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Deaths on 6 December

114 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death Athlete NOC(s) Sport(s) Year(s)
6 December 1907 Federico Caprilli ITA EJP 1900
6 December 1920 Gyula Iványi HUN FEN 1900
6 December 1921 Lee Carleton USA GLF 1904
6 December 1924 Albert Kinsler USA GLF 1904
6 December 1925 Jules Bouchoux FRA ATH 1900
6 December 1931 Horacio Casco ARG FEN 1924
6 December 1932 Arvid Fagrell SWE FBL 1908
6 December 1933 Cecil Ross Burnett GBR ART 1928—1932
6 December 1935 Otto Franke GER ATH/GAR 1906—1908
6 December 1936 Rudolf Pereles AUT WRE 1924
6 December 1938 Jeremi Kubicki POL ART 1932—1936
6 December 1938 Harold Shurtleff USA ART 1932
6 December 1939 Georges Warenhorst FRA SAL 1900
6 December 1942 Leonard Clayton GBR LAX 1928
6 December 1944 Aleksander Kłopotowski POL ART 1928
6 December 1944 Robert Monier FRA SAL 1920
6 December 1947 Henric Horn af Åminne SWE EVE 1912
6 December 1948 Berthe Girardet FRA ART 1924—1928
6 December 1951 André Gobert FRA TEN 1912
6 December 1954 Ragnar Stenberg FIN ATH 1908
6 December 1955 Georges Johin FRA CQT 1900
6 December 1956 John Geiger USA ROW 1900
6 December 1957 Maurice Peeters NED CTR 1920—1924
6 December 1958 Hayley Lever USA ART 1928—1932
6 December 1959 Huibert Boumeester NED ROW 1920
6 December 1960 Hjalmar Nyström FIN WRE 1924—1936
6 December 1962 Sulhi Garan TUR FBL 1960
6 December 1962 Otto Johannessen NOR GAR 1920
6 December 1962 Léonard Nuytens BEL ROW 1912
6 December 1964 Guy Fison GBR ROW 1912
6 December 1964 Evert van Linge NED FBL 1920—1924
6 December 1964 Bobby Mills GBR ATH 1920—1924
6 December 1965 Giorgio Zampori ITA GAR 1912—1924
6 December 1966 István Dömény HUN WRE 1924
6 December 1966 Hermann Heiß GER ART 1932
6 December 1967 Giovanni Mangiante ITA GAR 1912
6 December 1967 Benton Spruance USA ART 1936
6 December 1967 Arie van der Velden NED SAL 1900
6 December 1968 Albert Mayer SUI 1946—1968
6 December 1969 Roger Barisien FRA FEN 1936
6 December 1969 Torsten Lundborg SWE IHO 1924
6 December 1969 Hawley Pierce USA USF 1904
6 December 1970 Leandro Faggin ITA CTR 1956
6 December 1972 Dan Flaherty IRL BOX 1924
6 December 1972 Humberto Mariles MEX EJP/EVE 1948—1952
6 December 1974 Gérard de Balorre FRA EDR 1936
6 December 1974 Ole Kolterud NOR NCB 1928
6 December 1975 Paddy Carroll IRL 1948—1976
6 December 1975 Claude Trahan CAN SJP 1968
6 December 1976 Magnús Brynjólfsson ISL ALP 1948
6 December 1976 Isoup Ganthy CAM EJP 1956
6 December 1976 Marcel Leboutte BEL FBL 1900
6 December 1976 Holger Sumelius FIN SAL 1936
6 December 1976 William Taylor CAN CRD/CTR 1920
6 December 1977 Georg Vest DEN GAR 1920
6 December 1978 Victor Gilbert GBR SHO 1948
6 December 1980 Sepp Hellensteiner AUT CRD 1912
6 December 1982 Reg Dixon CAN SAL 1932—1936
6 December 1983 Richard Loyd USA GAR 1968
6 December 1984 Bernard Ormanowski POL ROW 1928
6 December 1987 Ilmari Pakarinen FIN GAR 1932—1936
6 December 1988 Richard Lippi FRA ROW 1968
6 December 1988 George Shaw USA ATH 1952—1956
6 December 1989 Gaston Van Roy BEL SHO 1952
6 December 1990 George Healis USA ROW 1928
6 December 1992 László Szabó HUN ROW 1936
6 December 1993 Anna Hřebřinová CZE
TCH		 GAR 1936
6 December 1993 Henk Ooms NED CTR 1936
6 December 1994 Marjorie Linton CAN SWM 1932
6 December 1995 Luis Regueiro ESP FBL 1928
6 December 1997 Willy den Ouden NED SWM 1932—1936
6 December 1998 Pierre Mousel LUX FBL 1936
6 December 2000 Werner Vick FRG HBL 1972
6 December 2001 Peter Blake NZL 2001
6 December 2001 Clarita Hunsberger USA DIV 1928
6 December 2001 Lia Leismüller GER
FRG		 ALP 1952
6 December 2002 Jerzy Adamski POL BOX 1960
6 December 2002 Keld Karise DEN ROW 1936
6 December 2002 Kevin McLaverty IRL SAL 1972
6 December 2003 Javier Montez USA ATH 1952
6 December 2006 Tone Razinger SLO
YUG		 CCS/NCB 1948
6 December 2007 Badawi Abdel Fattah UAR FBL 1960
6 December 2007 Gennadi Kinko EST
URS		 ROW 1976
6 December 2009 Karl Wyss SUI CRD 1936
6 December 2010 Chen Jinkai CHN 1987
6 December 2011 Baruch Elias ROU ATH 1952—1964
6 December 2014 István Varga HUN HBL 1972—1976
6 December 2015 Max Hauri SUI EJP/EVE 1964—1972
6 December 2015 Bob Leece AUS 2000
6 December 2015 Georg Smefjell NOR IHO 1964—1968
6 December 2016 Jojo Berrotaran FRA PEL 1968
6 December 2016 Jim Vickers IND ATH 1948
6 December 2016 Luke Wendon GBR FEN 1948—1952
6 December 2017 Cy Young USA ATH 1952—1956
6 December 2018 Peter Gillon AUS ROW 1960—1964
6 December 2018 Aleksandr Minayev RUS
URS		 FBL 1976
6 December 2020 Dejan Dabović MNE
YUG		 WPO 1968—1976
6 December 2020 Hunter Devine GBR FBL 1960
6 December 2020 László Kuncz HUN WPO 1980
6 December 2020 Neil Robbins AUS ATH 1956
6 December 2021 Jørgen Barth-Jørgensen NOR WLF 1952
6 December 2021 Emma Gapchenko RUS
URS		 ARC 1972
6 December 2021 Elfriede Steurer AUT ATH 1948—1952
6 December 2022 Pavel Gajdoš TCH
SVK		 GAR 1960—1964
6 December 2022 Jacques Pousaz SUI IHO 1972
6 December 2023 Jo Bernardo FRA SWM 1948—1952
6 December 2023 Dean Crawford CAN ROW 1984
6 December 2024 Vitaly Dyrdyra URS
UKR		 SAL 1972
6 December 2024 Roger Gerber FRA WLF 1956—1960
6 December 2024 Jean Keyrouz LBN ALP 1956—2006
6 December 2024 Michel Steininger SUI FEN 1960—1968
6 December 2025 Abdul Rashid PAK ATH 2008
6 December 2025 Viktor Miroshnichenko URS
UKR		 BOX 1980
6 December 2025 Erzsébet Németh-Csajbók HUN HBL 1976—1980