Athlete | Nation(s) | Sport(s) | Role(s) | Era | Notes |
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Jeffrey MacDougall | GBR | MPN | Olympics | 1932—1936 | †December 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Henry Macintosh | GBR | ATH | Olympics | 1912 | †26 July 1918. Died from wounds sustained in the Second Battle of the Somme. |
Duncan Mackinnon | GBR | ROW | Olympics | 1908 | †9 October 1917. Killed in action at Ypres in the Battle of Passchendaele. |
Gilchrist Maclagan | GBR | ROW | Olympics | 1908 | †25 April 1915. Killed in action in Pilckem Ridge, at the Second Battle of Ypres. |
Gustav Mader | AUT | BOB | Olympics | 1928 | †18 April 1945. Killed in action in World War II near Rijeka. |
Eugène Maës | FRA | FBL | Non-starter | 1912 | †30 March 1945. Killed in Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp (GER). |
Hans Maier | GER | ROW | Olympics | 1928—1936 | †6 March 1943. Killed in action at the North African Front near Mareth, Tunisia. |
Jacques Mairesse | FRA | FBL | Non-starter | 1928 | |
Edouard Majolier | GBR | ROW | Non-starter | 1908 | Died at home as a result of contracting pneumonia whilst serving on the Western Front. |
Aleksander Małecki | POL | FEN | Olympics / Non-starter | 1924—1928 | †September 1939. Fought in the September Campaign, and was probably killed during an attempt to escape to Hungary after 17 September 1939. |
Jarl Malmgren | FIN | FBL | Olympics | 1936 | †5 June 1942. Killed in action near Pogost, on the Karelian Isthmus. |
Hendrik Mangelaar Meertens | NED | HOC | Non-starter | 1928 | †18 September 1944. Died whilst a prisoner on a Japanese transport ship when it was attacked and sunk by a British submarine. |
Antonios Mangos | GRE | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | Died during the Greco-Italian War. |
Clayton Mansfield | USA | MPN | Olympics | 1932 | †9 January 1945. Commanding officer of the 92nd Recon group, he was killed in action in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO). |
Edward Manteuffel | POL | ART | Olympics | 1932 | In 1939 Manteuffel was captured and imprisoned by the Soviets, and was mysteriously murdered by the NKVD in April or May 1940 in Krákow, the exact date of death is not known. |
Charles, Baron Marion | FRA | EDR | Olympics | 1928—1932 | †16 November 1944. Kidnapped and killed by guerillas. |
François Marits | NED | SHO | Olympics | 1924 | †2 April 1945. Died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. |
Antonio Marovelli | ITA | GAR | Olympics | 1920 | †13 August 1943. Died during World War II, as a result of an air raid bombing on Parco Lambro, Milano. |
Hans Marr | GER | SJP | Olympics | 1936 | †20 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II, near Minsk, Belarus, with the rank of Unteroffizier. |
Luciano Martinetti | ITA | ATH | Non-starter | 1936 | †29 April 1943. Killed in action during World War II in Russia. |
Nemesio Martínez | ESP | EJP | Olympics | 1924 | †1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. |
Martti Marttelin | FIN | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | †1 March 1940. Killed in action at the Battle of Taipale near what is now the Burnaya River. |
Jean de Mas Latrie | FRA | FEN/MPN | Olympics | 1908—1912 | †5 September 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Antoni Maszewski | POL | ATH | Olympics | 1936 | †5 August 1944. An officer in the Polish Armed Forces (so-called Anders Army) who fought in the Italian Campaign. Killed in action when the Allies fought at the Battle of Ancona. |
Akira Matsunaga | JPN | FBL | Olympics | 1936 | †1942. Killed in action at Guadalcanal. |
Leopold Mayer | AUT | SWM | 1906 | 1906 | †21 September 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Ludwig Mayer | GER | MSP | Non-Medal | 1928 | Missing in action in World War II since New Year 1945. |
D'Arcy McCrea | IRL | TEN | Olympics | 1924 | †22 December 1940. Killed during the Great Manchester Blitz when a parachute mine hit his home, while he and his wife were hosting a party, killing them and their children. |
Alphonse Meignant | FRA | ROW | Olympics | 1912 | †4 November 1914. Killed in the First Battle of Ypres during World War I. |
Johan Meimer | EST | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | †10 December 1944. A prisoner-of-war, who was killed by Soviet soldiers, while trying to escape as he was being transported to a new prison. As a prisoner of war, he was a member of squad that made restoring works in Pärnumaa. |
