Athletics
| Player | Age | Nationality | Position | Cause of death | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nikolai Abramov | 26 | Russian | defender | heart failure | 2011 |
| Martin Aldridge | 25 | English | forward | car accident | 2000 |
| Alemão | 23 | Brazilian | striker | car accident | 2007 |
| George Allan | 24 | Scottish | forward | tuberculosis | 1899 |
| John Allan | Scottish | Battle of Arras | 1917 | ||
| Søren Andersen | 23 | Danish | striker | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| Shalva Apkhazava | 23 | Georgian | striker | heart attack | 2004 |
| Georgi Asparuhov | 28 | Bulgarian | striker | car accident | 1971 |
| Valerio Bacigalupo | 25 | Italian | goalkeeper | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Ediz Bahtiyaroglu | 26 | Turkish | defender | myocardial | 2012 |
| Aldo Ballarin | 27 | Italian | defender | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Dino Ballarin | 23 | Italian | goalkeeper | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Harry Bamford | 38 | English | defender | motorcycle accident | 1958 |
| Maurice Banach | 24 | German | striker | car accident | 1991 |
| Patrick Banda | 22 | Zambian | striker | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Mike Barrett | 24 | English | winger | cancer | 1984 |
| Elson Becerra | 27 | Colombian | striker | homicide | 2006 |
| Mario Beltrán | 23 | Colombian | midfielder | car accident | 2009 |
| Julio César Benítez | 27 | Uruguayan | defender | food poisoning | 1968 |
| Geoff Bent | 25 | English | defender | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| Filippo Biondi | 20 | Italian | defender | car accident | 1996 |
| Einar Örn Birgisson | 27 | Icelandic | midfielder | homicide | 2000 |
| Milo Bongiorni | 28 | French | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Surian Borali | 28 | Turkish | defender | suicide | 1989 |
| Luc Borrelli | 33 | French | goalkeeper | car accident | 1999 |
| Othman Boughanmi | Tunisian | defender | heart defect | ||
| Gary Bownes | 26 | Northern Irish | striker | suicide | 2005 |
| James Boyd | Scottish | Battle of the Somme | 1916 | ||
| Robert Bradley | English | defender | died during his sleep | 1934 | |
| Thomas Bradshaw | 26 | English | winger | consumption | 1899 |
| Victor Brännström | 29 | Swedish | striker | cardiac arrest | 2012 |
| Shane Brennan | 23 | Irish | winger | collapsing roof accident | 2005 |
| Shamil Burziyev | 25 | Russian | midfielder | car accident | 2010 |
| Richard Butcher | 29 | English | midfielder | cardiac arrhythmia | 2011 |
| Barry Butler | 31 | English | defender | car accident | 1966 |
| Roger Byrne | 28 | English | defender | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| Eusebio Castigliano | 28 | Italian | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Ramiro Castillo | 31 | Bolivian | midfielder | suicide | 1997 |
| Luciano Re Cecconi | 28 | Italian | midfielder | shot during practical joke | 1977 |
| David Efford Chabala | 33 | Zambian | goalkeeper | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Whiteson Changwe | 23 | Zambian | defender | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Wisdom Mumba Chansa | 29 | Zambian | midfielder | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Moses Chikwalakwala | 19 | Zambian | midfielder | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Samuel Chomba | 29 | Zambian | defender | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Andriy Chopenko | 26 | Ukrainian | midfielder | car accident | 2003 |
| Dave Clement | 34 | English | defender | suicide | 1982 |
| Ludo Coeck | 30 | Belgian | midfielder | car accident | 1985 |
| Eddie Colman | 21 | English | midfielder | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| Ernie Cooksey | 28 | English | midfielder | skin cancer | 2008 |
| Davie Cooper | 39 | Scottish | winger | brain haemorrhage | 1995 |
| Hernan Córdoba | 19 | Colombian | striker | car accident | 2009 |
| Federico Crescentini | 24 | San Marinese | defender | drowned | 2006 |
