Sports year 1970
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badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1970 was the Thomas Cup 1970 as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the Dutch Open , the Denmark Open , the British Commonwealth Games , the Asian Games and the European Championship .
International events
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
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| All of England |
 Rudy Hartono
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 Etsuko Takenaka
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 Tom Bacher Poul Petersen
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 Margaret Boxall Sue Pound Whetnall
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Per Walsøe Pernille Mølgaard Hansen
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| Denmark Open |
Ippei Kojima
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 Eva Twedberg
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Henning Borch Erland Kops
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Etsuko Takenaka Machiko Aizawa
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Klaus Kaagaard Ulla Strand
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| Swedish Open |
Svend Pri
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Eva Twedberg
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Svend Pri Per Walsøe
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Margaret Boxall Gillian Perrin
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Per Walsøe Pernille Mølgaard Hansen
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basketball
- May 24th: Host Yugoslavia secures the World Cup for the first time
ice Hockey
- March 30th: The Soviet Union wins the World Cup in Stockholm for the eighth time in a row
fencing
- Fencing World Championships 1970 in Ankara
Soccer
- May 31 to June 21: Football World Cup 1970 in Mexico
athletics
- Jan 25 - Marilyn Neufville , Jamaica , ran the women's 400 meters in 51.0 seconds.
- February 28 - Caroline Walker , USA , ran the women's marathon 3:02:53 hours.
- March 3rd - Heide Rosendahl , Germany , reached 6.84 meters in the women's long jump.
- April 28 - Caroline Walker , USA , ran the women's marathon in 3:02:53 hours.
- May 9 - Paola Pigni , Italy , ran the women's 10,000 meters in 35: 30.5 minutes.
- June 17th - Wolfgang Nordwig , GDR , jumped 5.45 meters in the men's pole vault.
- June 20 - Teresa Sukniewicz , Poland , ran the women's 100 meter hurdles for 12.8 seconds.
- July 13th - Thomas Hill , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.2 seconds.
- July 20 - Teresa Sukniewicz , Poland , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.8 seconds.
- July 23 - Marilyn Neufville , Jamaica , ran 51 seconds in the women's 400 meters.
- July 26th - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the women's 100 meter hurdles for 12.7 seconds.
- August 4th - Kerry O'Brien , Australia , ran the men's 3000 m obstacle in 08: 22.0 minutes.
- August 12 - Chi Cheng , Taiwan , ran the women's 200 meters in 22.4 seconds.
- Aug 18 - Chi Cheng , Taiwan , ran the women's 100 meters in 11.0 seconds.
- August 26th - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.7 seconds.
- September 3 - Wolfgang Nordwig , GDR , jumped 5.46 meters in the men's pole vault.
- September 3rd - Heide Rosendahl , Germany , jumped 6.84 meters in the women's category.
- October 20 - Teresa Sukniewicz , Poland , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.7 seconds.
- October 24 - Christos Papanikolaou , Greece , jumped 5.49 meters in the men's pole vault.
- December 12 - Chi Cheng , Taiwan , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.8 seconds.
