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25,206 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Yunus Nuri

    actor

    1878–1950 · aged 71

    January 23 · 1878

    No external source identified

  2. Valentina Savina

    sport cyclist

    83 years old

    January 1 · 1943

    No external source identified

  3. Vladimir Zhmudsky

    water polo player

    79 years old

    January 23 · 1947

    No external source identified

  4. Pavel Janáček

    editing staff, opinion journalist

    58 years old

    January 16 · 1968

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  5. Willi Bartholomae

    rower

    1885–1955 · aged 70

    January 31 · 1885

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  6. Fábio Silvestre

    sport cyclist

    36 years old

    January 25 · 1990

    Source: uci.org

  7. Willy Fitting

    fencer, dentist

    1925–2017 · aged 92

    January 25 · 1925

    No external source identified

  8. Franco De Pedrina

    rower

    85 years old

    January 27 · 1941

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  9. János Krizmanich

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1944 · aged 55

    January 27 · 1889

    No external source identified

  10. Ryszard Przybysz

    handball player

    1950–2002 · aged 52

    January 8 · 1950

    No external source identified

  11. Jacob Opdahl

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1938

    January 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  12. Marceau Fourcade*

    rower

    Date disputed

    January 28 · 1905

    Source: birth certificate

  13. Lyudmila Poradnyk

    handball player

    80 years old

    January 11 · 1946

    No external source identified

  14. Paul van de Rovaart

    field hockey player

    1904–1995 · aged 91

    January 24 · 1904

    No external source identified

  15. Sergei Borisov

    sport cyclist

    43 years old

    January 25 · 1983

    No external source identified

  16. Paul Leroy

    archer

    1884–1949 · aged 65

    January 13 · 1884

    No external source identified

  17. Horst Hagen

    volleyball player

    76 years old

    January 10 · 1950

    No external source identified

  18. Takayoshi Matsushita

    archer

    73 years old

    January 30 · 1953

    No external source identified

  19. Karsten Finger

    rower

    56 years old

    January 28 · 1970

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  20. Luigi Borghetti

    sport cyclist

    83 years old

    January 31 · 1943

    No external source identified

  21. Todorka Yordanova*

    basketball player

    Date disputed

    January 3 · 1956

    No external source identified

  22. Geoffrey Carr

    coxswain

    1886–1969 · aged 83

    January 22 · 1886

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  23. Andreas Katz

    cross-country skier

    38 years old

    January 8 · 1988

    No external source identified

  24. Fréderique Robert

    track cyclist, sport cyclist

    37 years old

    January 25 · 1989

    No external source identified

  25. Jan Everse, Jr.

    association football coach, association football player

    72 years old

    January 5 · 1954

    Source: Transfermarkt

  26. Ashot Karagyan

    fencer

    75 years old

    January 23 · 1951

    No external source identified

  27. Gonzalo Galván Castillo

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1951–2020 · aged 69

    January 19 · 1951

    No external source identified

  28. Walter Riccomi

    sport cyclist

    76 years old

    January 18 · 1950

    No external source identified

  29. Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier

    physicist, mechanic

    1745–1799 · aged 54

    January 6 · 1745

    Source: GeneaStar

  30. Chris Hooijkaas

    sailor

    1861–1926 · aged 65

    January 6 · 1861

    No external source identified

  31. Pierre Gauthier

    sailor, skipper

    1879–date unavailable

    January 21 · 1879

    No external source identified

  32. Ignazio Masotti

    Catholic priest

    1817–1888 · aged 71

    January 16 · 1817

    Source: Find a Grave

  33. Thomas Linley*

    music teacher, harpsichordist

    Date disputed

    January 17 · 1733

    Source: BnF authorities

  34. Lauri Nevalainen

    rower

    1927–2005 · aged 78

    January 24 · 1927

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  35. Antoinette de Beaucaire

