as Bruiser Brody.-Wrestling career:Since 1973, he has...  and Invader II Roberto Soto Roberto Soto, known by his ring name Invader II, was a Puerto Rican professional wrestler who was part of The Invaders with Jose Huertas González... )
	Buck Weaver	1906	1956
	Larry Sweeney	1981	2011	Suicide by hanging
	"Dr. Death" Steve Williams	1960	2009	Complications from throat cancer	Williams had battled cancer for the last years of his life, wrestling while his disease was in remission. He retired at almost the same time as his cancer returned for the last time.
	"Big" Jim Wright		1963		Died during a tag team match
		1907	1935	Heart failure	Died following a match with Ali Yumed
	Gino Hernandez	1957	1986	Apparent cocaine overdose
		1933	1951	Cerebral hemorrhage	Adopted daughter of world champion Mildred Burke Mildred Burke Mildred Bliss was an American professional wrestler, who wrestled under the name Mildred Burke. She is a member of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame as well as the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. Her heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, when she held the World Women's...  and Billy Wolfe Billy Wolfe William Harrison “Billy” Wolfe was a professional wrestling promoter who was active from the 1930s to the 1950s. Wolfe was the husband and manager of Mildred Burke and ran a traveling troupe of women wrestlers alongside her.-Early life:... . Fatal injury was suffered during a tag team match with Eva Lee against Mae Young Mae Young Johnnie Mae Young is an American Semi-retired professional wrestler and currently a WWE Ambassador.Young was an influential pioneer in women's wrestling, helping to increase its popularity during World War II and training many generations of wrestlers...  and Ella Waldek Ella Waldek Elsie Schevchenko better known as Ella Waldek, is a former American professional wrestler. She is one of the subjects of the 2005 documentary film Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling.-Professional wrestling career:... . Reportedly the first in-ring death involving a female wrestler in the United States.

Sumo wrestling

• Maruyama Gondazaemon
  Maruyama Gondazaemon
  Maruyama Gondazaemon was a sumo wrestler. He is officially recognised as the third yokozuna . His real name was '. He came from a village in the Sendai Domain .-Career:Gondazaemon went to Edo at the age of just 17, and was trained by...
  
  , 35, probably dysentery (1749)
• Tanikaze Kajinosuke
  Tanikaze Kajinosuke
  was a sumo wrestler in Japan in the Tokugawa era, and the first to be awarded the title of Yokozuna within his own lifetime. He achieved great fame and won 21 tournament championships. He was also the coach of Raiden Tameemon.- Early career :...
  
  , 44, the flu (1795)
• Tamanoumi Masahiro
  Tamanoumi Masahiro
  Tamanoumi Masahiro , was a sumo wrestler, born in Aichi, Japan. He was the sport's 51st yokozuna.-Career:...
  
  , 27, heart attack during a delayed appendectomy (1971)
• Daishōhō Masami
  Daishoho Masami
  Daishōhō Masami was a sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi.-Career:Born in Sapporo, he took up skiing as a young boy, as he came from an area famous for its ski slopes. He also played basketball at school. However his father was an amateur sumo enthusiast and...
  
  , 32, pancreatic cancer (1999)
• Takashi Saito, 17, heart failure following hazing (2007)
• Tamanishiki San'emon
  Tamanishiki San'emon
  Tamanishiki San'emon was a sumo wrestler from Kōchi, Japan. He was the sport's 32nd Yokozuna. He won a total of nine top division yusho or tournament championships from 1929 to 1936, and was the dominant wrestler in sumo until the emergence of Futabayama...
  
  , 34, delayed appendectomy (1938)
• Kenkō Satoshi
  Kenko Satoshi
  Kenkō Satoshi was a sumo wrestler from Osaka, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi.-Career:Debuting in November 1984, he reached the second highest jūryō division in March 1991. His first tournament in the top makuuchi division was in July 1992...
  
  , 30, pulmonary embolism (1998)

Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

• Henner Henkel
  Henner Henkel
  Henner Henkel was a German tennis player.He was the second German to win the singles title at the French Championships in 1937. The same year, he and Gottfried von Cramm also won the Roland Garros doubles title.Henkel was killed in action at Battle of Stalingrad.- External links :* *...
  
  , 27, German tennis player, KIA during Battle of Stalingrad
  Battle of Stalingrad
  The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
  
   (1942)
• Joe Hunt, 24, American tennis player, plane crash (1944)
• Daniela Klemenschits
  Daniela Klemenschits
  Daniela Klemenschits was an Austrian doubles tennis player.She was born in Vienna. Klemenschits played doubles with her twin sister Sandra on the WTA Tour and the ITF women's circuit until 2006...
  
  , 25, Austrian tennis player, stomach cancer (2008)
• Karen Krantzcke
  Karen Krantzcke
  Karen Krantzcke was an Australian tennis player who achieved a World Top Ten singles ranking in 1970. In her short career, she made the quarterfinals or better at each of the four Grand Slam championships...
  
