Deaths on 1 January

137 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
1 January 1913	Evan Phillips	USA	FFG	1900
1 January 1920	Paul Adam	FRA	LIT	1912
1 January 1926	Paul Léautey	FRA		1924—1926
1 January 1929	Burton Downing	USA	CTR	1904
1 January 1936	James Lukeman	CAN	ATH	1904
1 January 1937	Arquímedes Arrieta	URU	BOX	1936
1 January 1938	Raoul Branco	BRA		1913—1938
1 January 1939	Freddie Whitbread	GBR	BOX	1920
1 January 1940	Leon Mazurek	POL	WRE	1928
1 January 1943	Henry Downes	GBR	SAL	1908
1 January 1943	Willi Reinfrank	GER	WLF	1928
1 January 1945	Ludwig Mayer	GER	MSP	1928
1 January 1946	Jim Rosenberger	USA	ATH	1912
1 January 1949	Will Simmons	USA	PNT	1936
1 January 1952	Kenneth Miller	USA	PNT	1936
1 January 1953	William Eaton	USA	ATH	1904—1906
1 January 1954	Kalle Tuppurainen	FIN	MSP	1928
1 January 1955	Bedřich Stiný	CZE TCH	WLF	1924
1 January 1957	Ludwig Waldschmidt	GER	PNT	1932
1 January 1957	Hans Wölpert	GER	WLF	1928—1932
1 January 1958	Edward Weston	USA	ARC	1904
1 January 1960	Robert Coleman	GBR	SAL	1920
1 January 1960	Kurt Sucksdorff	SWE	IHO	1928
1 January 1961	Louis Bès	FRA	CRD	1912
1 January 1961	Alastair Denniston	GBR	HOC	1908
1 January 1962	Henry Bucknall	GBR	ROW	1908
1 January 1962	Mario Cavalla	ITA	SJP	1924
1 January 1962	Frances Rivett-Carnac	GBR	SAL	1908
1 January 1963	Nando Altimani	ITA	ATH	1912—1920
1 January 1964	William Burns	CAN	CUR	1932
1 January 1964	Katie Gilou	FRA	TEN	1900
1 January 1964	Thyge Petersen	DEN	BOX	1924
1 January 1964	Stephen Ruddy	USA	SWM	1920
1 January 1965	Ludwig Wrede	AUT	FSK	1928
1 January 1967	Jack Condon	RSA	TEN	1924
1 January 1967	Elsa Regnell	SWE	DIV	1912
1 January 1968	Gorm Jensen	DEN	GAR	1908
1 January 1969	Bruno Söderström	SWE	ATH	1906—1908
1 January 1969	Erich Zoigner	AUT	SHO	1924
1 January 1971	Bernard Fischer	LUX	FBL	1928
1 January 1971	Werner Zahn	GER	BOB	1932
1 January 1972	Herbrand Lofthus	NOR	WRE	1912
1 January 1973	Laurent Cassou	FRA	ATH	1912
1 January 1973	Ioan Miclescu-Prăjescu	ROU	FEN	1936
1 January 1975	Clarence Severy	USA	ATH	1904
1 January 1976	Jussi Kivimäki	FIN	WRE	1908
1 January 1978	Max Wechsler	SUI	CRD	1960
1 January 1980	Alfréd Adda	HUN	EVE	1928
1 January 1980	Wolfgang Elsner	GER FRG	SAL	1952
1 January 1980	Harriet Frishmuth	USA	SKL	1932
1 January 1980	Pierre Mony	FRA	FBL	1920
1 January 1980	Nils Skoglund	SWE	DIV/WPO	1920—1924
1 January 1980	Frank Wykoff	USA	ATH	1928—1936
1 January 1982	John MacDonald	NZL	ROW	1932
1 January 1982	Kálmán Marvalits	HUN	ATH	1924—1928
1 January 1984	Bent Blach Petersen	DEN	ROW	1952
1 January 1984	Kaarlo Vähämäki	FIN	GAR	1912
1 January 1985	Ken Calbick	CAN	LAX	1932
1 January 1985	Herbert Hambleton	GBR	FBL	1920
1 January 1985	Knud Vermehren	DEN	GAR	1920
1 January 1986	Teodor Bieregowoj	POL	ATH	1936
1 January 1987	Dick Buckingham	CAN	LAX	1932
1 January 1988	Albert Decaris	FRA	PNT	1948
1 January 1988	Hiroaki Sato	JPN	FBL	1956
1 January 1990	Ingvald Bjerke	NOR	BOX	1928
1 January 1990	Gaston Braun	BEL	BOB	1936
1 January 1990	Ernst Kuzorra	GER	FBL	1928
1 January 1990	Raymond Petit	FRA	ATH	1936
