- 1929 Frederick Burton, Australian cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies at 63
- 1939 Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
- 1965 Moonlight Graham, American baseball player
- 1968 Stan McCabe, Australian cricket batsman (39 Tests, batting av. 48.21, top score 232), dies of a fractured skull at 58
- 1976 Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket slow-medium bowler (6 Tests; 17 wickets; best 7-92 1930), dies at 77
- 1984 Waite Hoyte, knuckleball pitcher, dies at 84
- 1984 Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (Olympic gold 1952, 56), dies at 62
- 1988 Art Rooney, NFL Pittsburgh Steelers [Pirates] team founder,owner, and chairman, 1933-88, dies at 87
- 1995 John Brunner, Britsih sci-fi author (100th Millennium), dies at 60
- 2001 Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
- 2001 Ken Tyrrell, English race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing, dies at 77
- 2007 Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
- 2008 Kevin Duckworth, American basketball center (NBA All Star 1989, 91; Portland Trail Blazers), dies of heart failure at 44
- 2013 Gilmar, Brazilian football player, dies from complications from a heart attack at 83
- 2015 Ian Smith, South African cricket leg-spin bowler (9 Tests), dies at 90
- 2019 Pál Benkő, Hungarian-American chess player, author (Grandmaster; record 8 US Open Championships), dies at 91
- 2019 Vince Naimoli, American businessman and MLB team owner (Tampa Bay Devil Rays), dies of progressive supranuclear palsy at 81