Deaths of sportspeople in 2021

Deaths of notable sports officials and players in 2021.

In each table, the names are listed in alphabetical order

January

1

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
England	Clint Boulton	Association football	72	Unknown	[1]
Italy	Emanuele Chiapasco	Baseball	90	Unknown	[2]
Canada	Paul Delorey	Curling	71	Unknown	[3]
Iceland	Ágúst Herbert Guðmundsson	Basketball	53	Motor neuron disease	[4]
France	Bernard Guignedoux	Association football	73	Unknown	[5]
Colombia	Pablo Hernández	Cycling	80	Unknown	[6]
United States	Floyd Little	American football	78	Cancer	[7]
Norway	Harald Maartmann	Cross-country skiing	94	Unknown	[8]
Netherlands	Paatje Phefferkorn	Martial arts	98	COVID-19	[9]

2

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Brazil	Cléber Eduardo Arado	Association football	48	COVID-19	[10]
Indonesia	Alex Asmasoebrata	Auto racing	69	Unknown	[11]
Spain	Miquel Ferrer	Association football	89	Unknown	[12]
Canada	Rob Flockhart	Ice hockey	64	Heart attack	[13]
South Africa	Ryder Mofokeng	Association football	68	Unknown	[14]
United States	Don Salls	American football	101	Unknown	[15]
Russia	Yuri Saukh	Association football	69	Unknown	[16]
United States	Paul Westphal	Basketball	70	Glioblastoma	[17]
Wales	Brian Whitcombe	Rugby union	86	Unknown	[18]

November

1

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Scotland	Brian Adair	Cricket	86	Unknown	[19]
Pakistan	Gulraiz Akhtar	Field hockey	78	Unknown	[20]
Canada	Hugo Dittfach	Horse racing	85	Unknown	[21]
England	Alan Igglesden	Cricket	57	Brain cancer	[22]
Italy	Poerio Mascella	Association football	71	Unknown	[23]
Ireland	Maurice Price	Association football	83	Unknown	[24]

2

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
United States	John Aiken	Ice hockey	89	Unknown	[25]
United States	Jane Brown Grimes	Tennis	80	Unknown	[26]
Ireland	Des Ferguson	Gaelic football	91	Unknown	[27]
Sweden	Tomas Leandersson	Ten-pin bowling	55	Unknown	[28]
United States	John Marshall	American football	76	Unknown	[29]
Canada	Alf Mayer	Shooting	83	Unknown	[30]
Ireland	John Joe O'Hagan	Gaelic football	91	Unknown	[31]
England	Alf Patrick	Association football	100	Unknown	[32]
Italy	Luciano Piquè	Association football	86	Unknown	[33]
Ukraine	Viktor Putyatin	Fencing	80	Unknown	[34]
Algeria	Mohamed Soukhane	Association football	90	Unknown	[35]

3

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Switzerland	François Blank	Ice hockey	90	Unknown	[36]
Germany	Hermann Haverkamp	Water polo	79	Unknown	[37]
Japan	Yasuro Kikuchi	Go	93	Unknown	[38]
United States	Tom Matte	American football	82	Unknown	[39]
United States	Warren Powers	American football	80	Alzheimer's disease	[40]
Russia	Andrei Redkous	Association football	64	Unknown	[41]
Slovakia	Boris Sádecký	Ice hockey	24	Cardiac arrest	[42]
Denmark	Kurt Thyboe	Sports commentator	81	Pneumonia	[43]

4

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Scotland	Walter Cameron	Association football	78–79 [lower-alpha 1]	Unknown	[44]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Amela Fetahović	Association football	35	Unknown	[45]
Israel	Amatsia Levkovich	Association football	83	Unknown	[46]
Italy	Eugenio Pazzaglia	Association football	72	Unknown	[47]
United States	Mike Pitts	American football	61	Unknown	[48]
United States	Roger Zatkoff	American football	90	Unknown	[49]

