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Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War (722)

Athlete Nation(s) Sport(s) Role(s) Era Notes
Silvano Abbà ITA MPN Olympics 1936 †24 August 1942. Died heading the famed Savoia Cavalry Squadron in the "Charge of Izbušenskij" on the Russian front, the last recorded cavalry charge in the history of warfare.
József Aczél HUN FBL Olympics 1924 †13 February 1945. Died following German air raid on the final day of the Siege of Budapest.
Stefan Adamczak POL ATH Olympics 1924 †September 1939. Fought in the September campaign, he was killed in action near Katowice.
Herbert Adamski GER ROW Olympics 1936 †11 August 1941. Killed in action at Szolty in the Soviet Union.
Stella Agsteribbe NED GAR Olympics 1928 †17 September 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah KUW Administrator 1974—1990 †2 August 1990. Shot and killed during the Battle of Dasman Palace.
Paavo Aho FIN ATH Olympics 1912 †19 April 1918. Executed during the Finnish Civil War.
Iwao Aizawa JPN ATH Olympics 1928 Died in World War II. Died from Malaria in New Bilibid Camp.
Andrey Akimov RUS FBL Olympics 1912 †1916. Killed during World War I.
Gordon Alexander GBR FEN Olympics 1912 †24 April 1917. Killed in action in World War I.
Abdurahman Ali PHI SWM Olympics 1932 Killed in World War II.
Arno Almqvist RUS MPN/SWM Olympics / Non-starter 1912 †5 March 1940. Killed in action in Mikkeli from bombing during the Winter War.
Virgilius Altmann AUT CRD Olympics 1936 †17 October 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Byelorussia.
Erich Altosaar EST BKB Olympics / Other 1936 †11 October 1941. Died in Soviet prison camp.
Giulio Alvisi ITA ATH Non-starter 1912 †27 October 1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Max Amann GER WPO Olympics 1928 †24 December 1945. Missing in action.
Artur Amon EST BKB Olympics 1936 †August 1944. Killed in action in World War II.
Laurie Anderson GBR ATH Olympics 1912 †9 November 1914. Killed in action while serving with the Cheshire Regiment.
Géo André FRA ATH Olympics / Non-starter / Other 1908—1928 †4 May 1943. Rugby international for France. Killed in action (shot down).
Nikolaos Andreadakis GRE ATH 1906 1906 †1920. Killed during the Turkish-Greek War.
Jan Ankerman NED HOC Olympics 1928 †27 December 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp in Burma.
Izuo Anno JPN ATH Olympics 1932 †18 December 1939. Died during the second Sino-Japanese War.
Isakas Anolikas LTU CRD Olympics 1924—1928 †1943. Shot at Ninth Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania, during World War II
Shigeo Arai JPN SWM Olympics 1936 †19 July 1944. Killed in action in World War II.
Álvaro de Arana ESP SAL Olympics 1928 †July 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
Kalle Arantola FIN MSP Non-Medal 1936 †12 February 1940. Killed in action in the Winter War in Kuhmo.
Hikoroku Arimoto JPN GAR Olympics 1936 Died in World War II (per Volker Kluge), date and place not known.
Albert Arnheiter GER ROW Olympics 1912 †26 April 1945. Killed in action in the last days of World War II, somewhere in Italy.
Artola ESP FBL Olympics 1920 Died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.
Henry Ashington GBR ATH Olympics 1912 †31 January 1917. Killed in action, France.
Louis Bach FRA FBL Olympics 1900 †16 September 1914. Killed in action.
Jochen Balke GER SWM Olympics 1936 †19 January 1944. Sent to a punishment battallion in 1943 for battle fatique and was reported as missing in action in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.
Ernst Balz GER ART Olympics 1936 Missing in action in World War II.
Józef Baran-Bilewski POL ATH Olympics 1928 †15 April 1940. A prisoner in the Soviet camp for Polish officers in Kozielsk, he was murdered in April 1940 in Katyń by the NKVD.
Luigi Barbesino ITA FBL Olympics 1912 Disappeared during a World War II reconnaissance flight.
József Barna HUN FBL Olympics 1924 †February 1943. Died in World War II either as a soldier or in a labor camp, details uncertain.
