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Federico Sacchi, who played 1962 WC with Argentina, has died aged 87. He played Argentina’s whole three games as they were knocked out in the group stage.

1948 Belgian swimmer Maria Huybrecht died on 15 September aged 93.She competed in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay

Where’s Mel McMullen on the video ? Here’s another article on the subject. It says that Moyer and McMullen are "among the few surviving members" so there could be others survivors…

Latvian basketball player Cezars Ozers, the last surviving member of the USSR team that won silver at the 1960 Games, has died aged 86.

Some of them come to France to undergo treatments and therapys. But many come because they are ousted by a coup and take refuge in France.

Russian figure skater Oleg Protopopov, Olympic Champion in 1964 and 1968 with USSR in pairs, has died aged 91.

Henri Lopes, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo, has died aged 86. He had outlived 7 of his successors.

Basketball player Walter Davis, Olympic Champion with USA in the 1976 Games, has died aged 69. He’s the first of the winning team to die.

Eliseo Insfran, another 1958 Paraguayan, died on 17 August 2020.

His teammate Ignacio Achucarro, also presumed dead, died on August 2021 aged 85.

Lusitania was the ancient name of Portugal, maybe this woman was Portuguese or had Portuguese origins ?

Danish cyclist Ove Krogh Rants , who competed in the 1952 Games, has died off the radar on 24 April aged 96.

Francis Mer, former French minister of economy, has died aged 84.

French Auguste Plenet, Guyane last surviving member of the Forces Françaises Libres has died aged 99.

Russian gymnast Vladimir Markelov , who was silver medalist in 1976 and Olympic Champion in 1980 with USSR in the Team competition, has died aged 66.

Seen on Wikipedia, the deaths of the 28th October : Thomas Denter religious priest Cause there’s another kind of priest ?

Hungarian Károly Hauzler, who won Bronze medal in the 1980 Water polo team competition died two days ago aged 71.

So Matthew Perry and Luke Perry died at almost the same age, 54 for Matthew, 53 for Luke. And Matthew starred in one episode of Beverly Hills before Friends.

1948 Turkish olympian Mustapha Batman who was listed as alive by Olympedia, actually died in 2004. Which makes Uner Teoman the last Turkish survivor* from the 1948 Games. She is 91 years old. * There’s a Turkish olympian, A. Tarık Eğrilmez, who doesn’t have a death date, nor a birth date for that matter. But he competed in art, and art competitors were much older than the athletes, so he’s most likely dead.

Austrian alpine skier Anderl Molterer , Silver and Bronze Medalist at the 1956 Games, has died aged 92.

Maya Hug, Swiss figure skater who competed at the 1948 Games, died on 26 April 2023. That makes Lotti Honer also a figure skater, the last known* 1948 Swiss survivor. *7 Swiss athletes don’t have a death date on Olympedia and don’t appear on Oldest Olympian oldest living list or centenarians list.

French Olympic fencer Bernard Morel, bronze medalist at the 1952 games in Sabre team, has died aged 98.

George Best was Northern Irish !

Sorry, error. Can the admins please delete this post, if it is possible ?

American swimmer Jackie LaVine, selected in the 4x100 m Freestyle relay in 1948 (she actually did not compete), and bronze medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay in 1952, has died aged 93 one year ago on 21 October 2022. I’ve sent a message to Olympedia to inform them.