5

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Canada	Charlie Burns	Ice hockey	85	Unknown	[50]
Australia	Russell Ebert	Australian rules football	72	Leukaemia	[51]
Poland	Ryszard Grzegorczyk	Association football	82	Unknown	[52]
Italy	Luigi Maldera	Association football	75	Unknown	[53]
Slovakia	Dušan Pašek	Ice hockey	36	Suicide by hanging	[54]
Germany	Flip Stapper	Association football	76	Unknown	[55]
Belarus	Konstantin Wajgin	Biathlon	57	Unknown	[56]

6

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Slovakia	Pavol Molnár	Association football	85	Unknown	[57]
United States	Angelo Mosca	Canadian football	84	Unknown	[58]
Jamaica	Shawn Rhoden	Professional bodybuilding	46	Heart attack	[59]
Brazil	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Long-distance running	57	Cardiac arrest	[60]
India	Tarak Sinha	Cricket	70	Lung cancer	[61]
United States	Harvey White	American football	83	Unknown	[62]

7

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Russia	Liudmila Belavenets	Chess	81	COVID-19	[63]
India	Sunit Ghosh	Cricket	87	Unknown	[64]
United States	Robin Greiner	Pair skating	89	Unknown	[65]
England	Barry Jackson	Association football	83	Unknown	[66]
Russia	Aliya Khambikova	Volleyball	21	Unknown	[67]
Russia	Igor Nikulin	Hammer throw	61	Unknown	[68]
Australia	Brian Renwood	Australian rules football	86	Unknown	[69]
United States	Ronnie Williams	Basketball	59	Brain cancer	[70]

8

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Netherlands	Rinus Bennaars	Association football	90	Unknown	[71]
Australia	Keith Bradshaw	Cricket	58	Multiple myeloma	[72]
United States	Medina Dixon	Basketball	59	Pancreatic cancer	[73]
Puerto Rico	Pedro Feliciano	Baseball	45	Unknown	[74]
South Africa	Mike Harris	Formula One	82	Unknown	[75]
Eritrea	Desiet Kidane	Road bicycle racing	21	Traffic collision	[76]
South Korea	Kim Kyeong-bo	Esports	20	Unknown	[77]
England	Cecilia Robinson	Cricket	97	Unknown	[78]

9

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Germany	Erika Fisch	Long jump	87	Unknown	[79]
Liberia	Willis Forko	Association football	37	Unknown	[80]
Algeria	Loucif Hamani	Boxing	71	Unknown	[81]
Mexico	Memo Luna	Baseball	91	Unknown	[82]
Italy	Francesco Romani	Karate	88	Complications from a fall	[83]
Wales	Laurie Sheffield	Association football	82	Unknown	[84]
United States	Duane Wilson	Baseball	87	Unknown	[85]

10

11

12

13

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Bulgaria	Ivo Georgiev	Association football	49	Heart failure	[86]
United States	Sam Huff	American football	87	Unknown	[87]

