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Deaths on 6 August

118 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
6 August 1918	Eberhard Sorge	GER	GAR	1912
6 August 1921	Emmanuel Boislève	FRA	GAR	1908
6 August 1926	Luis de Errazu	ESP	POL	1900
6 August 1927	Carlos Zetina	MEX		1923—1925
6 August 1929	Jean-Baptiste Mimiague	FRA	FEN	1900
6 August 1930	Wolfgang Schaper	GER	SKL	1928
6 August 1932	Arthur Brown	GBR	FBL	1912
6 August 1932	Ivar Neumann	SWE	ATH	1908
6 August 1936	Holger Frederiksen	DEN	FBL	1906
6 August 1941	Jules Valton	FRA	PBT/SAL	1900
6 August 1942	Roman Kramsztyk	POL	PNT	1928
6 August 1944	Heinrich Bartosch	AUT	SHO	1912—1924
6 August 1944	Cecil Goodricke	RSA	SAL	1932
6 August 1944	Michel Porasso	MON	GAR	1920
6 August 1945	György Doros	HUN	FEN/LIT	1932—1936
6 August 1946	Blanche Hillyard	GBR	TEN	1908
6 August 1946	Gladys Luscombe	GBR	DIV	1924
6 August 1951	Per Karsten	SWE	EDR	1912
6 August 1951	François Walker	FRA	GAR	1920
6 August 1954	Theo van Reijn	NED	SKL	1928
6 August 1955	Dave Carstens	RSA	BOX	1932
6 August 1956	Chester Beach	USA	SKL	1928
6 August 1956	George McGrath	GBR	HOC	1920
6 August 1957	Ernest Linton	CAN	FBL	1904
6 August 1958	Maurice Germot	FRA	TEN	1900—1912
6 August 1959	Edmund Pueschel	USA	GAR	1904
6 August 1960	Wilbur Burroughs	USA	ATH/TOW	1900—1908
6 August 1960	Umberto Ferrari	ITA	CTR	1900
6 August 1961	Lennart Lind	FIN	WRE	1912
6 August 1962	David Gaul	USA	SWM	1904
6 August 1963	Sophus Nielsen	DEN	FBL	1908—1912
6 August 1963	Greet van Norden	NED	SWM	1928
6 August 1963	Otakar Přidal	TCH	ATH	1924
6 August 1964	Hec Edmundson	USA	ATH	1912
6 August 1964	Risto Kuntsi	FIN	ATH	1936
6 August 1965	Adrien Fauchier-Magnan	FRA	TEN	1900
6 August 1965	François Franck	BEL	IHO	1920—1928
6 August 1968	Götz Freiherr von Mirbach	GER FRG	SAL	1952
6 August 1969	Tracy Jaeckel	USA	FEN	1932—1952
6 August 1971	Jennison Heaton	USA	BOB/SKN	1928
6 August 1971	Abraham Sprachman	CAN	ATT	1948
6 August 1972	Torkel Persson	SWE	CCS	1924
6 August 1972	Yngve Soderberg	USA	PNT	1932—1936
6 August 1974	Alain Convard	FRA	ARC	1972
6 August 1974	Karl Kõiv	EST	WLF	1920
6 August 1977	Willy Stiens	NED	KBL	1920
6 August 1978	Gertrud Kille	GER FRG	ATH	1952
6 August 1978	Frank Shea	USA	ATH	1920
6 August 1979	Émile Kleber	FRA	BOB	1936
6 August 1981	Claude Angelo	AUS	WRE	1924
6 August 1981	R. A. M. Guilmard	FRA	PNT	1924
6 August 1981	Dandamudi Rajagopal	IND	WLF	1948—1956
6 August 1982	Théophile Speicher	LUX	FBL	1936
6 August 1983	Emilio Dell'Oro	ITA	BOB	1936
6 August 1985	Anne Govednik	USA	SWM	1932—1936
6 August 1985	Enrico Ruberti	ITA	ROW	1948
6 August 1986	Maria Dunin	POL	PNT	1928