    writer

    1840–1865 · aged 25

    January 21 · 1840

    Source: BnF authorities

  36. Juan Carlos González Salvador

    sport cyclist

    62 years old

    January 28 · 1964

    Source: firstcycling.com

  37. Geovani Cortes Gomes

    association football player

    33 years old

    January 23 · 1993

    No external source identified

  38. Kento Yabuuchi

    association football player

    31 years old

    January 21 · 1995

    Source: Transfermarkt

  39. Conchita Puig

    alpine skier

    73 years old

    January 18 · 1953

    Source: Catalan Sport Encyclopedia

  40. Knud Andersen

    sport cyclist, cook

    1922–1997 · aged 75

    January 5 · 1922

    No external source identified

  41. Joaquim Justino Carreira

    Catholic deacon, Catholic priest

    1950–2013 · aged 63

    January 29 · 1950

    No external source identified

  42. Roberto Vestrini

    rower

    1908–1966 · aged 58

    January 30 · 1908

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  43. Daniel Vischer

    lawyer, politician

    1950–2017 · aged 67

    January 16 · 1950

    Source: historygreatest.com

  44. John Slim

    amateur wrestler

    1885–1966 · aged 81

    January 9 · 1885

    Source: olympedia.org

  45. Takuya Ota

    amateur wrestler

    56 years old

    January 2 · 1970

    No external source identified

  46. Philip Schuster

    artistic gymnast, athletics competitor

    1883–1926 · aged 43

    January 24 · 1883

    No external source identified

  47. Jiřina Hájková

    field hockey player

    72 years old

    January 31 · 1954

    Source: Olympedia

  48. Nataliya Stasyuk

    rower

    57 years old

    January 21 · 1969

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  49. Paul McDowell

    rower

    1905–1962 · aged 57

    January 17 · 1905

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  50. Baldassare Porto

    sprinter

    1923–2013 · aged 90

    January 19 · 1923

    No external source identified

  51. Virginia Bonci

    athletics competitor

    1949–2020 · aged 71

    January 5 · 1949

    No external source identified

  52. Paul Giéra

    writer, poet

    1816–1861 · aged 45

    January 22 · 1816

    Source: GeneaStar

  53. Auguste Godinet

    engineer, sailor

    1853–1936 · aged 83

    January 30 · 1853

    Source: death certificate

  54. Baltasar Saldoni

    composer, musicologist

    1807–1889 · aged 82

    January 4 · 1807

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  55. Martin Van Geneugden

    sport cyclist

    1932–2014 · aged 82

    January 21 · 1932

    No external source identified

  56. Jean-Joseph Thonissen*

    scholar, lawyer

    Date disputed

    January 10 · 1816

    Source: ODIS

  57. Vladimír Filo

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1940–2015 · aged 75

    January 15 · 1940

    Source: Records of persons of interest

  58. Liliana Neto

    athletics competitor

    29 years old

    January 29 · 1997

    Source: World Athletics database

  59. Eva Olliwier

    competitive diver

    1904–1955 · aged 51

    January 13 · 1904

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  60. Albert Mokeyev

    modern pentathlete

    1936–1969 · aged 33

    January 4 · 1936

    No external source identified

  61. Hermann JacobsenJohannes Heinrich Jacobsen

    botanist, gardener

    1898–1978 · aged 80

    January 26 · 1898

    No external source identified

  62. Maksym Drachenko

    association football coach, association football player

    36 years old

    January 28 · 1990

    Source: Transfermarkt

  63. Cecil Browning

    tennis player

    1883–1953 · aged 70

    January 29 · 1883

    No external source identified

  64. André Moccand

    coxswain

    95 years old

    January 25 · 1931

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  65. Juan Felipe Osorio

    sport cyclist

    31 years old

    January 30 · 1995

    Source: uci.org

  66. John Price

    sailor

    1920–1991 · aged 71

    January 19 · 1920

    No external source identified

  67. Danilo Grassi

    sport cyclist

    85 years old

    January 1 · 1941

    Source: firstcycling.com

  68. Joseph Abangite Gasi

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1928–2014 · aged 86

    January 1 · 1928

    No external source identified

  69. Piotr Cieśla

    handball player

    71 years old

    January 16 · 1955

    No external source identified

  70. Chen Zhen

    handball player

    63 years old

    January 11 · 1963

    No external source identified

  71. Yoshihito Yamaji

    association football player

    55 years old

    January 13 · 1971

    No external source identified

  72. Elbek Tazhyieu

    amateur wrestler

    40 years old

    January 7 · 1986

    No external source identified

  73. Valère Thiébaud

    sport cyclist

    27 years old

    January 26 · 1999

    Source: olympedia.org

  74. Jan Vreede

    sailor, skipper

    1900–1989 · aged 89

    January 11 · 1900

    No external source identified

  75. Sven-Olof Jonsson

    artistic gymnast

    1893–1945 · aged 51

    January 23 · 1893

    No external source identified

  76. Günther Brennecke

    field hockey player

    1927–2014 · aged 87

    January 13 · 1927

    No external source identified

  77. Giacomo Bazzan

    sport cyclist

    1950–2019 · aged 69

    January 13 · 1950

    No external source identified

  78. Walter Middelberg

    rower

    1875–1944 · aged 69

    January 30 · 1875

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  79. Fernando Grijalba

    sport cyclist

    35 years old

    January 14 · 1991

    Source: uci.org

  80. Bohdan Didytsky

    journalist, writer

    1827–1909 · aged 81

    January 27 · 1827

    No external source identified

  81. Jěwa-Marja Čornakec

    writer, dramaturge

    67 years old

    January 8 · 1959

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  82. William II, Marquis of Namur

