Deaths on 17 January

101 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
17 January 1933	Ruurd Leegstra	NED	ROW	1900
17 January 1933	Josef Rössler-Ořovský	BOH	TEN	1908
17 January 1939	Mario Gruppioni	ITA	WRE	1932
17 January 1939	Eric, Vicomte De Spoelberch	BEL	BOB	1936
17 January 1942	Walter von Reichenau	GER		1938—1942
17 January 1945	Aldo Boiti	ITA	GAR	1924
17 January 1949	Henry Hering	USA	ART	1932
17 January 1949	Camillo Isnardi	ITA	SHO	1920—1924
17 January 1950	Andreas von Flotow	GER	EDR	1912
17 January 1955	Albert Hicks	USA	USF	1904
17 January 1956	Andrés Recalde	URU	BOX	1924
17 January 1958	Eric Crockford	GBR	HOC	1920
17 January 1958	Erich Laeisz	GER	SAL	1928
17 January 1958	Rudolf Senti	LIE	SHO	1936
17 January 1959	Norman Coe	GBR	LAX	1948
17 January 1961	Ken Glass	CAN	SAL	1932
17 January 1961	Jan Linsen	BEL	ATH	1928
17 January 1962	Károly Radóczy	HUN	ATH	1908—1912
17 January 1963	Henri Masson	FRA	FEN	1900
17 January 1964	Joseph Cook	GBR	GAR	1908—1912
17 January 1967	Louis Brasseur	FRA	IHO	1924
17 January 1968	Jennie Fletcher	GBR	SWM	1912
17 January 1968	Ernest Moreau de Melen	BEL	FBL	1900
17 January 1968	Alois Petřina	CZE TCH	BOX	1948
17 January 1968	John Shene	USA	BOB	1936
17 January 1968	Giuseppe Tarella	ITA	ATH	1908
17 January 1969	Grażyna Bacewicz	POL	ART	1948
17 January 1969	Jacobus Lorenz	NED	WRE	1908
17 January 1969	Mahan Singh	KEN	HOC	1956
17 January 1972	Charles Hall	USA	ATH	1908
17 January 1972	Alojz Klančnik	SLO YUG	CCS	1936—1948
17 January 1973	Frantz Oscar Jørgensen	DEN	FEN	1908
17 January 1974	Ugo Pistolesi	ITA	SHO	1936
17 January 1975	Curt Hartzell	SWE	GAR	1912
17 January 1975	Marius Skram-Jensen	DEN	GAR	1906
17 January 1981	Ilmari Kuokka	FIN	ATH	1928
17 January 1981	Timo Murama	FIN	NCB/SJP	1936
17 January 1982	Mario Minai	HUN	ATH	1936
17 January 1982	Johannes Pedersen	DEN	GAR	1920
17 January 1982	Bert Richardson	CAN	ROW	1928
17 January 1982	Mahmoud Salem	EGY	FBL	1928
17 January 1983	Marc Bossy	SUI	BKB	1948—1952
17 January 1984	Neville Gadsden	AUS	ATH	1956
17 January 1985	Ezio Acchini	ITA	ROW	1948
17 January 1985	Oldřich Kolář	CZE TCH	CCS	1924
17 January 1987	Mario Checcacci	ITA	ROW	1936
17 January 1990	Danie Burger	RSA	ATH	1956
17 January 1991	Denis Johansson	FIN	ATH	1948—1952
17 January 1991	Olav, Kronprins av Norge	NOR	SAL	1928
17 January 1993	Liu Yunchang	CHN	BKB	1936
17 January 1994	Roman Budzyński	POL	ATH	1952
17 January 1994	Helen Stephens	USA	ATH	1936
17 January 1995	Harold Austad	NZL		1960—1983
17 January 1996	F. Don Miller	USA		1984
17 January 1996	Mikhail Plaksin	RUS URS	ROW	1952
17 January 2000	Arthur Sager	USA	ATH	1928
17 January 2001	Sigurd Vestad	NOR	CCS	1932
17 January 2003	León Lyon	PUR	SHO	1960—1968
17 January 2004	Harold Laurance	GBR	WLF	1936
17 January 2005	Anatoly Kartashov	RUS URS	WPO	1960
17 January 2005	Carlos Saldías	ARG	FBL	1960
17 January 2005	Morits Skaugen	NOR	SAL	1948—1964
17 January 2007	Revaz Tsirek'idze	GEO URS	FEN	1956
17 January 2008	Igor Rudakov	RUS URS	ROW	1960—1972
17 January 2009	Tomislav Crnković	CRO YUG	FBL	1952
17 January 2011	Jürgen Barth	FRG	CTR	1968—1972
17 January 2011	Marcello Bazzana	ITA	SJP	1976
17 January 2012	Michael Tucker	AUS	BKB	1976—1980
17 January 2013	Ilmar Aluvee	EST	NCB	1994
17 January 2013	Sumihiro Tomii	JPN	ALP	1972—1976
17 January 2014	Nadia Boudesoque	MEX	FEN	1948
17 January 2014	Holger Hansson	SWE	FBL	1952
17 January 2014	Gustavo Magariños	URU	BKB	1948
17 January 2015	Walter Bauza	ARG	SHO	1984
17 January 2015	Marie Foucher-Creteau	FRA	SWM	1948
17 January 2016	Ion Panțuru	ROU	BOB	1964—1976
17 January 2017	Heng Freylinger	LUX	WRE	1952
17 January 2018	Bashir Mohamed Attarabulsi	LBA		1971—1999
17 January 2018	Brooks Dodge, Jr.	USA	ALP	1952—1956
17 January 2018	Jerzy Gros	POL	ATH	1976
17 January 2018	Susan Johnson	USA	FSK	1998
17 January 2018	Edwin Lins	AUT	WRE	1984—1988
17 January 2018	Raúl Olivo	VEN	SHO	1956
17 January 2019	Francis Coutou	FRA	HOC	1972
17 January 2019	Léo Rooman	BEL	HOC	1952
17 January 2019	Vladimir Sitkin	URS UKR	ATH	1956
17 January 2020	Roger Schneider	SUI	SSK	2010
17 January 2020	Kaj Sylvan	DEN	CSP	1956
17 January 2020	Raymond Terrell	GBR	SWM	1968
17 January 2020	Rhona Wurtele	CAN	ALP	1948
17 January 2021	Carlos Burga	PER	BOX	1972
17 January 2021	Muriel Davis-Grossfeld	USA	GAR	1956—1964
17 January 2022	Juan Caviglia	ARG	GAR	1952—1960
17 January 2023	Bjarne Eltang	DEN	ROW	1988
17 January 2023	Siegfried Ortmann	FRG	ARC	1972
17 January 2023	Ferenc Varga	HUN	CSP	1952
17 January 2024	Shawn Barber	CAN	ATH	2016
17 January 2024	Al Cantello	USA	ATH	1960
17 January 2024	Knut Hjeltnes	NOR	ATH	1976—1988
17 January 2025	Hansjörg Aemisegger	SUI	CRD	1976
17 January 2025	Claude Raffy	FRA	SWM	1960