Rugby Union
- Nicky Allen, 26, New Zealand rugby union player, head injuries sustained during a match (1984)
- Sam Doble, 33, English rugby union player, cancer (1977)
- Yves du Manoir, 23, French rugby union player, plane crash (1928)
- Nick Duncombe, 21, English rugby union player, meningitis (2003)
- Ivan Francescato, 31, Italian rugby union player, heart attack (1999)
- Barry Holmes, 21, English/Argentinian rugby union player, typhoid (1949)
- Aaron Hopa, 27, New Zealand rugby union player, death as a result of a heart defect, while diving (1998)
- Gareth Jones, 28, Welsh rugby union player, neck injury sustained during a match (2008)
- Roy Muir Kinnear, 38, Scottish rugby union/league player, heart attack (1942)
- Shawn Mackay, 26, Australian rugby union player, spinal cord and other injuries suffered when struck by a motor vehicle (2009)
- Alexander Obolensky, 24, Russia-born English rugby union player, plane crash during military training (1940)
- Dick Stafford, 19, English rugby union player, spinal cancer (1912)
- Sid Judd, 30, Welsh rugby union player, leukemia (1959)
- Nevin Spence, 22, Irish rugby union player, death due to slurry gas poisoning on farm (2012)
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