Deaths on 2 October

110 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
2 October 1918	John Barnett	ANZ AUS	RGB	1908
2 October 1925	Richard Gregory	CAN	ROW	1912
2 October 1926	František Slavík	BOH	ATH	1912
2 October 1935	Ludwig Hofmann	GER	FBL	1928
2 October 1935	Milada Skrbková	CZE TCH	TEN	1920
2 October 1939	Ichita Kobashi	JPN		1936—1938
2 October 1940	Johan Anker	NOR	SAL	1908—1928
2 October 1940	Ole Tobias Olsen	NOR	SHO	1906
2 October 1941	Félix Ghysels	FRA	GAR	1900
2 October 1942	Adolf Baumgarten	GER	BOX	1936
2 October 1943	Mutsuo Taniguchi	JPN	ATH	1936
2 October 1945	Iwao Aizawa	JPN	ATH	1928
2 October 1947	Hermon Atkins MacNeil	USA	SKL	1928—1932
2 October 1948	Lincoln Johnson	USA	SWM	1912
2 October 1949	Richard Martin Werner	GER	SKL	1936
2 October 1950	Teodor Malm	SWE	FBL	1908—1912
2 October 1950	Jean-Pierre Stock	FRA	ROW	1924
2 October 1951	Drago Ivković	CRO YUG	CRD	1936
2 October 1952	Gustaf Broberg	SWE	ROW	1912
2 October 1952	William Gosling	GBR	FBL	1900
2 October 1955	Bill Orthwein	USA	SWM/WPO	1904
2 October 1956	Pierre Zaïdin	FRA	ATH	1924—1928
2 October 1960	Jean-François Blanchy	FRA	TEN	1912—1920
2 October 1962	Madeleine Fournier-Sarlovèze	FRA	GLF	1900
2 October 1962	Lilly Steiner	AUT	PNT	1928
2 October 1965	John Knott	GBR	SHO	1948
2 October 1965	Al Lane	USA	SHO	1912—1920
2 October 1968	Harold Goodworth	GBR	DIV	1908
2 October 1969	Bill Wood	CAN	ROW	1924
2 October 1971	Arnold Bögli	SUI	WRE	1928
2 October 1971	Pedro José de Galíndez	ESP	SAL	1928
2 October 1972	Fraser Herman	CAN	ROW	1932
2 October 1972	Gyula Móri	HUN	WRE	1936
2 October 1973	Paavo Nurmi	FIN	ATH	1920—1952
2 October 1975	Peter Mazzeo	USA	BOX	1928
2 October 1976	Fred Bock	USA	ATH	1904
2 October 1977	Odd Frantzen	NOR	FBL	1936
2 October 1978	Eleanor Coleman	USA	SWM	1924
2 October 1978	Sjur Johnsen	NOR	WRE	1920
2 October 1978	Carl-Olof Nylén	SWE	TEN	1912
2 October 1979	Jean Jourlin	FRA	WRE	1924—1936
2 October 1979	Sergio Martínez	CUB	CRD/CTR	1968
2 October 1980	Pietro Pastorino	ITA	ATH	1924
2 October 1981	Fidel LaBarba	USA	BOX	1924
2 October 1982	Lauri Valonen	FIN	NCB/SJP	1936
2 October 1983	Axel Elofs	SWE	ATH	1928
2 October 1983	Kjeld Kjos	NOR	FBL	1936
2 October 1984	Charlie Sien	SGP	BKB	1956—1964
2 October 1985	Al Fish	USA	VVO	1964
2 October 1987	Jack Lyons	USA	FBL	1928
2 October 1988	Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX	INA		1947—1981
2 October 1988	Jean Moulin	LUX	ATH	1928
2 October 1990	Étienne Cayrol	FRA	RGB	1924
2 October 1990	Jaime Mendes	POR	ATH	1936