1 January 1990	Niyazi Sel	TUR	FBL	1936
1 January 1990	Max Trepp	SUI	ATH	1948
1 January 1991	Inga Gentzel	SWE	ATH	1928
1 January 1991	Shinji Tatsuta	JPN	SJP	1936
1 January 1991	Jack Wallace	GBR	SAL	1948
1 January 1993	Italo Bellini	ITA	SHO	1952
1 January 1993	Claude Smeal	AUS	ATH	1952
1 January 1994	Carlos Nelli	BRA	ATH	1932
1 January 1994	Arthur Porritt	NZL	ATH	1924—1994
1 January 1996	Sergio Ojeda	CHI	BOX	1928
1 January 1997	Asnoldo Devonish	VEN	ATH	1952—1956
1 January 1997	Jean Feller	LUX	FBL	1948
1 January 1997	Georgi Kekemanov	BUL	FBL	1952
1 January 1998	Xanthe Ryder	GBR	ALP	1948
1 January 1998	Åke Seyffarth	SWE	SSK	1948
1 January 1998	Helen Wills	USA	PNT/TEN	1924—1932
1 January 1999	Helena Fliśnik	POL	ATH	1972—1976
1 January 1999	Rafael Iglesias	ARG	BOX	1948
1 January 2000	Liu Songsheng	CHN	FBL	1948
1 January 2000	László Sipos	HUN	WRE	1952
1 January 2002	Bonnie Mealing	AUS	SWM	1928—1932
1 January 2002	Arne Røgden	NOR	BOB	1952—1956
1 January 2003	Milan Janić	CRO YUG	CSP	1980—1984
1 January 2005	Dmitry Nelyubin	RUS URS EUN	CTR	1988—1992
1 January 2005	Alfred Rinesch	AUT	ATT	1948
1 January 2006	Étienne Bord	FRA	ROW	1936
1 January 2006	Manon Charette	CAN	HBL	1976
1 January 2006	Marius Colau	FRA	FBL	1948
1 January 2006	Angelo Vicardi	ITA	GAR	1960—1964
1 January 2008	Jacky Moucq	BEL	HOC	1948—1952
1 January 2009	Dennis Ford	RSA	SWM	1952—1956
1 January 2010	Adrien Gilbert	CAN	WLF	1956
1 January 2010	Jack Middleton	GBR	SWM	1936
1 January 2010	Libuše Patočková	CZE TCH	CCS	1956
1 January 2010	Stanisław Przybylski	POL	MPN	1960
1 January 2011	Hatsuho Matsuzawa	JPN	SWM	1932
1 January 2012	Bob Anderson	GBR	FEN	1952
1 January 2013	Yevgeny Groshev	RUS URS	IHO	1960
1 January 2013	Nancy Meiss	USA	FSK	1988
1 January 2013	Alois Moser	CAN	SJP	1960
1 January 2014	Jorge Jottar	CHI	SHO	1968
1 January 2014	Ron Jourdan	USA	ATH	1972
1 January 2014	Djaffar Namdar	IRI	FBL	1972—1976
1 January 2016	Natasha Aguilar	CRC	SWM	1988
1 January 2016	Delia Córdova	PER	VVO	1976
1 January 2016	Maria Gąsienica Daniel-Szatkowska	POL	ALP	1956—1964
1 January 2017	Bill Craig	USA	SWM	1964
1 January 2017	Lorne Loomer	CAN	ROW	1956—1960
1 January 2017	Aleksander Tšutšelov	EST URS	SAL	1960—1964
1 January 2017	Talat Tunçalp	TUR	CRD	1936—1948
1 January 2017	Jean Vuarnet	FRA	ALP	1960
1 January 2018	František Brož	CZE TCH	ATH	1952
1 January 2018	Karel Matoušek	CZE TCH	WRE	1960
1 January 2018	Hannu Rantakari	FIN	GAR	1964—1968
1 January 2019	Ivan Dimitrov	BUL	FBL	1960
1 January 2020	Aleksandr Manachinsky	URS UKR	SWM	1976
1 January 2020	David Stern	USA		2012
1 January 2021	Pablo Hernández	COL	CRD	1964
1 January 2021	Ho Thành Chinh	VNM	ATH	1964
1 January 2021	Harald Maartmann	NOR	CCS	1952
1 January 2022	Andreas Kunz	GDR	NCB	1968
1 January 2022	John McDonaugh	CAN	BKB	1976
1 January 2023	Georg Eberl	GER FRG	IHO	1960
1 January 2024	Chang Chih-Chia	TPE	BBL	2004—2008
1 January 2024	Marcia Garbey	CUB	ATH	1968—1972
1 January 2024	Osvaldo Lara	CUB	ATH	1976—1980
1 January 2024	Franz Paulweber	AUT	BOB	1980
1 January 2024	Hans Sleeswijk	NED	SAL	1960
1 January 2025	Jack Ferguson	GBR	WPO	1952—1956