Adrien Barrier FRA WRE Olympics 1912 †29 July 1915. Killed during the Battle of Le Linge.
Franz Barsicke GER ATH Olympics 1936 †1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Fritz Bartholomae GER ROW Olympics 1912 †12 September 1915. Killed in action during World War I.
Franz Bartl AUT HBL Olympics 1936 †12 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
László Bartók HUN ROW Olympics / Non-starter 1924—1928 He died in the Holocaust in Buchenwald on 8 April 1945. The camp was liberated the next day.
Helmut Barysz POL SWM Olympics 1936 Declared missing in January 1945 and dead in 1952
Julije Bauer SRB
YUG		 ATH Olympics 1936 †15 March 1945. Killed in action in Pančevo.
Adolf Baumgarten GER BOX Olympics 1936 †2 October 1942. Died during the Siege of Leningrad.
Artur Bäumle GER ATH Olympics 1936 †6 January 1942. Missing in action since 6 January 1942 in Stalingrad.
Karl Bechler GER ATH Olympics 1908 Died from shrapnel bullet in the last days of World War II in the basement apartment of a house in Gdansk.
Martin Beckmann GER ATH 1906 1906 Missing in action since 1944 in World War II.
Béla Békessy HUN FEN Olympics 1912 †6 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I.
Ezedin Belgasem LBA TKW Olympics / Non-starter / Other 2004—2008 †August 2011. Killed during the 2011 Libyan uprising.
Bobby Bell CAN
SUI		 IHO Coach / Referee 1928 Executed in the Abbeville Massacre, 20 May 1940
Heinrich Bender GER ROW Olympics / Non-starter 1928—1932 Killed in action during World War II in the Gulf of Corinth.
Emil Benecke GER WPO Olympics / Referee 1928—1936 †12 August 1945. Died in prisoner-of-war camp.
Marc Benoît-Lizon FRA MSP Non-Medal 1948 †17 September 1950. Killed in action during the First Indochina War.
Isaac Bentham GBR SWM/WPO Olympics / Non-starter 1912 †15 May 1917. Killed in action during Battle of Arras.
Tjapko van Bergen NED ROW Olympics 1928 †2 February 1944. Served as a Rottenführer in the German SS and was killed on the Eastern Front in Russia.
Franz Berghammer AUT HBL Olympics 1936 †30 June 1944. Killed in action during World War II.
Michelangelo Bernasconi ITA ROW Olympics 1928 †21 March 1943. Killed in action in World War II in Tunisia.
Hans Bernhardt GER CTR Olympics 1928 †29 November 1940. Killed in action in World War II.
Herberts Bērtulsons LAT ALP Olympics 1936 †February 1942. Executed in a Soviet prison camp. The exact date is unknown, but the order was given on 14 February 1942, so probably soon after.
Alick Bevan GBR CRD Olympics 1936 †24 January 1945. In January 1945 Bevan, a lieutenant in the Hampshire regiment of the British Army, was involved in an operation to capture the towns of Putt and Walderath in the Heisberg district of Western Germany. He was fatally wounded by a mine, and was buried across the border in the Netherlands at the military cemetery in the town of Brunssum. The Alick Bevan Plate Meeting at the Crystal Palace circuit in London is contested in his honour.
Hasso von Bismarck GER BOB Olympics 1932 †22 June 1941. Killed in action in World War II in Lithuania.
Kazimierz Bocheński POL SWM Olympics 1936 †May 1940. Murdered with all the other prisoners in Starobielsk, one of three camps for Polish officers in Soviet Union. Bocheński died either in Starobielsk or Kharkov – it is not certain.
Renon Boissière FRA ATH Olympics 1912 †25 September 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Michele Bonaglia ITA BOX Non-starter 1924 † 3 March 1944. Enlisted in the Fascist Army, killed by a group of partisans.
Kārlis Bone LAT FBL Olympics 1924 †13 November 1941. Died in a Soviet prison camp.
Antonio Bonilla ESP SHO Olympics 1920 †9 November 1937. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
Henri Bonnefoy FRA SHO Olympics 1908 †9 August 1914. Killed in action during World War II.
Helmut Bonnet GER ATH Olympics 1936 †27 September 1944. Killed in action in World War II.