Modern pentathlon
- World championships in Warendorf
Alpine skiing
- Alpine World Ski Championships in Val Gardena
swim
- September 5th to 13th: 1970 European Swimming Championships in Barcelona
Table tennis
- European table tennis championship 1970 April in Moscow
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- September 23: Ludwigshafen: D. - Yugoslavia 5: 4 (men)
- October 27: Berlin: D. - Japan 2: 5 (men)
- October 27: Berlin: D. - Japan 1: 3 (women)
- December 2: Baunatal: D. - South Korea 3: 5 (men)
- December 2: Baunatal: D. - South Korea 5-3 (women)
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European League
- February 4: Budapest: D. - Hungary 1: 6 (women + men)
- February 10: Hälsingborg: D. - Sweden 2: 5 (women + men)
- February 11: Birmingham: D. - England 5-2 (women + men)
- February 24: Wuppertal: D. - USSR 3: 4 (women + men)
- May 6th: Strasbourg: D. - France 6-1 (women + men)
- October 9: Hamburg: D. - Sweden 1: 6 (women + men)
- December 15: Freudenstadt: D. - ČSSR 3: 4 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 1st : Sergei Kirjakov , Russian football player
- January 2nd : Martin Driller , German soccer player
- January 2nd : Andreas Wecker , German gymnast
- January 5th : David Adams , South African tennis player
- January 5th : Elfriede Eder , Austrian ski racer
- January 5th : Ylva Nowén , Swedish ski racer
- January 5th : Jens Todt , German soccer player and journalist
- January 7th : Miroslav Stević , Serbian football player
- January 8 : Dwayne Norris , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
- January 9 : Axel Rodrigues de Arruda , Brazilian soccer player
- January 10th : Alisa Marić , Serbian chess player
- January 11 : Wolfgang Graßl , German ski trainer († 2010 )
- January 11th : Giovanni Pellielo , Italian marksman
- January 13 : Marco Pantani , Italian cyclist († 2004 )
- January 13th : Odiah Sidibé , French sprinter
- January 14th : Nili Abramski , Israeli long distance runner
- January 15th : Irina Palina , Russian table tennis player
- January 17 : Jeremy Roenick , American ice hockey player
- January 18th : Peter Van Petegem , Belgian cyclist
- January 19 : Steffen Freund , German soccer player
- January 19 : Sergei Gomolyako , Russian ice hockey player
- January 19 : Wolfgang Nadvornik , German sports journalist and television presenter
- January 21 : Michael Jakosits , German marksman
- January 21 : Alen Bokšić , Croatian football player
- January 23 : Oleg Ovsyannikov , Russian figure skater
- January 23 : Moreno Torricelli , Italian football player and coach
- January 25th : Rune Djurhuus , Norwegian chess player
- January 27 : Svetla Dimitrova , Bulgarian athlete
- January 30th : Yves Vanderhaeghe , Belgian football player
February
- February 1st : Eric Jensen , Canadian racing driver
- February 2 : Günter Schlierkamp , German-American bodybuilder
- February 4th : Gilberto Hernández , Mexican chess player and coach
- February 4th : Marina Jelzowa , Russian figure skater
- February 4th : Toni Porkka , Finnish ice hockey player
- February 5th : Astrid Kumbernuss , German shot putter and discus thrower
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- February 6th : Margit Paar , German luge athlete
- February 9 : Cihat Arslan , Turkish football player and coach
- February 9 : Glenn McGrath , Australian cricketer
- February 13th : Marlies Kamleitner , German handball player and trainer
- February 13 : Rudi Vata , Albanian football player
- February 14th : Giuseppe Guerini , Italian cyclist
- February 15 : Jens Fiedler , German track cyclist
- February 15 : Mark Warnecke , German swimmer
- February 16 : Peter Schlickenrieder , German cross-country skier
- February 16 : Angelo Peruzzi , Italian football player
- February 17th : Thomas Frischknecht , Swiss cyclist
- February 17 : Tommy Moe , American ski racer
- February 20 : Markus Kauczinski , German soccer coach
- February 22nd : Marc Nagel , German handball player and handball trainer
- February 22nd : Leo Stefan , German ice hockey player
- February 22nd : Wolfram Waibel junior , Austrian sports shooter
