JANUARY:
3: Roger HASSENDORFER, 90 years old, French cyclist, wearing the yellow jersey for the Tour de France in 1953.
5: Bob BRETT, 67, Australian coach of Boris Becker during the best years of the German tennis player.
10: Hubert AURIOL, 68, triple winner of the Dakar, on two and four wheels, then director of the famous rally-raid
FEBRUARY:
3: Jean-Pierre BASTIAT, 71, former international from Dax, third-line center or second-line, winner of the 1977 Grand Slam with the French rugby team.
5: John PULLIN, 79, ex-pillar and ex-captain of the English rugby league.
7: Jean JOSSELIN, 81, French and European boxing champion in the 1960s.
15: Leopoldo Jacinto LUQUE, 71, Argentinian footballer, author of several decisive goals during the World Cup-1978 won at home by the Albiceleste.
27: Hannu MIKKOLA, 78, former world rally champion, nicknamed the “Flying Finn”.
MAY:
6: Christophe REVAULT, 49, former goalkeeper for Le Havre, Paris SG, Rennes and Toulouse.
13: Marvin HAGLER, 66, American middleweight legend, undisputed world champion in the category between 1980 and 1987.
19: Lee EVANS, 74, American Olympic champion in the 400m in Mexico-1968, mounted on the podium wearing the Black Panthers beret and his fist raised in protest against discrimination affecting blacks in the United States
23: Max MOSLEY, 81, British President of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) from 1993 to 2009.
29: Mark EATON, 64, former Utah Jazz pivot, NBA best defender in 1985 and 1989, selected once for the All Star Game.
AUGUST:
15: Gerd MÜLLER, 75, legendary striker for Germany and Bayern Munich in the 1960s and 1970s, nicknamed "Der Bomber".
29: Jacques ROGGE, 79, Belgian President of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013.
SEPTEMBER:
6: Jean-Pierre ADAMS, 73, former defender of the French football team, died after nearly 40 years in a coma following an anesthesia error during a routine knee operation.
18: Chris Anker SORENSEN, 37, ex-Danish cyclist turned consultant, he dies hit by a car while he was cycling on the sidelines of the 2021 Worlds.
19: Jimmy GREAVES, 81, striker for Tottenham and the England football world champion in 1966.
OCTOBER:
3: Bernard TAPIE, 78 years old, ex-businessman, minister, actor, press boss and manager of sports clubs.
He was notably president of Olympique de Marseille when the club won in 1993 the only Champions League ever won by a French football club.
13: Agnes TIROP, 25, Kenyan athlete, two-time world medalist in 10,000m and 4th at the Tokyo Olympics over 5,000m, stabbed at her home in Iten.
Her husband was charged with murder in mid-November.
29: Mehdi CERBAH, 68, former Algerian international goalkeeper, who was part of the team that defeated West Germany at the 1982 World Cup.
NOVEMBER:
2: François YVINEC, 89, businessman and emblematic former president of Stade Brestois, prosecuted and sentenced after the football club filed for bankruptcy in 1991.
12: Ron FLOWERS, 87, member of England's 1966 world football champion.
28: François MONCLA, 89 years old, third line of reference for the Blues in the years 1950-1960, winner in particular of three tournaments of the five consecutive nations.
28: Frank WILLIAMS, 79, founder of the Formula 1 team that bears his name.
DECEMBER
3: Lamine DIACK, 88, Senegalese president of the International Athletics Federation from 1999 to 2015, whose end of reign was marred by scandals.
3: Horst ECKEL, 89, the last of the German heroes of the “miracle of Bern”, West Germany's first World Cup victory in 1954.
9: Al UNSER, 82, the American pilot, quadruple winner of the 500 miles of Indianapolis.
11: Manolo SANTANA, 83, tennis legend and first Spaniard to win Wimbledon in 1966.