| Enrico Cucchi | 30 | Italian | midfielder | cancer | 1996 |
| Laurie Cunningham | 33 | English | striker | car accident | 1989 |
| Duncan Currie | Scottish | Battle of the Somme | 1916 | ||
| Mattia Dal Bello | 20 | Italian | midfielder | car accident | 2004 |
| Vitaly Daraselia | 25 | Soviet | striker | car accident | 1982 |
| Alan Davies | 30 | Welsh | winger | suicide | 1992 |
| Jimmy Davis | 21 | English | winger | car accident | 2003 |
| Ruud Degenaar | 25 | Dutch-Suriname | defender | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Sébastien Demeersman | 37 | Belgian | winger | suicide | 2008 |
| Dener | 23 | Brazilian | striker | car accident | 1994 |
| Kazimierz Deyna | 41 | Polish | midfielder | car accident | 1989 |
| Vladimir Dimitrijević | 20 | Serbian | defender | heart attack | 2001 |
| Danilo di Vincenzo | 28 | Italian | striker | car accident | 1996 |
| Stan Docking | 25 | English | midfielder | heart attack | |
| Lloyd Doesburg | 29 | Dutch-Suriname | goalkeeper | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Hussein Dokmak | 25 | Lebanese | defender | car bomb | 2007 |
| Steve van Dorpel | 23 | Dutch-Suriname | striker | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Marcio Dos Santos | 28 | Peruvian | striker | heart attack | 2002 |
| Ibrahim Dossey | 36 | Ghanaian | goalkeeper | car accident | 2008 |
| Angus Douglas | 29 | Scottish | winger | Spanish flu | 1918 |
| Johnny Doyle | 30 | Scottish | midfielder | electrocuted | 1981 |
| Peter Dubovský | 28 | Slovakian | striker | diving accident | 2000 |
| Gustavo Eberto | 24 | Argentine | goalkeeper | testicular cancer | 2007 |
| Edivaldo | 30 | Brazilian | striker | car accident | 1993 |
| Duncan Edwards | 21 | English | midfielder | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| Lutz Eigendorf | 26 | German | midfielder | car accident | 1983 |
| Youssef Elbai | 30 | French | defender | accident | 2009 |
| Ernest Ellis | English | Battle of the Somme | 1916 | ||
| Robert Enke | 32 | German | goalkeeper | suicide | 2009 |
| Andrés Escobar | 27 | Colombian | defender | homicide | 1994 |
| Ib Eskildsen | 19 | Danish | striker | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| Roy Evans | 25 | Welsh | defender | car accident | 1969 |
| Rubens Fadini | 21 | Italian | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Miklós Fehér | 24 | Hungarian | striker | cardiac arrest | 2004 |
| Rommel Fernandez | 27 | Panamanian | striker | car accident | 1993 |
| Aaron Flahavan | 25 | English | goalkeeper | car accident | 2001 |
| Milton Flores | 28 | Honduran | goalkeeper | homicide | 2003 |
| Marc-Vivien Foé | 28 | Cameroonian | midfielder | hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | 2003 |
| Andrea Fortunato | 23 | Italian | defender | leukemia | 1995 |
| Wendel Fräser | 22 | Dutch-Suriname | forward | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Francisco Frione | 22 | Uruguayan-Italian | midfielder | pneumonia | 1935 |
| Guglielmo Gabetto | 33 | Italian | striker | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Hubert Gad | 24 | Polish | forward | swimming accident | 1939 |
| Niccolò Galli | 17 | Italian | defender | motorbike accident | 2001 |
| Ibragim Gasanbekov | 29 | Azerbaijani-Russian | striker | car accident | 1999 |
| Sirous Ghayeghran | 35 | Iranian | midfielder | car accident | 1998 |
| Lenar Gilmullin | 22 | Russian | defender | motorcycle accident | 2007 |
| Frits Goodings | 25 | Dutch-Suriname | Surinam air disaster | 1989 | |
| Tommy Goodwill | 22 | English | midfielder | killed in World War I | 1916 |
| Harry Goslin | 34 | English | defender | killed in World War II | 1943 |
| Jefferson Gottardi | 27 | Bolivian | striker | Lou Gehrig's disease | 2003 |
| Craig Gowans | 17 | Scottish | training ground accident | 2005 | |
| Tom Gracie | 26 | Scottish | leukemia | 1915 | |
| Ruggero Grava | 27 | French | striker | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Giuseppe Grezar | 30 | Italian | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Tor Marius Gromstad | 22 | Norwegian | defender | suicide | 2012 |
