2025: Remembering Sports Legends Lost - From Jota to Hogan, a Year of Farewell

• Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died unexpectedly at 29 in October 2025, a significant loss for American chess.
• Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, passed away at 103 in January 2025.
• Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died at 72 in July 2025 from a heart attack, remembered for WWE's 1980s boom.
• Liverpool forward Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva died in a car crash at age 28 in July 2025.
• Boxing legend George Foreman, cricket umpire Dickie Bird, tennis star Nicola Pietrangeli, biathlete Laura Dahlmeier, Indian spinner Dilip Doshi, and football's Denis Law also passed away in 2025.

Why It Matters: 2025 marked a somber year for sports, as numerous iconic figures across various disciplines passed away.