Visvaldis Melderis | LAT | BKB | Olympics | 1936 | †14 July 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Elias Melkman | NED | GAR | Olympics | 1928 | †3 January 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Willi Menne | GER | ROW | Olympics | 1936 | †27 March 1945. Killed in action during World War II somewhere in Slovakia. |
Ewald Menzl | CZE TCH |
BOB | Olympics | 1936 | †10 September 1942. |
Toni Merkens | GER | CTR | Olympics | 1936 | †20 June 1944. Wounded on 19 August 1943 in World War II fighting the Russians on the Eastern Front, when struck between the heart and lungs by a shell splinter, later dying in a hospital in Wildbad im Schwarzwald. |
Fernand Mermoud | FRA | CCS | Olympics | 1936 | †9 June 1940. Killed in action with the 67e bataillon de chasseurs alpins. |
Robert Merz | AUT | FBL | Olympics | 1912 | †30 August 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Fritz Meßner | GER | HOC | Olympics | 1936 | †7 November 1945. Killed in action during World War II. |
Georg Mickler | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1912 | †14 June 1915. Killed in action during World War I somewhere in Poland. |
Konrad Miersch | GER | MPN | Olympics | 1932 | †2 March 1942. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of SS Major. |
Jovan Mikić | SRB YUG |
ATH | Olympics | 1936 | †10 November 1944 (or 11 October 1944). Killed during World War II. |
Felice Milano | ITA | FBL | Non-starter | 1912 | †11 November 1915. Killed at the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo during World War I. |
Lion van Minden | NED | FEN | Olympics | 1908 | †6 September 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Josef Miner | GER | BOX | Olympics | 1936 | †1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Tsutomu Mitsudome | JPN | ROW | Olympics | 1936 | †June 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa as Captain of the 1st Machine Gun Squadron |
Aleksander Mitt | EST | SSK | Olympics | 1928—1936 | †18 April 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Nicolaas Moerloos | BEL | GAR/WLF | Olympics | 1920—1924 | †5 September 1944. Killed as a member of the Belgian resistance during an encounter with German forces, shortly before liberation. |
Ernst Mohr | GER | GAR | Olympics | 1904 | †18 February 1916. Died as a Russian prisoner of war. |
Richard Mohr | FRA | FEN | 1906 | 1906 | †17 May 1918. Killed in action. |
Abraham Mok | NED | GAR | Olympics | 1908 | †29 February 1944. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Bart Mollin | BEL | WRE | Olympics | 1924 | †May 1945, Theresienstadt concentration camp. |
Percy Molson | CAN | ATH | Olympics | 1904 | †5 July 1917. Killed in action when hit by mortar fire while attempting to rescue a fallen friend on the outskirts of Avignon, France. |
Ernst Moltzer | NED | SAL | Olympics | 1936 | †15 November 1941. Killed while flying back to England. |
Élie Monnier | FRA | SHO | Olympics | 1936 | †12 May 1941. Engineer of the Maritime Engineering and died accidentally while exploring in scuba the wreck of the battleship "Bretagne" in Mers El Kebir in Algeria. Designated officially as "mort pour la France". |
Jacob van Moppes | NED | WRE | Olympics | 1908 | †26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Alfred Motté | FRA | ATH | Olympics | 1908—1912 | †31 October 1918. Killed in action in World War I. |
Imre Mudin | HUN | ATH | Olympics | 1908—1912 | |
István Mudin | HUN | ATH | Olympics / 1906 / Non-starter / Other | 1906—1912 | †22 July 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Juan Muguerza | ESP | ATH | Olympics | 1920 | †5 May 1937. Died in a bombing accident. |
Eugen Mühlberger | GER | WLF | Olympics | 1928 | †1 August 1944. Missing in action in Russia. |
Michael Murach | GER | BOX | Olympics | 1936 | †1 August 1941. Died during the Siege of Leningrad. |
Jack Murdoch | CAN | ROW | Olympics | 1928 | †10 October 1944. Killed in action in World War II. |
Camillo Mussi | ITA | IHO | Olympics | 1936 | Killed in action in air battle over Egypt. |
Henrik Nádler | HUN | FBL | Non-starter | 1924 | †May 1944. Died in work camp during World War II. |
Saburo Nagao | JPN | ATH | Olympics / Non-starter | 1932—1936 | Died in World War II in PNG. |
