| Athlete |
Nation(s) |
Sport(s) |
Role(s) |
Era |
Notes |
| Charles Curtis |
 USA |
CUR |
Non-Medal |
1932 |
Died in a house fire. |
| Mossy Doyle |
 IRL |
BOX |
Olympics |
1924 |
A newspaper report in 1992 says he lost his life “some time ago” in a fire in London. |
| Jack Heid |
USA |
CTR |
Olympics |
1948 |
Died in a fire in a chalet that he owned in Bushkill, Pennsylvania. |
| Byron Krieger |
USA |
FEN |
Olympics |
1952—1956 |
Died when lighting a candle and the match caught his sweater in fire. The fire jumped to a nearby curtain, engulfing him in the flames. |
| James Laver |
 GBR |
PNT |
Referee |
1948 |
Died in a house fire. |
| George Lermond |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
Died whilst trying to save his youngest son in a house fire. |
| Pierre Nuyttens |
USA |
PNT |
Olympics |
1932 |
Died in an apartment fire. |
| Amador Obordo |
 PHI |
BKB |
Olympics |
1936 |
Died when his house in Manila’s Paco District caught fire after the Japanese bombed the city. |
| Sandra Schmitt |
 GER |
FRS |
Olympics |
1998 |
Died in the Kaprun fire disaster. |
| Berkin Usta |
 TUR |
ALP |
Olympics |
2022 |
Died along with his father in a hotel fire in the ski resort where he lived. |
| Ilona Vargha |
 HUN |
FEN |
Olympics |
1936 |
Died a few weeks later from her severe burns after her clothes caught on fire whilst cooking. |
