Joe Cronin
1984 Joe Cronin, American Baseball HOF shortstop (7 x MLB All Star), manger (Boston RS, Washington Senators) and executive (AL President 1959-73), dies at 77
- 1992 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79
- 1993 Guy Overton, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 9 wickets), dies at 74
- 1997 Bill Strannigan, American all-round athlete and basketball coach (Uni of Wyoming), dies at 78
- 2004 Bob Boyd, American baseball first baseman (National Baseball Congress Hall of Fame), dies at 84
- 2008 Don Haskins, American College Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Texas El Paso 1961-99; NCAA Tournament 1966), dies at 78
- 2010 Amar Garibović, Serbian Cross Country Skier (b. 1991)
- 2011 Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey defenceman (917 NHL games; 48 internationals), dies in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash at 36
- 2011 Brad McCrimmon, Canadian NHL defenseman, 1979-97 (Philadelphia Flyers; Calgary Flames and 4 others), dies as head coach of KHL Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, along with most of the team, in a plane crash enroute to his first game, at 52
- 2016 Cary Blanchard, American NFL kicker (Indianapolis Colts), dies of a heart attack at 47
- 2016 Ken Higgs, English cricket fast bowler (15 Tests, 71 wickets, 1 x 50), dies at 79
- 2017 Gene Michael, American baseball shortstop, and general manger (NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 79
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