Eiichi Nakamura | JPN | HOC | Olympics | 1932 | †27 May 1945. Killed during air raid in World War II. |
Edward Nash | GBR | EJP/EVE | Olympics | 1912 | †21 February 1915. Killed in action during World War I. |
Helmut Naudé | GER | MPN | Olympics | 1932 | †3 February 1943. Killed in action at the Eastern Front with the rank of Oberst. |
Arnošt Nejedlý | BOH | ATH | Olympics / 1906 | 1906—1908 | †1917. Killed during World War I on the Serbian Front. |
Vojtech Neményi | TCH SVK |
WPO | Olympics | 1924 | †7 April 1945. Killed in Engerau concentration camp. |
Georges de la Nézière | FRA | ATH | Olympics | 1896 | †9 October 1914. Killed in action in World War I. |
Hans Nickel | GER | ROW | Olympics | 1928 | †14 February 1946. Died as a Soviet prisoner of war in World War II. |
Grigory Nikitin | RUS | FBL | Olympics | 1912 | †1917. Killed in World War I. |
Takeichi, Baron Nishi | JPN | EJP/EVE | Olympics | 1932—1936 | †22 March 1945. Possibly committed suicide during the Battle of Iwo Jima. |
Jules Noël | FRA | ATH | Olympics / Other | 1928—1936 | †19 May 1940. Refused post as headmaster at Joinville School to enlist in the military and was killed by enemy fire in May 1940. |
Józef Noji | POL | ATH | Olympics | 1936 | †15 February 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Lea Nordheim | NED | GAR | Olympics | 1928 | †2 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
John Norman | GBR | CTR | Olympics | 1908 | † 9 August 1916. Killed in action. |
Mauri Noroma | FIN | GAR | Olympics | 1928—1936 | †23 December 1939. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. |
Amador Obordo | PHI | BKB | Olympics | 1936 | Killed during World War II. |
Adam Obrubański | POL | FBL | Coach / Referee | 1924 | †April 1940. Killed in the Katyń Massacre. |
Masayoshi Ochiai | JPN | ATH | Olympics | 1932 | Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known. |
Sueo Oe | JPN | ATH | Olympics | 1936 | †24 December 1941. Killed in action in World War II. |
Simon Okker | NED | FEN | Olympics / 1906 | 1906—1908 | †6 March 1944. Killed in Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. |
Charles Oldaker | GBR | GAR | Olympics | 1908 | †26 September 1915 Killed in action during World War I during the Battle of Loos. |
Kurt Oleska | GER | BKB | Olympics | 1936 | Missing in action since Januar 9, 1945 in Russia. |
Abraham d'Oliveira | NED | GAR | Olympics | 1908 | †26 March 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Harcourt Ommundsen | GBR | SHO | Olympics | 1908—1912 | †19 September 1915. A Lieutenant in the Honourable Artillery Company when he was killed at the Battle of Ieper in World War I. |
Heinrich Paal | EST | FBL | Olympics | 1924 | †18 December 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Charley Paddock | USA | ATH | Olympics | 1920—1928 | †21 July 1943. Died in a plane crash near Sitka, Alaska. |
Edmund Pader | AUT | SWM | Olympics | 1936 | Killed in WWII. Untersturmführer in Waffen-SS. |
Franc Palme | SLO YUG |
SJP | Olympics | 1936 | † 27 February 1946 |
Karl Panos | AUT | GAR | Olympics | 1936 | Killed in action in Russia |
Tom Parkin | GBR | GAR | Olympics | 1908 | Killed in action during the Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) |
Tjeerd Pasma | NED | ATH/MPN | Olympics / Non-starter | 1928 | Died when a V1 flying bomb prematurely exploded. |
Alan Patterson | GBR | ATH | Olympics | 1908—1912 | †14 March 1916. Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery, he was killed in action only two days after his 30th birthday. |
František Pecháček | CZE TCH |
GAR | Olympics | 1920 | †3 February 1944. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
Árpád Pédery | HUN | GAR | Olympics | 1912 | †21 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I. |
Fritz Pellkofer | GER | CCS | Olympics | 1928 | †23 January 1943. Missing in action in World War II in Russia. |
Emil Perška | CRO YUG |
FBL | Olympics / Non-starter | 1920—1928 | †May 1945. Executed during World War II. |
Jacques Person | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1912 | †15 July 1915. From Alsace, killed in action in Flanders as a member of the "7. Thüringische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96". |
Attila Petschauer | HUN | FEN | Olympics / Referee | 1928—1936 | †20 January 1943. Killed in Dawidowka concentration camp. |
Arvo Peussa | FIN | ATH | Olympics | 1924 | †19 July 1941. Killed in action near Salmi on the Karelian Isthmus, during the Continuation War. |
