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Deaths on 12 August

127 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
12 August 1907	Jean Boussod	FRA	POL	1900
12 August 1911	John Sellars	GBR IRL	SHO	1908
12 August 1914	Georges Semichon	FRA	SAL	1900
12 August 1915	William Moloney	USA	ATH	1900
12 August 1915	Edward Williams	GBR	ROW	1908
12 August 1920	Walter Winans	USA	SHO/SKL	1908—1912
12 August 1925	Louis Charpillon	FRA	FEN	1900
12 August 1930	Pascual Somma	URU	FBL	1924
12 August 1932	Jussi Salila	FIN	WRE	1912—1924
12 August 1939	Max Dwinger	NED	FEN	1908
12 August 1941	Álvaro Catão	BRA		1933—1935
12 August 1941	Emil Hagelberg	FIN	MPN	1920—1924
12 August 1942	Gustaf Carlson	SWE	FBL	1924—1936
12 August 1942	Paul Stendel	USA	GAR	1904
12 August 1943	Reinier Blom	NED	GAR	1908—1928
12 August 1943	Rodolphe Catalaa	FRA	WLF	1924
12 August 1948	Pál Vágó	HUN	ATT	1932
12 August 1949	René Boulanger	FRA	GAR	1920
12 August 1951	William Garcia	USA	ATH	1904
12 August 1951	Paul McSweeney	USA	FBL	1904
12 August 1951	Dušan Stefanović	YUG		1927—1931
12 August 1953	Julien Wartelle	FRA	GAR	1920
12 August 1954	Lee Young-Min	KOR	FBL	1948
12 August 1955	Miloslav Fleischmann	CZE TCH	IHO	1924
12 August 1955	Johann Flemer	NED	GAR	1908
12 August 1955	Johan Schmitt	NED	GAR	1908
12 August 1956	Paul Gerhardt	GER	ATH	1928
12 August 1960	Jim McPherson	GBR NOR	FBL	1920
12 August 1961	Francesca Costa	ITA	GAR	1960
12 August 1961	Ingolf Hysing Olsen	NOR	SJP	1924
12 August 1962	Henri Arthus	FRA	SAL	1908
12 August 1962	Vibeke Lunde	NOR	SAL	1952
12 August 1962	Mabel Parton	GBR	TEN	1912
12 August 1963	Nelson de Souza	BRA	BKB	1936
12 August 1966	Thomas Johnson	GBR	CTR	1908—1920
12 August 1967	Risto Luukkonen	FIN	BOX	1952
12 August 1968	Harry Adams	USA	SHO	1912—1920
12 August 1968	Jack Paul Hanlon	IRL	PNT	1948—1952
12 August 1969	Alberto Della Beffa	ITA	BOB	1952
12 August 1969	Josef Glaser	GER	FBL	1912
12 August 1970	Gudmund Grimstad	NOR	WRE	1920
12 August 1970	Glenn Hartranft	USA	ATH	1924
12 August 1971	Eino Saarnikko	FIN	SHO	1948
12 August 1971	Massinet Sorcinelli	BRA	BKB	1948
12 August 1973	Libuše Veselá	CZE TCH	FSK	1928
12 August 1974	Harry Julius Larsen	DEN	ROW	1936
12 August 1974	Homer Whelchel	USA	ATH	1924
12 August 1975	Werner Rittberger	GER	FSK	1928
12 August 1976	Birgir Kjaran	ISL		1962—1974
12 August 1977	René Tirard	FRA	ATH	1920
12 August 1979	Angelo De Martini	ITA	CTR	1924
12 August 1985	Masanori Tsuji	JPN	CRD	1964
12 August 1987	Blago Barbieri	CRO YUG	SWM	1952
12 August 1987	Niels Knudsen	DEN	ATT	1928
12 August 1988	Sakuta Takefushi	JPN	CCS/NCB	1928
12 August 1989	Wilfred Burne	GBR	DIV	1928
12 August 1989	Samuel Okwaraji	NGR	FBL	1988
12 August 1990	Jimmy Stewart	CAN	BKB	1936
12 August 1991	Édson	BRA	FBL	1952
12 August 1992	José Antonio Rubio	ESP	BOX	1948
12 August 1994	Harold Tower	USA	ROW	1932
12 August 1994	Włodzimierz Źróbik	POL	BOB	1956
12 August 1996	Guy Nosbaum	FRA	ROW	1952—1960
