Deaths on 20 March

120 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
20 March 1916	Ota Benga	COD	ATH	1904
20 March 1925	Jan de Blécourt	NED	SHO	1908
20 March 1928	William Henry	GBR	SWM/WPO	1900—1906
20 March 1929	Eduard Meijer	NED	SWM/WPO	1900—1908
20 March 1930	Arthur Andrews	USA	CTR	1904
20 March 1935	Thomas Hooper	GBR	FFG	1900
20 March 1938	Jacob Opdahl	NOR	GAR	1912—1920
20 March 1939	Walfredo Consuegra	CUB
20 March 1943	Seth Collins	USA	BKB	1904
20 March 1943	Louis Madeira	USA	ATH	1912
20 March 1944	Sébastien Verhulst	BEL	FBL	1928
20 March 1949	Karl Neuner	GER	NCB	1928
20 March 1951	Marcus Dinwiddie	USA	SHO	1924
20 March 1952	Hjalmar Väre	FIN	CRD	1912
20 March 1953	Henry Allard	FRA	SAL	1928
20 March 1953	Henry Oberholzer	GBR	GAR	1912
20 March 1953	Gábor Ormai	HUN	FBL	1924
20 March 1954	Grant Gordon	CAN	IHO	1928
20 March 1956	Fanny Durack	ANZ AUS	SWM	1912
20 March 1956	Jacques de Saint-Pastou	FRA	ART	1924
20 March 1957	Harold Speed	GBR	ART	1928
20 March 1959	Einar Svensson	SWE	IHO	1920
20 March 1962	Lodovico Nulli	ITA	SHO	1936
20 March 1962	Lajos Somlay	HUN	EJP	1956—1960
20 March 1963	Erwin Kern	GER	ATH	1912
20 March 1963	Karl-Maria May	AUT	ART	1936—1948
20 March 1964	Ernst Balser	GER	ART	1932
20 March 1964	Janez Polda	SLO YUG	SJP	1948—1956
20 March 1965	Ed Archibald	CAN	ATH	1906—1908
20 March 1965	Louis Bonniot de Fleurac	FRA	ART/ATH	1906—1928
20 March 1965	Dan Frank	USA	ATH	1904
20 March 1965	Tommy Harvey	GBR	CTR	1920—1924
20 March 1966	Hernando Castelo	PHI	SHO	1956—1960
20 March 1967	Charles Lavaivre	FRA	IHO	1924
20 March 1968	Arthur Harris	USA	POL	1920
20 March 1969	Stanislav Binar	TCH	ART	1948
20 March 1970	Albert Scothern	GBR	FBL	1908
20 March 1970	Jaipal Singh	IND	HOC	1928
20 March 1971	José Martínez	ESP	ROW	1924
20 March 1972	Marius Andersen	DEN	FBL	1908
20 March 1972	Gerard, Jonkheer Bosch van Drakestein	NED	CTR	1908—1928
20 March 1972	Frederic King	USA	ART	1936
20 March 1974	George Bretnall	USA	ATH	1920
20 March 1975	Henning Holst	DEN	HOC	1920—1936
20 March 1976	Fred Kahele	USA	SWM	1920
20 March 1977	Rudy Hansen	DEN	ATH	1908
20 March 1977	Han Krug	NED	ART	1936
20 March 1977	Børge Saxil Nielsen	DEN	CRD	1948
20 March 1978	Jacques Brugnon	FRA	TEN	1920—1924
20 March 1978	Heinz Manchen	GER FRG	ROW	1952
20 March 1979	Henri Hell	FRA	BKB	1936
20 March 1979	Mariscal	ESP	FBL	1928
20 March 1981	Irving Jaffee	USA	SSK	1928—1932
20 March 1982	Akira Kato	JPN PER	VVO	1968
20 March 1983	Thure Ahlqvist	SWE	BOX	1932
20 March 1984	Silvio Hernández	MEX	BKB	1936
20 March 1984	Robin Tait	NZL	ATH	1968—1972
20 March 1985	Gianni Baldisserri	ITA	FBL	1960
20 March 1985	Roger Ninham	AUS	ROW	1960—1964
