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Deaths on 4 December

118 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
4 December 1922	Félix Picon	FRA	SAL	1920
4 December 1923	Maurice Barrès	FRA	LIT	1924
4 December 1924	Adolf Schnitt	FIN	SHO	1912
4 December 1932	John Mahar	USA	FFG	1900
4 December 1934	Albert Besnard	FRA	PNT	1924
4 December 1937	Lajos Haraszthy	HUN	ROW	1908
4 December 1938	Gertruda Kilosówna	POL	ATH	1928
4 December 1938	Thomas Littledale	GBR	SAL	1908
4 December 1938	Ray Ruddy	USA	SWM/WPO	1928—1936
4 December 1941	Karl Kaschka	AUT	FEN	1936
4 December 1943	Lorenzo Colturi	ITA	CCS	1932
4 December 1944	Henri Luciri	SUI	BKB	1936
4 December 1944	Hildegarde Švarce	LAT	FSK	1936
4 December 1945	Richárd Weisz	HUN	WRE	1906—1912
4 December 1946	Eino Saastamoinen	FIN	GAR	1912
4 December 1946	Sándor Szobolevszky	HUN	BOX	1928
4 December 1947	Maxime Lanet	FRA	HOC	1928
4 December 1948	Amos Kash	RUS	SHO	1912
4 December 1953	Kikunosuke Tashiro	JPN	ATH	1924
4 December 1957	Jules Bernaerts	BEL	SKL	1936
4 December 1957	Arturo Gramajo	ARG	BOB	1928
4 December 1959	Pietro Borsari	SUI	SKL	1928—1936
4 December 1959	Hans Olsen	DEN	CRD	1912
4 December 1960	Konni Huber	FIN	SHO	1924—1952
4 December 1962	Ludwig Fruth	GER	IST	1936
4 December 1962	Pontus Hanson	SWE	SWM/WPO	1908—1920
4 December 1962	Carl Larsen	DEN	GAR	1912
4 December 1966	Axel Frank	SWE	WRE	1908—1912
4 December 1966	Einar Mässeli	FIN	CCS	1928
4 December 1966	Dick Piper	GBR	ATH	1920
4 December 1968	Félicien Kempeneers	BEL	GAR	1920
4 December 1969	Pablo Debran	SUI	TEN	1924
4 December 1969	Sophia Gorham	GBR	PBT	1908
4 December 1970	Rəşid Məmmədbəyov	AZE URS	WRE	1952
4 December 1972	Johan Rühl	NED	WPO	1908
4 December 1973	Lauri Lehtinen	FIN	ATH	1932—1936
4 December 1973	Jack McKenna	GBR	ATH	1924
4 December 1976	Kurt Hauser	SUI	IHO	1948—1960
4 December 1976	Patroklos Karantinos	GRE	ATT	1948
4 December 1977	Manuel Basté	ESP	WPO	1924
4 December 1977	Sijtse Jansma	NED	TOW	1920
4 December 1978	Rudolf Svensson	SWE	WRE	1924—1932
4 December 1979	Zoltan Kondorosy	ROU	WRE	1936
4 December 1980	Jenő Brandi	HUN	WPO	1936—1968
4 December 1980	Stanisława Walasiewicz	POL	ATH	1932—1936
4 December 1981	Alphonse Burnand	USA	SAL	1932
4 December 1981	Zoilo Saldombide	URU	FBL	1924
4 December 1983	Betty Burch	USA	ATH	1936
4 December 1983	Bixio Celio	SUI	IHO	1952
4 December 1983	Donald Jacques, Jr.	USA	BOB	1956
4 December 1983	Ong Kiat Guan	SGP	BKB	1956
4 December 1985	José García	URU	BOX	1936
4 December 1987	Bryan Fowler	GBR	POL	1936
4 December 1988	José Alonso	ESP	SHO	1948
4 December 1988	Gabriel Benquet	URU	ROW	1936
4 December 1988	Natale Vecchi	ITA	WRE	1952
4 December 1990	Naoto Tajima	JPN	ATH	1932—1936
4 December 1990	Kimio Yada	JPN	ATH	1936