- February 24 : Michael Bresagk , German ice hockey player
- February 27 : Jörg Teuchert , German motorcycle racer
- February 28 : Noureddine Morceli , Algerian athlete
March
- March 1st : Stig Amthor , German racing car driver
- March 2nd : Gaël Lesoudier , French racing car driver
- March 2nd : Ciriaco Sforza , Swiss football player
- March 4th : Àlex Crivillé , Spanish motorcycle racer
- March 8 : Harry Decheiver , Dutch football player
- March 8 : Ed Podivinsky , Canadian ski racer
- March 10 : Tatyana Jegorova , Russian football player and coach († 2012 )
- March 10 : Michele Serena , Italian football player and coach
- March 12th : Jan Eiberg Jørgensen , Danish handball player
- March 13 : Stéphane Goubert , French cyclist
- March 14th : Júnior Baiano , Brazilian soccer player
- March 14th : Alexander Beketow , Russian sword fencer and Olympic champion
- March 14th : Thomas Fogdö , Swedish ski racer
- March 14th : Andree Wiedener , German soccer player
- March 17 : Patrick Lebeau , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 19 : Michael Krumm , German racing driver
- March 19 : Rick Mirer , American football player
- March 21 : Anke Koglin , German chess player
- March 22nd : Hwang Young-cho , Korean marathon runner
- March 22nd : Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel , Dutch cyclist and Olympic champion
- March 23rd : Jordi Lamelas , Andorran football player
- March 24th : Judith Draxler , Austrian swimmer
- March 25 : Shawn Antoski , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 25th : Magnus Larsson , Swedish tennis player
- March 27th : Marianne Kjørstad , Norwegian ski racer
- March 27 : Steffen Rau , German football coach
- March 30th : Stéphane Ortelli , Monaco racing car driver
April
- April 1st : Anikó Nagy , Hungarian handball player
- April 2nd : Dag Bjørndalen , Norwegian biathlete
- April 4th : Barry van Galen , Dutch football player
- April 4th : Jelena Jelessina , Russian high jumper and Olympic champion
- April 4 : Mark Kirchner , German biathlete
- April 4 : Karsten Kohlhaas , German handball player
- April 6 : Olaf Kölzig , German ice hockey player
- April 7 : Alexander Karpovtsev , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2011 )
- April 10 : Nicola Caccia , Italian football player and coach
- April 10 : Pauline Konga , Kenyan athlete
- April 14 : Richard Sainct , French motorcycle racer († 2004 )
- April 15th : Matej Jovan , Slovenian ski racer
- April 18 : Vladimir Antipin , Kazakh ice hockey player and coach
- April 19 : Manuel Apicella , French chess player
- April 19 : Kelly Holmes , British athlete
- April 19th : Jesús Lucendo , Andorran football player
- April 23 : Eddy Seel , Belgian supermoto racer
- April 24th : Jean-Philippe Belloc , French racing car driver
- April 24th : Dida Diafat , Algerian Muay Thai fighter
- April 25th : Joël Abati , French handball player
- April 25 : Kate Allen , Austrian triathlete
- April 25 : Sergei Schuplezow , Russian freestyle skier († 1995 )
- April 26 : Viktors Ignatjevs , Latvian ice hockey player
- April 27th : Galina Melnik , Russian table tennis player
- April 28th : Nicklas Lidström , Swedish ice hockey player
- April 28 : Diego Simeone , Argentine soccer player and coach
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- April 29th : Andre Agassi , American tennis player
May
- May 2 : Adnan Kevrić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- May 5th : Soheil Ayari , French racing car driver
- May 8th : Marko Asell , Finnish wrestler
- May 8 : Luis Enrique , Spanish football player and coach
- May 14 : Faruk Hujdurović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- May 15 : Ronald de Boer , Dutch football player
- May 15 : Frank de Boer , Dutch football player
- May 16 : Gabriela Sabatini , Argentine tennis player
- May 20th : Andreas Walzer , German racing cyclist
- May 21 : Brigita Bukovec , Slovenian athlete
- May 23 : Olivier Couvreur , French racing car driver
- May 23 : Billy Hamill , American track athlete
- May 24th : Bo Hamburger , Danish cyclist
- May 27th : Michele Bartoli , Italian cyclist
- May 28 : Babak Rafati , German football referee