| Alan Groves | 29 | English | winger | heart attack | 1978 |
| Jerry Haatrecht | 28 | Dutch-Suriname | Surinam air disaster | 1989 | |
| Jeff Hall | 29 | English | full-back | polio | 1959 |
| Jimmy Hampson | 31 | English | striker | boating accident | 1938 |
| Austin Hayes | 28 | English | winger | lung cancer | 1986 |
| Conrad Hendricks | 26 | South African | goalkeeper | car accident | 2006 |
| Chinonso Henry | 21 | Nigerian | striker | heart attack | 2012 |
| Dean Horrix | 28 | English | striker | car accident | 1990 |
| Peter Houseman | 31 | English | midfielder | car accident | 1977 |
| Ralph Hunt | 31 | English | striker | car accident | 1964 |
| Besian Idrizaj | 22 | Austrian | striker | heart attack | 2010 |
| Zdeněk Jánoš | 32 | Czech | goalkeeper | car accident | 1999 |
| Daniel Jarque | 26 | Spanish | defender | heart attack | 2009 |
| Erik Pondal Jensen | 29 | Danish | midfielder | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| Per Funch Jensen | 21 | Danish | goalkeeper | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| Virgall Joemankhan | 20 | Dutch-Suriname | Surinam air disaster | 1989 | |
| Jack Jones | 29 | English | forward | Typhoid fever | 1904 |
| Mark Jones | 24 | English | defender | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| Ray Jones | 18 | English | striker | car accident | 2007 |
| Rolston Jones | Trinidad and Tobagan | shot dead | |||
| Godfrey Kangwa | 29 | Zambian | midfielder | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Ihab Kareem | 26 | Iraqi | midfielder | injuries from bombing | 2007 |
| Arne Karlsen | 20 | Danish | defender | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| Dick Keith | 33 | Northern Irish | defender | accident dismantling a garage door | 1967 |
| Oliver King-Onzila | 19 | English | midfielder | stab wounds | 2008 |
| Alexei Klimenko | Soviet | execution by German soldiers during World War II (see The Death Match) | 1943 | ||
| Andro Knel | 21 | Dutch-Suriname | midfielder | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Ruben Kogeldans | 22 | Dutch-Suriname | defender | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Nikolai Korotkykh | Soviet | execution by German soldiers during World War II (see The Death Match) | 1941 | ||
| Yiannis Koskiniatis | 25 | Greek | midfielder | suicide | 2008 |
| Nikola Kotkov | 32 | Bulgarian | striker | car accident | 1971 |
| Kurt Krahmer | 22 | Danish | winger | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| Marek Krejčí | 26 | Slovak | striker | car accident | 2007 |
| Mykola Kudrytsky | 31 | Ukrainian | midfielder | car accident | 1994 |
| Ernst Künz | 32 | Austrian | defender | killed during World War II | 1944 |
| Ivan Kuzmenko | Soviet | execution by German soldiers during World War II (see The Death Match) | 1943 | ||
| Børge Bastholm Larsen | 29 | Danish | defender | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| Pedro Lavoura | 26 | Venezuelan | striker | car accident | 2000 |
| Adam Ledwoń | 34 | Polish | midfielder | suicide | 2008 |
| Gift Leremi | 22 | South Africa | midfielder | car accident | 2007 |
| Mahicon Librelato | 21 | Brazilian | striker | car accident | 2002 |
| Ortwin Linger | 21 | Dutch-Suriname | defender | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Ezio Loik | 30 | Italian | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| David Longhurst | 25 | English | striker | cardiac arrest | 1990 |
| John Lyons | 26 | English | striker | suicide | 1982 |
| Michael Maidens | 20 | English | midfielder | car accident | 2007 |
| Derby Makinka | 26 | Zambian | midfielder | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Stephen Malcolm | 30 | Jamaican | midfielder | car accident | 2001 |
| Jarl Malmgren | 33 | Finnish | midfielder | killed in World War II | 1942 |
| Dragan Mance | 22 | Serbian | striker | car accident | 1985 |
| Lesley Manyathela | 21 | South Africa | striker | car accident | 2003 |
| Virgilio Maroso | 23 | Italian | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Dennis Marshall | 26 | Costa Rican | defender | car accident | 2011 |