14

Notes

1. Since the birth month of Walter Cameron is unknown, his age could have been 78 or 79.

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2. Baseball: addio a Emanuele Chiapasco, ultimo italiano pioniere del diamante (in Italian)
3. In the house and on the ice, former Speaker Paul Delorey remembered
4. Ágúst H. Guðmundsson er látinn (in Icelandic)
5. Bernard Guignedoux nous a quittés (in French)
6. Falleció el excampeón Pablo Hernández (in Spanish)
7. Denver Broncos Hall of Fame RB Floyd Little dies at 78
8. Harald Maartmann
9. Verdi Phefferkorn von Offenbach (98 jaar) overleden (in Dutch)
10. Morre aos 47 anos, o ex-jogador do Coritiba Cleber Arado, vítima da Covid-19 (in Portuguese)
11. Legenda Balap Indonesia Alex Asmasoebrata Meninggal Dunia (in Indonesian)
12. Fallece el exjugador Miquel Ferrer (in Spanish)
13. Former Kamloops Chiefs/Vancouver Canucks player Rob Flockhart dies at age 64
14. Ryder Mofokeng, legendary Chiefs skipper, dies
15. Don Salls, World War II veteran & former Alabama football player, dies at 101
16. Бывший футболист ЦСКА и "Локомотива" Саух скончался на 70-м году жизни (in Russian)
17. Paul Westphal, member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, dies at age 70
18. Brian Whitcombe passes away
19. Watsonians pay tribute after Adair dies at 86
20. 1968 Olympics gold medallist Gulraiz Akhtar passes away
21. Hall of Fame Jockey Hugo Dittfach Passes Away
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23. Ex Pistoiese: a 71 anni ci lascia Poerio Mascella, portiere arancione in Serie A (in Italian)
24. The death has occurred of Maurice (Morrie) Price
25. John J. Aiken Sr.
26. Jane Brown Grimes
27. Des Ferguson 1930-2021 R.I.P
28. Tomas Leandersson har gått bort (in Swedish)
29. Longtime assistant John Marshall, who won two Super Bowls with San Francisco 49ers, dies at age 76
30. Alfons Mayer
31. John Joe (JJ) O'Hagan
32. York City legend Alf Patrick dies aged 100
33. E' morto Luciano Piquè, mediano del Genoa a cavallo degli anni '50 e '60 (in Italian)
34. Не стало легенды украинского спорта (in Russian)
35. Décès de l'ancien joueur de l'équipe du FLN Mohamed Soukhane
36. Le légendaire Francis Blank est décédé (in French)
37. Trauer um früheren Rekordnationalspieler (in German)
38. 菊池康郎氏が死去　緑星囲碁学園代表 (in Japanese)
39. Former Baltimore Colts RB Tom Matte Dies At 82
40. Former Mizzou football coach Warren Powers passes away at 80
41. Скончался обладатель Кубка СССР в составе «Торпедо» Редкоус (in Russian)
42. Slovak Player Boris Sádecký Passes Away
43. Kurt Thyboe er død (in Danish)
44. Remembering Walter Cameron
45. Bivša reprezentativka BiH Amela Fetahović nastradala u saobraćajnoj nesreći (in Bosnian)
46. אבל בכדורגל: אמציה לבקוביץ' הלך לעולמו (in Hebrew)
47. Lutto nel calcio: è scomparso Eugenio Pazzaglia, storico attaccante del Siena (in Italian)
48. Eagles mourn the passing of former DT Mike Pitts
49. Roger Zatkoff
50. Charles F. Burns
51. Football great and Port Adelaide veteran Russell Ebert dies from leukemia at age 72
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60. Luiz Antônio dos Santos, duas vezes campeão da maratona de Chicago, morre aos 57 anos (in Portuguese)
61. Tarak Sinha, legendary cricket coach and Dronacharya Awardee, dies aged 71
62. Harvey White Passes Away
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64. Former international umpire Sunit Kumar Ghosh passes away
65. Robin Greiner Jr.
66. York City's record appearance-maker Barry Jackson dies
67. Умерла 21-летняя волейболистка клуба «Уфимочка-УГНТУ» Алия Хамбикова (in Russian)
68. Скончался известный метатель молота Игорь Никулин (in Russian)
69. Brian Renwood
70. Ronnie Williams (1962-2021) – Florida Gators
71. Rinus Bennaars (90) uit Bergen op Zoom overleden: de oud-speler van Dosko en Feyenoord die Pelé tot een wissel dwong (in Dutch)
72. Former MCC and SACA chief executive Keith Bradshaw dies aged 58
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74. Former Mets reliever Pedro Feliciano dies at 45
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76. Promising World Cycling Centre rider Desiet Kidane dies in training crash
77. Overwatch esports star Kim 'Alarm' Kyeong-Bo dies at 20
78. Former England cricketer Cecilia Robinson dies at 97
79. Erika Fisch Verstorben (in German)
80. Tidligere Glimt-spiller (37) er død (in Norwegian)
81. Carnet : Décès de la légende de la boxe algérienne Loucif Hamani (in French)
82. LMB: Falleció Memo Luna, primer zurdo mexicano en Grandes Ligas (in Spanish)
83. Lo sport piange Francesco Romani, una vita divisa fra tatami e montagna (in Italian)
84. Tributes pour in as Doncaster Rovers legend Laurie Sheffield dies at 82
85. Duane Lewis Wilson
86. Тъжна вест: Иво Георгиев си отиде от този свят на 49-годишна възраст (in Bulgarian)
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