Deaths on 8 July

117 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
8 July 1914	Jul Braathe	NOR	SHO	1906—1912
8 July 1929	Emile Jurgens	NED	SHO	1912—1920
8 July 1935	Guy Nickalls	GBR	ROW	1908
8 July 1936	Ernest Sutherland	RSA	ATH	1924
8 July 1936	Jessie Wadworth	GBR	ARC	1908
8 July 1938	Eph Kirby-Smith	USA	USF	1904
8 July 1941	Hans Freese	GER	SWM	1936
8 July 1941	Rolf Maartmann	NOR	FBL	1912
8 July 1943	Fu Baolu	CHN	ATH	1936
8 July 1943	Émile Rumeau	FRA	SHO	1920—1924
8 July 1948	Luigi Magnotti	ITA	CRD	1924
8 July 1948	George Mehnert	USA	WRE	1904—1908
8 July 1950	Paul Wall	USA	ATH	1904
8 July 1951	Willy Gervin	DEN	CTR	1932
8 July 1951	Thies Luijt	NED	ART	1928—1948
8 July 1952	Émile Écuyer	FRA	ATH	1920
8 July 1953	Fritz Steuri	SUI	NCB/SJP	1932
8 July 1953	Matt Wells	GBR	BOX	1908
8 July 1956	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	GRE	ATH	1896—1906
8 July 1958	David Wettlin	USA	USF	1904
8 July 1959	Jack Bishop	GBR	CTR	1908
8 July 1960	Warren Wheelock	USA	ART	1932
8 July 1961	Róbert Byssz	HUN	ART	1932
8 July 1964	Andrew Hansson	SWE	CRD/CTR	1906—1908
8 July 1964	Norway Jackes	CAN	ROW	1908
8 July 1965	Roger Flanders	USA	WRE	1924
8 July 1966	Marcel Muzard	FRA	ATH	1924—1928
8 July 1967	Jean Breuls van Tiecken	BEL	EJP	1924
8 July 1967	Carl Kempe	SWE	TEN	1912
8 July 1968	Lee Seong-Deok	JPN KOR	SSK	1936
8 July 1968	Désiré Mérchez	FRA	SWM/WPO	1900
8 July 1968	Otto Niemand	USA	GAR	1904
8 July 1968	Henry Ziegler	USA	ART	1936
8 July 1969	Josef Bochníček	CZE TCH	GAR	1920
8 July 1970	Fritz Stuessi	SUI	CCS	1968
8 July 1972	Oluf Husted-Nielsen	DEN	GAR	1908
8 July 1972	Juho Kinnunen	FIN	WRE	1948
8 July 1972	Gordon Morrison	CAN	ALP	1952
8 July 1973	Harry Edward	GBR GUY	ATH	1920
8 July 1975	Raffaele Scorzoni	ITA	FBL	1936
8 July 1975	Trude Wollschläger	GER	SWM	1936
8 July 1976	Vagn Kastrup	DEN	SAL	1936
8 July 1977	Arthur Fagan	GBR	FEN	1912
8 July 1977	Gustaf Alfons Koutonen	FIN	ATH	1936
8 July 1978	Harold Greenwood	GBR	IHO	1928
8 July 1978	Ferdinand Hirigoyen	FRA	PEL	1924
8 July 1979	Ba Nyein	MYA	BOX	1952
8 July 1981	Jim Armstrong	AUS	WRE	1948
8 July 1981	János Széles	HUN	BOX	1928
8 July 1981	Emil Zeibig	FRA	SWM	1924—1928
8 July 1982	Gunnar Eriksson	SWE	CCS	1948—1952
8 July 1982	Al White	USA	DIV	1924
8 July 1983	Harry Morgan	USA	SKN	1928
8 July 1984	Josef Kratochvíl	TCH	FBL	1924
8 July 1986	Lambert Neumaier	AUT	IHO	1936
8 July 1987	Boris Brechko	RUS URS	ROW	1952
8 July 1987	George Burrows	CAN	SWM	1932
8 July 1987	Franjo Velfl	CRO YUG	FBL	1948
