Deaths on 21 September
106 deaths on this day in history.
| Date of death | Athlete | NOC(s) | Sport(s) | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 1914 | Leopold Mayer |  AUT |
SWM | 1906 |
| 21 September 1917 | Louis Cottereau |  FRA |
AUT | 1900 |
| 21 September 1922 | Charles Rumsey |  USA |
ART | 1928 |
| 21 September 1933 | Wille Andersson |  SWE |
SWM/WPO | 1908—1924 |
| 21 September 1934 | Tauno Ilmoniemi |  FIN |
DIV/GAR | 1912 |
| 21 September 1934 | Charles Welch |  GBR |
FFG | 1900 |
| 21 September 1937 | Douglas Dexter | GBR |
FEN | 1936 |
| 21 September 1937 | Wang Runlan |  CHN |
BOX | 1936 |
| 21 September 1940 | Francis Honeycutt | USA |
FEN | 1920 |
| 21 September 1945 | Aleksander Antson |  EST |
ATH | 1924 |
| 21 September 1946 | Hans Tholstrup |  DEN |
SAL | 1936 |
| 21 September 1947 | Heikki Huttunen | FIN |
SHO | 1908—1924 |
| 21 September 1949 | Édouard Martin | FRA |
WRE | 1912 |
| 21 September 1949 | Grumpy Spring |  CAN |
LAX | 1932 |
| 21 September 1951 | Nils Olsson | SWE |
ART | 1948 |
| 21 September 1952 | Dietrich Wortmann |  GERUSA |
WRE | 1904—1952 |
| 21 September 1955 | Ernst Krogius | FIN |
SAL | 1912—1955 |
| 21 September 1956 | Eugène Debongnie |  BEL |
CTR | 1906 |
| 21 September 1958 | Bull Dubois | USA |
USF | 1904 |
| 21 September 1960 | Claudius Dutriève | FRA |
WLF | 1924—1928 |
| 21 September 1962 | Manuel Andrada |  ARG |
POL | 1936 |
| 21 September 1965 | Moritz Rasmussen | DEN |
ATH | 1908 |
| 21 September 1965 | Thorstein Stryken |  NOR |
CRD | 1920 |
| 21 September 1967 | George Garbutt | CAN |
IHO | 1932 |
| 21 September 1967 | Pitch Johnson | USA |
ATH | 1924 |
| 21 September 1967 | Oddone Piazza |  ITA |
BOX | 1928 |
| 21 September 1968 | George Cane | GBR |
DIV | 1908 |
| 21 September 1970 | Bakshish Singh |  IND |
HOC | 1956 |
| 21 September 1970 | Adolf Wiklund | SWE |
BTH | 1960 |
| 21 September 1971 | William Bridgeford |  AUS |
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| 21 September 1972 | Ali Beier | GER |
FBL | 1928 |
| 21 September 1972 | Nihat Bekdik |  TUR |
FBL | 1924—1928 |
| 21 September 1972 | Henry de Montherlant | FRA |
ART | 1924 |
| 21 September 1974 | Sándor Tölgyesi |  HUN |
SHO | 1936—1948 |
| 21 September 1976 | Nils Middelboe | DEN |
FBL | 1908—1920 |
| 21 September 1976 | Jens Salvesen | NOR |
SAL | 1920—1928 |
| 21 September 1977 | Arthur Lindfors | FIN |
WRE | 1920—1924 |
| 21 September 1978 | Nel van Randwijk |  NED |
GAR | 1928 |
| 21 September 1979 | Trygve Opsahl | NOR |
FEN | 1936 |
| 21 September 1980 | Carlos Garcés |  MEX |
ATH/FBL | 1924—1928 |
| 21 September 1981 | Georges Valentin | FRA |
CRD | 1912 |
| 21 September 1982 | Nol Wolf | NED |
ATH | 1928 |
| 21 September 1983 | Enrico Castelli | ITA |
BKB | 1936 |
| 21 September 1984 | Guy Schwan | GBR |
WRE | 1908 |
| 21 September 1986 | Rolf Gustafsson | SWE |
BOX | 1928 |
| 21 September 1986 | Johnny Kuck | USA |
ATH | 1928 |
| 21 September 1986 | Rex Woods | GBR |
ATH | 1924—1928 |
| 21 September 1987 | Peter Kippax | GBR |
FBL | 1948 |
| 21 September 1990 | Frans Herman | BEL |
ATH | 1952—1956 |
| 21 September 1990 | John Wallace | USA |
SAL | 1936 |
| 21 September 1991 | Henri Lemoine | FRA |
CTR | 1928 |
| 21 September 1991 | Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Masood | IND |
HOC | 1936 |