  , 31, Australian tennis player, heart attack (1977)
• Federico Luzzi
  Federico Luzzi
  Federico Luzzi was a professional tennis player from Italy who had been ranked as high as 92nd in the world. Luzzi had been suspended from professional tennis in 2008 for six months after a determination was made that he had gambled on the outcome of matches over a three-year span. He was...
  
  , 28, Italian tennis player, leukemia (2008)
• Mathieu Montcourt
  Mathieu Montcourt
  Mathieu Montcourt was a professional French tennis player. At the 2006, 2007, and 2009 French Opens, he lost in the second round, to Lleyton Hewitt, Jarkko Nieminen, and Radek Štěpánek respectively.- Career :...
  
  , 24, French tennis player, heart attack (2009)
• Arthur O'Hara Wood
  Arthur O'Hara Wood
  Arthur O'Hara Wood was a former Australian male tennis player.O'Hara won the Australasian Championships in 1914.- References :...
  
  , 27–28, Australian tennis player, KIA during World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   (1918)
• Menno Oosting
  Menno Oosting
  Menno Oosting was a professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who won seven ATP Tour doubles titles and reached 11 finals in his career....
  
  , 34, Dutch tennis player, car accident (1999)
• Rafael Osuna
  Rafael Osuna
  Rafael Osuna Herrera is the most successful tennis player in the history of Mexico. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and is best remembered for his singles victory at the U.S. Open Championships in 1963, winning Wimbledon Doubles championships twice, the U.S...
  
  , 30, Mexican tennis player, plane crash (1969)
• Ernie Parker
  Ernie Parker
  Ernie F. Parker was a former Australian male tennis player and cricketer....
  
  , 34, Australian tennis player, KIA during World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   (1918)
• Michael Westphal
  Michael Westphal
  Michael Westphal was a tennis player from West Germany.Westphal participated for his native country in the 1984 Summer Olympics, making it as far as the quarterfinals...
  
  , 26, German tennis player, AIDS (1991)
• Tony Wilding
  Tony Wilding
  Anthony "Tony" Frederick Wilding was a champion tennis player from Christchurch, New Zealand and a soldier killed in action during World War I near Neuve-Chapelle, Pas-de-Calais, France....
  
  , 31, New Zealand tennis player and Wimbledon champion, KIA during World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   (1915)

Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

• Arkadiusz Gołaś, 24, Polish volleyball player, car accident (2005)
• Flo Hyman
  Flo Hyman
  Flora Jean Hyman was an American volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist. She died during a volleyball match in Japan, as a result of Marfan syndrome.-Early Life and Education:...
  
  , 31, American women's volleyball player, aortic dissection
  Aortic dissection
  Aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the inner wall of the aorta causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. The dissection typically extends anterograde, but can extend retrograde from the site of the intimal tear. Aortic dissection is a medical...
  
   caused by Marfan syndrome
  Marfan syndrome
  Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue. People with Marfan's tend to be unusually tall, with long limbs and long, thin fingers....
  
   (1986)
• Agata Mróz-Olszewska, 26, Polish women's volleyball player, infection following a bone marrow transplant (2008)

Weightlifting

• David Mark Berger
  David Mark Berger
  David Mark Berger was an American-born weightlifter for the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. A lawyer by education, Berger was one of 11 members of Israel’s Olympic team who were taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Arab terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games.Berger was born in Cleveland, Ohio...
  
  , 28, Israeli weightlifter, Munich massacre
  Munich massacre
  The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September. Members of Black September...
  
   (1972)
• Ze'ev Friedman
  Ze'ev Friedman
  Ze'ev Friedman , was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter. A member of the Israeli Olympic team, he was murdered by terrorists in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. -Biography:...
  
  , 28, Israeli weightlifter, Munich massacre (1972)
• Siarhei Lahun
  Siarhei Lahun
  Siarhei Lahun was a Belarusian weightlifter.At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships he ranked 10th in the 77 kg category, with a total of 342 kg....
  
  , 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident (2011)
• Waldemar Malak
  Waldemar Malak
  Waldemar Malak was a weightlifter from Poland. He represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he received the bronze medal in the first heavyweight category of weightlifting.On November 14, 1992, Malak was killed in a car accident in Charwatynia at the age of...
  
  , 22, Polish weightlifter, car accident (1992)
• Yossef Romano
  Yossef Romano
  Yossef Romano was a Libyan-born, Jewish Israeli weightlifter with the Israeli team that went to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was the second of eleven Israeli team members murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists during that Olympics...
  
  , 32, Israeli weightlifter, Munich massacre (1972)

Other sports

• Harry Chamberlin
  Harry Chamberlin
  Harry Dwight Chamberlin was a medal-winning equestrian in eventing and show jumping. He was also a Brigadier General in the US Army.-Biography:...
  
