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Deaths on 6 April

147 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
6 April 1905	Sam LaVoice	USA	CTR	1904
6 April 1917	Friedrich Karl, Prinz von Preußen	GER	EJP	1912
6 April 1920	Jean-Marie Borringes	FRA	FEN	1900
6 April 1927	Nestori Toivonen	FIN	SHO	1912—1920
6 April 1932	Arthur Hoffmann	GER	ATH	1908
6 April 1937	Jouke Hibma	NED	SAL	1920
6 April 1938	Denis Prager de Dolecsko	ROU	FEN	1928—1936
6 April 1941	Velizar Lazarov	BUL		1929—1941
6 April 1942	Jim Cronin	USA	FBL	1928
6 April 1942	Richard Sahla	GER	EJP	1928
6 April 1943	Léopold Montagnier	SUI	FEN	1920—1924
6 April 1945	Piet Ruimers	NED	ATH	1908
6 April 1946	Walter Düsedau	GER	BOB	1932
6 April 1946	Francesco Pietrasanta	ITA	FEN	1912
6 April 1946	Anthime Spinnewyn	FRA	FEN	1900
6 April 1948	José Beltrão	POR	EJP	1936
6 April 1950	Charles Lammers	USA	USF	1904
6 April 1950	Lou Wilkins	USA	ATH	1904
6 April 1951	Christian Grøthan	DEN	FBL	1920
6 April 1951	Charles Smith	GBR	WPO	1908—1924
6 April 1953	George Beattie	CAN	SHO	1908—1924
6 April 1953	Léon Bogart	FRA	GAR	1908
6 April 1953	Roland, Comte de Maille de la Tour Landry	FRA	EDR	1920
6 April 1956	Georges Thurnherr	FRA	GAR	1908—1920
6 April 1957	Arthur Moreau	FRA	SHO	1900—1924
6 April 1957	Antonín Odehnal	TCH	SKL	1932
6 April 1959	Louise Nimmo	USA	PNT	1932
6 April 1959	Peter Schlütter	DEN	SAL	1928
6 April 1961	Knut Lindberg	SWE	ATH	1906—1912
6 April 1963	Liam Jones	IRL	SWM	1948
6 April 1963	Lóránd Prém	HUN		1941—1944
6 April 1963	Edi Schönecker	AUT	ATH	1908
6 April 1963	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	GER	ATH	1932—1936
6 April 1964	Wilbert Hurst-Brown	GBR	IHO	1928
6 April 1965	George Etcell	USA	BOX	1920
6 April 1965	Albert Gutterson	USA	ATH	1912
6 April 1965	Ioannis Ketseas	GRE	ATH/TEN	1906—1965
6 April 1966	Fritz Jack	GER	FEN	1908—1936
6 April 1967	Fen Ronay	ROU	FBL	1924
6 April 1969	Gunnar Hagen	NOR	ATH	1928
6 April 1969	Horst Höck	GER	ROW	1928—1932
6 April 1970	Renée Clerc	SUI	ALP	1948
6 April 1970	Charles Stuart	AUS	ATH	1928
6 April 1971	Wilhelm Olsen	NOR	WRE	1920
6 April 1971	Igor Stravinsky	URS	MUS	1924
6 April 1972	Maurice Cottenet	FRA	FBL	1924
6 April 1972	Olaf Pedersen	DEN	GAR	1912
6 April 1974	Maurice Gillen	LUX	CTR	1924
6 April 1974	Dagmar Nilsson	SWE	DIV	1912
6 April 1975	Eivind Antonsen	NOR	ROW	1924
6 April 1976	Biddy Duke-Woolley	GBR	ALP	1948
6 April 1976	Fabio Del Genovese	ITA	WRE	1924
6 April 1980	Warren Saker	CAN	CSP	1936
6 April 1981	Sam Ewing	USA	HOC	1932—1936
6 April 1982	Göran Unger	SWE	ATH	1924
6 April 1983	Robert Marchand	FRA	ATH	1928
6 April 1984	Ernesto Sauter	BRA	ROW	1936
6 April 1985	Vladimir Mažuranić	CRO YUG	FEN	1936
6 April 1985	Terence Sanders	GBR	ROW	1924
6 April 1986	Raimundo Orsi	ARG	FBL	1928
6 April 1986	Tom Ward	GBR	WRE	1936
6 April 1987	Bob Van Osdel	USA	ATH	1932
6 April 1989	Betty Becker-Pinkston	USA	DIV	1924—1928
6 April 1989	Bruce Cunliffe	USA	IHO	1948
6 April 1989	Edlef Hossmann	ARG	SAL	1936
6 April 1989	Tapani Niku	FIN	CCS	1924
6 April 1989	Michael Reusch	SUI	GAR	1936—1948
6 April 1990	James Macnabb	GBR	ROW	1924
6 April 1991	Joaquín Nogueras	ESP	EVE	1948—1956
6 April 1991	Olguiz Rodríguez	URU	BKB	1952
6 April 1992	Geoffrey Holden	GBR	PNT	1948