    aristocrat

    1355–1418 · aged 62

    January 30 · 1355

    No external source identified

  83. Guido Santin

    rower

    1911–2008 · aged 97

    January 1 · 1911

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  84. Sture Ericsson-Ewréus

    artistic gymnast

    1898–1945 · aged 47

    January 15 · 1898

    No external source identified

  85. Claude Guyot

    sport cyclist

    79 years old

    January 16 · 1947

    No external source identified

  86. Kristian Hansen

    artistic gymnast

    1895–1955 · aged 60

    January 25 · 1895

    No external source identified

  87. Dieter Gieseler

    sport cyclist

    1941–2008 · aged 67

    January 10 · 1941

    No external source identified

  88. Gaspare Grasselini

    Catholic priest

    1796–1875 · aged 79

    January 19 · 1796

    No external source identified

  89. Vitali Trubila

    association football coach, association football player

    41 years old

    January 7 · 1985

    Source: FBref

  90. Wilson Deodato da Silva

    association football player

    45 years old

    January 10 · 1981

    Source: Transfermarkt

  91. Henri Peslier

    swimmer, water polo player

    1880–1912 · aged 32

    January 4 · 1880

    Source: birth certificate

  92. Dmitriy Petrov

    sprinter

    44 years old

    January 4 · 1982

    Source: World Athletics database

  93. Luigi Ferrando

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    85 years old

    January 22 · 1941

    No external source identified

  94. Eugenio Scarpellini

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1954–2020

    January 8 · 1954

    No external source identified

  95. Kosei Wakimoto

    association football player

    32 years old

    January 8 · 1994

    Source: Transfermarkt

  96. Carlos Peppe

    association football player

    43 years old

    January 28 · 1983

    Source: Argentine Soccer Database

  97. Abraham Escudero Montoya

    Catholic priest, theologian

    1940–2009 · aged 69

    January 24 · 1940

    No external source identified

  98. Daniel Morillo Prats

    archer

    38 years old

    January 21 · 1988

    No external source identified

  99. Aito Mäkinen

    film producer, screenwriter

    1927–2017 · aged 90

    January 4 · 1927

    Source: Uppslagsverket Finland

  100. Reinhold Pommer

    sport cyclist

    1935–2014 · aged 79

    January 6 · 1935

    No external source identified

  101. Jörg Schmall

    sailor

    83 years old

    January 27 · 1943

    No external source identified

  102. Mikko Hyvärinen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1973 · aged 84

    January 8 · 1889

    No external source identified

  103. Aleksandr Vasilyev

    association football player

    34 years old

    January 23 · 1992

    Source: Transfermarkt

  104. René Van Meenen

    sport cyclist

    95 years old

    January 14 · 1931

    No external source identified

  105. Per Nilsson

    artistic gymnast

    1890–1964 · aged 74

    January 4 · 1890

    No external source identified

  106. Horace Disston

    field hockey player

    1906–1982 · aged 76

    January 7 · 1906

    Source: SNAC

  107. Beate Deininger

    field hockey player

    62 years old

    January 24 · 1964

    No external source identified

  108. Paul Valcke

    fencer

    1914–1980 · aged 66

    January 11 · 1914

    No external source identified

  109. Wilhelm Grimmelmann

    artistic gymnast

    1893–1958 · aged 65

    January 15 · 1893

    Source: olympedia.org

  110. Szymon Rekita

    sport cyclist

    32 years old

    January 5 · 1994

    Source: uci.org

  111. Edward Henryk Materski

    university teacher, Catholic priest

    1923–2012 · aged 89

    January 6 · 1923

    No external source identified

  112. Otto Falkenberg

    sailor, skipper

    1885–1977 · aged 92

    January 9 · 1885

    No external source identified

  113. Albert De Roocker

    fencer

    1904–1989 · aged 85

    January 25 · 1904

    No external source identified

  114. Ali El Ghrari

    archer

    29 years old

    January 31 · 1997

    No external source identified

  115. Gema Pascual

    sport cyclist

    47 years old

    January 12 · 1979

    No external source identified

  116. Pierre Nijs

    water polo player, swimmer

    1890–1939 · aged 49

    January 4 · 1890

