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Deaths on 19 May

129 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
19 May 1917	Aldo Cigheri	ITA	SWM	1912
19 May 1919	Sven Olsson	SWE	FBL	1908
19 May 1920	John Wussow	USA	GAR	1904
19 May 1934	Jack Brinck	USA	ROW	1928
19 May 1940	Jules Noël	FRA	ATH	1928—1936
19 May 1941	Emil Hauser	USA	USF	1904
19 May 1943	Edwin Jarvis	GBR	FBL	1908
19 May 1944	Albert Delannoy	FRA	ATH	1900
19 May 1945	Edward Borein	USA	ART	1932
19 May 1945	Fred Simpson	CAN	ATH	1908
19 May 1946	Holger Forchhammer	DEN	FBL	1920
19 May 1947	Giovanni Delise	ITA	ROW	1928
19 May 1947	John Heijning	NED	FBL	1908
19 May 1949	Raoul, Comte de Boigne	FRA	SHO	1900—1912
19 May 1949	George Day	GBR	ATH	1912
19 May 1950	Edgars Gruzītis	LAT	CCS/NCB	1936
19 May 1951	Nils Bonde	SWE	EDR	1928
19 May 1955	Oda Mahaut	FRA	FEN	1928
19 May 1956	Ferdinand Andri	AUT	ART	1936
19 May 1957	Alice Milliat	FRA		1921—1936
19 May 1958	Carl Carlsen	DEN	WRE	1906—1908
19 May 1958	Eric Hussey	GBR	ATH	1908
19 May 1959	Murray Carleton	USA	GLF	1904
19 May 1959	Herman Eriksson	SWE	SHO	1912
19 May 1959	Karl Körber	AUT	ROW	1912
19 May 1959	Francesco Mercoli	ITA	WLF	1928
19 May 1961	Dolf Broese van Groenou	NED	ART/HOC	1924—1928
19 May 1961	Lewis Watson	USA	ATH	1920
19 May 1963	Percy Cockings	GBR	WRE	1908—1912
19 May 1963	Julio Moreno	CHI	FEN	1936
19 May 1965	Erik Abrahamsson	SWE	ATH	1920—1924
19 May 1965	Klaas Buchly	NED	CTR	1948
19 May 1965	Federico Della Ferrera	ITA	CTR	1906
19 May 1965	John Plunkett-Dillon	IRL		1955—1957
19 May 1967	Albert Blattmann	SUI	CRD	1924
19 May 1967	Dušan Milošević	SRB	ATH	1912
19 May 1968	Arthur Gibbon	GBR	CRD	1912
19 May 1968	Emil Schwegler	USA	GAR	1904
19 May 1969	Emmanuel Degland	FRA	ATH	1924—1928
19 May 1969	Nicholas Hekma	USA	SAL	1928
19 May 1970	Paul Sturzenegger	SUI	FBL	1924—1928
19 May 1971	Leon Lucas	USA	BOX	1928
19 May 1971	Tommy Thomson	CAN	ATH	1920
19 May 1972	Fernando Paes	POR	EDR/EVE	1948—1952
19 May 1973	Ludvík Klíma	CZE TCH	CSP	1936—1948
19 May 1973	Luciano Trolli	ITA	SWM	1924
19 May 1973	Anton Zwerina	AUT	WLF	1924
19 May 1978	Nils Althin	SWE	BOX	1932
19 May 1978	Harold Bounsall	CAN	CRD/CTR	1920
19 May 1978	Carl Hansen	DEN	FBL	1920
19 May 1979	Ed Souza	USA	FBL	1948
19 May 1980	Richard Bott	GBR	SKN	1948
19 May 1981	Stefano Margotti	ITA	SHO	1936—1948
19 May 1982	Willem Bokhoven	NED	WPO	1924
19 May 1982	Zoltán Opata	HUN	FBL	1924—1936
19 May 1983	Marcel Dudant	FRA	ATH	1912
19 May 1983	Jože Ilija	SLO YUG	ALP	1956
19 May 1983	Carlheinz Neumann	GER	ROW	1932
19 May 1983	Alfred Walker	USA	FEN	1924
19 May 1985	Primitivo Martínez	PHI	BKB	1936—1948
19 May 1986	Joe Greenwald	USA	EJP	1920
19 May 1986	Tibor Nyilas	USA	FEN	1948—1972
19 May 1987	Dave Abbott	USA	ATH	1928
19 May 1987	Bob Prentice	AUS	ATH	1952
