January
11: Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, 73, Brazilian triple jumper, who broke his own world record four times in the 1952 Olympic final in Helsinki in 1952 and won again in Melbourne in 1956.
February
24: Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer. Arguably the finest batsman ever, "The Don" constantly re-wrote the record books in a 21-year career and his name remains a legend. Andy Mulligan, 64, Irish international rugby player and one of his country's finest scrum-halves.
27: Stan Cullis, 85, England defender and captain who became the "Master of Molineux" as manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers in the club's European glory days of the 1950s.
March
18: Gordon Brown, 53, Scottish rugby international of the 1970s and member of three British Lions touring squads.
30: David Rocastle, 33, English international footballer, the bulk of whose career was played with Arsenal and Leeds but which ended in Malaysia.
April
4: Aldo Olivieri, 90, Italian goalkeeper, one of the last two surviving members of the 1938 World Cup-winning side. Only 85-year-old Pietro Rava outlives him.
14: Jim Baxter, 61, gifted Scottish footballer and scourge of the English, who never fulfilled his enormous promise and whose legendary capacity for drink led to two liver transplants.
18: Robert Paparemborde, 52, considered France's greatest-ever rugby prop forward and winner of two Grand Slams in the then Five Nations championship in 1977 and 1981.
20: Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand Test cricket legend, whose total of 2,627 runs on the 1949 tour of England was only topped at that time by Australian great Don Bradman (see Feb. 24).
25: Michele Alboreto, 44, former Ferrari racing driver and one of most popular men on the Formula One circuit, with five Grand Prix victories to his name.
May
1: Babu Chhiri Sherpa, 31, Nepalese climber who made fastest ascent of Mount Everest but died on the mountain in his 11th climb.
June
22: Luis Carniglia, 83, widely-traveled Argentine footballer and later manager, a member of the great Real Madrid side which included Alfredo Di Stefano and later with Roma and AC Milan.
July
1: Joe Fagan, 80, Liverpool football manager who achieved the historic treble of English League, League Cup and the European Cup in 1984. Stood down after the 1985 Heysel disaster.
2: Billy Liddell, 79, Liverpool and Scotland footballer, a prolific goalscorer whose influence on the club earned the nickname "Liddellpool" in the 1940s.
August
15: Richard Chelimo, 29, Kenyan 10,000m world record holder and 1992 Olympic silver medalist in Barcelona.
16: Ernst Baier, 95, German figure skater, one of the most successful of all time with four world titles and an Olympic gold champion in 1936 with his future wife Maxi Herber.
25: Ken Tyrrell, 77, British Formula One team boss, whose dicoveries included triple world champion Jackie Stewart.
September
11: Garnet "Ace" Bailey, 53, Candian former ice hockey star, who won two Stanley Cups with the Boston Bruins. Killed aboard one of the hi-jacked planes which crashed into the World Trade Center.
October10: Eddie Futch, 90, legendary American boxing trainer who handled 20 world champions, including Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks.
31: Regine Cavagnoud, 31, French skier and Super-G world champion, killed in a freak accident in training in the Austrian Alps.
November
10: Kim McDonald, 45, British athletics manager, who represented Moses Kiptanui, Noah Ngeny and Sonia O'Sullivan and special advisor to IAAF president Lamine Diack.
12: Juraj Kubesa, 20, promising Slovak under-21 international who played for FC Kosice. Died in mysterious circumstances after a fall from an eighth floor flat.
14: Juan Carlos Lorenzo, 79, Argentine football manager whose robust 1966 World Cup side were famously dismissed as animals after captain Antonio Rattin was sent off against England.
16: Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam, 86, American pole-vaulter whose world record of 4.77m set in 1942 stood for 15 years but who was deprived of a crack at an Olympic medal by World War II.
27: Len Shackleton, 78, Sunderland and England footballer, known as the "Clown Prince of Soccer", who scored 101 times in 348 League appearances but only won five England caps.
29: Elta Cartwright, 93, track athlete, the first American woman to be selected for the Olympic team for Amsterdam in 1928 when at the age of 20, she equaled the world record of 12.6sec.
December
5: Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealander who was one of the most successful yachtsman in the history of the sport with wins in the America's Cup, the Sydney to Hobart and the Whitbread Round The World. Murdered by pirates while travelling in the Amazon.
22: Jovan Gojkovic: 26, Yugoslav international footballer who played for Greek first division side Iraklis
24: Harvey Martin, 31, Dallas Cowboys All-Pro defensive end. A four-time NFL Pro Bowl selection, he shared the Super Bowl 12 Most Valuable trophy award.
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