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Deaths on 27 December

135 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
27 December 1925	Wesley Harding	GBR	FBL	1920
27 December 1929	José Gamboa	CHI	CTR	1928
27 December 1932	Maurice Taillandier	FRA	FEN	1924—1928
27 December 1938	Jens Frølich	NOR	FEN	1936
27 December 1939	Ernst Jencquel	GER	ROW	1900
27 December 1940	Arthur Sweeney	GBR	ATH	1936
27 December 1941	Richard Herrmann	GER		1938—1941
27 December 1941	Voldemar Rõks	EST	FBL	1924
27 December 1941	Hermann Wilker	GER	ROW	1900—1912
27 December 1942	Jan Ankerman	NED	HOC	1928
27 December 1942	Paul Béranger	FRA	ATH	1924
27 December 1945	Émile Cornellie	BEL	SAL	1920
27 December 1945	Kurt Reichenbach	GER	GAR	1912
27 December 1947	Alphonzo Bell	USA	TEN	1904
27 December 1947	Sven Ohlsson	SWE	FBL	1908
27 December 1950	Bernard Apesteguy	FRA	PEL	1900
27 December 1951	Émile Voigt	FRA	AUT	1900
27 December 1952	Otto, Prinz zu Windisch-Graetz	AUT		1911—1919
27 December 1955	James Jones	GBR	FBL	1900
27 December 1956	Ivan Dresser	USA	ATH	1920
27 December 1957	Christian Pedersen	DEN	SHO	1908
27 December 1959	Shah Mahmud Khan	AFG
27 December 1960	Muslih Peykoğlu	TUR	FBL	1924—1928
27 December 1961	Henry Deloge	FRA	ATH	1900
27 December 1961	Wim van Rekum	NED	TOW	1920
27 December 1962	Jack Howcroft	GBR	FBL	1908
27 December 1962	Christian Michelet	NOR	EDR/EJP	1912—1920
27 December 1963	Sigvard Sivertsen	NOR	GAR	1908—1912
27 December 1966	Frankie Genaro	USA	BOX	1920
27 December 1966	Bert Sansum	GBR	WRE	1924—1928
27 December 1966	Kurt Schöbel	GER FRG	SHO	1952
27 December 1966	Armand Simon	SUI	TEN	1920
27 December 1967	Percy Hodge	GBR	ATH	1920
27 December 1967	William Yates	GBR	ATH	1912
27 December 1968	Glauco Servadei	ITA	CRD	1936
27 December 1969	Henri Barbenés	FRA	ROW	1920
27 December 1971	Mike Ryan	USA	ATH	1908—1912
27 December 1972	Marcel Bouchez	FRA	SHO	1948
27 December 1972	Șerban Manciulescu	ROU	SHO	1936
27 December 1972	Petter Martinsen	NOR	GAR	1912
27 December 1973	Paul Haranger	FRA	HOC	1920
27 December 1974	Reino Tuominen	FIN	WRE	1960
27 December 1975	Pierre Turquet	GBR	FEN	1948
27 December 1976	Anders Ahlgren	SWE	WRE	1912—1920
27 December 1976	Herman Doerner	AUS	SWM/WPO	1948—1960
27 December 1976	Hippolyte Vanhoele	FRA	GAR	1920
27 December 1977	Mieken Rieck	GER	TEN	1912
27 December 1978	Jerzy Gregołajtys	POL	BKB	1936
27 December 1979	Francesco Dezulian	ITA	CCS	1932
27 December 1979	Cesare Presca	ITA	FBL	1948
27 December 1981	Lovro Žemva	SLO YUG	CCS	1936
27 December 1982	Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair	IRL	MUS	1952
27 December 1985	Harold Whitlock	GBR	ATH	1936—1952
27 December 1986	Clive Longe	GBR	ATH	1968
27 December 1986	Semyon Rzhishchin	RUS URS	ATH	1956—1960
27 December 1987	Tetsuo Imai	JPN	ATH	1936
27 December 1988	Henry de Menten de Horne	BEL	EJP	1936
27 December 1989	Jacques Cuvilly	FRA	WPO	1936
27 December 1989	Gerard Maarse	NED	SSK	1952—1956
27 December 1989	Branko Tretinjak	CRO YUG	FEN	1936
27 December 1989	Giovanni Battista Tubino	ITA	GAR	1920
27 December 1990	Hubert Persson	SWE	WRE	1952
27 December 1990	Kurt Wahl	GER FRG	FEN	1952
27 December 1991	Arne Holst	NOR	BOB	1948—1952
27 December 1991	Osório Pereira	BRA	ROW	1932
27 December 1993	Ivo Ghezze	ITA	IHO	1964