20 March 1986	Kenichi Konishi	JPN	HOC	1932
20 March 1987	Joe Fitzgerald	USA	IHO	1932
20 March 1987	Luigi Gandini	ITA	ROW	1948
20 March 1987	Ernst Karlberg	SWE	IHO	1924—1928
20 March 1988	Donald Lawler	IRL	FBL	1948
20 March 1988	Greer Skousen	MEX	BKB	1936
20 March 1989	Mogens Lüchow	DEN	FEN	1948—1952
20 March 1989	Per Winge	DEN	SHO	1952
20 March 1990	Edward Deir	CAN	CMA/CSP	1936
20 March 1990	Lev Yashin	RUS URS	FBL	1956
20 March 1991	Buddy Friedrichs	USA	SAL	1968
20 March 1992	Pierre Mange	SUI	EVE	1936
20 March 1993	Hans Christian Andersen	DEN	EVE	1952—1956
20 March 1993	Ahmed Naseer Bunda	PAK	HOC	1956—1960
20 March 1993	Toni Spiß	AUT	ALP	1952
20 March 1993	Don Sutton	USA	LAX	1948
20 March 1994	IJke Buisma	NED	ATH	1928
20 March 1996	Werner Loeckle	GER	ROW	1936
20 March 1997	Carlo Fassi	ITA	FSK	1948—1952
20 March 1999	Alfred Gansiniec	POL	IHO	1948—1952
20 March 1999	Sivert Mattsson	SWE	CCS	1932
20 March 1999	Hays McLellan	USA	ROW	1932
20 March 2000	Shinzo Yamada	JPN	CCS/NCB	1936
20 March 2001	Henry Carpenter	GBR	BOX	1948
20 March 2001	Frank O'Reilly	IRL	ATH	1960
20 March 2001	Frank Reynolds	GBR	HOC	1948—1960
20 March 2003	Alberto López	ARG	BKB	1952
20 March 2005	Oscar Verona	ITA	WRE	1948
20 March 2006	Nicolas Birtz	LUX	FBL	1948
20 March 2006	Zdzisław Trojanowski	POL	IHO	1952
20 March 2007	Dora Jelínková	CZE TCH	VVO	1972
20 March 2009	Jaroslav Pitner	TCH	IHO	1968—1972
20 March 2009	Pierre Skawinski	FRA	ATH	1936
20 March 2009	Václav Winter	CZE TCH	ATH	1948
20 March 2009	Albina Yelkina	URS UKR	ATH	1956
20 March 2010	Rihards Kotāns	LAT URS	BOB	1984
20 March 2011	Giovanni Nesti	ITA	BKB	1948
20 March 2012	Ottorino Enzo	ITA	ROW	1952
20 March 2012	Frits de Ruijter	NED	ATH	1948
20 March 2013	Shunichi Hirai	JPN		1999
20 March 2013	Stefano Simoncelli	ITA	FEN	1972—1976
20 March 2014	Roland Svensson	SWE	WRE	1968
20 March 2015	Martin Edmondson	USA	SHO	1976
20 March 2015	François Schlechter	LUX	WRE	1960
20 March 2015	Zoltán Szilárd	HUN	SWM	1948
20 March 2016	Enrico Bisso	ITA	SWM	1976
20 March 2016	Gayle Hopkins	USA	ATH	1964
20 March 2017	El Tigre	BRA	BOX	1952
20 March 2017	Ed Wright	USA	FEN	1976
20 March 2018	Iosif Naghi	ROU	ATH	1976—1980
20 March 2018	Bill Smith	USA	WRE	1952
20 March 2019	Ken Wiesner	USA	ATH	1952
20 March 2020	PK Banerjee	IND	FBL	1956—1960
20 March 2020	Allah Ditta	PAK	ATH	1956—1960
20 March 2020	Borislav Stanković	SRB SCG YUG		1988—2020
20 March 2020	Vladimír Zábrodský	CZE TCH	IHO	1948—1956
20 March 2020	Edi Ziegler	GER FRG	CRD	1952
20 March 2021	Milan Hurtala	TCH SVK	ROW	1968
20 March 2022	Eric Hall	GBR	ATH	1956—1960
20 March 2022	Miguel Navarro	ESP	ATH	1960
20 March 2022	Gaétan Turcotte	CAN	WPO	1976—2008