19 May 1988	Yvonne Bornand	SUI	FEN	1936
19 May 1988	Dave McCleave	GBR	BOX	1932
19 May 1990	Hec Dyer	USA	ATH	1932
19 May 1991	Lloyd Butler	USA	ROW	1948
19 May 1992	Miguel Camberos	MEX	ATH	1932
19 May 1992	Olavi Heinonen	FIN	DIV	1952
19 May 1992	Claude Roussel	FRA	BOB	1968
19 May 1995	Nico van Gageldonk	NED	CRD	1936
19 May 1995	Trevor Lewis	GBR	WPO	1948
19 May 1995	Jacky Perreten	SUI	SJP	1952
19 May 1996	Valery Frolov	RUS	BOX	1992
19 May 1996	Thomas Frederick Hope	SLE		1964—1996
19 May 1997	René Nyman	FIN	SAL	1936—1960
19 May 1997	Pāvels Seničevs	LAT URS	SHO	1964—1968
19 May 1998	László Decker	HUN	ROW	1952
19 May 1998	Riccardo Steinleitner	ITA	ROW	1936
19 May 1999	Kalevi Pakarinen	FIN	FEN	1960
19 May 2001	Charles Binaux	FRA	CCS	1956
19 May 2001	Josef Haunzwickel	AUT	ATH	1936
19 May 2001	Bob Tinning	AUS	ROW	1952
19 May 2002	Herbie Familton	NZL	ALP	1952
19 May 2003	Alex Miroshnichenko	KAZ URS	BOX	1988
19 May 2003	Hélio Vieira	BRA	FEN	1952
19 May 2004	Leonid Shcherbakov	RUS URS	ATH	1952—1956
19 May 2005	Johnny Arthur	RSA	BOX	1948
19 May 2006	Taju Akay	GHA	BOX	1984
19 May 2006	Dharmalingam Kannan	IND	FBL	1960
19 May 2006	Robert Makzoumi	EGY	BKB	1948
19 May 2008	André Schlupp	FRA	BKB	1956
19 May 2009	István Schillerwein	HUN	CRD/CTR	1952
19 May 2009	Yasunori Taniguchi	JPN	KEN	1964
19 May 2011	Marvin Caldera	NCA	BOX	1980
19 May 2011	Vladimir Ryzhkin	RUS URS	FBL	1956
19 May 2011	Nezhdet Zalev	BUL	WRE	1960
19 May 2012	Bob Boozer	USA	BKB	1960
19 May 2012	Gerhard Hetz	GER FRG	SWM	1960—1964
19 May 2014	Rabah Khaloufi	FRA	BOX	1972
19 May 2014	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski	POL	BOX	1956—1964
19 May 2015	Manuel Bernabéu	ESP	MPN	1948
19 May 2015	James Findlay	AUS	SWM	1972
19 May 2017	Roger Haudegand	FRA	BKB	1952—1956
19 May 2018	Rosine Faugouin	FRA	ATH	1948
19 May 2018	Arne Sorensen	CAN	SHO	1972—1976
19 May 2019	Leidy Asprilla	COL	FBL	2016
19 May 2019	Vitaly Chernobay	URS UKR	ATH	1956
19 May 2019	Knut Fredriksson	SWE	ATH	1960
19 May 2019	Ingemar Hedberg	SWE	CSP	1952
19 May 2019	Francisco de Ridder	ARG	ALP	1952
19 May 2019	Roy Sandstrom	GBR	ATH	1956
19 May 2021	Odd Berg	NOR	CRD	1952
19 May 2021	Bruno Bicocchi	FRA	CSP	1976
19 May 2021	Lee Evans	USA	ATH	1968—1972
19 May 2021	Neville Myton	JAM	ATH	1964—1968
19 May 2021	Nicole Péllissard-Darrigrand	FRA	DIV	1948—1960
19 May 2021	Aleksandr Privalov	RUS URS	BTH	1960—1964
19 May 2021	Aimé Verhoeven	BEL	WRE	1960
19 May 2022	George Shepherd	CAN	ATH	1960
19 May 2023	Lena Adler	SWE	GAR	1960
19 May 2023	Günter Bartnik	GDR	BTH	1972
19 May 2023	Brian Booth	AUS	HOC	1956
19 May 2023	Margot Ulzheimer	GER FRG	ATH	1952
19 May 2024	Sjef Hensgens	NED	ATH	1972
19 May 2024	Oreste Peccedi	ITA	ALP	1976
19 May 2024	Andreas Soeratman	INA	FEN	1960
19 May 2025	Reino Heino	FIN	GAR	1968