- May 29 : Roberto Di Matteo , Italian football player and coach
- May 29 : Sergei Slobin , Russian racing car driver
June
- June 2 : Georgi Donkov , Bulgarian football player
- June 3rd : Greg Hancock , American speedway driver
- June 3 : Sergei Tertyschny , Russian ice hockey player
- June 4th : David Barrufet , Spanish handball player
- June 4th : Deborah Compagnoni , Italian ski racer
- June 4th : Maik Eckhardt , German marksman
- June 4th : Sergei Yermishin , Russian beach volleyball player
- June 7th : Sven Anton , German volleyball trainer and player
- June 7th : Cafu , Brazilian soccer player
- June 7 : Mike Modano , American ice hockey player
- June 11 : Brock Marion , American football player
- June 12 : Devin Edgerton , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 13 : Vyacheslav Buzayev , Russian ice hockey player
- June 13 : Mikael Ljungberg , Swedish wrestler († 2004 )
- June 14th : Tetsuya Harada , Japanese motorcycle racer
- June 16 : Phil Mickelson , American golfer
- June 19 : Alberto Angulo , Spanish basketball coach, official and player
- June 19 : Quincy Watts , American athlete and Olympic champion
- June 22nd : Winfried Gogg , German handball player and coach
- June 23 : Henri Fuchs , German football player
- June 25 : Erki Nool , Estonian athlete
- June 27th : Régine Cavagnoud , French ski racer († 2001 )
- June 28 : Andrei Kudinow , Russian ice hockey player
- June 29th : Melanie Paschke , German athlete
- June 30th : Antonio Chimenti , Italian football player
July
- July 2 : Derrick Adkins , American track and field athlete
- July 2nd : Holger Gaißmayer , German soccer player
- July 3rd : Bruno Martini , French handball player
- July 4th : Andrei Cherkassov , Russian tennis player
- July 4th : Tony Vidmar , Australian soccer player
- July 5th : Naoki Tomita , German ice hockey player of Japanese origin
- July 6th : Tobias Abstreiter , German ice hockey player
- July 6 : Christer Fursth , Swedish football player
- July 7th : Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim , Norwegian handball player
- July 7th : Guido Fulst , German Olympic champion and world champion in cycling
- July 7th : Erik Zabel , German racing cyclist
- July 8 : Todd Martin , American tennis player
- July 9 : Ilmārs Bricis , Latvian biathlete
- July 12 : Vladimir Timozhinin , Russian water diver
- July 13 : Roman Dostál , Czech biathlete
- July 13 : Gudrun Annette Høie , Norwegian wrestler
- July 13 : Barry Pinches , English snooker player
- July 13th : Andrei Tivontschik , German pole vaulter of Belarusian origin
- July 17th : Altin Rraklli , Albanian football player
- July 20 : Carmine Gautieri , Italian football player and coach
- July 22nd : Sergei Subov , Russian ice hockey player
- July 25th : Holger Löhr , German handball player and handball trainer
- July 30th : Eugenio Corini , Italian football player
August
- August 1st : David James , British football player
- August 2 : Tony Amonte , American ice hockey player and coach
- August 2nd : Vladimir Ovchinnikov , Russian javelin thrower
- August 5th : Gabriela Zingre-Graf , Swiss ski racer
- August 7th : Marlies Askamp , German basketball player
- August 11th : Gianluca Pessotto , Italian football player
- August 13 : Alan Shearer , English football player
- August 13 : Sven Kmetsch , German soccer player
- August 15 : Chris Byrd , American boxer
- August 16 : Fabio Casartelli , Italian racing cyclist († 1995 )
- August 17th : Jim Courier , American tennis player
- August 17th : Tony Rickardsson , Swedish track athlete
- August 18th : Cédric Vasseur , French cyclist
- August 21 : Erik Dekker , Dutch cyclist
- August 22nd : Ricco Groß , German biathlete
- August 22nd : Tímea Nagy , Hungarian sword fencer
- August 24th : Stephan Passlack , German football player
- August 25 : Alexander Bade , German football player
- August 25 : Robert Horry , American basketball player
- August 26th : Claudia Amura , Argentine chess player
- August 26th : Olimpiada Ivanova , Russian walker
- August 27 : Peter Ebdon , English snooker player
- August 28 : Karen Addison , Scottish curler
- August 28th : Loïc Leferme , French freediver († 2007 )