12 August 1996	George Parsons	CAN	SAL	1956
12 August 1997	Ambrogio Bessi	ITA	BKB	1936
12 August 1997	Bob Denton	USA	FBL	1936
12 August 1997	David Schweitzer	ISR	FBL	1976
12 August 1998	Dagoberto Borges	CUB	FEN	1968
12 August 1999	Giuseppe Beviacqua	ITA	ATH	1936
12 August 1999	Jean Drapeau	CAN		1971—1978
12 August 1999	Wilfred Kalaugher	NZL	ATH	1928
12 August 2000	Fevzi Büyükyıldırım	TUR	FBL	1952
12 August 2002	Knud Lundberg	DEN	FBL	1948—1952
12 August 2003	Rolland Étienne	FRA	BKB	1936
12 August 2004	Bjarne Andersson	SWE	CCS	1968
12 August 2004	Larry Mason	CAN	SSK	1960
12 August 2004	Perica Vlašić	CRO YUG	ROW	1956—1960
12 August 2005	Morciré Sylla	GUI	FBL	1968
12 August 2005	Jan Szymański	POL	WRE	1980
12 August 2006	Noel Everett	NZL	SAL	1972
12 August 2006	Georgi Raykov	BUL	WRE	1980
12 August 2006	Jan Steler	POL		1993
12 August 2006	Åke Stenqvist	SWE	ATH	1936
12 August 2007	John Gillman	AUS	SHO	1976
12 August 2007	Allen McClure	USA	SAL	1960
12 August 2008	Boris Kulayev	RUS URS	WRE	1956
12 August 2009	Karl Holzapfel	AUT	HOC	1948—1952
12 August 2009	Goffredo Sussi	ITA	BKB	1960—1964
12 August 2009	Magdeleine Yerlès	CAN		1996
12 August 2010	Manfred Homberg	GER FRG	BOX	1960
12 August 2010	Velimir Kljaić	CRO	HBL	1996
12 August 2010	Victor Kremer	LUX	SHO	1960—1964
12 August 2010	Artur Olech	POL	BOX	1964—1968
12 August 2011	Kunio Nando	JPN	SSK	1936
12 August 2011	Pierpaolo Spangaro	ITA	SWM	1960—1964
12 August 2012	Pedro Gasset	ESP	HOC	1948
12 August 2012	Jakov Labura	CRO YUG	ROW	1948
12 August 2013	Gonzalo, Duque Fernández de Córdoba	ESP	SAL	1960—1972
12 August 2013	Henny ter Weer	NED	FEN	1948
12 August 2014	Frank Eisenberg	GDR	ATH	1972
12 August 2014	Ênio Figueiredo	BRA	VVO	1980—1984
12 August 2014	Ricardo González	CUB	PEL	1992
12 August 2014	Abel Laudonio	ARG	BOX	1956—1960
12 August 2014	Kazimierz Trampisz	POL	FBL	1952
12 August 2016	Gonzalo Manibog	PHI	WRE	1952
12 August 2016	Juan Pedro de Miguel	ESP	HBL	1980—1984
12 August 2016	Dick Pappenheim	NED	ALP	1952
12 August 2016	Klaus Scheurell	GDR	FBL	1980
12 August 2017	Zdravko Hebel	CRO YUG	WPO	1968—2002
12 August 2017	Don Pettie	CAN	ATH	1948
12 August 2018	Willy Rasmussen	NOR	ATH	1960—1964
12 August 2019	Jean-Paul Capelle	FRA	HOC	1968
12 August 2020	Gergely Kulcsár	HUN	ATH	1960—1972
12 August 2021	Haydée Coloso	PHI	SWM	1960
12 August 2021	Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER FRG	ATH	1952—1956
12 August 2021	Robin Judah	GBR	SAL	1968
12 August 2022	Eino Kalpala	FIN	ALP	1952
12 August 2022	Zbigniew Malicki	POL	SAL	1980
12 August 2022	Motiullah	PAK	HOC	1956—1964
12 August 2022	Vyacheslav Semyonov	URS UKR	FBL	1972
12 August 2023	Helen Don-Duncan	GBR	SWM	2000
12 August 2023	Sándor Eckschmiedt	HUN	ATH	1964—1972
12 August 2023	Eduardo de Queiroz	POR	SAL	1964
12 August 2023	Allan Smith	SRI	DIV	1952
12 August 2024	Marinella Bortoluzzi	ITA	ATH	1960
12 August 2024	Valentin Piseyev	URS	FSK	1972—1976
12 August 2024	Fritz Schmidt	FRG	HOC	1968—1976