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683 personalities

HO
Portrait of Hitomi Obara (1981–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Hitomi Obara

01/04/1981 – 07/18/2025

44 years

Japanese sport wrestler

Hachinohe
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FB
Portrait of Felix Baumgartner (1969–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Felix Baumgartner

04/20/1969 – 07/17/2025

56 years

Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper

Porto Sant'Elpidio
2
AG
Portrait of Audun Grønvold (1976–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Audun Grønvold

02/28/1976 – 07/15/2025

49 years

Norwegian freestyle skier

Hamar Municipality
1
FS
Portrait of Fauja Singh (1911–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Fauja Singh

04/01/1911 – 07/14/2025

114 years

British-Indian centenarian marathon runner

Jalandhar
1
IS
Portrait of Ileana Silai (1941–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Ileana Silai

10/14/1941 – 06/27/2025

83 years

Romanian athletics competitor

Cluj-Napoca
1
PN
Portrait of Pauli Nevala (1940–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Pauli Nevala

11/30/1940 – 06/20/2025

84 years

Finnish athletics competitor

Helsinki
1
ZH
Portrait of Zoltán Horváth (1937–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Zoltán Horváth

03/12/1937 – 06/12/2025

88 years

Hungarian sabre fencer

Budapest
1
JH
Portrait of Joan Harrison (1935–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Joan Harrison

11/29/1935 – 05/20/2025

89 years

South African swimmer

East London
1
NB
Portrait of Nino Benvenuti (1938–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Nino Benvenuti

04/26/1938 – 05/20/2025

87 years

Italian boxer

Rome
1
NS

Memorial

Natalya Shikolenko

08/01/1964 – 05/15/2025

60 years

Belarusian javelin thrower

Gelendzhik
1
VH
Portrait of Vlastimil Hort (1944–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Vlastimil Hort

01/12/1944 – 05/12/2025

81 years

Czech-German chess player

Eitorf
1
S
Portrait of Sabu (1964–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Sabu

12/12/1964 – 05/11/2025

60 years

American professional wrestler

Staten Island
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HH
Portrait of Heikki Hasu (1926–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Heikki Hasu

03/21/1926 – 04/05/2025

99 years

Finnish Nordic skier

Sippola
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GF
Portrait of George Foreman (1949–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

George Foreman

01/10/1949 – 03/21/2025

76 years

American professional boxer

Houston
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DM
Portrait of Dick McTaggart (1935–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Dick McTaggart

10/15/1935 – 03/09/2025

89 years

Scottish boxer

Dundee
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FS

Memorial

Fred Stolle

10/08/1938 – 03/05/2025

86 years

Australian tennis player

Palm Desert
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BS
Portrait of Buvaisar Saitiev (1975–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Buvaisar Saitiev

03/11/1975 – 03/02/2025

49 years

Russian wrestler, politician

Moscow
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BS
Portrait of Boris Spassky (1937–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Boris Spassky

01/30/1937 – 02/27/2025

88 years

Russian chess player

Moscow
4
GR
Portrait of Georgios Roubanis (1929–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Georgios Roubanis

08/15/1929 – 02/11/2025

95 years

Greek pole vaulter

Athens
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Family Tree
DB
Portrait of Dick Button (1929–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Dick Button

07/18/1929 – 01/30/2025

95 years

American figure skater, sports personality, actor, lawyer

North Salem
1
GB
Portrait of Greg Bell (1930–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Greg Bell

11/07/1930 – 01/25/2025

94 years

American long jumper

Logansport
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FN
Portrait of Fred Newhouse (1948–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Fred Newhouse

11/08/1948 – 01/20/2025

76 years

American athletics competitor

Houston
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TH
Portrait of Thelma Hopkins (1936–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Thelma Hopkins

03/16/1936 – 01/10/2025

88 years

British athlete

Edmonton
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RH
Portrait of Robert Hübner (1948–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Robert Hübner

11/06/1948 – 01/05/2025

76 years

German chess player, chess writer, and papyrologist

Köln
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