Active athletes, coaches and officials who died in plane crashes:
Oct. 18, 1925 - Marvin Goodwin, Cincinnati Red pitcher, in Houston.
March 31, 1931 - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, in Kansas.
May 4, 1949 - 22 members of Torino, the Italian soccer champions, in Turin,
Italy.
Oct. 27, 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight champion, en route
to fight Jake LaMotta in Spain.
July 1, 1954 - John McBride, Alabama halfback, killed in ROTC training
flight in Texas.
Oct. 30, 1954 - Wilbur Shaw, President of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in
Decatur, Ind.
Sept. 20, 1956 - Tom Gastall, Baltimore Oriole catcher, in Maryland.
Nov. 27, 1956 - Charlie Peete, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, in Venezuela.
Feb. 6, 1958 - Eight members of the English soccer champion Manchester
United, in Munich.
Aug. 14, 1958 - Six members of the Egyptian fencing team, in the Atlantic
Ocean.
Oct. 30, 1958 - Philip Scrutton, British Walker Cup golfer.
April 29, 1959 - Joaquin Blume, Spain's European gymnastics champion, in
Madrid.
Oct. 10, 1960 - 16 members of the Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo football team, in
Toledo, Ohio.
Feb. 16, 1961 - 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team, in Belgium.
April 3, 1961 - Green Cross, a first-division Chilean soccer team, in the
Las Lastimas Mountains.
March 1, 1962 - Johnny Dieckman, world fly-casting champion, in Chicago.
April 12, 1962 - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver, in Melbourne.
Feb. 15, 1964 - Ken Hubbs, 22, Chicago Cub second baseman, in Utah.
July 24, 1966 - Tony Lema, 1964 British Open champion, in Munster, Ind.
April 28, 1968 - Six members of the Lamar Tech track team, in Beaumont,
Texas.
Sept. 26, 1969 - 25 members of Bolivian soccer team "The Strongest", in
the Andes.
Oct. 2, 1970 - 14 Wichita State football players, in Colorado.
Nov. 14, 1970 - 37 Marshall University football players, in Huntington,
W.Va.
Oct. 11, 1972 - 30 members of a Uruguayan rugby club, in Chile.
Dec. 31, 1972 - Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder, from San
Juan, Puerto Rico en route to Nicaragua to aid earthquake victims.
June 24, 1975 - Wendell Ladner, New York Nets forward, in New York.
Dec. 13, 1977 - 14 University of Evansville basketball players and coach
Bobby Watson in Evansville, Ind.
Aug. 2, 1979 - Thurman Munson, New York Yankee catcher, in Canton, Ohio.
Jan. 11, 1980 - Bo Rein, LSU football coach, in the Atlantic Ocean.
March 14, 1980 - 14 members of the U.S. amateur boxing team in Warsaw,
Poland.
Aug. 16, 1987 - Nick Vanos, Phoenix Suns center, in Romulus, Mich.
Dec. 8, 1987 - 17 players of the Alianza Peruvian first-division soccer team
in Lima, Peru.
Sept. 30, 1988 - Al Holbert, six-time IMSA champion, near Columbus Ohio.
July 19, 1989 - Jay Ramsdell, CBA Commissioner, in Sioux City, Iowa.
April 1, 1993 - Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR's 1992 champion, in Blountville, Tenn.
April 28, 1993 - 18 players and five team officials of Zambia's national
soccer team in Libreville, Gabon.
July 13, 1993 - Davey Allison, NASCAR driver, the day after a helicopter he
was piloting crashed on the infield at Talladega Superspeedway in Birmingham,
Ala.
April 18, 1996 - Brook Berringer, Nebraska quarterback, two days before the
NFL draft, when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Raymond, Neb.
May 11, 1996 - Rodney Culver, San Diego Chargers running back, in Florida
Everglades.
Oct. 25, 1999 - Payne Stewart, winner of the 1989 PGA Championship and a
two-time U.S. Open winner, two miles west of Mina, S.D.
