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Deaths on 18 October

101 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
18 October 1909	William Tagg	GBR	FFG	1900
18 October 1913	Jarl Hulldén	FIN	SAL	1912
18 October 1914	Thomas Gillespie	GBR	ROW	1912
18 October 1917	Charles Jeffreys	RSA	SHO	1912
18 October 1918	Robert Brown	GBR	SHO	1908
18 October 1921	Gonzalo, Conde de Villamejor	ESP		1902—1921
18 October 1932	Pierre de Jumilhac	FRA	POL	1924
18 October 1937	Justin Kendrick	USA	ATH	1904
18 October 1939	Albert, Comte Gautier-Vignal	FRA MON	FEN	1900—1939
18 October 1939	Stanisław Kowalczewski	POL	SHO	1924
18 October 1940	Bill Dees	GBR	BOX	1908—1936
18 October 1940	Nicolas Horsch	BEL	WLF	1924
18 October 1943	Tom Downing	GBR	ATH	1908
18 October 1944	Jack Turnbull	USA	HOC/LAX	1932—1936
18 October 1945	Andrew Mackie	GBR	CKT	1900
18 October 1947	James Barker	GBR	ATH	1912
18 October 1947	Charles Treffel	FRA	SWM/WPO	1900
18 October 1950	Per Bergman	SWE	SAL	1912
18 October 1951	James Davey	GBR	RGB	1908
18 October 1952	Joshua Speight	GBR	GAR	1908
18 October 1954	Auguste Broos	BEL	ATH	1920—1924
18 October 1954	René Dérency	FRA	BKB	1948
18 October 1954	Eversley Mansfield	GBR	FBL	1908
18 October 1955	Per Fjästad	SWE	SWM	1908
18 October 1956	Fernand Desrousseaux	FRA	FBL	1908
18 October 1956	Royal Elliott	USA	BOX	1928
18 October 1958	William Russell	USA	FEN	1920—1936
18 October 1959	Charles Bugbee	GBR	WPO	1912—1924
18 October 1959	Bouguera El Ouafi	ALG FRA	ATH	1924—1928
18 October 1961	Bernard Darwin	GBR	ART	1948
18 October 1963	Yrjö Lampila	FIN	DIV	1928
18 October 1964	Guglielmo Carubbi	ITA	ROW	1928
18 October 1964	Simon Goossens	BEL	ART	1920
18 October 1967	Jan Studnicka	AUT	FBL	1912
18 October 1968	Michael Paulsen	NOR	FBL	1920
18 October 1969	Filippo Bottino	ITA	WLF	1920—1924
18 October 1969	René Vignaud	FRA	ATH	1920
18 October 1971	Oldřich Pštros	CZE TCH	WRE	1924
18 October 1972	Ed Cook	USA	ATH	1908
18 October 1972	Andrea Marrazzi	ITA	FEN	1920
18 October 1972	Jan Pawlica	POL	ALP	1948
18 October 1972	Rich Sanders	USA	WRE	1968—1972
18 October 1973	Kadri Göktulga	TUR	FBL	1924—1928
18 October 1973	Theodor Schmidt	AUT		1928—1938
18 October 1974	José da Conceição	BRA	ATH	1952—1960
18 October 1975	Yrjö Kaloniemi	FIN	SJP	1948
18 October 1975	Brenda Putnam	USA	ART	1932
18 October 1977	Jiří Sekyra	CZE TCH	IHO	1952
18 October 1977	James Slane	GBR	SWM	1912
18 October 1978	Michel Auréglia	MON	SAL	1952
18 October 1980	Gyula Kormos	HUN	HOC	1936
18 October 1981	Paul Ruoff	SUI	FBL	1928
18 October 1984	Stijn Jaspers	NED	ATH	1984
18 October 1985	Medardo Galli	ITA	ROW	1928
18 October 1986	Julio Gerlein Comelín	COL		1936—1986
18 October 1986	Sverre Haugli	NOR	SSK	1952—1956
18 October 1987	Paddy Duffy	IRL	FEN	1948—1952
18 October 1987	Joe Schauers	USA	ROW	1932
18 October 1987	Usui Soichi	JPN	KEN	1964
18 October 1988	Čestmír Kalina	CZE TCH	ATH	1948
18 October 1989	Mirko Bonačić	YUG	FBL	1928
18 October 1989	Lešek Boubela	CZE TCH	WPO	1936
18 October 1990	Giordano Fabjan	ITA
18 October 1990	Sol Furth	USA	ATH	1932
18 October 1991	Bronisław Gosztyła	POL	IHO	1956—1964
18 October 1993	Maria Rosa Candido	ITA	STK	1988—1992
18 October 1995	Lloyd Guenther	USA	SSK	1932
18 October 1996	Louise Bertram	CAN	FSK	1936
18 October 1996	Giovanni Testa	ITA	CCS	1928
18 October 1997	Roberto Goizueta	USA		1986
18 October 1997	Étienne Laisné	FRA	ATH	1936
18 October 1998	Carlos Ferrer	ESP		1985—1998
18 October 1998	Frédéric Fitting	SUI	FEN	1920—1936
18 October 1998	Alfred Praks	EST	WRE	1924—1928
18 October 1999	Dick Hammer	USA	VVO	1964
18 October 2002	Miroslav Vymazal	CZE TCH	CTR	1976
18 October 2004	Eduardo Fulgencio	PHI	BKB	1948
18 October 2005	Lottie Mwale	ZAM	BOX	1976
18 October 2005	Heini Nettesheim	GER FRG	WRE	1936—1952
18 October 2006	Marc Hodler	SUI	ALP	1948—2006
18 October 2006	Laurie Taitt	GBR	ATH	1964
18 October 2007	Michiko Kihara	JPN	SWM	1964
18 October 2009	Heiner Will	GER FRG	ATH	1956
18 October 2010	Doug Wilson	GBR	ATH	1948
18 October 2012	Zdzisław Kotla	POL	SAL	1980
18 October 2012	Bob Martin	USA	ROW	1948
18 October 2012	George Mattos	USA	ATH	1952—1956
18 October 2012	Dilbagh Singh Kler	MAS	ATH	1964
18 October 2014	Horst Arndt	GER FRG	ROW	1956
18 October 2014	Luigi Gnocchi	ITA	ATH	1956
18 October 2014	Germán Peters Olivares	BOL		1982—1987
18 October 2017	Eva Paulusová-Benešová	CZE TCH	CCS	1956—1964
18 October 2018	Izumi Maki	JPN	ATH	1992—1996
18 October 2018	Felipe Monserrat	PHI		1969—1970
18 October 2018	Frank Young	CAN	ROW	1952
18 October 2019	Waldo Santiago	CUB	BOX	1968—1972
18 October 2020	Tomás Herrera	CUB	BKB	1972—1980
18 October 2020	David Kushnir	ISR	ATH	1956—1960
18 October 2022	Ole Ellefsæter	NOR	CCS	1964—1972
18 October 2022	Walter Schröder	GER FRG	ROW	1960
18 October 2023	Josef Nüsser	CZE TCH	NCB	1956