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Deaths on 26 January

127 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
26 January 1919	Hermann von Bönninghausen	GER	ATH	1908—1912
26 January 1922	Henrik Angell	NOR		1905—1907
26 January 1931	Henri Manu	ROU	RGB	1924
26 January 1935	Jay Gould	USA	JDP	1908
26 January 1937	Georg Edenhauser	AUT	IST	1936
26 January 1941	Archie Lockhart	CAN	CUR	1932
26 January 1944	Akseli Roine	FIN	GAR	1924
26 January 1945	Jacob van der Kop	NED	SHO	1908
26 January 1945	Jan Pešta	TCH	MUS	1936
26 January 1946	René Xavier Prinet	FRA	PNT	1932
26 January 1947	Prins Gustaf Adolf	SWE	EJP	1933—1947
26 January 1951	Henri Bard	FRA	FBL	1920—1924
26 January 1951	Alfred Gindrat	FRA	FBL	1912
26 January 1952	Karel Joan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm	NED	LIT	1928
26 January 1954	Carl Eldh	SWE	SKL	1932
26 January 1955	Willie Jackson	GBR	CUR	1924
26 January 1955	Holger Nielsen	DEN	ATH/FEN/SHO/SWM	1896
26 January 1956	Robert Lindsay-Watson	GBR	ATH	1908
26 January 1957	Jean Thorailler	FRA	BOB/SWM/WPO	1912—1928
26 January 1962	Jessica Lewis	USA	MUS	1932
26 January 1965	Osman Yüce	TUR	ALP	1948—1964
26 January 1966	Ernfrid Appelqvist	SWE	DIV	1912
26 January 1966	Jimmy Thompson	CAN	SWM	1928
26 January 1966	Ödön Toldi	HUN	SWM	1908—1912
26 January 1967	Valentino Bertolini	ITA	ATH	1948
26 January 1970	Mohammed Taher	EGY		1934—1970
26 January 1971	Henri Baumann	SUI	BKB	1948—1952
26 January 1972	Arthur Fulton	GBR	SHO	1908—1912
26 January 1972	Peter Sofus Nielsen	DEN	SHO	1912
26 January 1975	Henning Olsen	NOR	SSK	1928
26 January 1976	Robert Hawkey	GBR	ATH	1948
26 January 1976	Bill Yeckley	USA	USF	1932
26 January 1977	Harun Ülman	TUR	SAL	1936
26 January 1978	Heino Freyberg	SWE	BOB	1964
26 January 1978	Thomas Pierie	USA	ROW	1932
26 January 1979	Ryszard Piec	POL	FBL	1936
26 January 1979	Luis Riera	ARG	MPN	1952—1960
26 January 1980	Willy Huybrechts	BEL	SAL	1948
26 January 1980	Gustaf Nilsson	SWE	WRE	1920
26 January 1980	Knut Olsen	NOR	SWM	1928
26 January 1980	Torchy Peden	CAN	CRD/CTR	1928
26 January 1981	Jean De Schryver	BEL	BOX	1936
26 January 1981	Herb Taylor	USA	SSK	1932
26 January 1982	Giancarlo Boriani	ITA	SHO	1920—1936
26 January 1982	Andreas Lind	DEN	CSP	1952
26 January 1984	Einar Borges	DEN	WRE	1928
26 January 1984	Koula Pratsika	GRE		1936
26 January 1986	Hans Homberger	SUI	ROW	1936
26 January 1986	Julien Médecin	MON	ATT	1924
26 January 1988	Pieter Bressinck	BEL	WRE	1928
26 January 1988	Freddie Wolff	GBR	ATH	1936
26 January 1989	George Schroth	USA	WPO	1924—1928
26 January 1989	Aileen Thomas	CAN	FEN	1936
26 January 1991	Des Koch	USA	ATH	1956
26 January 1992	Hans Schulze	GER FRG	WPO	1932—1960
26 January 1993	Erminio Bolzan	ITA	BOX	1936
26 January 1993	Jeanne Sauvé	CAN		1988
26 January 1993	Alajos Szilassy	HUN	ROW	1936
26 January 1994	Elsa Andersson	SWE	DIV	1912
26 January 1995	Charlie Altemose	USA	FBL	1936
26 January 1995	Carlos Rodríguez-Feo	CUB	SHO	1948
26 January 1995	Ian Tomlinson	AUS	ATH	1960—1964