27 December 1993	Runar Holmberg	FIN	ATH	1948
27 December 1994	Paul Bunschoten	NED	CSP	1968
27 December 1995	Henk Bouwman	NED	HOC	1948
27 December 1995	Winslow Hall	USA	ROW	1932
27 December 1997	Webster Chikabala	ZAM	FBL	1988
27 December 1997	Jesús Suárez-Valgrande	ESP	CCS	1936
27 December 1997	Tamara Tyshkevich	RUS URS	ATH	1952—1956
27 December 1998	Glyn Charles	GBR	SAL	1996
27 December 1999	Sture Frölén	SWE	ATT	1948
27 December 2000	Toshiyasu Ishige	JPN	SHO	1964—1976
27 December 2000	Maurice Willoughby	GBR	WPE	1948
27 December 2001	Peter Cooke	KEN	SAL	1964
27 December 2001	Bobby Fowler	RSA	CRD/CTR	1952—1960
27 December 2001	Robert Nielsen	DEN	WRE	1936
27 December 2001	Zoltan Norman	ROU	WPO	1952
27 December 2001	Karl Ördögh	AUT	HOC	1928—1952
27 December 2002	Jorge Cermesoni	ARG	FEN	1948
27 December 2002	Anatoly Shevchenko	RUS URS	HBL	1972
27 December 2002	Ruth Svedberg	SWE	ATH	1928
27 December 2002	Masayuki Takahashi	JPN	SAL	1988
27 December 2003	Đuro Radan	MNE YUG	WPO	1960
27 December 2003	Adrien Vanden Eede	BEL		1992—1998
27 December 2004	José Esteban Valle	NCA	ATH	1968—1972
27 December 2005	Leif Hermansen	DEN	ROW	1952
27 December 2005	Giancarlo Primo	ITA	BKB	1948—1976
27 December 2007	Kay Long	GBR	ATH	1948
27 December 2008	Preben Isaksson	DEN	CTR	1964
27 December 2008	Sahu Mewalal	IND	FBL	1948—1952
27 December 2009	Nasser Aghaie	IRI	BOX	1964
27 December 2009	Gunnar Kemnitz	BRA	DIV	1948
27 December 2009	Mauno Maisala	FIN	ROW	1964
27 December 2009	Takashi Takabayashi	JPN	FBL	1956
27 December 2009	Rodolfo Vollenweider	ARG	SAL	1952
27 December 2012	Valentin Boreyko	RUS URS	ROW	1960—1964
27 December 2012	Jorma Kortelainen	FIN	CCS/ROW	1956—1960
27 December 2012	Benny McLaughlin	USA	FBL	1948
27 December 2012	Henri Mottier	SUI	WRE	1960
27 December 2012	Vladimir Sinyavsky	URS UKR	WRE	1960
27 December 2014	Fatima Aouam	MAR	ATH	1988
27 December 2014	Joaquín Loyo Mayo	MEX	TEN	1968
27 December 2015	Stein Eriksen	NOR	ALP	1948—1994
27 December 2015	Bill Mullins	IRL	EVE	1956
27 December 2015	Heinz Schulz	GDR GER	BOX	1964
27 December 2016	Renato Martini	ITA	ATH	1972
27 December 2016	Mariano Pérez	ESP	BOX	1968
27 December 2017	Larry McGuinness	CAN	EVE	1952
27 December 2018	Andreas Brügger	SUI		2000
27 December 2018	Charles Mukora	KEN		1989—1999
27 December 2019	Roma Cuyas	ESP		1983—1984
27 December 2019	Aly Knepper	LUX	SHO	1960
27 December 2019	Ilias Rosidis	GRE	FBL	1952
27 December 2020	Csaba Ali	HUN	SWM	1964
27 December 2020	Maria Gąsienica Bukowa-Kowalska	POL	CCS	1956
27 December 2020	Marian Jochman	POL	ATH	1960
27 December 2020	Melecio Rivera	ESA		1987—1999
27 December 2021	Andreas Behm	GER	WLF	1992—1996
27 December 2021	Norman Freeman	USA	SAL	1976
27 December 2021	Kazimierz Lewandowski	POL	ROW	1972
27 December 2021	François Meyvaert	BEL	HOC	1968
27 December 2021	José Vélez	PUR	VVO	2012
27 December 2022	Dominique Bentejac	FRA	EVE	1972—1976
27 December 2022	Timo Grönlund	FIN	CSP	1976—1988
27 December 2022	Luann Ryon	USA	ARC	1976
27 December 2022	Imre Szöllősi	HUN	CSP	1960—1968
27 December 2023	Zheko Spiridonov	BUL	FEN	1960
27 December 2024	Ted Mittet	USA	ROW	1964
27 December 2025	Lou Gerstner	USA		2000
27 December 2025	Eta Kaize	INA	VBV	1996
27 December 2025	Janine Monterrain	FRA	ALP	1960