- August 28 : Henny van Schoonhoven , Dutch football player († 2009 )
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- August 30 : Paulo Sousa , Portuguese soccer player
- August 31 : Arie van Lent , Dutch-German football player
September
- September 2 : Khalil Ibrahim Al Ghamdi , Saudi Arabian football referee
- September 2 : Abdullah al-Hilali , Omani football referee
- September 3rd : Gareth Southgate , English soccer player
- September 5th : Addis Abebe , Ethiopian long-distance runner
- September 6th : Stéphane Guivarc'h , French football player
- September 6 : Igor Korolev , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2011 )
- September 8th : Christine Lindemann , German handball player
- September 8th : Frank Möller , German judoka
- September 10 : Julie Halard-Decugis , French tennis player
- September 14th : Francesco Casagrande , Italian cyclist
- September 14th : Matthias Zimmermann , German soccer player
- September 16 : Nedeljko Jovanović , Serbian-German handball player
- September 18th : Didier Rous , French cyclist
- September 19 : Marc Arnold , German-South African soccer player, coach and official
- September 22nd : Marc-Kevin Goellner , German tennis player
- September 22nd : Antoni Lima , Andorran football player
- September 23 : Franz Almer , Austrian soccer player
- September 24th : Karen Forkel , German athlete
- September 27 : Tamás Bódog , Hungarian football player
- September 28th : Fırat Arslan , German boxer
- September 29th : Torsten Abeln , German soccer player
- September 30 : Damian Mori , Australian soccer player
October
- October 1st : Moses Kiptanui , Kenyan middle and long distance runner
- October 1 : Alexei Shamnow , Russian ice hockey player
- October 4th : Olga Kusenkowa , Russian hammer thrower and Olympic champion
- October 5th : Denis Kapustin , Russian athlete, European triple jump champion ( 1994 ) and Olympic bronze medalist ( 2000 )
- October 6th : Olga Danilowa , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- October 9 : Lin Li , Chinese swimmer and Olympic champion
- October 9th : Annika Sörenstam , Swedish golf player
- October 10 : Matthew Pinsent , British rower
- October 10th : Silke Kraushaar , German luge athlete
- October 11 : Luciana Diniz , Brazilian-Portuguese show jumper
- October 11 : Sergei Ovchinnikow , Russian football goalkeeper
- October 12 : Charlie Ward , American basketball and football player
- October 14 : Pär Zetterberg , Swedish football player
- October 15 : Pernilla Wiberg , Swedish ski racer
- October 16 : Claudio Arzeno , Argentine soccer player
- October 16 : Mehmet Scholl , German soccer player
- October 18 : Alex Barros , Brazilian motorcycle racer
- October 19 : Nouria Mérah-Benida , Algerian athlete and Olympic champion
- October 23 : Kathrin Blacha , German handball player
- October 23 : Jasmin St. Claire , American wrestler, photo model and porn actress
- October 25th : Peter Aerts , Dutch martial artist
- October 26 : Carlos Amarilla , Paraguayan football referee
- October 26th : Josefine Grosse , German handball player
- October 29th : Edwin van der Sar , Dutch football goalkeeper
- October 30th : Xie Jun , Chinese chess player
- October 31 : Karlheinz Pflipsen , German soccer player
November
- November 2nd : Natig Aivazov , Azerbaijani wrestler
- November 3rd : Roland Forthomme , Belgian carom player
- November 3 : Andrzej Juskowiak , Polish football player
- November 5th : Shaun Murphy , Irish-Australian football player and coach
- November 6th : Joyce Chepchumba , Kenyan athlete
- November 7th : Marc Rosset , Swiss tennis player
- November 8 : Juan José Borrelli , Argentine football player and coach
- November 8th : Johann Mühlegg , German winter sports enthusiast
- November 10th : Freddy Loix , Belgian rally driver
- November 13th : Henning Fröschle , German handball player and coach
- November 13 : Julija Graudyn , Russian hurdler
- November 14th : Erik Bo Andersen , Danish football player
- November 15 : Uschi Disl , German biathlete
- November 15 : Oleg Leontiev , Belarusian-Russian ice hockey player
