Figure Skating
- Tony Austin, British, KIA in World War II
- Jean-Pierre Brunet, 19, American, car accident (1946)
- Walter Gregory, British, KIA in World War II
- Sergei Grinkov, 28, Russian, heart attack during practice for Stars on Ice tour (1995)
- Morgan Innes, 14, Australian, boating accident (2007)
- Rob McCall, 33, Canadian, AIDS (1991)
- Freddie Tomlins, 23, British, KIA in World War II (1943)
- The following Americans all died in the 1961 crash of Sabena Flight 548:
- Roger Campbell, 19
- Dona Lee Carrier, 20
- Patricia Dineen, 24–25
- Robert Dineen, 23
- Ila Ray Hadley, 18
- Ray Hadley, Jr., 17
- Laurie Hickox, 15
- William Hickox, 19
- Gregory Kelley, 16–17
- Bradley Lord, 23
- Rhode Lee Michelson, 17
- Laurence Owen, 16
- Maribel Owen, 20
- Larry Pierce, 23–24
- Douglas Ramsay, 15–16
- Dudley Richards, 29
- Diane Sherbloom, 18
- Stephanie Westerfeld, 17
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Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:
“The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)