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Deaths on 26 March

144 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
26 March 1918	George Cullen	GBR	GAR	1908
26 March 1934	John Biller	USA	ATH	1904—1912
26 March 1936	Edwin Fowlkes	USA	USF	1904
26 March 1936	Kurt Stenberg	FIN	GAR	1908
26 March 1936	Fleetwood Varley	GBR	SHO	1908—1912
26 March 1937	Samuel Hunter	USA	ROW	1920
26 March 1938	David Noon	GBR	CTR	1908
26 March 1938	Kiril Shivarov	BUL	ARO	1932
26 March 1939	Pol Louis Neveux	FRA	FEN	1900
26 March 1940	Spyros Louis	GRE	ATH	1896
26 March 1941	Frans Jurgens	NED	SHO	1920—1924
26 March 1943	Jacob van Moppes	NED	WRE	1908
26 March 1943	Abraham d'Oliveira	NED	GAR	1908
26 March 1946	Frank Ihrcke	USA	GAR	1904
26 March 1946	Sven-Olof Lundgren	SWE	SJP	1928
26 March 1947	Ejnar Hansen	DEN	WRE	1924—1928
26 March 1948	Faustin Jouët-Pastré	FRA	SAL	1900
26 March 1948	Émile St. Godard	CAN	DSR	1932
26 March 1951	Robert Gelée	FRA	ROW	1900
26 March 1951	Klas Lundström	SWE	ATH	1912
26 March 1953	Paul Loicq	BEL	IHO	1920—1947
26 March 1953	Charles Power	GBR IRL	HOC	1908
26 March 1954	Bill Agee	USA	ATH	1928
26 March 1954	Samad Khan, Prince Momtaz os-Saltaneh	IRI		1923—1927
26 March 1954	Charles Perrin	FRA	ROW	1900
26 March 1956	Paul Manoury	FRA	SHO	1900
26 March 1956	János Sólyom	HUN	WRE	1952
26 March 1959	Gustaf Lindstrand	SWE	WRE	1912
26 March 1959	Giannetto Termanini	ITA	GAR	1908
26 March 1960	Heikki Åhlman	FIN	ATH	1906
26 March 1961	Svend Aage Thomsen	DEN	ATH	1936
26 March 1962	Alfred Lörcher	GER	SKL	1952
26 March 1963	Jens Falkenberg	NOR	EDR/EJP	1912—1920
26 March 1963	Herbert Gidney	USA	ATH	1908
26 March 1964	André Lepère	FRA	CRD/CTR	1908—1912
26 March 1965	Heinrich Schomburgk	GER	TEN	1908—1912
26 March 1966	Morris Doob	USA	SHO	1936
26 March 1966	Victor Hochepied	FRA	SWM	1900
26 March 1966	Hilde Schrader	GER	SWM	1928
26 March 1966	Tony Terlazzo	USA	WLF	1932—1936
26 March 1967	Jim Thompson	USA	SAL	1928
26 March 1968	Albertus Wielsma	NED	ROW	1908
26 March 1970	Georgios Theodoratus	GRE	ATH	1932
26 March 1971	Eetu Kostamo	FIN	GAR	1924
26 March 1973	Wolfgang Dessecker	GER	ATH	1936
26 March 1973	Alfons Pažur	CRO YUG	FBL	1924
26 March 1973	Charles Thöni	SUI		1956—1966
26 March 1975	Hermann Weissengruber	AUT	EVE	1936
26 March 1976	Ernst Albrecht	GER	FBL	1928
26 March 1976	Kurt Lundqvist	SWE	ATH	1936
26 March 1976	Jean-Baptiste Meyer	LUX	FBL	1928
26 March 1977	Tommy Scally	ARG	HOC	1948
26 March 1980	Dragutin Friedrich	CRO YUG	FBL	1924
26 March 1981	Frank Fiddes	CAN	ROW	1928
26 March 1982	Hendrika Bante	NED	DIV	1924
26 March 1982	Johann Heinrich Höhl	GER	PNT	1936
26 March 1982	Reino Kuivamäki	FIN	ATH	1948—1952
26 March 1982	Henriëtte Laman Trip-de Beaufort	NED	LIT	1928
26 March 1983	Paul Fässler	SUI	FBL	1924—1928
26 March 1983	Ernie Riedel	USA	CSP	1936—1948
26 March 1986	Pedro Puente	PER	SHO	1960—1964
26 March 1987	Ferdinando Alessandri	BRA	FEN	1936—1948
26 March 1987	Pascual Gutiérrez	MEX	ATH	1936
26 March 1987	Erich Römer	GER	IHO	1928—1932
26 March 1988	Eddie Boyce	GBR	ATH	1936
26 March 1989	Cozy Harris	DMA		1986—1989
26 March 1989	Asbjørn Ruud	NOR	SJP	1948
26 March 1991	Mark Darley	IRL	EVE	1952
26 March 1991	Gang Du-Tae	KOR	VVO	1984
26 March 1991	Doug Herland	USA	ROW	1984
26 March 1992	Nan Gindele	USA	ATH	1932
