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Deaths on 3 May

103 deaths on this day in history.

Date of death	Athlete	NOC(s)	Sport(s)	Year(s)
3 May 1917	Robert Cooper	GBR	GAR/SWM	1906
3 May 1920	Harvey Lord	USA	ATH	1900
3 May 1923	Mike Kelly	USA	SHO	1920
3 May 1931	Ferdinand, Comte de Lariboisière	FRA	EDV	1900
3 May 1936	Caesar Mannelli	USA	RGB	1924
3 May 1942	Jānis Rozīte	LAT	IHO	1936
3 May 1942	Richard Schoemaker	NED	FEN	1908
3 May 1942	Pierre Versteegh	NED	EDR	1928—1936
3 May 1945	Frederic Pratt	USA		1910—1912
3 May 1949	George Plagino	ROU	SHO	1900—1949
3 May 1950	Porfirio Álvarez	CUB		1923—1936
3 May 1951	Marcel Lalu	FRA	GAR	1900—1912
3 May 1952	Charly Aeschlimann	SUI	TEN	1924
3 May 1954	Orlando Cesaroni	ITA	ATH	1912
3 May 1955	Karl Bierwirth	GER	WLF	1928
3 May 1955	Sigurjón Pétursson	ISL	GLM/WRE	1908—1912
3 May 1955	Léon Vandermeiren	BEL	FBL	1920
3 May 1956	Charles Vestergaard	DEN	ATH	1908
3 May 1957	Robert Duncan	GBR	ATH	1908—1912
3 May 1960	Fernand Stuyck	BEL	FEN	1908
3 May 1963	Clovis Raposo	BRA	ATH	1932
3 May 1963	Artūrs Zeiberliņš	LAT	CTR	1924
3 May 1964	Seán O'Sullivan	IRL	ART	1932
3 May 1965	Alajos Keserű	HUN	WPO	1924—1936
3 May 1966	Hideto Kishida	JPN	ART	1936
3 May 1967	Milton Angier	USA	ATH	1920
3 May 1967	Willy Thulin	SWE	DIV	1912
3 May 1968	Elmer Collett	USA	WPO	1924
3 May 1972	Emil Breitkreutz	USA	ATH	1904
3 May 1972	Georg von Kaufmann	GER	CCS	1936
3 May 1974	Benkt Austrin	SWE	SHO	1956
3 May 1975	Jean-Pierre Urbing	LUX	GAR	1928
3 May 1977	Sten Friberg	SWE	WPO	1924
3 May 1979	Carl Gunne	SWE	ART	1936
3 May 1979	Grenfell Perceval	GBR	LAX	1928
3 May 1979	William Spengler	USA	BOX	1920
3 May 1981	Jean Cipollina	ITA	ROW	1924
3 May 1981	Konstantin Likharyev	URS	FSK	1968
3 May 1982	Willy Whitelaw	GBR	HOC	1948—1960
3 May 1983	Michel Haddad	EGY	BOX	1924
3 May 1983	László Munteán	HUN	ROW	1960
3 May 1984	Ross Taylor	CAN	IHO	1928
3 May 1986	Margarito Pomposo	MEX	ATH	1932
3 May 1987	Vasily Tikhonov	RUS URS	EDR	1952
3 May 1988	Carl Erhardt	GBR	IHO	1936—1948
3 May 1988	José María Jáuregui	ESP	FBL	1928
3 May 1989	Walter Brödel	SAA	FEN	1952
3 May 1989	Gordon Dailley	GBR	IHO	1936
3 May 1991	Truus Klapwijk	NED	DIV/SWM/WPO	1920—1928
3 May 1991	Lars-Erik Olsson	SWE	HBL	1952
3 May 1991	Yolande Plancke	FRA	ATH	1928
3 May 1992	Silvino Ferreira	BRA	SHO	1948
3 May 1992	Kevin O'Donovan	IRL	BKB	1948
3 May 1993	Axel Sandö	SWE	IHO	1952
3 May 1994	Vladimir Kostin	RUS URS	BKB	1952—1976
3 May 1994	Bert Martineau	GBR	ATH	1948
3 May 1996	Anneke Jordaens	BEL	GAR	1948
3 May 1996	Detlev Kittstein	FRG	HOC	1968—1972
3 May 1998	Luiz Martins	BRA	SHO	1960
3 May 1999	Rune Hammarström	SWE	SSK	1948
3 May 2001	Simon Slåttvik	NOR	CCS/NCB	1952
3 May 2003	Velleda Cesari	ITA	FEN	1948—1960
3 May 2003	Andy Martin	GBR	MPN	1948
3 May 2004	Władysław Szefler	POL	ATH	1936
3 May 2004	Gennady Voronin	RUS URS	SSK	1960
3 May 2006	Boris Kuznetsov	RUS URS	BOX	1972
3 May 2006	Franco Lavoratori	ITA	WPO	1960—1972
3 May 2007	Bart Bongers	NED	WPO	1968
3 May 2010	Bohumil Němeček	CZE TCH	BOX	1960—1968
3 May 2011	Paul Ackerley	NZL	HOC	1976
3 May 2011	Vic Auer	USA	SHO	1972—1976
3 May 2011	Ken Irvine	GBR	WRE	1948—1952
3 May 2011	Armand Van Wambeke	BEL	BKB	1948
3 May 2011	Des Williams	RSA	BOX	1948
3 May 2012	Richie Thomson	NZL	CRD	1968
3 May 2013	Keith Carter	USA	SWM	1948
3 May 2013	Raúl García-Ordóñez	CUB	BKB	1948
3 May 2013	Sergio Morra	ITA	HOC	1952
3 May 2014	Chet Jastremski	USA	SWM	1964—1968
3 May 2014	Trine Krogh	NOR	SWM	1972
3 May 2014	István Major	HUN	ATH	1972—1976
3 May 2015	André Gruchet	FRA	CTR	1956—1960
3 May 2015	Dobrosav Krstić	SRB YUG	FBL	1956
3 May 2016	Sven Andersson	SWE	SSK	1956
3 May 2016	Graeme McCall	AUS	ROW	1964
3 May 2016	Adlan Varayev	RUS URS	WRE	1988
3 May 2017	Giampaolo Medda	ITA	HOC	1952—1960
3 May 2017	Eva Pfarrhofer	AUT	DIV	1952—1956
3 May 2017	Tsedendambyn Natsagdorj	MGL	WRE	1968—1976
3 May 2018	György Holovits	HUN	SAL	1972—1980
3 May 2019	Peter Bucher	FRG	HBL	1972
3 May 2019	Nadezhda Chernyshova	RUS URS	ROW	1976
3 May 2019	George Hallaq	IRQ	BKB	1948
3 May 2020	Stefan Burkart	SUI	ATH	1992—1996
3 May 2020	Pavle Jovanovic	USA	BOB	2006
3 May 2021	Pentti Paasonen	FIN	HOC	1952
3 May 2021	Masatomo Taniguchi	JPN	BKB	1972
3 May 2022	Wink Davenport	USA	VVO	1968—1984
3 May 2022	Josef Fröwis	AUT	SHO	1960
3 May 2022	Klaus Hirche	GDR	IHO	1968
3 May 2022	George Horvath	SWE	MPN	1980
3 May 2023	Bernard Lapasset	FRA		2008—2016
3 May 2023	Franc Škerlj	SLO YUG	CRD	1968