Hermann von Bönninghausen GER ATH Olympics 1908—1912 †26 January 1919. Died from wounds from being shot in the face in World War I.
Hermann Bosch GER FBL Olympics 1912 †16 July 1916. Killed in action in World War I.
Werner Böttcher GER ATH Olympics 1936 †10 November 1944. Missing in action since that date.
Béchir Bouazzat FRA
TUN		 MPN Olympics 1936 †29 December 1944. Although a civilian in World War II he was killed by friendly fire.
Jean Bouin FRA ATH Olympics 1908—1912 †29 September 1914. Killed in action, by friendly fire.
Heinz Brandt GER EJP Olympics 1936 †21 July 1944. Died during an assassination attempt on Hitler, during a meeting at Hitler's East Prussian headquarters.
Hanns Braun GER ATH Olympics 1908—1912 †9 October 1918. Died as a fighter pilot in World War I.
Karl Braunsteiner AUT FBL Olympics 1912 †19 April 1916. Died as a prisoner of war.
Kurt Bretting GER SWM Olympics 1912 †30 May 1918. Killed in action during World War I.
Thierry de Briey BEL EJP Olympics 1920 †11 April 1945. Killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Józef Broel-Plater POL BOB Olympics 1928 †1941. Died in Dachau concentration camp during World War II.
Franciszek Brożek POL SHO Olympics 1924 †1940. Wounded twice in the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War, during World War II, Brożek was taken prisoner by the Soviets and was shot in the NKVD Building in Kharkiv in the spring of 1940.
Wilhelm Brülle GER GAR Olympics 1912 †5 August 1917. Killed in action during World War I.
Kęstutis Bulota LTU SSK Olympics / Other 1928 Died late 1941 or early 1942 in Sosva prison camp.
Roger Bureau BEL IHO Olympics 1928—1936 †April 1945. Died or was killed in a German prison camp during World War II
Heinrich Burkowitz GER ATH Olympics 1912 †31 May 1915. Died in a hospital during World War I.
Wojciech Bursa POL SHO Olympics 1936 †1940. Killed in the Katyń Massacre.
Edmond Bury GBR RQT Olympics 1908 †5 December 1915. With the 11th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, he was killed in action in France during World War I, and is buried in Rue-Petillon Military cemetery in Fleurbaix.
George Butterfield GBR ATH Olympics 1908 †24 September 1917. Killed in action, France.
Giuseppe Caimi ITA FBL Non-starter 1912 †26 December 1917. For his courage and boldness, he received, by Royal decree, a posthumous gold medal for military valour.
Jaime Camps ESP ATH Olympics 1920 †3 August 1921. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco.
José Oriol Canals ESP CCS Olympics 1936 †5 August 1937. Killed in action fighting with the Nationalists at the Asturias Front.
Novica Čanović YUG ATH Olympics 1984 †2 July 1993 Killed in the Yugoslav Civil War
Otello Capitani ITA GAR Olympics 1908 †20 September 1912. Killed in action in the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 in Misrata, Libya.
Bob Carmody USA BOX Olympics 1964 †27 October 1967. Viet Cong guerillas ambushed Carmody's squad and killed 5 of 6 men. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for his valor during the ambush.
Waldo Carver GBR ROW Olympics 1908 †7 June 1915. With the 1st/2nd East Lancashire Royal Engineers, he was killed in action in World War I in Turkey and is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery.
Giuseppe Castelli ITA ATH Olympics 1928—1932 †19 December 1942. Killed in action during World War II in Russia.
Giuseppe Castorina ITA FEN Non-starter 1912 †3 March 1917. A doctor, died during World War I in a field hospital due to illness.
Simplicio de Castro PHI BOX Olympics 1936 Killed in World War II.
Joseph Caullé FRA ATH Olympics 1912 †1 October 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Ugo Ceccarelli ITA MPN Olympics 1936 †1940.
Sulo Cederström FIN SHO Olympics 1936 †26 June 1944. Killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus during the Winter War.
Antoni Cejzik POL ATH Olympics 1924—1928 †12 September 1939. Killed in action as a soldier in the Modlin Army near Zaborów (Mazowieckie).
Ralph Chalmers GBR FEN Olympics 1908 †8 May 1915. Killed in action in World War I.