2 October 1990	Karl Neumeister	AUT	EVE	1936
2 October 1991	Roger Domenjoz	SUI	BKB	1952
2 October 1991	Bo Westerberg	SWE	SAL	1936
2 October 1992	Bill Kennedy	CAN	ATH	1920
2 October 1992	Luis Serra	URU	CTR	1952—1960
2 October 1992	Alfred Stefani	CAN	ROW	1948
2 October 1993	Ángel Riveras	ESP	SAL	1968
2 October 1996	Jean-Louis Dauris	FRA	SAL	1952
2 October 1997	Esa Seeste	FIN	GAR	1936—1948
2 October 1998	Armando Barrientos	CUB	FEN	1948
2 October 1998	Enrico Pagani	ITA	BKB	1952
2 October 1999	John Bugeja	MLT	CRD	1960
2 October 1999	Paddy Hardy	IRL	BOX	1948
2 October 1999	Kim Hyeon-Jun	KOR	BKB	1988
2 October 1999	Pascual Pistarini	ARG	EJP	1948
2 October 2000	Kerstin Ahlqvist	SWE	ALP	1952
2 October 2001	Jim Carolane	AUS	SAL	1956
2 October 2002	Buster Logan	USA	CTR	1936
2 October 2002	Alex Sinclair	CAN	IHO	1936
2 October 2003	Ion Ferenz	ROU	IHO	1964
2 October 2006	Anselmo Citterio	ITA	CTR	1948
2 October 2007	Willi Rößler	SAA	FEN	1952
2 October 2008	Anna Hagemann	GER	ATH	1936
2 October 2008	Gerhard Schulz	GDR GER	EVE	1960—1964
2 October 2009	Chan Fai-Hung	TPE	FBL	1960
2 October 2009	John Hennessy	GBR		1980
2 October 2009	Jørgen Jensen	DEN	ATH	1972—1976
2 October 2011	Cindy Shatto	CAN	DIV	1976
2 October 2011	Son Yeong-Wan	KOR	VVO	1964
2 October 2012	Stipan Dora	YUG	WRE	1960
2 October 2013	Adolf Tonn	AUT	BOB	1956
2 October 2014	Fyodor Bogdanovsky	RUS URS	WLF	1956
2 October 2014	André Buffière	FRA	BKB	1948—1960
2 October 2014	Eduardo Kucharski	ESP	BKB	1960
2 October 2016	Pierre Durand	FRA	EJP/EVE	1960—1972
2 October 2016	Inez Fischer-Credo	CAN	EDR	1964—1968
2 October 2016	Edward McHugh	USA	FBL	1952
2 October 2017	Friedrich von Löffelholz	FRG	CRD	1976
2 October 2017	Ernst Veenemans	NED	ROW	1960—1964
2 October 2018	Geoffrey Tudor	GBR	ATH	1948
2 October 2019	Dale Andersen	CAN	BOX	1972
2 October 2019	Grazia Barcellona	ITA	FSK	1948
2 October 2019	Farag El-Emary	EGY	TKW	1988
2 October 2019	Promise Isaac	NGR	FBL	2008
2 October 2019	Jafar Kashani	IRI	FBL	1972
2 October 2019	Enno Röder	GDR GER	CCS	1960—1964
2 October 2019	Hanno Selg	EST URS	MPN	1960
2 October 2020	Pauli Lahtinen	FIN	PSP	1952
2 October 2021	Ladislav Čepčianský	TCH SVK	CSP	1956—1960
2 October 2021	Birender Singh Thapa	IND	BOX	1980
2 October 2022	Éder Jofre	BRA	BOX	1956
2 October 2023	Lynn Eves	CAN	ATH	1960
2 October 2024	Jason Cirone	ITA	IHO	2006
2 October 2024	Rüdiger Henning	FRG	ROW	1968—1972
2 October 2025	Miroslav Kráľ	TCH SVK	FBL	1968
2 October 2025	Dick Pew	USA	FEN	1956