4 December 1991	Orestes Jordán	PER	FBL	1936
4 December 1991	Irving Taylor	CAN	IHO	1948
4 December 1992	Jorge Brauer	ARG	SAL	1948—1952
4 December 1992	Yancho Dimitrov	BUL	FBL	1968
4 December 1994	Jock Gibson	AUS	FEN	1952
4 December 1994	Rudolf Riedl	AUT	SSK	1928
4 December 1994	István Tímár	HUN	CSP	1968
4 December 1995	Giorgio Bocchino	ITA	FEN	1936
4 December 1998	Yury Vengerovsky	URS UKR	VVO	1964
4 December 1999	Harry Nicoll	GBR	EJP	1948
4 December 2000	Miguel Caldés	CUB	BBL	1996—2000
4 December 2000	Colin Cowdrey	GBR		1989—1993
4 December 2000	Bahadur Chettri Ram	IND	FBL	1960
4 December 2002	Chuck Davey	USA	BOX	1948
4 December 2002	Hemmo Silvennoinen	FIN	SJP	1956
4 December 2002	Ivo Vesely	AUS	IHO	1960
4 December 2003	Dezső Lemhényi	HUN	SWM/WPO	1948—1976
4 December 2003	Louis Prahm	DEN	HOC	1936
4 December 2004	Bernard Castaignet	FRA	HOC	1936
4 December 2004	Sergio Mocellini	ITA	BOB	1964—1968
4 December 2004	Svend Vad	DEN	BOX	1948
4 December 2005	Piero Bonetto	ITA	FBL	1960
4 December 2007	Haralambie Alexa	ROU		1984—1987
4 December 2009	Yvon Coussin	FRA	WLF	1976
4 December 2009	Madge Moulton	GBR	DIV	1936
4 December 2009	Willy Simons	BEL	WPO	1948
4 December 2010	Mohamed Mahbub Alam	BAN	ATH	2000
4 December 2010	Alfeo Grignani	ITA	FBL	1960
4 December 2010	Torodd Hauer	NOR	SSK	1948
4 December 2010	Birthe Nielsen	DEN	ATH	1948
4 December 2011	Allan Cameron	GBR		1966—1969
4 December 2012	Philippe Bena	FRA	FEN	1972—1976
4 December 2012	Miguel Ángel Calero	COL	FBL	1992
4 December 2012	Miroslav Kluc	CZE TCH YUG	IHO	1956—1972
4 December 2012	Robert Monclar	FRA	BKB	1952—1960
4 December 2013	McDonald Bailey	GBR	ATH	1948—1952
4 December 2013	Alick Rennie	RSA	CSL	1992
4 December 2014	Charles De Sorgher	BEL	BOB	1952
4 December 2014	Hroar Elvenes	NOR	SSK	1952—1964
4 December 2014	Amadou Guèye	SEN	JUD	1992
4 December 2014	Takeo Kamachi	JPN	SHO	1968—1984
4 December 2014	Gavril Nagy	ROU	WPO	1956
4 December 2014	Hugo Niskanen	FIN	ATH	1952
4 December 2015	Per Erik Lindqvist	FIN	BDY	1952
4 December 2016	Maurice Graffen	FRA	CSP	1948—1956
4 December 2016	John Swaab	NED	EDR	1972
4 December 2017	Armenak Alachachyan	ARM URS	BKB	1964
4 December 2017	Robert Alt	SUI	BOB	1956
4 December 2017	Thor Munkager	DEN	HBL	1972—1976
4 December 2017	Angel Sotirov	BUL	WRE	1968
4 December 2018	Seiji Kihara	JPN	HOC	1960—1964
4 December 2019	Rebecca Ayars	USA	ATH	1956
4 December 2019	Lucien Guillier	FRA	ATH	1952
4 December 2019	Gerda Peschke	GER	GRY	1992
4 December 2019	Patrick Pym	GBR	SAL	1972
4 December 2020	Huba Rozsnyai	HUN	ATH	1964
4 December 2020	Kinuko Tanida	JPN	VVO	1964
4 December 2023	Jim Easton	USA		1989—2023
4 December 2024	Ambroise Sarr	SEN	WRE	1976—1988
4 December 2025	Lee Wright	CAN	HOC	1964—1976