Josef Charous CZE
TCH		 EVE Olympics 1924—1928 †5 August 1943. Killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Noel Chavasse GBR ATH Olympics 1908 †4 August 1917. He is one of only three men to have been awarded a bar to the Victoria Cross. Serving as a captain in the RAMC, he was first awarded the VC in 1916 and a bar, posthumously, in 1917.
Chen Zhenhe CHN FBL Olympics 1936 †28 January 1941. Killed in action in World War II.
Conrad Cherry GBR ROW Olympics 1936 †1 February 1943. Killed in action in World War II.
Aldo Cigheri ITA SWM Non-starter 1912 †19 May 1917. Died during World War I.
Lewis Clive GBR ROW Olympics 1932 †2 August 1938. Killed in action, fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
Geoffrey Coles GBR SHO Olympics 1908 †27 January 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Don Collinge CAN FEN Olympics 1936 †7 June 1944. Died in a flying accident, possibly brought on by friendly fire, while serving as a navigator in the early morning hours of 7 June 1944.
Cornelis Compter NED WLF Olympics 1928 †23 February 1945. Killed in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
George Cooke NZL ROW Olympics 1932 †23 May 1941. Killed in action in World War II.
Robert Cooper GBR GAR/SWM 1906 1906 Died in 1917 during World War I, his body was never found.
Manuel Corrales ESP SHO Olympics 1932 †October 1936. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
André Corvington FRA
HAI		 FEN Olympics 1900 †13 December 1918. Killed in action in World War I near Reims.
Percy Courtman GBR SWM Olympics 1908—1912 †2 June 1917. Part of 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, he was killed in action in World War I. Buried at Neuville-Bourjonval British cemetery.
Frank Courtney CAN ROW Olympics 1932 †28 August 1944. Killed in action in World War II.
Harry Crank GBR DIV Olympics 1908 †22 October 1917. Killed in action in World War I near Ypres, Belgium.
Rudi Cranz GER ALP Olympics 1936 †22 June 1941. Killed in action during World War II at the beginning of the Russian Occupation at Rosaniec in Poland.
Jacinto Ciria Cruz PHI BKB Olympics 1936 Killed during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945.
Ferenc Csík HUN SWM Olympics 1936 †29 March 1945. A medical doctor, Csík was killed in an air raid while treating a wounded man.
Frank Cuhel USA ATH Olympics 1928 †22 February 1943. A war journalist, he was being transferred to the North African war zone when his plane, the "Yankee Clipper", crashed. His body was not found until three weeks later.
George Cullen GBR GAR Olympics 1908 †26 March 1918
Allan Currie GBR CCS Non-starter 1924 Lost his life through enemy action while working in London.
Cliff Cushman USA ATH Olympics 1960 †25 September 1966. Air pilot, his plane shot down in the Vietnam War. Technically still listed as MIA.
Modeste Cuypers BEL FEN Olympics 1928 Killed by the Gestapo during WWII.
Czesław Cyraniak POL BOX Olympics 1936 †23 November 1939. Fought in the Polish Army in the September Campaign and died in the Battle of Bzura during the German invasion of Poland.
Bronisław Czech POL ALP/CCS/MSP/NCB/SJP Olympics / Non-Medal / Other 1928—1936 †4 June 1944. Resistance fighter in World War II, died of typhus in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Krystyna Dąbrowska POL ART Olympics 1936 †1 September 1944 Killed in the Warsaw Uprising
Paweł Dadlez POL ART Olympics 1936 Imprisoned by the Nazis because of his “anti-German attitude” in 1939 and died in 1940 while returning to Krakow just after his release from the POW camp.
Georg Dascher GER HBL Olympics 1936 †25 November 1944. Killed during World War II.
Charlie Davenport GBR ATH Non-starter 1912 † 28 August 1916. Killed in action in France.
Robert Davies GBR SHO Olympics 1912 †9 September 1916. A member of the 1st/9th Batallion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles), he was killed in action in the Somme in France in World War I.
Olivier, Baron de Brandois FRA SAL Olympics 1900 †9 June 1916 Death of illnesses contracted whilst serving as a member of the French Army
Louis de Champsavin FRA EDR/EJP Olympics 1900 †20 December 1916. Killed in action in World War I.