8 July 1988	Ray Barbuti	USA	ATH	1928
8 July 1989	Paul Raeth	FRA	DIV	1924
8 July 1990	Alf Barnes	GBR	BOX	1936
8 July 1990	George Wheeler	USA	GAR	1936
8 July 1992	Giacomo Conti	ITA	BOB	1956
8 July 1992	Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky	HUN	SHO	1932—1936
8 July 1993	Chuck Adkins	USA	BOX	1952
8 July 1994	Luis Scally	ARG	HOC	1948
8 July 1995	Pál Kovács	HUN	FEN	1936—1964
8 July 1996	Luka Predanić	CRO YUG	ATH	1928
8 July 1998	Lilí Álvarez	ESP	TEN	1924
8 July 1998	Kohei Murakoso	JPN	ATH	1936
8 July 1998	Fred Woodhouse	AUS	ATH	1936
8 July 1999	Gennaro De Luca	ITA	SAL	1948
8 July 1999	Atilio Ensunza	ARG	ROW	1964
8 July 1999	Frank Lubin	USA	BKB	1936
8 July 1999	Elemér Terták	HUN	FSK	1936—1948
8 July 2000	Fereidoun Esfandiary	IRI	BKB	1948
8 July 2000	Judit Kéri-Novák	HUN	ROW	1976—1980
8 July 2001	Ernst Baier	GER	FSK	1932—1936
8 July 2001	Walter Good	USA	WLF	1936
8 July 2001	Christl Haas	AUT	ALP	1964—1968
8 July 2001	Bill Kuhlemeier	USA	GAR	1932
8 July 2003	Duncan Clark	GBR	ATH	1948—1952
8 July 2003	Etsuko Inada	JPN	FSK	1936
8 July 2003	Eduardo Prieto	MEX	FEN/SAL	1932—1964
8 July 2004	Frank Anger	USA	FEN	1964
8 July 2004	Hans Harting	NED	ATH	1952
8 July 2004	Sven Thunman	SWE	IHO	1948—1952
8 July 2005	Jean-Claude Arifon	FRA	ATH	1948
8 July 2006	Kees Andrea	NED	ART	1948
8 July 2006	Jean Vernier	FRA	ATH	1948—1952
8 July 2007	Tom Collier	GBR	ATH	1948
8 July 2007	Owen Tuohy	IRL	FEN	1948
8 July 2008	Lennie Baker	GBR	IHO	1948
8 July 2009	Yury Shlyapin	RUS URS	SWM/WPO	1952—1956
8 July 2011	Gábor Bodó	HUN	VVO	1964
8 July 2012	Osvaldo Blasi	ARG	WRE	1952
8 July 2013	Henrik Sørensen	DEN	HOC	1948—1960
8 July 2014	Ray Buckingham	AUS	FEN	1956
8 July 2014	John Hoover	USA	BBL	1984
8 July 2014	Howard Siler, Jr.	USA	BOB	1972—1980
8 July 2015	Jean-Claude Lelarge	FRA	HBL	1980
8 July 2015	Hugo Machado	URU	CRD	1952
8 July 2015	Rolf Pettersson	SWE	SWM	1972
8 July 2015	Leopoldo Rodés Castañé	ESP
8 July 2017	Gustavo Ehlers	CHI	ATH	1948—1952
8 July 2019	Dick Conner	USA	DIV	1956
8 July 2019	Greg Johnson	CAN	IHO	1994
8 July 2019	Dick Lyon	USA	ROW	1964—1972
8 July 2020	Finn Christian Jagge	NOR	ALP	1988—1998
8 July 2020	Panagiotis Manias	GRE	BKB	1952
8 July 2020	Alex Pullin	AUS	SBD	2010—2018
8 July 2021	Kirill Putyrsky	RUS URS	ROW	1952
8 July 2022	Shinzo Abe	JPN
8 July 2023	Nikolay Alyokhin	BLR URS	FEN	1980
8 July 2023	Patrice Aouissi	FRA	BOX	1992
8 July 2023	Sergey Diakonov	URS	HOC	1980
8 July 2023	Ivan Levačić	CRO YUG	CRD	1960