- November 17th : Sergei Kharkov , Russian gymnast and three-time Olympic champion
- November 18 : Julia Sotnikowa , Russian sprinter
- November 23 : Karsten Müller , German chess player
- November 24th : Paul Laciga , Swiss beach volleyball player
- November 26 : John Amaechi , British-American basketball player
- November 30 : Mario Bailey , American football player
- November 30th : Vigindas Petkevičius , German handball player and coach of Lithuanian origin
December
- December 1st : Sigurður Bjarnason , Icelandic handball player
- December 2nd : Alexander Cejka , German golfer
- December 2nd : Maxim Tarasov , Russian pole vaulter
- December 3 : Dirk Heinen , German football player
- December 3 : Christian Karembeu , French football player
- December 5 : Harut Vardanyan , Armenian football player
- December 7th : Achim Vogt , Liechtenstein ski racer
- December 9 : Djalminha , Brazilian soccer player
- December 11th : Teal Fowler , American ice hockey player and coach
- December 13th : Tonja Buford-Bailey , American athlete and Olympian
- December 13th : Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner , Austrian mountaineer
- December 14th : Grégory Anquetil , French handball player
- December 14th : Nico Van Kerckhoven , Belgian football player
- December 16 : Christoph Fuhrbach , German cross-country skier
- December 20 : Yevgeny Belousov , Russian boxer
- December 21 : Nasser Al-Attiyah , Qatari shooter and rally driver
- December 21 : Stefan Lövgren , Swedish handball player
- December 21 : Yuri Panov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 22nd : Mutiu Adepoju , Nigerian soccer player
- December 22nd : Gary Anderson , Scottish dart player
- December 22nd : Mark Dragunski , German handball player
- December 25 : Emmanuel Amuneke , Nigerian soccer player
- December 27th : Andrea Andersson , American badminton player
- December 27th : Vadim Bogiev , Russian wrestler and 1996 Olympic champion
- December 28 : Bernd Brümmer , German handball goalkeeper
- December 29 : Enrico Chiesa , Italian football player
Died
January to March
- January 1 : Hans Wentorf , German football player (* 1899 )
- January 2 : András Kuttik , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1896 )
- January 9th : Käthe Krauss , German athlete (* 1906 )
- January 17th : Lindley Murray , American tennis player (* 1892 )
- February 1 : Eugène Christophe , French cyclist (* 1885 )
- February 15 : Frank Clement , British racing car driver (* 1888 )
- March 23 : Ludwig Rödl , German chess master (* 1907 )
April to June
- April 6 : Maurice Stokes , American basketball player (born 1933 )
- April 18 : Halfdan Bjølgerud , Norwegian high jumper (* 1884 )
- May 18 : Camillo Ugi , German football player (* 1884 )
- May 31 : Terry Sawchuk , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929 )
- June 1 : Russ Stein , American football player and sheriff (* 1896 )
July to September
- July 2 : Valerio Arri , Italian athlete (* 1892 )
- July 2 : Denis Dayan , French racing car driver (* 1942 )
- July 25 : Johann Andres , Austrian football player (* 1887 )
- August 5 : Tom Hanson , American football player (born 1907 )
- August 6 : Albin Kitzinger , German soccer player (* 1912 )
- August 10 : Joe Lapchick , American basketball player and coach (* 1900 )
- August 11 : Otto Peltzer , German athlete and trainer (* 1900 )
- August 25 : Max Abegglen , Swiss football player (* 1902 )
- September 3 : Vince Lombardi , American football coach (born 1913 )
- September 5 : Jochen Rindt , Austrian racing driver (* 1942 )
- September 17th : Désiré Keteleer , Belgian cyclist (* 1920 )
October to December
- November 2 : Pierre Veyron , French racing driver (* 1903 )
- November 19 : Abdelaziz Ben Tifour , Franco-Algerian football player (* 1927 )
- December 16 : Paul von Guilleaume , German automobile racing driver and motorsport official (* 1893 )
- December 24th : Herbert Wunsch , Austrian table tennis player (* 1917 )
- December 26th : Lillian Board , British athlete (born 1948 )
- December 30th : Sonny Liston , American boxer (born 1932 )
See also
Web links
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