Raymond de Guanderax FRA ATH Non-starter 1912 †19 October 1916. Died in World War I.
René, Baron de Lunden BEL BOB Olympics 1936 †3 April 1942. Killed in an emergency landing of his bomber in Britain.
Émile De Schepper BEL FEN Olympics 1920 †12 May 1940 Died during the defense of Namur
Félix Debax FRA FEN Olympics / Referee 1900 †25 August 1914. Killed in action in World War I.
Alex Decouteau CAN ATH Olympics 1912 †17 October 1917. Killed in action in the Battle of Passchendale.
Francesco Del Grosso ITA CTR Olympics 1924 †22 July 1938. Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War.
Oszkár Demján HUN SWM Olympics 1912 †4 September 1914. Killed in action in World War I.
Eugen Deutsch GER WLF Olympics 1936 †8 February 1945. Killed in action in World War II.
Charles Devendeville FRA SWM/WPO Olympics 1900 †19 September 1914. Killed in action.
Émilien Devic FRA FBL Non-starter 1912 †21 August 1944. French Resistance member, shot during World War II.
Tivadar Dienes-Öhm HUN POL Olympics 1936 †28 October 1944. Killed in action at Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary.
Karl, Baron von Diepurg GER Administrator 1909—1914 †25 October 1914. Killed in action during World War I.
Diego Díez ESP FEN Olympics 1924—1928 †September 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama.
Jānis Dimza LAT ATH Olympics / Other 1932—1936 †1942. Died in a Soviet prison camp, but exact details not known.
Joe Dines GBR FBL Olympics 1912 †27 September 1918. He was killed in Pas de Calais as a second lieutenant on the Western front in World War I.
Shuji Doi JPN WPO Olympics 1932 Died in an army hospital, victim of Sino-Japanese war
Alberto Dominutti ITA ATH Non-starter 1928 Died in a German internment camp in Steinberg.
Herman Donners BEL WPO Olympics 1908—1912 †14 May 1915. Killed in action World War I.
Foy Draper USA ATH Olympics 1936 †4 January 1943. Died in an air crash preparing for the Battle of Kasserine Pass.
Jimmy Duffy CAN ATH Olympics 1912 †23 April 1915. In September 1913, he joined the Canadian Army and was assigned to the 91st Argyle Regiment. On April 23, 1915, he was fatally wounded near Ypres, Belgium.
Peter Dulley GBR ROW Olympics 1924 †19 December 1941. Killed in action in the Battle of Hong Kong.
Hugh Durant GBR MPN/SHO Olympics 1912 †20 January 1916. With the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, he was killed in action in World War I in France and is buried in the Vermelles British Cemetery.
Walter Düsedau GER BOB Non-starter 1932 Died as a POW in an internment camp.
Emile Duson NED HOC Olympics 1928 †15 March 1942. Died in a Japanese internment camp.
Hubert Dutech FRA EJP Olympics 1900 †17 July 1917. Killed in action in World War I
Zdzisław Dziadulski POL EJP Olympics 1924 †1940. A prisoner in Starobielsk, he was murdered by Soviets in Kharkov in April or May 1940.
Heywood Edwards USA WRE Olympics 1928 †31 October 1941. Died aboard the USS Reuben James, the first US navy ship to be sunk in the Atlantic during World War II.
Gerhard Egger AUT EJP Olympics 1936 Died in Italy in April 1945. Buried at the War Cemetery Costermano.
Hans Eller GER ROW Olympics 1932 †4 April 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Jack Elliott GBR BOX Olympics 1924 Killed by a Japanese sniper while working as a war correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation during the 1945 Borneo Campaign.
Eduard Ellmann EST FBL Olympics 1924 †16 November 1941. Executed in a Soviet prison camp.
František Erben BOH GAR Olympics 1900 †9 June 1942. Executed by the Nazis following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Eric Fairbairn GBR ROW Olympics 1908 †20 June 1915. Killed in action at the Somme in France in World War I.
Linn Farish USA RGB Olympics 1924 †11 September 1943. Sent into Yugoslavia as a secret agent, he mapped out the region for areas which could be used as landing strips. He then flew in and out of Yugoslavia, rescuing hundreds of fliers who had bailed out of crippled planes in the Balkans. He spent three 90-day periods in Yugoslavia, each time parachuting in, and then surveying the area by plane, crashing in the Balkan Mountains on the third trip. He was given the Distinguished Service Cross and the government’s code of secrecy towards the actions of secret agents was broken, so that his name could be released as a military hero.