6 April 1993	Selma Andersson	SWE	DIV	1912—1920
6 April 1993	Miguel Ángel Gómez	ESP	ATH	1992
6 April 1994	Margit Albrechtsson	SWE	CCS	1952
6 April 1994	Catherine Lombard	FRA	FRS	1988
6 April 1994	Dieter Oesterlen	GER	ATT	1936
6 April 1995	Jan Kula	POL	SJP	1948
6 April 1996	Mehmet Oktav	TUR	WRE	1948
6 April 1997	Bernard Chevallier	FRA	EVE	1948—1968
6 April 1998	Ed Ablowich	USA	ATH	1932
6 April 1998	Sam Chaffey	NZL	ALP	1960
6 April 1998	Khalil Ibrahim	EGY	DIV	1936
6 April 1998	Antonio Randi	ITA	WRE	1952
6 April 1999	Tibor Bedekovits	HUN	ROW	1960
6 April 1999	Inge Braumüller	GER	ATH	1928
6 April 1999	Rosaire Smith	CAN	WLF	1948—1952
6 April 2000	Maria Arndt	POL	ATH	1952
6 April 2000	John Heap	GBR	ATH	1928
6 April 2001	Ingvar Bengtsson	SWE	ATH	1948
6 April 2001	Heinz Eichholz	GER FRG	ROW	1952
6 April 2002	Børge Gissel	DEN	CTR	1948
6 April 2003	René Demanck	BEL	BKB	1936
6 April 2003	Boris Silchev	RUS URS	BOX	1952
6 April 2003	Ivan Staykov	BUL	CCS	1952
6 April 2004	Anny van Doorne	NED	EDR	1972
6 April 2004	Kurt Kucera	AUT		2002
6 April 2004	Ingemar Svensson	SWE	ROW	1952
6 April 2005	Károly Ecser	HUN	WLF	1964
6 April 2005	Rainier III, Prince Grimaldi	MON		1949—1950
6 April 2007	Jean-Pierre Marionex	BEL	HOC	1960
6 April 2008	Ian Buchanan	GBR		1997
6 April 2008	Kuruppu Karunaratne	SRI	ATH	1992
6 April 2009	Mahmoud Kanoun	TUN	FBL	1960
6 April 2010	Vic Frank	USA	ATH	1948
6 April 2010	Grethe Olsen	DEN	FEN	1932—1948
6 April 2011	Bob Barry	USA	IHO	1960
6 April 2011	Giuseppe Comini	ITA	FEN	1956
6 April 2011	Javier Gil de Biedma	ESP		1970—1978
6 April 2011	Robin Lindsay	GBR	HOC	1948
6 April 2012	Alexandre Dib	BRA	BOX	1952
6 April 2012	Theunis Jonck	RSA	WLF	1952
6 April 2014	Marceli Strzykalski	POL	FBL	1960
6 April 2015	Juan Arredondo	CHI	BKB	1956
6 April 2015	Theodosios Balafas	GRE	ATH	1948—1952
6 April 2015	Franco Bonato	VEN	SHO	1960
6 April 2015	Paul Dearing	AUS	HOC	1964—1972
6 April 2016	Wolfgang Horak	FRG	ROW	1976
6 April 2016	Esa Kervinen	FIN	SHO	1960—1972
6 April 2016	Tomohiro Osawa	JPN	ATH	1988
6 April 2016	Norm Rowe	CAN	ROW	1952
6 April 2016	Prasan Suvannasith	THA	FBL	1956
6 April 2016	Josef Toms	CZE TCH	BKB	1948
6 April 2017	John Anslow	NZL	HOC	1964—1968
6 April 2018	Abi Gartmann	SUI	BOB	1956
6 April 2018	Aliaksandr Kurlovich	BLR URS EUN	WLF	1988—1996
6 April 2018	Ted Washburn	USA	ROW	1964
6 April 2018	Urbano Zea	MEX	SWM	1988
6 April 2019	José Luis Torres	ESP	ATH	1948—1952
6 April 2020	Ferenc Zoltán Füzesi	HUN	HBL	1992
6 April 2020	Adlin Mair-Clarke	JAM	ATH	1964—1968
6 April 2021	Rodolfo da Ponte	PAR	FEN	1968
6 April 2021	Chuck Darling	USA	BKB	1956
6 April 2021	Dandeh Njie	GAM		1989—2009
6 April 2022	Mark Conover	USA	ATH	1988
6 April 2022	Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu	ROU	FEN	1960—1976
6 April 2022	Karol Divín	TCH SVK	FSK	1956—1964
6 April 2022	Sándor Kacskó	HUN	SHO	1992
6 April 2022	Nergüin Enkhbat	MGL	BOX	1988
6 April 2022	Georg Neuber	GER FRG	FEN	1960
6 April 2022	Karl Neuse	GER FRG	WPO	1956
6 April 2022	Régis Rey	FRA	SJP	1952—1956
6 April 2023	Bernie Ford	GBR	FSK	1968
6 April 2024	Don Bruneski	CAN	ALP	1960
6 April 2024	Francisco Pérez	URU	CRD	1964
6 April 2025	John Holden	AUS	BKB	1972—1984
6 April 2025	Avis McIntosh	NZL	ATH	1964
6 April 2026	Nancy Garapick	CAN	SWM	1976