Pierre Peyrusson | FRA | SWM | Olympics | 1900 | †16 September 1914. At the Meuse |
William Philo | GBR | BOX | Olympics | 1908 | †7 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I during the battle of the Somme in France. |
Remo Piana | ITA | BKB | Olympics | 1936 | Died in World War II. |
Étienne Piquiral | FRA | RGB | Olympics | 1924 | †13 March 1945. Died of illness in a POW camp during World War II. |
Hermann Plaskuda | GER | FEN | Olympics | 1912 | †21 March 1918. Killed in action in World War I. His grave is in the war cemetery in St. Quentin, France. |
Werner Plath | GER | SWM | Olympics | 1936 | †1945. Executed by the SS in 1945. No further details known. |
Wanda Pleszczyńska | POL | ART | Olympics | 1928 | Shot by the Germans in 1943 after having been arrested as member of the Polish resistance movement. |
Otto Pohla | EST | WRE | Olympics | 1928 | †July 1941. Drowned when German submarines drowned the prison ship on which he was travelling. |
Ans Polak | NED | GAR | Olympics | 1928 | †23 July 1943. Killed in Sobibór concentration camp. |
Léon Ponscarme | FRA | CTR | Olympics | 1900 | †24 November 1916. Killed in action in World War I in Verdun. |
Janez Porenta | SLO YUG |
GAR | Olympics | 1924—1928 | †June 1942. Member of the Yugoslav resistance. Executed by Italian forces. |
Chris Porter | GBR | FBL | Non-starter | 1908 | †4 June 1915. Killed in action at Gallipoli serving with the Manchester Regiment. |
Marcel Pourchier | FRA | MSP | Non-Medal | 1928 | †1 September 1944. Died in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. |
Bobby Powell | CAN | TEN | Olympics | 1908 | Lieutenant in the 48th Canadian Infantry Battalion during World War I. Killed in action while fighting in France. |
Kenneth Powell | GBR | ATH/TEN | Olympics | 1908—1912 | †18 February 1915. Killed in action while serving as a private in the HAC. |
Siegfried Powolny | AUT | HBL | Olympics | 1936 | †19 July 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Friedrich Karl, Prinz von Preußen | GER | EJP | Olympics | 1912 | †6 April 1917. During a flight on 21 March 1917 he was forced to land with a bullet in his engine and a slight wound to his foot. He landed his Albatros aircraft in no-man's land, but while running towards his own lines he was severely wounded in the back by Australian troops. He was taken into Australian war captivity where he died from his injuries on 6 April 1917 at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. |
Reggie Pridmore | GBR | HOC | Olympics | 1908 | †13 March 1918. Served as a major in the Royal Horse & Field Artillery, winning a Military Cross on the Somme before being killed in action in Italy. |
Karl Proisl | AUT | CMA/CSP | Olympics | 1936 | As a member of the Nazi police during World War II, Proisl was sentenced to death by a special court in Yugoslavia for war crimes and executed in Belgrade in 1949. |
John Prosser | GBR | FBL | Non-starter | 1908 | †27 May 1917. Killed in action on the Western Front during the Battle of Arras. |
Manuel Puig | CUB | ROW | Olympics | 1948 | †20 April 1961. Executed by the Cuban government for his part in helping the US led Bay of Pigs landings. |
Siegfried Purner | AUT | HBL | Olympics | 1936 | †3 February 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Joseph Racine | FRA | CRD | Olympics | 1912 | †28 October 1914. With the 113th Regiment Infantry, he was killed in action in World War I. |
Thomas Raddall | GBR | SHO | Olympics | 1908 | †9 August 1918. With the 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Manitoba Regiment, he was killed in action in France in World War I and is buried in the Manitoba Cemetery in Caix. |
Maurice Raoul-Duval | FRA | POL | Olympics | 1900 | †5 May 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Richard Rau | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1912 | †17 November 1945. Died in the Tumanovo POW camp. |
Gino Ravenna | ITA | GAR | Olympics | 1908 | Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, date unknown. |
Josef Rehm | GER | MSP | Non-Medal | 1928 | Missing in action in World War II since July 1944. |
Walter von Reichenau | GER | Administrator | 1938—1942 | †1942. One of the highest ranked German soldiers in World War II, After sustaining a heart attack while jogging through the Russian woods, he died from a plane crash when being transported back to Germany. | |