| Danilo Martelli | 25 | Italian | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Moses Masuwa | 22 | Zambian | striker | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Jason Mayélé | 26 | Congolese | striker | car accident | 2002 |
| Valentino Mazzola | 30 | Italian | striker | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Norrie McCathie | 34 | Scottish | defender | accidental carbon monoxide poisoning | 1996 |
| Frank McGinnes | 22 | Scottish | forward | kidney disease | 1892 |
| Bobby McKean | 25 | Scottish | midfielder | accidental carbon monoxide poisoning | 1978 |
| Tommy McLaren | 29 | Scottish | midfielder | suicide | 1978 |
| Tommy Meehan | 28 | English | half-back | encephalitis lethargica | 1924 |
| Romeo Menti | 29 | Italian | striker | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Vittorio Mero | 27 | Italian | defender | car accident | 2002 |
| Gigi Meroni | 27 | Italian | winger | car accident | 1967 |
| Claudio Milar | 34 | Uruguayan | striker | bus crash | 2009 |
| Michael Millett | 17 | English | defender | car accident | 1995 |
| Gionata Mingozzi | 23 | Italian | midfielder | car accident | 2008 |
| Damián Lucas Molina | 20 | Argentine | goalkeeper | respiratory problems caused by heart defect | 2004 |
| Emiliano Molina | 17 | Argentine | goalkeeper | car accident | 2005 |
| Lester Morgan | 26 | Costa Rican | goalkeeper | suicide | 2002 |
| Eddie Moussa | 26 | Swedish-Lebanese | striker | homicide | 2010 |
| Eston Mulenga | 26 | Zambian | midfielder | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Winter Mumba | 23 | Zambian | defender | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Kelvin Mutale | 24 | Zambian | striker | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Richard Mwanza | 33 | Zambian | goalkeeper | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Numba Mwila | 21 | Zambian | midfielder | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Timothy Mwitwa | 25 | Zambian | striker | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Hussein Naeem | 20 | Lebanese | striker | car bomb | 2007 |
| Alan Nicholls | 22 | English | goalkeeper | motorcycle accident | 1995 |
| John Nicholson | 30 | English | defender | car crash | 1966 |
| Antonio de Nigris | 31 | Mexican | striker | heart attack | 2009 |
| Krzysztof Nowak | 29 | Polish | midfielder | Lou Gehrig's disease | 2005 |
| Phil O'Donnell | 35 | Scottish | midfielder | cardiac arrest | 2007 |
| Rogério Oliveira | 30 | Brazilian | striker | heart attack | 2006 |
| Piero Operto | 22 | Italian | defender | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Franco Ossola | 27 | Italian | striker | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Josheph Ouhm | 32 | Cameroonese | striker | pulmonary edema | 2009 |
| Maksym Pashayev | 20 | Ukrainian | defender | car accident | 2008 |
| Fred Patrick | 23 | Dutch-Suriname | midfielder | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Simon Patterson | 24 | English | striker | car accident | 2006 |
| Serhiy Perkhun | 23 | Ukrainian | goalkeeper | brain hemorrhage as a result of head injury | 2001 |
| David Pegg | 22 | English | winger | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| Mark Philo | 21 | English | midfielder | car accident | 2006 |
| Clément Pinault | 23 | French | defender | heart attack | 2009 |
| Federico Pisani | 22 | Italian | striker | car accident | 1997 |
| Danijel Popović | 20 | Croatian | midfielder | car accident | 2002 |
| Abdón Porte | 37 | Uruguayan | defender | suicide | 1918 |
| Kiyan Prince | 15 | English | midfielder (youth team) | homicide | 2006 |
| Brian Purcell | 30 | Welsh | defender | car accident | 1969 |
| Antonio Puerta | 22 | Spanish | midfielder | heart attack during La Liga match | 2007 |
| Avi Ran | 23 | Israeli | goalkeeper | hit by speed boat | 1987 |
| Mel Rees | 26 | Welsh | goalkeeper | cancer | 1993 |
| Régis Gouveia | 28 | Brazilian | defender | bus crash | 2009 |
| Renato | 28 | Brazilian | midfielder | homicide during robbery | 2004 |
