Wrestling Obituaries

Date

Name

How

Age

12/16/17
Frank Gotch
Uremic Poisoning
39
08/25/50
Earl Caddock
Dies at home
62
05/??/71
Curtis "Spike" Peterson
Fractured neck in a bout with Sam Abraham, dies in Richland Center, WI.
??
07/??/51
Jeanette Wolf
Dies following tag match.
18
06/??/58
David Von Erich
Dies on operating table while being treated for brain tumor.
??
??/??/59
Jack Von Erich Jr.
Electrocution
7
12/26/63
"Gorgeous" George Wagner
Heart Attack
48
01/16/65
Yukon Eric
Suicide with a .22 calibur pistol after a match in GA.
41
08/07/66
Ed "Strangler" Lewis
Dies at home in Muskogee, OK.
??
09/23/67
Stanislaus Zybysko
Dies at home in Missouri.
88
07/02/69
"Iron" Mike DiBiase
Heart Attack in ring following match with Man Mountain Mike in Lubbock, TX.
??
06/16/71
Alberto Torres
Dies at Immanuel Hospital in Omaha, NE, as a result of injuries suffered six days earlier.
??
07/23/71
Hercules Cortez
Car accident in Minnesota
??
06/03/73
Dory Funk Sr.
Dies at home in Amarillo, TX.
54
02/20/75
Bobby Shane
Plane Crash
??
08/19/75
Jim Londos
Heart Attack
78
??/??/78
??
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??
06/30/79
Chris Taylor
Dies at home in Story City, Iowa.
29
06/13/82
High Chief Peter Maivia
Dies of cancer in Hawaii.
47
10/12/83
The Grand Wizard
Dies in sleep from Heart Attack at home in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
54
02/10/84
David Von Erich
Dies in sleep from acute enteritis in Tokyo, Japan.
25
05/??/84
Vince McMahon Sr.
no cause known
??
08/02/84
Argentina Apollo
no cause known
??
01/21/85
Eddie Graham
Self-inflicted gunshot wound
55
03/08/85
Bull Curry
no cause known
70
05/04/85
Dan Shocket
Cancer
35
09/01/85
Jay Youngblood
Ruptured spleen and 3 Heart Attacks.
30
11/01/85
Rick McGraw
injuries sustained in the ring?
30
02/04/86
Gino Hernandez
Cocaine overdose athome in North Dallas, TX.
29
03/24/86
Warren Bockwinkel
Alzheimer's disease
74
04/06/86
El Solitario
Heart Attack suffered two weeks prior.
40
??/??/87
Ann Gunkel
Cancer
50
04/12/87
Mike Von Erich
Suicide by overdosing on Placidyl
23
08/24/87
Malcolm "King Kong" Dirk
Dies during a match with Shirley Crabtree.
??
07/04/88
Adrian Adonis, Pat Kelly, and Dave McKigney
Mini-van goes over a cliff killing the 3 of them, Mike Kelly survived.
??
07/17/88
Bruiser Brody
Stabbed to death in dressing room prior to match.
??
09/06/88
Leroy Browm
no cause known
38
09/09/88
Leroy McGuirk
Dies at home.
78
02/18/89
Midred Burke
no cause known
73
03/07/89
Paul Boesch
Dies at home in Texas.
76
09/07/89
"Argentinian Bull" Eduardo Perez
Dies at home in Tampa, FL.
61
12/07/89
"Haystacks" Calhoun
Dies from bout with Diabetes.
55
01/07/90
Bronko Nagurski
Dies at nursing home in MN.
81
02/04/90
"Whipper" Billy Watson
Dies at home in Orlando, FL.
74
02/15/90
Mark Tendler
Dies two days after being shot outside a bar he owns in Wading River, NY.
55
04/18/90
Gorry Guerrero
Dies in El Paso, TX.
??
08/16/90
Pay O'Conner
Cancer
65
12/31/90
Ed "The Bull" Gantner
Kidney disease, first thought as suicide.
31
06/30/91
Duke Keomuka
Heart Failure
70
08/25/91
Vivian Vachon and her daughter, Julie
Head-on collision in Montreal.
40
09/12/91
Chris Von Erich
Suicide with 9mm pistol.
21
10/31/91
Gene Anderson
Heart Attack
58
11/10/91
Dick the Bruiser Afflis
Dies while lifting weights
62
12/27/91
Wilbur Snyder
Heart Failure
62
02/07/92
"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer
Dies at home in Sacramento, CA.
32
02/19/92
Tojo Yamamoto
Suicide with .25 calibur automatic pistol
65
04/20/92
Jimmy Lennon Sr.
Heart Failure
79
06/26/92
Buddy Rogers
Dies four days after suffering two strokes in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
??
06/30/92
Stan Frazier, a.k.a. Uncle Elmer
Diabetic Complications
54
09/24/92
Roy Heffernan
Heart Atack in Sydney, Australia
67
01/27/93
Andre Rousimoff, a.k.a. Andre the Giant
Heart Attack while at his father's funeral in France.
46
02/18/93
Kerry Von Erich
Suicide with a .44 calibur handgun, one day after being indicted for cocaine possession
33
03/11/93
Dino Bravo
Murdered Gangland style while sitting at home in Laval, Quebec.
44
03/25/93
Wally Karbo
Heart Attack
77
06/14/93
Don Kent
Leukemia
61
10/26/93
Oro
Dies in ring from brain anuerism
??
11/13/93
Rufus R. Jones
Heart Attack while hunting
60
12/13/93
Larry Cameron
Heart Attack during a bout in Germany.
41
01/14/94
Sam Menacker
Dies in Illinois
79
03/??/94
Ronnie Etchinson
Natural causes
??
03/09/94
Eddie Creatchman
Heart Attack in Montreal
66
05/23/94
Ray Candy
Heart Attack
43
07/04/94
Joey Marella
Automobile accident in Burlington, NJ.
30
09/01/94
Boris Malenko
Cancer
61
11/23/94
Art Barr
Drug-related causes
28
01/22/95
Jerry "Crusher" Blackwell
Pneumonia
45
02/18/95
Eddie Gilbert
Heart Attack
33
03/20/95
John Studd
Hodgkin's disease.
46
05/10/95
Ilio DePaulo
Struck by a car
68
10/02/95
John Ayres
Liver Cancer
42
12/04/95
Little Beaver
Emphysema
61
05/05/96
Ray Stevens
Heart Attack
60
06/15/96
Dick Murdoch
Massive Heart Attack
49
07/23/96
Herb Abrams
Drug Overdose
??
08/23/96
Neil Superior
Altercation with Police
33
09/10/96
Juanita Wright, a.k.a. Sapphire
Heart Attack
61
01/03/97
Rick Martello
not known
38
02/07/97
"Bulldog" Bob Brown
not known
??
03/01/97
Frank "Gorilla" Marconi
not known
??
03/24/97
Dr. Bill Miller
not known
??
06/30/97
Larry O'Day
not known
53
06/??/97
Stan Stasiak
Heart Attack
60
08/15/97
Plum Mariko
Head Trauma during a match
29
08/31/97
Dale Lewis
Leukemia
??
09/11/97
Fritz Von Erich
Lung Cancer
68
10/05/97
Brian Pillman
Heart Attack
36
05/23/99
Owen Hart
Cardiac arrest due to falling from the rafters when his Blue Blazer entrance went wrong
34