Willi Reinfrank | GER | WLF | Olympics | 1928 | †1 January 1943. Reported missing-in-action during the Battle of Stalingrad. |
Toivo Reingoldt | FIN | SWM | Olympics | 1932 | †28 September 1941. Killed in action after an air crash in Eastern Karelia. |
Jiří Reitmann | CZE TCH |
WPO | Olympics | 1924 | †4 January 1945. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Olli Remes | FIN | MSP | Non-Medal | 1936 | †31 December 1942. Killed in action near Vanozero on the Karelian Isthmus during the Continuation War. |
Peter Reynolds | USA | LAX | Non-Medal | 1928—1932 | Died on a ship transporting prisoners of war from the Philippines to Japan |
Josef Rieder | GER | CRD | Olympics | 1912 | †13 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Wilhelm Rietschel | GER | ART | Olympics | 1936 | †18 December 1941. Killed in action in Ropscha, Russia during World War I. |
Frederick Riley | GBR | FBL | Olympics | 1936 | †7 December 1942. Killed when his plane was shot down over France. |
Josef Ritz | AUT | FEN | Olympics / Referee | 1936 | †31 July 1943. Killed in action in World War II near Kharkiv. |
John Robinson | GBR | HOC | Olympics | 1908 | †23 August 1916. Commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment, he was soon promoted to captain but died from injuries received in the Mesopotamian campaign. |
Paddy Roche | GBR IRL |
ATH | Olympics | 1908 | †7 June 1917. A lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he won an MC in World War I and was later killed in action. |
Guido Romano | ITA | GAR | Olympics | 1908—1912 | †18 June 1916. Killed in action during World War I on Roccolo Astoni, Enego, Asiago plateau. |
Boris Roolaid | EST | SWM | Olympics | 1936 | †1943. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Egon Roolaid | EST | SWM | Olympics | 1936 | †1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known. |
Evžen Rošický | CZE TCH |
ATH | Olympics | 1936 | †25 June 1942. He and his father Jaroslav Rošický were part of the anti-Nazi resistance group Captain Nemo during World War II. They were arrested on 18 June 1942, and one week later, were both executed in Prague, on 25 June 1942. |
Claude Ross | ANZ AUS |
ATH | Olympics | 1912 | †19 August 1917. Killed in action in France. |
Marsilio Rossi | ITA | ATH | Olympics | 1936 | †16 December 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Georgina Roty | FRA | SWM | Olympics | 1928 | †27 May 1940. Died when her village was bombed. |
Albert Rowland | ANZ NZL |
ATH | Olympics | 1908 | †23 July 1918. Killed in action during the Second Battle of The Marne. |
Marius Royet | FRA | FBL | Non-starter | 1908 | †1915. Killed during World War I. |
Piet Ruimers | NED | ATH | Olympics | 1908 | †6 April 1945. Executed by German soldiers on the beach of the Isle of Texel. |
Alfrēds Ruks | LAT RUS |
ATH | Olympics | 1912—1924 | †30 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Heinrich Sack | GER | CSP | Olympics | 1936 | †13 September 1941. Buried in a military cemetery in Kyiv. |
Richard Sahla | GER | EJP | Olympics | 1928 | †1942. Killed in action in World War II. |
Takahiro Saito | JPN | SWM | Olympics | 1924 | Died in World War II, from pneumonia in Manila (PHI). |
Maurice Salomez | FRA | ATH | Olympics | 1900 | †7 August 1916. Killed in action in World War I. |
Paolo Salvi | ITA | GAR | Olympics | 1912—1920 | Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, date unknown. |
Heinz Sames | GER | SSK | Olympics | 1936 | Missing in action in Volgograd during World War II. |
Ronald Sanderson | GBR | ROW | Olympics | 1908 | †17 April 1918. Killed in action near Ypres. |
Ludwig Sauerhöfer | GER | WRE | Olympics | 1912 | Killed in action during World War I. |
Felix Scheder-Bieschin | GER | SAL | Olympics | 1936 | †2 September 1940. Died on a ship which was hit by a torpedo. |
Hans Scheele | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1936 | †23 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II at the Eastern Front. |
Adolf Scheffknecht | AUT | GAR | Olympics | 1936 | †11 September 1941. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is on the war cemetery in Petschenga, Russia. |
Günther von Scheven | GER | ART | Olympics | 1936 | †21 March 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Heinz Schlauch | GER | SWM | Olympics | 1936 | †21 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II. |