| Claudinei Resende | 26 | Brazilian | midfielder | homicide | 2004 |
| Mario Rigamonti | 26 | Italian | midfielder | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Dale Roberts | 24 | English | goalkeeper | suicide | 2010 |
| David Rocastle | 33 | English | midfielder | lymphoma | 2001 |
| Miki Roqué | 23 | Spanish | defender | pelvic cancer | 2012 |
| Nick Ross | 31 | Scottish | defender | consumption/tuberculosis | 1894 |
| Miro Rys | 20 | Czech-American | forward | car accident | 1977 |
| Silvester Sabolčki | 23 | Croatian | defender | car accident | 2003 |
| Holger Salin | 32 | Finnish | striker | killed during World War II | 1943/1944 |
| Mirko Saric | 21 | Argentine | midfielder | suicide | 2000 |
| Andy Scharmin | 21 | Dutch-Suriname | defender | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Julius Schubert | 26 | Hungarian | striker | Superga air disaster | 1949 |
| Sergio Schulmeister | 25 | Argentine | goalkeeper | suicide | 2003 |
| Kenan Simambe | 19 | Zambian | defender | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Matthias Sindelar | 35 | Austrian | striker | officially carbon monoxide poisoning (see Matthias Sindelar#Death and myth) | 1939 |
| George Smith | 28 | English | defender/striker | heart attack | 1908 |
| Nicol Smith | 31 | Scottish | defender | enteric fever | 1905 |
| Peter Southey | 21 | English | defender | leukemia | 1983 |
| John Soko | 23 | Zambian | defender | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Erling Spalk | 19 | Danish | defender | Øresund plane crash | 1960 |
| James Speedie | Scottish | killed in World War I | 1915 | ||
| Adam Stansfield | 31 | English | striker | bowel cancer | 2010 |
| François Sterchele | 26 | Belgian | striker | car accident | 2008 |
| Nick Stienstra | 33 | Dutch-Suriname | Surinam air disaster | 1989 | |
| Anatoli Sylka | 30 | Russian | defender | heart attack | 2009 |
| Sándor Szűcs | 30 | Hungarian | defender | execution by the communist regime for defection attempt | 1951 |
| Giuliano Taccola | 24 | Italian | striker | heart attack | 1969 |
| Tommy Taylor | 26 | English | striker | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| Otilino Tenorio | 25 | Ecuadorian | striker | car accident | 2005 |
| Donald Thobega | 29 | Botswanan | midfielder | car accident | 2009 |
| Alfredo Tomassini | 23 | Peruvian | midfielder | drowned | 1987 |
| David Di Tommaso | 26 | French | midfielder | heart attack | 2005 |
| Mickey Trotman | 26 | Trinidad and Tobagan | midfielder | car accident | 2001 |
| Nikolai Trusevich | Soviet | goalkeeper | execution by German soldiers during World War II (see The Death Match) | 1943 | |
| Raimundo Tupper | 26 | Chilean | defender | suicide | 1995 |
| Kirk Urso | 22 | American | midfielder | genetic heart defect | 2012 |
| Petea Vâlcov | 32 | Romanian | striker | killed on the Eastern Front | 1943 |
| Ferry van Vliet | 20 | Dutch | midfielder | car accident | 2001 |
| Edy Vasquez | 23 | Honduran | midfielder | car accident | 2007 |
| Elfried Veldman | 23 | Dutch-Suriname | midfielder | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Florian Vijent | 27 | Dutch-Suriname | goalkeeper | Surinam air disaster | 1989 |
| Ondřej Voříšek | 18 | Czech | goalkeeper | car accident | 2004 |
| Karl Wallmüller | 30 | Austrian | midfielder | killed during World War II | 1944 |
| Wang Donglei | 23 | Chinese | midfielder | car accident | 2008 |
| Robert Watiyakeni | 24 | Zambian | defender | Gabon air disaster | 1993 |
| Harry Wattie | 23 | Scottish | Battle of the Somme | 1916 | |
| Walter Werginz | 31 | Austrian | forward | killed in World War II | 1944 |
| Liam Whelan | 22 | Irish | striker | Munich air disaster | 1958 |
| John White | 27 | Scottish | midfielder | hit by lightning | 1964 |
| Dave Wiggett | 20 | English | defender | car accident | 1978 |
| Frank Wilson | 22 | English | centre forward | "maniacal exhaustion caused by football and excitement" | 1898 |
| Whayne Wilson | 29 | Costa Rican | striker | car accident | 2005 |
| Zhang Yalin | 28 | Chinese | midfielder | lymphoma | 2010 |
