- Jan 4 Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
- Jan 6 Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1967)
- Jan 8 Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
- Jan 15 Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)
- Feb 8 Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (b. 1909)
- Feb 11 Tom Carnegie, American sports announcer (b. 1919)
- Feb 11 Chuck Tanner, American Baseball player (b. 1928)
- Feb 19 Ollie Matson, American Football Running Back (b. 1930)
- Feb 27 Duke Snider, American professional baseball player (b. 1926)
- Mar 4 Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
- Mar 21 Gerd Klier, German footballer (b. 1944)
- Mar 21 Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
- Apr 10 Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
- Apr 10 Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)
- Apr 18 Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
- May 3 Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1936)
- May 5 Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player and manager (b. 1924)
Seve Ballesteros
May 7 Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer, dies of brain cancer at 54
Seve Ballesteros
- May 8 Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (1st Indigenous Australian to win a world title), dies at 62
- May 9 Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
- May 10 Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey (b. 1987)
- May 13 Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
- May 17 Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- May 25 Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer (b. 1944)
- May 27 Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
- Jun 7 Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
Kurt Nielsen
Jun 11 Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player, dies at 80
Kurt Nielsen
- Jun 23 Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
- Jun 24 Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football manager (b. 1933)
- Jun 27 Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
- Jun 30 Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
- Jul 9 Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
- Jul 13 Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach (b. 1933)
- Jul 16 Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
- Jul 22 Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
- Aug 3 Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
- Aug 4 Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)
- Aug 15 Rick Rypien, Canadian hockey player (b. 1984)
- Aug 24 Mike Flanagan, American baseball pitcher (b. 1951)
- Aug 28 Bernie Gallacher, British footballer (Aston Villa) (b. 1967)
- Aug 31 Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1976)
- Sep 4 Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954)
- Sep 11 Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver (b. 1984)
- Sep 11 Ralph Gubbins, English footballer (b. 1932)
- Sep 12 Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
- Oct 1 Sven Tumba, Swedish ice hockey and golfer (b. 1931)
- Oct 9 Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
- Oct 15 Elizabeth "Betty" Driver, British singer and actress (Coronation Street, Pardon the Expression), dies from pneumonia at 91
- Oct 16 Dan Wheldon, English auto racer (b. 1978)
- Oct 23 Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
- Oct 31 Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)
Joe Frazier
Nov 7 Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, dies of liver cancer at 67
Joe Frazier
- Nov 12 Peter Roebuck, English cricketer and journalist, dies at 55
- Nov 17 Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
- Nov 23 Jim Rathmann, 1960 Indianapolis 500 winner, dies at 83
- Nov 27 Gary Speed, Former Welsh international footballer and Wales national football team manager (b. 1969)
- Dec 1 Ragnhild Hveger, Danish 200m swimmer (Olympic silver 1936), dies at 90
- Dec 3 Sam Loxton, Australian cricketer (flamboyant Australian batsman of late 40's), dies at 90
- Dec 4 Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
- Dec 5 Peter Gethin, British racing driver (b. 1940)
- Dec 5 Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer (b. 1942)
- Dec 15 Andy Carey, third baseman for 1950s New York Yankees, dies at 80