    No external source identified

  117. Florent Barle

    sport cyclist

    40 years old

    January 17 · 1986

    No external source identified

  118. Anton Terekhov

    association football player

    28 years old

    January 30 · 1998

    Source: Transfermarkt

  119. Victor Lenaers

    sport cyclist

    1893–1968 · aged 75

    January 12 · 1893

    Source: BnF authorities

  120. Firdaus Khisamitdinova

    scientist

    1950–2023 · aged 73

    January 1 · 1950

    Source: Library of Congress Authorities

  121. Christophe Moehrlen

    children's writer, parson

    1800–1871 · aged 71

    January 20 · 1800

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  122. Alfonso Milián Sorribas

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1939–2020 · aged 81

    January 15 · 1939

    No external source identified

  123. Paweł Sarna

    poet, writer

    49 years old

    January 26 · 1977

    No external source identified

  124. Marcel Godivier

    sport cyclist

    1887–1963 · aged 76

    January 17 · 1887

    Source: BnF authorities

  125. Elisabeth Kellner

    alpine skier

    60 years old

    January 16 · 1966

    No external source identified

  126. William Pinheiro

    association football player

    1989–2018 · aged 29

    January 10 · 1989

    Source: Transfermarkt

  127. Rudolf Wirz

    handball player

    1918–1988 · aged 70

    January 28 · 1918

    No external source identified

  128. Kåre Hovda

    biathlete

    1944–1999 · aged 55

    January 24 · 1944

    Source: historical register of persons

  129. Tabaré Larre Borges

    basketball player

    104 years old

    January 6 · 1922

    No external source identified

  130. Krister Hagen

    sport cyclist

    37 years old

    January 12 · 1989

    Source: uci.org

  131. Andrzej Śliwiński

    theologian, Catholic priest

    1939–2009 · aged 70

    January 6 · 1939

    No external source identified

  132. Kerstin Wohlbold

    handball player

    42 years old

    January 11 · 1984

    No external source identified

  133. Ida Sargent

    cross-country skier

    38 years old

    January 25 · 1988

    No external source identified

  134. Thoralf Peters

    rower

    58 years old

    January 13 · 1968

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  135. Theodor Klem

    rower

    1889–1963 · aged 74

    January 20 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  136. Thilo Irmisch

    writer, botanist

    1816–1879 · aged 63

    January 4 · 1816

    Source: BnF authorities

  137. Matti Perttilä

    amateur wrestler

    1896–1968 · aged 72

    January 21 · 1896

    No external source identified

  138. Luisa Garella

    actor

    1921–1983 · aged 62

    January 6 · 1921

    Source: IMDb

  139. Mirko Tedeschi

    sport cyclist

    37 years old

    January 5 · 1989

    No external source identified

  140. Albert-Marie de Monléon

    Catholic bishop, theologian

    1937–2019 · aged 82

    January 20 · 1937

    Source: AlKindi

  141. Fabrício André Pires

    association football player

    44 years old

    January 29 · 1982

    No external source identified

  142. Colin Finlayson

    rower

    1903–1955 · aged 52

    January 24 · 1903

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  143. Joseph De Craecker

    fencer

    1891–1975 · aged 84

    January 19 · 1891

    Source: Roglo

  144. Frank Dummerth

    rower

    1871–1936 · aged 65

    January 6 · 1871

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  145. Torkild Garp

    artistic gymnast

    1883–1976 · aged 93

    January 31 · 1883

    No external source identified

  146. Rodolfo Cetoloni

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    80 years old

    January 3 · 1946

    No external source identified

  147. Margret Kreidl

    poet, writer

    62 years old

    January 2 · 1964

    No external source identified

  148. Jenő Rittich

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1961

    January 13 · 1889

    No external source identified

  149. Jadwiga Szosler-Wilejto

    archer

    77 years old

    January 22 · 1949

    No external source identified

  150. Tadeusz Trojanowski

    amateur wrestler

    1933–1997 · aged 64

    January 1 · 1933

    Source: olympedia.org

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