| Mikhail Yeremin | 23 | Soviet | goalkeeper | car accident | 1991 |
| Gábor Zavadszky | 31 | Hungarian | midfielder | embolism | 2006 |
| Hicham Zerouali | 27 | Moroccan | striker | car accident | 2004 |
| Christian Tudor | 30 | Romanian | striker | cirrhosis | 2012 |
| Neto Maranhão | 28 | Brazilian | midfielder | died during a training | 2013 |
| Athlete | Age | Nationality | Sport | Cause of death | Year |
| Abebe Bikila | 41 | Ethiopian | long distance runner and two-time Olympic gold medalist | complications from spinal cord injury suffered in a car accident | 1973 |
| Ross Baillie | 21 | Scottish | hurdler | anaphylaxis | 1999 |
| Lillian Board | 22 | British | 400m sprinter, middle distance runner and Olympic silver medallist | cancer | 1970 |
| Richard Chelimo | 29 | Kenyan | long distance runner and Olympic silver medalist | brain tumour | 2001 |
| Maria Cioncan | 29 | Romanian | middle distance runner | car accident | 2007 |
| Ivo Van Damme | 22 | Belgian | middle distance runner and two-time Olympic silver medalist | car accident | 1976 |
| Foy Draper | 31 | American | sprinter | killed in World War II (Battle of Kasserine Pass) | 1943 |
| James Duffy | 24 | Irish | marathon runner | killed in World War I (Second Battle of Ypres) | 1915 |
| Pål Arne Fagernes | 29 | Norwegian | javelin thrower | car accident | 2003 |
| Piotr Gładki | 33 | Polish | long distance runner | car accident | 2005 |
| Nils Uhlin Hansen | 25 | Norwegian | long jumper | killed as a resistance fighter during World War II | 1945 |
| Rudolf Harbig | 30 | German | middle distance runner | killed in World War II | 1944 |
| René Herms | 26 | German | middle distance runner | myocarditis caused by a viral infection | 2009 |
| Kinue Hitomi | 24 | Japanese | sprinter and jumper and Olympic silver medallist | tuberculosis | 1931 |
| Owe Jonsson | 21 | Swedish | sprinter and European gold medalist | car accident | 1962 |
| Yutaka Kanai | 30 | Japanese | long distance runner | car accident | 1990 |
| Władysław Komar | 58 | Polish | shot putter | car accident | 1998 |
| Janusz Kusociński | 33 | Polish | long distance runner and Olympic gold medalist | executed by the Gestapo in 1940 during Nazi Germany's occupation of Poland. | 1940 |
| Francisco Lázaro | 21 | Portuguese | marathon runner | dehydration due to high temperature | 1912 |
| Wilhelm Leichum | 30 | German | jumper and sprinter | killed in World War II | 1941 |
| Luz Long | 30 | German | jumper and Olympic silver medalist who is most famous for befriending Jesse Owens during the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin | killed in World War II | 1943 |
| Bronisław Malinowski | 30 | Olympic | champion 3000m steeplechaser | car accident | 1981 |
| Sally Meyerhoff | 27 | American | long distance runner | bicycle accident | 2011 |
| Wesly Ngetich | 30 | Kenyan | long distance runner | murdered in the Kenyan political crisis' riots | 2008 |
| Sueo Ōe | 27 | Japanese | pole vaulter | killed in World War II | 1941 |
| Steve Prefontaine | 24 | American | long distance runner | car accident | 1975 |
| Bob Roggy | 30 | American | javelin thrower | car accident | 1986 |
| Ryan Shay | 28 | American | long distance runner | collapsed during the 2007 US Olympic Marathon Trials | 2007 |
| Kamila Skolimowska | 26 | Polish | hammer thrower | pulmonary embolism | 2009 |
| Tadeusz Ślusarski | 48 | Polish | pole vaulter | car accident | 1998 |
| Ian Syster | 28 | African | long distance runner | drowned in car accident, died a few months after the 2004 Olympics | 2004 |
| Tomoyuki Taniguchi | 29 | Japanese | long distance runner | car accident | 1990 |
| Kokichi Tsuburaya | 27 | Japanese | long distance runner | suicide | 1968 |
| Samuel Wanjiru | 24 | Kenyan | long distance runner | accident, possible suicide | 2011 |
| Geoff Watt | Australian | long distance runner - first to run up and down Mount Kilimanjaro. | died of exposure in snow. | 1969 | |
| Hans Woellke | 32 | German | shot putter | killed in World War II | 1943 |
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