  , 56–57, American show jumping rider, unknown illness (1944)
• Jill Costello, 22, American rowing
  College rowing (United States)
  Rowing is one of the oldest intercollegiate sports in the United States. However, rowers comprise only 2.2% of total college athletes. This may be in part because of the status of rowing as an amateur sport and because not all universities have access to suitable bodies of water. In the 2002-03...
  
   coxswain
  Coxswain
  The coxswain is the person in charge of a boat, particularly its navigation and steering. The etymology of the word gives us a literal meaning of "boat servant" since it comes from cox, a coxboat or other small vessel kept aboard a ship, and swain, which can be rendered as boy, in authority. ...
  
  , University of California
  California Golden Bears
  The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 29 varsity athletic programs and various club teams of the University of California, Berkeley...
  
  , lung cancer
  Lung cancer
  Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
  
   (2010)
• Patrick Dinsmore, 16, (Gaelic footballer), undetected heart condition (2010)
• Shane Drury
  Shane Drury
  Shane Wesley Drury was a professional American rodeo bull rider for the PRCA association. He was also known for his inspiration to fight cancer.- Childhood and pre-career :...
  
  , 27, American rodeo performer, cancer (2006)
• Lane Frost
  Lane Frost
  Lane Clyde Frost was a professional bull rider and Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association member, who died in the arena at the 1989 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo as a result of injuries sustained riding the bull "Takin' Care of Business".-Early life:Lane was born on October 12, 1963. At that time,...
  
  , 25, American rodeo performer, gored by bull after completing a ride (1989)
• Kurt Hasse
  Kurt Hasse
  Kurt Hasse is a German show jumping champion, Olympic champion from 1936.-Olympic Record:...
  
  , 36, German show jumping rider, KIA during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   (1944)
• Tommy Hitchcock, Jr., 44, American polo player, test plane crash (1944)
• Michael Hogan, 23–24, shot by British forces in the Croke Park
  Croke Park
  Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...
  
   massacre on Bloody Sunday
  Bloody Sunday (1920)
  Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. In total, 31 people were killed – fourteen British, fourteen Irish civilians and three republican prisoners....
  
   (1920)
• Paul Hunter
  Paul Hunter
  Paul Alan Hunter was an English professional snooker player. His media profile developed swiftly and he became known as the "Beckham of the Baize" because of his good looks and flamboyant style....
  
  , 27, English snooker player, cancer (2006)
• Zdzisław Kawecki, 37, Polish show jumping rider, Katyn Massacre
  Katyn massacre
  The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre , was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs , the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of...
  
   (1940)
• Yeardley Love, 22, American lacrosse
  Lacrosse
  Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
  
   defender, University of Virginia
  Virginia Cavaliers
  The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams officially representing the University of Virginia in college sports. The Cavaliers compete in 25 NCAA Division I varsity sports and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference...
  
  , murdered (2010)
• Jesse Marunde
  Jesse Marunde
  Jesse Marunde was an American strongman athlete who placed second in the 2005 World's Strongest Man competition....
  
  , 27, American strongman, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (2007)
• Cormac McAnallen
  Cormac McAnallen
  Cormac McAnallen was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Tyrone. He won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with the county in 2003, also winning the Ulster Senior Football Championship twice and two National League titles. At underage level he won an All-Ireland Minor and two...
  
  , 24, Irish gaelic football player, undetected heart condition (2004)
• Takeichi Nishi
  Takeichi Nishi
  Colonel/Baron was a Japanese Imperial Army officer, equestrian show jumper, and Olympic Gold Medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. He was a tank unit commander at the Battle of Iwo Jima and was killed in action during the defense of the island....
  
  , 42, Japanese show jumping rider, KIA during Battle of Iwo Jima
  Battle of Iwo Jima
  The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S...
  
   (1945)
• Todd Skinner
  Todd Skinner
  Todd Richard Skinner was an American free climber. His climbing achievements included the first free ascents of many routes around the world and the world's first free ascent of a grade 7 climb....
  
  , 47, American free climber, fell from cliff (2006)
• Jón Páll Sigmarsson
  Jón Páll Sigmarsson
  Jón Páll Sigmarsson was a strongman, a powerlifter , and a bodybuilder from Iceland who won the World's Strongest Man Competition four times . In 1984 Jón won the Icelandic bodybuilding title in the +90 kg. class...
  
  , 32, Icelandic strongman, heart failure (1993)
• Jannes van der Wal
  Jannes van der Wal
  Jannes van der Wal was a Dutch/Frisian draughts player and world champion in the game. He also played chess at a nearly competitive level....
  
  , 39, Dutch Draughts
  Draughts
  Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...
  
  (or Checkers) player, leukemia (1996)

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