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Deaths on 8 December

98 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
8 December 1927	Heinrich Elbogen	AUT	SHO	1912
8 December 1929	Fred Suerig	USA	ROW	1904
8 December 1931	William Scott	GBR	ATH	1912
8 December 1933	Carlo Bonfanti	ITA	DIV	1906—1912
8 December 1933	André, Baron de Schonen	FRA	FEN/SHO	1900—1924
8 December 1936	Nils Johansson	SWE	IHO	1928
8 December 1937	Axel V. Tulinius	ISL		1912—1926
8 December 1939	Ernest Schelling	USA	ART	1932
8 December 1939	Franz Sondinger	GER	ART	1936
8 December 1942	Ragnar Gripe	SWE	SAL	1912
8 December 1942	Albert Kahn	USA	ART	1928
8 December 1944	Guy Ardilouze	FRA	ART	1948
8 December 1944	Walter Hasenfus	USA	CMA	1936
8 December 1951	Buck Hester	CAN	ATH	1924—1928
8 December 1951	Kostas Kotzias	GRE	FEN	1912—1924
8 December 1954	Harold Rayner	USA	FEN/MPN	1912—1928
8 December 1956	Joseph Taylor	USA	USF	1904
8 December 1957	Joep Packbiers	NED	ARC	1920
8 December 1958	Harry Gaydon	GBR	SAL	1928
8 December 1958	Wilhelm Grimmelmann	DEN	GAR	1912
8 December 1958	Gerhard Voigt	GER	ROW	1928
8 December 1959	Iivari Kyykoski	FIN	GAR	1908
8 December 1959	Jorge Moreau	ARG	SWM/WPO	1924—1928
8 December 1960	Henri de Royer-Dupré	FRA	EJP	1924
8 December 1964	Percy Crosby	USA	ART	1932—1936
8 December 1964	Ernest Wijnants	BEL	ART	1928
8 December 1967	Paul Castanet	FRA	ATH	1900
8 December 1967	Alfons Magg	SUI	ART	1936
8 December 1967	Harry Moon	USA	ATH	1904
8 December 1968	Anders Petersen	DEN	SHO	1920
8 December 1969	Svend Aage Grønvold	DEN	ROW	1928
8 December 1969	Victor Hopkins	USA	CRD	1924
8 December 1971	Frederick Hedlund	USA	ATH	1912
8 December 1971	Mauno Tarkiainen	FIN	ATH	1936
8 December 1972	Emerico Biach	ITA	SWM	1924
8 December 1974	László Szemere	HUN	SHO	1906
8 December 1976	Max Janlet	BEL	FEN	1928—1936
8 December 1977	Ernő Nagy	HUN	FEN	1932
8 December 1977	Coen van Veenhuijsen	NED	ATH	1908
8 December 1979	Hilda Wallis	IRL	TEN	1924
8 December 1979	Sayed Yusuf	IND	HOC	1928
8 December 1981	Ken Moore	CAN	IHO	1932
8 December 1981	Erik Wennberg	SWE	ATH	1936
8 December 1982	József Ember	HUN NGR	FBL	1968
8 December 1984	Peter Starling	GBR	GAR	1952—1960
8 December 1986	Ernest Gross	FRA	FBL	1924
8 December 1986	Józef Pisarski	POL	BOX	1936
8 December 1988	Klaus Tiljander	FIN	BOX	1952
8 December 1990	Wendell Rollins	USA	CRD	1948
8 December 1991	Agaath Doorgeest	NED	ATH	1936
8 December 1991	Attila Laták	HUN	WRE	1972
8 December 1991	John Mark	GBR		1948
8 December 1992	Frithjof Prydz, Jr.	NOR	SJP	1972
8 December 1992	Franz Sarnitz	AUT	SHO	1960
8 December 1992	Edmund Zieliński	POL	IHO	1936
8 December 1993	Yevgeny Minayev	RUS URS	WLF	1956—1960
8 December 1993	Philippe Pradayrol	FRA	JUD	1992
8 December 1993	Mieczysław Wilczewski	POL	CRD	1960
8 December 1995	Maino Neri	ITA	FBL	1948—1952
8 December 1997	Ragge Carlsson	SWE	HBL	1984—1988
8 December 2000	Brian Boydell	IRL	ART	1952
8 December 2001	Mirza Delibašić	BIH YUG	BKB	1976—2001
8 December 2001	Miroslav Vlach	CZE TCH	IHO	1960—1964
8 December 2003	Bob Detweiler	USA	ROW	1952
8 December 2003	Timothy Feruka	ZAM	BOX	1972
8 December 2004	Noel Mills	NZL	ROW	1972
8 December 2004	Alberts Riekstiņš	LAT	CCS	1936
8 December 2006	Sixten Jansson	SWE	CSP	1936
8 December 2007	George Chiga	CAN	WRE	1936
8 December 2008	Manzoor Hussain Atif	PAK	HOC	1952—1968
8 December 2008	Albert Eloy	FRA	FBL	1952
8 December 2008	Kerryn McCann	AUS	ATH	1996—2004
8 December 2008	Roberto Pumpido	CUB	GAR	1968
8 December 2009	Richard Alexander	USA	BBL	1996
8 December 2009	Karel Klančnik	SLO YUG	SJP	1948—1952
8 December 2010	Dag Alveberg	NOR
8 December 2010	Poul Andersen	DEN	FBL	1952
8 December 2010	Gino Burcovich	ITA	BKB	1976
8 December 2011	Mihai Botez	ROU	GAR	1952
8 December 2011	Mike Wiggs	GBR	ATH	1960—1964
8 December 2012	Hermelindo Alberti	ARG	ATH	1948
8 December 2012	Miguel Costa	POR	SAL	1996
8 December 2013	José Mercado	MEX	CTR	1964—1968
8 December 2013	Cornelio Padilla	PHI	CRD	1964
8 December 2016	John Glenn	USA
8 December 2017	Rudi Maier	FRG	FEN	1972
8 December 2017	Alexander Taransky	AUS	SHO	1968—1976
8 December 2018	Daniel, Comte Le Grelle	BEL		2001
8 December 2018	Michele Monti	ITA	JUD	2000—2004
8 December 2019	Zvonko Vujin	SRB YUG	BOX	1968—1972
8 December 2020	Aslanbek Fidarov	UKR	WRE	1996
8 December 2021	Michel Camboulives	FRA	ATH	1964
8 December 2021	Jan Józwik	POL	SSK	1980
8 December 2021	Robert Malinowski	POL	VVO	1980
8 December 2021	Andrzej Zieliński	POL	ATH	1960—1964
8 December 2022	Jackie McLeod	CAN	IHO	1968
8 December 2022	Todor Todorov	BUL	GAR	1952
8 December 2023	Peter-Michael Kolbe	FRG	ROW	1976—1988