| 21 September 1992 | Aleksandr Almetov |  RUS URS |
IHO | 1960—1964 |
| 21 September 1992 | Paul Alfons von Metternich-Winneburg | AUT |
1975—1985 | |
| 21 September 1993 | Sverre Johannessen | NOR |
ALP | 1948—1952 |
| 21 September 1993 | Frank Weldon | GBR |
EVE | 1956—1960 |
| 21 September 1996 | Juan Adarraga |  ESP |
ATH | 1948 |
| 21 September 1996 | Franz Pfnür | GER |
ALP | 1936 |
| 21 September 1997 | Lydia Eberhardt | GER |
ATH | 1936 |
| 21 September 1997 | Sepp Paar | GER |
WRE | 1936 |
| 21 September 1998 | Florence Griffith Joyner | USA |
ATH | 1984—1988 |
| 21 September 1998 | Bert Steines | GER FRG |
ATH | 1956 |
| 21 September 1998 | Arto Tiainen | FIN |
CCS | 1956—1968 |
| 21 September 2000 | Paul Cerutti |  MON |
SHO | 1972—1976 |
| 21 September 2000 | Frederick Seaman | IND |
HOC | 1928 |
| 21 September 2002 | William Schuette | USA |
CMA/CSP | 1952—1956 |
| 21 September 2004 | Jean-Pierre Drivet | FRA |
ROW | 1964—1968 |
| 21 September 2004 | Eddie Gray |  SRI |
BOX | 1948 |
| 21 September 2005 | Vladimir Leontyev | RUSURS |
SAL | 1972—1980 |
| 21 September 2006 | Marcelo Trabucco | ARG |
SWM | 1952 |
| 21 September 2007 | Hallgeir Brenden | NOR |
CCS | 1952—1960 |
| 21 September 2007 | Walter Jones |  BER |
SAL | 1960 |
| 21 September 2007 | António Jonet |  POR |
MPN | 1952 |
| 21 September 2007 | Paul Konsler | FRA |
SHO | 1952 |
| 21 September 2007 | Ángel Romero | MEX |
CRD | 1952 |
| 21 September 2007 | Jan Zwaan | NED |
ATH | 1948 |
| 21 September 2008 | Karl-Heinz Klee | AUT |
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| 21 September 2011 | Jorge Herrera Barona |  COL |
1989—1997 | |
| 21 September 2012 | Arrigo Gattai | ITA |
1987—1993 | |
| 21 September 2012 | Karl-Gustav Kaisla | FIN |
IHO | 1980 |
| 21 September 2013 | Felisberto Fortes | POR |
ROW | 1948—1952 |
| 21 September 2013 | Justo Galaviz |  VEN |
CRD | 1976 |
| 21 September 2014 | Paul Tiedemann |  GDR EGY |
HBL | 1980—1992 |
| 21 September 2014 | Jan Werner |  POL |
ATH | 1968—1976 |
| 21 September 2015 | Ivan Dvorny | RUSURS |
BKB | 1972 |
| 21 September 2015 | Vasily Ilyin | RUSURS |
HBL | 1972—1976 |
| 21 September 2015 | Charlie Kellogg | USA |
CCS | 1968 |
| 21 September 2016 | Ragnar Hvidsten | NOR |
FBL | 1952 |
| 21 September 2016 | Kalervo Rauhala | FIN |
WRE | 1952 |
| 21 September 2016 | Jack Rawlings | GBR |
FBL | 1948 |
| 21 September 2017 | Warren Druetzler | USA |
ATH | 1952 |
| 21 September 2018 | Bernard Szczepański | POL |
WRE | 1972 |
| 21 September 2019 | Gerhard Auer | FRG |
ROW | 1972 |
| 21 September 2019 | Jean-Claude Coucardon | FRA |
ROW | 1972—1976 |
| 21 September 2019 | Karin Larsson | SWE |
SWM | 1956—1960 |
| 21 September 2019 | Jarred Rome | USA |
ATH | 2004—2012 |
| 21 September 2020 | Amos Lin |  ISR |
BKB | 1952 |
| 21 September 2020 | Sune Wehlin | SWE |
MPN | 1948 |
| 21 September 2021 | Kurt Boese | CAN |
WRE | 1960 |
| 21 September 2021 | Günter Wienhold | FRG |
FBL | 1972 |
| 21 September 2022 | Andrea Bodó-Molnár | HUN |
GAR | 1952—1956 |
| 21 September 2022 | Sirkka Norrlund | FIN |
ATH | 1964 |
| 21 September 2022 | Isidro Sala | ESP |
FBL | 1968 |
| 21 September 2023 | Sabine Adamik | GER |
HBL | 1992 |
| 21 September 2023 | Maya Georgieva |  BUL |
VVO | 1980 |
| 21 September 2023 | Walewska |  BRA |
VVO | 2000—2008 |