Sports
| Name | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Ashe | (1943–1993) | American tennis player and social activist; won three Grand Slam titles. | |
| Mike Beuttler | (1940–1988) | British Formula One driver. | |
| Glenn Burke | (1952–1995) | American Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics. | |
| John Curry | (1949–1994) | British figure skater who won the Olympic and World Championships in 1976. | |
| Esteban De Jesús | (1951–1989) | Puerto Rican boxer; world lightweight champion. | |
| Rudy Galindo | (born 1969) | American figure skater; won a bronze medal at the 1996 World Championships. | |
| Bill Goldsworthy | (1944–1996) | Canadian ice hockey player; played in the National Hockey League for fourteen seasons. | |
| Magic Johnson | (born 1959) | American basketball player; was named to the NBA All-Star team twelve times. | |
| Job Komol | (born 1981) | Cameroonian soccerplayer at Vitesse | |
| Greg Louganis | (born 1960) | American Olympic diver; best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3 m and 10 m events. | |
| Robert McCall | (1958–1991) | Canadian figure skater; won a bronze medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics. | |
| Ondrej Nepela | (1951–1989) | Slovak figure skater, was Olympic champion in 1972. | |
| Tim Richmond | (1955–1989) | American NASCAR racing driver. | |
| Roy Simmons | (born 1956) | American athlete who played for the National Football League. | |
| Jerry Smith | (1943–1987) | American professional football player; tight end for the Washington Redskins. | |
| Tom Waddell | (1937–1987) | American Olympic athlete; founded the Gay Games | |
| Robert Wagenhoffer | (1960–1999) | American figure skater; won a silver medal at the 1982 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. | |
| Ji Wallace | (born 1977) | Australian gymnast. | |
| Michael Westphal | (1965–1991) | German tennis player. | |
| Alan Wiggins | (1958–1991) | American Major League Baseball player. |
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)