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Deaths on 21 January

102 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
21 January 1916	Victor von Podbielski	GER	DOSB	1909—1916
21 January 1916	Arthur Wilde	GBR	SHO	1908
21 January 1924	Zoltán Jelenffy-Tóth	HUN	SHO	1912
21 January 1931	Bob LeGendre	USA	ATH	1920—1924
21 January 1934	André-Marie Rabel	FRA	FEN	1900
21 January 1935	Hugo Clason	SWE	SAI	1912
21 January 1940	John Duha	USA	GYM	1904
21 January 1940	Geoffrey Hall-Say	GBR	FSK	1908
21 January 1944	Alfred Schmalzer	AUT	HAN	1936
21 January 1947	Henry Grote	USA	DIV	1908
21 January 1951	Geoffrey Cornewall	GBR	ARC	1908
21 January 1951	Nestori Järvelä	FIN	ATH	1924
21 January 1952	Bruce Turnbull	GBR	HOK/Referee	1928—1936
21 January 1955	Jim Duncan	USA	ATH	1912
21 January 1955	Archie Hahn	USA	ATH	1904—1906
21 January 1959	Alex Duncan	GBR	ATH	1908
21 January 1959	Sepp Hipp	GER	ATH	1952
21 January 1960	Antonín Janda	TCH	FTB	1920
21 January 1962	Harry Dickason	GBR	GYM	1912
21 January 1963	Ingar Nielsen	NOR	SAI	1920—1924
21 January 1964	Juho Jaakonaho	FIN	CYC	1912
21 January 1965	Arie Bieshaar	NED	FTB	1920
21 January 1966	Cyril Seedhouse	GBR	ATH	1912
21 January 1967	Armando Poggioli	ITA	ATH	1924—1932
21 January 1968	Jacob Gundersen	NOR	WRE	1908
21 January 1969	Viktor Knutsson	SWE	SHO	1920—1924
21 January 1970	Franz Aigner	AUT	WLT	1924
21 January 1970	Tommie Quinn	ARG	HOK	1948
21 January 1970	Arnie Sundberg	USA	WLT	1932
21 January 1971	Teun Sprong	NED	ATH	1924—1928
21 January 1972	Piet Kloppenburg	NED	CYC	1920
21 January 1973	William Langford	CAN	ROW	1924
21 January 1973	Felix Meskens	BEL	ATH	1936
21 January 1973	Erik Hammer Sørensen	DEN	FEN	1936
21 January 1976	Dinty Moore	CAN	ICH	1936
21 January 1977	John Carleton	USA	CCS/NCO	1924
21 January 1978	Tibor Püspöki	HUN	ATH	1924—1928
21 January 1978	Olav Sundal	NOR	GYM	1920
21 January 1979	Caro Dahl	NOR	TEN	1920—1924
21 January 1979	Isidor Eriksson	SWE	FTB	1936
21 January 1979	Daniel Pierre	FRA	ATH	1920—1928
21 January 1979	Hans Tauscher	AUT	HAN	1936
21 January 1981	William Findlay	USA	FTB	1924—1928
21 January 1982	Elvio Banchero	ITA	FTB	1928
21 January 1983	Johan Grøttumsbraaten	NOR	CCS/NCO	1924—1932
21 January 1983	Antonio Siddi	ITA	ATH	1948—1952
21 January 1985	Jan Peka	TCH	ICH	1920—1936
21 January 1986	Bogna Krasnodębska-Gardowska	POL	ART	1936
21 January 1986	Anders Törnkvist	SWE	CCS	1948—1952
21 January 1987	Conrado Castañon	MEX	BOX	1948
21 January 1987	David Cummings	GBR	ATH	1924
21 January 1989	José de Chávarri	ESP	HOK	1928
21 January 1989	Mahmoud Namdjou	IRI	WLT	1948—1956
21 January 1991	Cor Aalten	NED	ATH	1932
21 January 1991	Eigil Hansen	DEN	HOK	1948
21 January 1992	Marita Katusheva	URS	VOL	1964
21 January 1993	Edward Harvey	ZIM	HOK	1964
21 January 1994	Andrejs Kapmals	RUS	ATH	1912
21 January 1994	Imants Kukličs	URS	ATH	1964
21 January 1994	Timo Suviranta	FIN	BAS	1952
21 January 1995	Armando Alemán	ESP	FEN	1928
21 January 1995	Alex Groza	USA	BAS	1948
21 January 1995	Attila Szekrényessy	HUN	FSK	1936
21 January 1997	Eduardo Assam	MEX	WRE	1948—1952
21 January 1997	Gunnar Galin	SWE	FIB	1955—1963
21 January 1999	Marvin Rick	USA	ATH	1924
21 January 2001	Birger Bühring-Andersen	NOR	SHO	1948
21 January 2001	Reg Leafe	GBR	FTB/Referee	1948—1960
21 January 2002	Max Angst	SUI	BOB	1956
21 January 2002	Makhan Singh	IND	ATH	1964
21 January 2002	Zenon Snylyk	USA	FTB	1956
21 January 2005	Leonel Gabriel	URU	WAP	1948
21 January 2005	Václav Kubíčka	TCH	GYM	1964—1968
21 January 2005	Neville Scott	NZL	ATH	1956—1964
21 January 2007	Maria Cioncan	ROU	ATH	2004
21 January 2007	Joe Reynolds	USA	BOX	1952
21 January 2007	Ali de Vries	NED	ATH	1936
21 January 2009	Lajos Kiss	HUN	ROW	1960
21 January 2010	Knud Gleie	DEN	SWI	1952—1956
21 January 2011	Giuseppe Brumatti	ITA	BAS	1972—1976
21 January 2011	Robert Cohu	FRA	BAS	1936
21 January 2011	Peter Demos	AUS	BAS	1956
21 January 2012	Daniel Alba	MEX	WRE	1968
21 January 2012	Vasco Ramires, Sr.	POR	EQU	1972
21 January 2014	Vít Matlocha	TCH	GYM	1952
21 January 2014	Natalie Myburgh	RSA	SWI	1956
21 January 2014	Roar Woldum	NOR	SWI	1952
21 January 2015	Frieda Dänzer	SUI	ASK	1956
21 January 2015	Harry Gordon	AUS		2001
21 January 2016	Bill Johnson	USA	ASK	1984
21 January 2016	Robert Sassone	FRA	CTR	2000
21 January 2017	Bernd Drechsel	GDR	WRE	1972
21 January 2018	Tsukasa Hosaka	JPN	FTB	1964
21 January 2018	Jim Johannson	USA	ICH	1988—1992
21 January 2019	Göran Högberg	SWE	ATH	1980
21 January 2019	Ismail Mačev	YUG	ATH	1988
21 January 2019	John M. Russell	GBR	ROW	1960—1964
21 January 2019	Raghbir Singh Bhola	IND	HOK	1956—1960
21 January 2020	Larry Amar	USA	HOK	1996
21 January 2020	Ulf Norrman	SWE	SAI	1968
21 January 2020	Turl Wagner	AUT	FTB	1948
21 January 2021	Anthony Mwamba	ZAM	BOX	1988