Former German Heavyweight Schmeling Dies at 99
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Former world heavyweight boxing champion  Max Schmeling has died at the age of 99, German sport news  agency SID reported Friday.
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Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president, died on Thursday aged 88 after a short but severe illness, the Austrian presidency and a family spokesman said.
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LENNOX Miller, who won two Olympic 100-metre medals for Jamaica and was the father of top American female sprinter Inger Miller, died on Monday of cancer.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who was dogged by allegations of a Nazi past, dies aged 88.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess champion who made a name for himself by beating the Russians then turning his back on America - and the game - has died
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Wolfgang Mommsen, a historian who chronicled Germany's imperial past and took part in a "historians' battle" over whether the Nazis' crimes were unique, has died, his twin brother told The Associated Press on Thursday. He was 73.
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Yesterday was former Austrian downhill champion Franz Klammer&#39;s 51st birthday, and he celebrated with a prerace champagne toast with
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Billionaire industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, whose father was convicted at Nuremburg of using slave labor in Nazi Germany, has died at the age of 79, according to news reports Friday.
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Roy Scheider, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in "The French Connection" and who later uttered one of cinematic history's most memorable lines in "Jaws," has died. He was 75.
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On his last full day of life, Bo Schembechler sat in the press box at Michigan Stadium, giving his last major interview to HBO Sports for a documentary about the Michigan-Ohio State football rivalry.
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Conductor Heinrich Hollreiser, whose musical career was linked to the postwar musical rebirth in Austria and Germany, has died at age 93, officials of the Austrian State Opera said Wednesday.
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Harold Zinkin, the inventor of the  widely used Universal Gym machines and a pioneer of modern  bodybuilding, has died at age 82, his friends said on Thursday.
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Michael Schumacher, the most successful driver in Formula One history, announced his retirement on Sunday.
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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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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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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Count Gottfried von Bismarck, the stylish and troubled scion of one of Germany's most famous families, has died at the age of 44, police said Wednesday.