Former World Champion Schmeling Dies Aged 99
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Former world heavyweight champion Max  Schmeling, who fought two unforgettable bouts with American Joe  Louis in the 1930s and fell out of favor with the Nazis after  resisting Hitler's embrace, has died at the age of 99.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64, Icelandic media reports
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SURREY, British Columbia -- Paul Shmyr, the former NHL and WHA defenseman who captained the Edmonton Oilers in Wayne Gretzky&#39;s first season with the team, has died after a battle with throat cancer.
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Miller, one of the game&#39;s greatest all-rounders, passed away peacefully today at a nursing home on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne, a family spokesman said.
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Former England captain Emlyn Hughes, the driving force behind Liverpool&#39;s European Cup glories in the 1970s, has died of cancer aged 57.
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German expressionist artist Joerg Immendorff, famous for his surreal and provocative paintings and sculptures, died on Monday at age 61 in Duesseldorf after a long illness, his wife Oda Jaune-Immendorff said.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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Two-time Olympic decathlon gold   medallist Bob Mathias has passed away at the age of 75, the   U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) said in a statement.
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Miller, who played in Don Bradman&#39;s Invincibles team on the 1948 tour to England, passed away peacefully at a nursing home on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne, a family spokesman said Monday.
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AUSTRALIAN boxing legends Kostya Tszyu and Johnny Lewis look set to retire after tomorrow&#39;s title fight against American Sharmba Mitchell.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta  - Liechtenstein's Marco Buechel struck a blow for ski racing's senior citizens on Saturday, becoming the oldest downhill winner in World Cup history.
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Bobby Fischer, the eccentric genius who became America's only world chess champion by humbling the Soviet Union's best but who spent his last years as a fugitive from U.S. authorities, has died at 64.
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Johhny Warren, who captained Australia in 1974 in its only World Cup soccer appearance, died from cancer Saturday at 61.
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An 83-year-old daredevil died after he fell attempting a death-slide jump, an inquest hears.
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Josef Schwammberger, a former Nazi labor-camp commander who was known for his particular sadism and hid for 40 years in Argentina before being captured and returned to Germany for trial, has died in a prison hospital. He was 92.
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Former Swedish prince Count Lennart Bernadotte has died aged 95 at his home in southern Germany, his family said in a local newspaper.
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Raymond Goethals, the Belgian soccer coach who led Olympique Marseille to the 1993 European Champions Cup title, died Monday, according to news reports. He was 83.