6 August 1986	Jorge Vieira	POR	FBL	1928
6 August 1987	Georges Krotoff	FRA	ATH	1928
6 August 1988	Melvin Carson	NOR	ATH	1928
6 August 1988	Gord Garvie	CAN	WRE	1968
6 August 1990	Luis Lucchetti	ARG	FEN	1924—1936
6 August 1990	Magnús Pálsson	ISL	WPO	1936
6 August 1991	Robert Hansen	DEN	HOC	1936—1948
6 August 1991	Joe Verdeur	USA	SWM	1948
6 August 1992	Leszek Błażyński	POL	BOX	1972—1976
6 August 1993	Vice Jurišić	CRO YUG	ROW	1936
6 August 1993	Bob Kiesel	USA	ATH	1932
6 August 1993	Bill Thomson	CAN	IHO	1936
6 August 1996	Joe Hanly	IRL	ROW	1948
6 August 1997	Jack Porter	CAN	IHO	1928
6 August 1997	Noel Teggart	IRL	CRD	1972
6 August 1999	Ilse Pausin	AUT	FSK	1936
6 August 2000	George Merry	CAN	ALP	1952
6 August 2000	Bob Miyakawa	JPN		1993
6 August 2000	Ernesto Montemayor, Jr.	MEX	SHO	1960—1972
6 August 2001	Vasily Kuznetsov	RUS URS	ATH	1956—1964
6 August 2001	Nils Svärd	SWE	CCS	1932
6 August 2003	Hervé Mahé	FRA	ATH	1936
6 August 2004	Mauro Cabeçâo	BRA	FBL	1976
6 August 2006	Milko Rusev	BUL	CRD/CTR	1952
6 August 2007	Piervittorio Pampuro	ITA	HOC	1952
6 August 2007	Buddy Solem	USA	SSK	1948
6 August 2008	Bertil Ahlin	SWE	BOX	1948
6 August 2009	Rolf Back	FIN	ATH	1952
6 August 2009	Robert Bottini	FRA	FBL	1948
6 August 2010	Knut Østby	NOR	CSP	1948—1956
6 August 2011	Miranda Marchi	ITA	FSK	1992
6 August 2012	Boris Razinsky	RUS URS	FBL	1956
6 August 2013	Marco Bucci	ITA	ATH	1984
6 August 2013	Petar Cucić	SRB YUG	WRE	1964
6 August 2013	Bruno Gennaro	ITA	HOC	1952
6 August 2014	Rita Bottero	ITA	CCS	1956
6 August 2014	Norm Lane	CAN	CSP	1948—1952
6 August 2014	Antonio Marcilla	ARG	BOX	1956
6 August 2015	Mircea Dobrescu	ROU	BOX	1952—1960
6 August 2015	Iraj Kia Rostami	IRI	BOX	1992
6 August 2016	Samuel Mek	CMR	BOX	1976
6 August 2016	Michael Walter	GDR	LUG	1984—1988
6 August 2017	Betty Cuthbert	AUS	ATH	1956—2000
6 August 2017	Dan McKinnon	USA	IHO	1956
6 August 2018	Nat Indrapana	THA		1990—2018
6 August 2018	Norman White	AUS	BBL	1956
6 August 2019	Tage Lundin	SWE	BTH	1960
6 August 2020	Louis Devoti	FRA	BKB	1952
6 August 2020	Wilbert McClure	USA	BOX	1960
6 August 2021	Christian Dumont	FRA	BTH	1988—1992
6 August 2021	Gábor Novák	HUN	CSP	1952
6 August 2021	Yevhen Sotnykov	UKR	JUD	2008
6 August 2022	John Mulhall	GBR	GAR	1960—1964
6 August 2022	Erich Schönbächler	SUI	BTH	1964
6 August 2022	Joaquim Vieira	POR	WRE	1976
6 August 2023	Naasan Ajjoub	SYR	BOX	1980—1984
6 August 2023	Akhmed Anarbayev	KGZ URS	SWM	1968
6 August 2023	Ingrid Schmidt	GDR GER	SWM	1960—1964
6 August 2023	Walter Wrigge	FRG	SHO	1972
6 August 2024	Mercedes Pomares	CUB	VVO	1972—1980
6 August 2025	Margarita Nava	MEX	EDR	1984