26 March 1992	Rihei Sano	JPN	FBL	1936
26 March 1994	Emma Bosch	ESP	ALP	1992
26 March 1994	Willi Kirschner	ROU	FHB	1936
26 March 1995	Raúl Cascaret	CUB	WRE	1980
26 March 1996	Maurice Gramain	FRA	FEN	1936—1948
26 March 1996	David du Plessis	RSA	SHO	1960
26 March 1997	Stanislav Bacílek	CZE TCH	IHO	1956
26 March 1997	Hartmut Losch	GDR GER	ATH	1964—1972
26 March 1997	Lloyd Valberg	SGP	ATH	1948
26 March 1999	Andrzej Konopka	POL	GAR	1960—1964
26 March 1999	Andrija Otenhajmer	CRO YUG	ATH	1952
26 March 2001	Antoni Adamski	POL	HOC	1952
26 March 2001	Brenda Helser	USA	SWM	1948
26 March 2001	Suzanne Raeth	FRA	DIV	1924
26 March 2002	Miguel Godoy	PER	BKB	1936
26 March 2002	Gerard Hijlkema	NED	HOC	1968
26 March 2003	Hans Brandenberger	SUI	SKL	1948
26 March 2004	Takeshi Kamo	JPN	FBL	1936
26 March 2004	Bertrand de Montaudoüin	FRA	MPN	1952
26 March 2004	Sekiji Sasano	JPN	FBL	1936
26 March 2005	Franz Hiermann	AUT	MSP	1936
26 March 2005	Gerald Marchand	GBR	CSP	1952
26 March 2006	Kristoffer Lepsøe	NOR	ROW	1948—1952
26 March 2006	Alejandro Ruidíaz	ARG	FBL	1988
26 March 2007	Billy Barry	IRL	FBL	1948
26 March 2007	Donald Stringer	GBR	FEN	1960
26 March 2008	Jeanette Bailey	GBR	FEN	1960
26 March 2008	Jean Marie Balestre	FRA		1985—1993
26 March 2008	JJ Jordan	USA		1995
26 March 2008	Aleksandr Tenyagin	RUS URS	FBL	1952
26 March 2009	Tot Glanville	GBR	BOX	1948
26 March 2010	Ruy Kopper	BRA	ROW	1956
26 March 2010	Heinz Laufer	GER FRG	ATH	1956
26 March 2011	František Havránek	CZE TCH	FBL	1980
26 March 2011	Yrjö Hietanen	FIN	CSP	1952—1956
26 March 2011	Zdeněk Kořínek	TCH	IHO	1968
26 March 2011	Vital L'Host	BEL	BOX	1948
26 March 2011	Kazimierz Macioch	POL	WRE	1960—1976
26 March 2012	Jay Holt	USA	WRE	1956
26 March 2013	René Pirolley	FRA	SWM	1948—1956
26 March 2013	Yury Rudov	RUS URS	FEN	1956—1960
26 March 2013	Gerhard Schulenburg	FRG	FBL	1972
26 March 2014	Carlos Miguel Benn	ARG	SAL	1952
26 March 2014	Nevio De Zordo	ITA	BOB	1972—1976
26 March 2014	Walter Perón	PER	SHO	1968—1980
26 March 2014	Reinhold Pommer	GER FRG	CRD	1956
26 March 2015	Hermann Knoll	AUT	HOC/IHO	1952—1964
26 March 2015	David Tarsey	GBR	DIV	1956
26 March 2016	Francisco García	MEX	WPO	1968—1976
26 March 2016	János Kilián	HUN	SSK	1948
26 March 2016	Igor Pashkevich	AZE RUS	FSK	1994—1998
26 March 2016	John Rodgers	AUS	ROW	1952
26 March 2016	Jack Taylor	CAN	ROW	1952
26 March 2017	Brian Oldfield	USA	ATH	1972
26 March 2017	Philippe, Comte d'Ursel	BEL	ALP	1948
26 March 2018	William Plant	JAM	SAL	1968
26 March 2018	Fernand Steenacker	BEL	ROW	1956
26 March 2019	Miklós Martin	HUN	WPO	1952—1956
26 March 2020	Nikola Hristov	BUL	ATH	1980
26 March 2020	Slobodan Kićović	SRB YUG	SWM	1960
26 March 2020	Sundar Shyam	IND	WRE	1960
26 March 2020	Daniel Yuste	ESP	CTR	1968
26 March 2021	Ursula Happe	GER FRG	SWM	1952—1956
26 March 2021	Hossein Khodaparast	IRI	FBL	1964
26 March 2021	Lennart Larsson	SWE	CCS	1956—1960
26 March 2021	Pete Smith	GBR	CRD	1968
26 March 2024	Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer	GDR GER	ATH	1956—1960
26 March 2024	Robert Lee	USA	WPO	1988
26 March 2025	Rico Bianchi	SUI	ROW	1952—1960
26 March 2025	László Jakabházy	HUN	IHO	1964
26 March 2025	Ferenc Szabó	HUN	JUD	1972
26 March 2025	Masami Tanabu	JPN	IHO	1960—1964
26 March 2026	Roza Salikhova	RUS URS	VVO	1968—1972