Helmut Schlöske | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | In the last months of World War II Helmut Schlöske was killed in action near Potsdam in October 1944, and was buried on the war cemetery in Berlin-Charlottenburg. |
Alfred Schmalzer | AUT | HBL | Olympics | 1936 | †21 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Eugen Schnalek | AUT | CRD | Olympics | 1936 | †1944/1945. Killed during World War II, exact date unknown. |
Heinrich Schneidereit | GER | TOW/WLF | 1906 | 1906 | †30 September 1915. Killed in action as an artillery officer in France during World War I. |
Richard Schoemaker | NED | FEN | Olympics | 1908 | †3 May 1942. Killed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
Hans Schönrath | GER | BOX | Olympics | 1928 | †10 February 1945. Drowned when hospital ship "SS General von Steuben" sunk by a Soviet submarine. |
Koos Schouwenaar | NED | ROW | Olympics | 1928 | †22 June 1941. Killed while flying back to England. |
Jakob Schüller | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | †22 January 1944. Killed in action during World War II. |
Franz Schüßler | AUT | IHO | Olympics | 1936 | †August 1942 in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp in Yushnevo in the Tver Oblast. |
Arthur Tell Schwab | SUI | ATH | Olympics | 1924—1936 | †27 February 1945. Died in an air raid bombing. |
Ludwig Schweickert | GER | WRE | Olympics | 1936 | †11 July 1943. Killed in action defending the town of Orjol from recapture by the Soviet Army. |
Paul Schweifer | AUT | BOX | Olympics | 1936 | Killed in action in 1941 near Kursk at the Eastern Front during World War II. |
Karl Schwitalle | GER | WLF | Olympics | 1936 | †7 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II. |
Jos Seckel | NED | ART | Olympics | 1928—1932 | Died with his wife and son during the Bezuidenhout bombardment in World War II. |
Werner Seelenbinder | GER | WRE | Olympics | 1936 | †24 October 1944. Killed by beheading in Brandenburg Prison after years in concentration camps for leading resistance movements against the Nazis. |
Dmytro Sharpar | UKR | FSK | YOG | 2016 | †23 January 2023 Killed during the Russia-Ukraine conflict |
Katsumi Shibata | JPN | HOC | Olympics | 1932 | Died in World War II. |
Erich Siebert | GER | WRE | Olympics | 1936 | †1947. Died during captivity post-World War II. |
Evald Sikk | EST | WRE | Olympics | 1936 | †8 August 1945. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. |
Farid Simaika | EGY | DIV | Olympics | 1928 | †11 September 1943. Became a US Citizen in March 1942, and fought in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence officer. His plane exploded and crashed over Indonesia. Some stories tell he was captured and beheaded by the Japanese or headhunters. He was declared legally dead on 19 December 1945. |
Harry Simmons | GBR | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | †23 March 1944. Career Air Force officer, he was killed in a flying accident in World War II. |
André Six | FRA | SWM | Olympics | 1900 | †1 April 1915. Killed in action. |
Pierre Six | FRA | FBL | Olympics | 1908 | †7 July 1916. Killed in action during World War I. |
Jonas Slier | NED | GAR | Olympics | 1908 | †5 November 1942. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
Michel Soalhat | FRA | ATH | 1906 | 1906 | †25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I. |
Tadeusz Sokołowski | POL | EJP | Olympics | 1936 | †6 February 1943. Murdered by the Gestapo in Minsk (Belarus). |
Josip Šolc | CRO YUG |
FBL | Olympics | 1920 | †24 September 1945. Ustaše member, executed by the Partisans. |
Andrzej Sołtan-Pereświat | POL | ROW | Olympics | 1928 | Bombed in rail transport (4 officers, 20 privates), he died on September 4, 1939 in Nieszawa. |
Robert Somers-Smith | GBR | ROW | Olympics | 1908 | †1 July 1916. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. |
Eberhard Sorge | GER | GAR | Olympics | 1912 | †6 August 1918. Killed in action during World War I. |
Bruno Sorich | CRO ITA |
ROW | Olympics | 1924 | †7 June 1942. Killed in action during World War II. |
Herbert Southwell | GBR | ROW | Non-starter | 1908 | †15 September 1916. Killed during the Battle of the Somme. |
Werner Spannagel | GER | BOX | Olympics | 1932 | †23 December 1943. Sent to the Eastern Front, his death was reported on 23 December 1943. |