26 January 1996	Charley Jewtraw	USA	SSK	1924
26 January 1996	Dave Schultz	USA	WRE	1984
26 January 1996	Dimitri Zaitz	USA	ATH	1936
26 January 1997	Mercer Davies	RSA	ATH	1956
26 January 1997	Roberto Queralt	ESP	SWM/WPO	1952
26 January 1997	Chick Stoddard	USA	ROW	1924
26 January 1998	Vladimir Sevryugin	RUS URS	SHO	1952—1956
26 January 1999	Hélène Bons	FRA	ATH	1928
26 January 1999	Walter Dossenbach	SUI	WLF	1952
26 January 1999	Tomeju Uruma	JPN	SSK	1932
26 January 1999	Irén Zságot	HUN	DIV	1948
26 January 2002	Francisco Cabañas	MEX	BOX	1932
26 January 2003	Valery Brumel	RUS URS	ATH	1960—1964
26 January 2003	Lars-Erik Efverström	SWE	CCS/NCB	1952
26 January 2003	Erik Kalugin	RUS URS	CSP	1964
26 January 2003	Hal Manning	USA	ATH	1936
26 January 2004	Anatoly Bogatyrev	RUS	FSK	1998
26 January 2004	Stanley Nantais	CAN	BKB	1936
26 January 2007	Irsan Husen	INA	WLF	1968
26 January 2008	Joe Sklar	CAN	WLF	1948
26 January 2009	Tom Amlong	USA	ROW	1964
26 January 2009	Don Jackson	CAN	ARC	1972
26 January 2009	Ivan Jensen	DEN	FBL	1948
26 January 2009	Lucijan Kleva	YUG	ROW	1964
26 January 2009	Muhammad Rashid	PAK	HOC	1964
26 January 2010	Leonid Saar	EST	BKB	1936
26 January 2010	Ajmer Singh	IND	ATH	1964
26 January 2010	Stig Winter	FIN	ROW	1952
26 January 2011	Moris Sakhvadze	GEO URS EUN	FEN	1980—1992
26 January 2011	Tore Sjöstrand	SWE	ATH	1948
26 January 2012	Roberto Mieres	ARG	SAL	1960
26 January 2013	Lorenzo Cantarello	ITA	CSP	1960
26 January 2013	Acer Nethercott	GBR	ROW	2008
26 January 2014	Renzo Colzi	FRA	CTR	1956
26 January 2014	Paavo Kotila	FIN	ATH	1956
26 January 2015	José Luis Allende	ESP	SAL	1948
26 January 2015	Miguel Ángel Cascallana	ESP	HBL	1972
26 January 2015	Lucjan Lis	POL	CRD	1972
26 January 2015	Valery Miloserdov	RUS URS	BKB	1976—1980
26 January 2016	Jan Czepułkowski	POL	WLF	1956
26 January 2016	Christer Jönsson	SWE	GAR	1968
26 January 2016	Oľga Kozičová	TCH SVK	SWM	1968
26 January 2016	Larry Woods	CAN	SAL	1976
26 January 2017	Anne-Marie Colchen	FRA	ATH	1948
26 January 2017	Atanas Kirov	BUL	WLF	1968—1972
26 January 2017	Mario Quintero	CUB	BKB	1948—1980
26 January 2018	Jim Lever	CAN	IHO	1984
26 January 2018	Yukiaki Okabe	JPN	SWM	1964
26 January 2019	Aleksandr Danilin	RUS URS	SSK	1984
26 January 2019	Henrik Jørgensen	DEN	ATH	1984—1988
26 January 2020	Jos Bernard	LUX	GAR	1948
26 January 2020	Kobe Bryant	USA	BKB	2008—2012
26 January 2021	Margitta Helmbold-Gummel	GDR GER	ATH	1964—1972
26 January 2022	Hector Curiel	AHO	WLF	1960—1964
26 January 2022	Jan Michalik	POL	WRE	1968—1972
26 January 2022	Moshin Mirza Khan	PAK	ATH	1952
26 January 2022	Ludwig Müller	GER FRG	ATH	1960
26 January 2023	Zdeňka Hradilová	CZE TCH	CSP	1964
26 January 2023	Keith Thomson	NZL	HOC	1968
26 January 2024	Sukhbir Singh Gill	IND	HOC	2000
26 January 2025	Moses Effiong	NGR	FBL	1980
26 January 2025	Avtar Singh Bhurji	UGA	HOC	1972
26 January 2025	Sirpa Ylönen	FIN	SHO	1984—1988
26 January 2026	John Dwyer	AUS	HOC	1956
26 January 2026	Htwe Myint	MYA		2018—2021