René Fenouillière FRA FBL Olympics 1908 †4 November 1916. Killed in action during World War I.
Rafael, Duque Fernández ESP POL Olympics 1924 †30 March 1940. Executed by the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War.
Robert Feyerick BEL FEN Olympics / Referee 1920—1936 †18 June 1940. Killed in action in World War II.
Ángel Figueroa PUR BOX Olympics 1952 †20 May 1953. Killed in the "Punchbowl" during the Korean War.
José, Conde de Figueroa ESP POL Olympics 1920 †20 October 1920. Killed in action during the Rif War with Morocco.
Sergey Filippov RUS FBL Olympics 1912 †1942. Civilian casualty of the Leningrad Blockade in World War II.
Billy Fiske USA BOB Olympics / Other 1928—1932 †17 August 1940. First American fighter pilot to be killed in World War II, fighting for Britain, in a crash landing.
Hernando, Duque Fitz-James ESP POL Olympics 1920—1924 †7 November 1936. Killed during the Massacre of Paracuellos del Jarama.
Léon Flameng FRA CRD/CTR Olympics / Non-starter 1896 †2 January 1917. Killed in action during World War I.
Alfred Flatow GER ATH/GAR Olympics / Non-starter 1896 †28 December 1942. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Gustav Flatow GER ATH/GAR Olympics / Non-starter 1896—1900 †29 January 1945. Killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Alfred Flaxman GBR ATH Olympics 1908 †1 July 1916. Killed in an attack on the enemy positions at Gommecourt.
Robert Fleig FRA ROW Olympics 1920 During the charge of the 2nd Armored Division to liberate Strasbourg, he guides the column of Lieutenant-Colonel Rouvillois of the 12th RC and allows him to surprise the German defenses and enter the city. Constantly at the head of the column, he died in combat on November 23, 1944 (aged 51) a few meters from the Kehl bridge and the German border.
Fritz Fleischer AUT ATH Olympics 1912 †27 February 1943, Theresienstadt concentration camp
Viktor Flessl AUT ROW Olympics 1928 †18 December 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Walter Flinsch GER ROW Olympics 1928—1932 †3 February 1943. Killed in action during World War II.
Hans Fokker NED SAL Olympics 1928 †2 July 1943. Internment in Burma.
Victor Fontana ROU BTH Olympics 1972—1976 †24 December 1989. Killed during the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Miroslav Forte SLO
YUG		 GAR Olympics 1936 † 1942
Hans Freese GER SWM Olympics 1936 †8 July 1941. Killed in action during World War II.
Stefan Fryc POL FBL Olympics 1924 †9 November 1943. Murdered by the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto in a mass execution in 1943.
Metod Gaberšček SLO
YUG		 CMA Olympics 1936 † 1942
Jan Gajdoš CZE
TCH		 GAR Olympics 1928—1936 †19 November 1945. Arrested in 1943 as a prominent leader of the Czech resistance movement and sentenced to death. As the Allied front neared, the Nazis started the prisoners on a “death march.” He survived the march, but his health was so severely damaged that he died shortly after the end of the war.
Mauricio Galvao GER HOC Olympics 1908 †6 March 1945. Killed in action in World War II. His grave is in the war cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia.
Taha El-Gamal EGY SWM/WPO Olympics / Non-starter 1948—1952 †1956. Killed during the Suez Crisis.
János Garay HUN FEN Olympics / Referee 1924—1936 †3 May 1945. Killed in Mauthausen concentration camp.
Herbert Garbe GER ART Olympics 1932
Norman Garrett USA ROW Non-Medal 1904 Killed in World War I.
Peter Hunter Gaskell GBR ROW Non-starter 1936 † 15 August 1944. Killed in action at Normandie.
Jenő Gáspár HUN ATH Olympics 1924 Killed during the Battle of Budapest.
Bert Gayler GBR CRD Olympics 1912 †23 June 1917. Killed by rifle fire during an ambush in a valley near Kotkai Bozi Khel.