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Hamid Zouba
Sports & Athletics
15
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Hamid Zouba

ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ุญู…ูŠุฏ ุฒูˆุจุง
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1935 โ€“ 2022 (86 years old)

Historic member of the FLN football team who went on to become one of Africa's greatest tacticians, guiding MC Alger to their legendary 1976 Continental Treble.

Algiers, Algeria
Walter Ferguson Smith
Sports & Athletics
29
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Walter Ferguson Smith

Walter Smith
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1948 โ€“ 2021 (73 years old)

Revered Scottish football manager who led Rangers FC to ten Scottish Premier Division titles (including completing the historic "9-in-a-row" in 1997 and reaching the 2008 UEFA Cup Final), and managed Everton and the Scotland national team.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Roger Hunt
Sports & Athletics
25
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Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1938 โ€“ 2021 (83 years old)

Legendary Liverpool FC and England striker who scored three goals in England's victorious 1966 FIFA World Cup campaign and remains Liverpool's all-time record league goalscorer with 244 league goals, affectionately dubbed "Sir Roger" by the Kop.

Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
James Peter Greaves
Sports & Athletics
23
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James Peter Greaves

Jimmy Greaves
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1940 โ€“ 2021 (81 years old)

Prolific English goalscoring genius who remains Tottenham Hotspur's all-time league scorer (220 goals) and the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football (357 goals), a 1966 World Cup winner, and beloved co-host of television's Saint and Greavsie.

Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Gerd Mรผller
Sports & Athletics
45
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Gerd Mรผller

Gerhard Mรผller
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
3 November 1945 โ€“ 15 August 2021 (75 years old)

Gerd Mรผller was the most lethal and clinical penalty-box goalscorer in football history, whose predatory instincts, low center of gravity, and explosive turning speed netted 68 goals in 62 games for West Germany and 563 goals for Bayern Munich. He scored the winning goal in the 1974 World Cup final and led Bayern Munich to three consecutive European Cups (1974โ€“1976).

Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, Germany
Milkha Singh
Sports & Athletics
37
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Milkha Singh

เจฎเจฟเจฒเจ–เจพ เจธเจฟเฉฐเจ˜
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan
1929 โ€“ 2021 (91 years old)

Legendary Indian sprinter revered as 'The Flying Sikh' who overcame the trauma of Partition to win gold at the Commonwealth Games and set national records.

Chandigarh, India
Ronald Hill
Sports & Athletics
31
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Ronald Hill

Ron Hill
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1938 โ€“ 2021 (82 years old)

Pioneering English marathon champion who won the 1970 Boston Marathon in a course record, captured European and Commonwealth gold medals, ran every single day for 52 years and 39 days without missing a day, and used his textile chemistry PhD to pioneer modern running clothing.

Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Max Rufus Mosley
Sports & Athletics
27
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Max Rufus Mosley

Max Mosley
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1940 โ€“ 2021 (81 years old)

President of the FIA (1993โ€“2009), barrister, and March F1 co-founder who partnered with Bernie Ecclestone to commercialize Formula One, revolutionized driver safety following Ayrton Senna's death, created Euro NCAP crash testing, and won landmark privacy rights cases.

London, United Kingdom
Lee Edward Evans
Sports & Athletics
27
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Lee Edward Evans

Lee Evans
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1947 โ€“ 2021 (74 years old)

Two-time Olympic gold medalist who broke the 400m world record (43.86 seconds) at the 1968 Mexico City Olympicsโ€”a record that stood for twenty yearsโ€”and co-founded the Olympic Project for Human Rights, wearing black berets on the medal podium with Larry James.

Lagos, Nigeria
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