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© St. Petersburg Times, published October 26, 1999
Active athletes, coaches and officials who died in plane crashes:
Oct. 18, 1925: Marvin Goodwin, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, in Houston.
March 31, 1931: Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, in Kansas.
May 4, 1949: 22 members of Torino, 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, 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 Orioles catcher, in Maryland.
Nov. 27, 1956: Charlie Peete, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder, in Venezuela.
Feb. 6, 1958: Eight members of English soccer champion Manchester United, in Munich.
Aug. 14, 1958: Six members of Egyptian fencing team, in 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 Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo football team, in Toledo, Ohio.
Feb. 16, 1961: 18 members of U.S. figure skating team, in Belgium.
April 3, 1961: Green Cross, a Chilean soccer team, in 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 Cubs second baseman, in Utah.
July 24, 1966: Tony Lema, 1964 British Open champion, in Munster, Ind.
April 28, 1968: Six members of 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 Pirates 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 Yankees catcher, in Canton, Ohio.
Jan. 11, 1980: Bo Rein, LSU football coach, in Atlantic Ocean.
March 14, 1980: 14 members of 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 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, day after a helicopter he was piloting crashed at Talladega Superspeedway in Birmingham, Ala.
April 18, 1996: Brook Berringer, Nebraska QB, two days before NFL Draft, when small plane he was piloting crashed in Raymond, Neb.
May 11, 1996: Rodney Culver, San Diego Chargers running back, in Everglades.
Oct. 25, 1999: Payne Stewart, winner of 1989 PGA Championship and two-time U.S. Open winner, two miles west of Mina, S.D.