| 5/12/2022 | Ronaldo Veitía Valdivie, the best coach in the history of Cuban judo dies at the age of 75. Ronaldo coached his team at six Olympic Games from 1992 to 2012 and obtained 5 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze medals. This made him the coach with the largest amount of Olympic Medals in the history of Judo. In 30 years he earned 308 international medals for Judo. Ronaldo was inducted into the IJF Hall of Fame in 2018. |
| 5/12/2021 | Serbian forward/center Stevan Jelovac dies after a stroke he suffered during practice on November 14. He was hospitalized in serious condition at ?etropolitan General in Athens. His family had since traveled to the Greek capital attending to the health complications of the recent days. A few days prior, the player was transferred to his home, Serbia. Before joining the AEK, he played in Turkey, Germany, Russia, Spain, Lithuania, Italy, and Japan after opting to extend his career beyond his home country, Serbia. He went from Mega and Crvena Zvezda to Antalya, Caserta, Rytas, Zaragoza, Nizhny Novgorod, Brose Bamberg, and Gaziantep, and from Europe to Japan and NeoPhoenix. His career featured 13 appearances in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, 41 in the 7DAYS EuroCup, 28 in the Basketball Champions League, and 16 in the FIBA Europe Cup. He was also capped at the senior level with Serbia during the 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers. As a member of AEK, Jelovac averaged 12.6 points, 4.4 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.3 blocks, and 0.7 steals per game over seven games played between the BCL and Greek League. |
| 5/12/2013 | Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist dies at the age of 95. He was the first black chief executive and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. During his presidency (1994-1999) South Africa hosted the 1995 Rugby world Cup and he used sports to unite racially divided South Africa. |
| 5/12/2011 | 59-year-old Panathinaikos veteran footballer Dimitrs Kalligeris is killed in a car accident. H was a member of the team that reached the Wembley final in 1971 having played in 5 games. With Panathinaikos he had 27 participations in 2 years (1970-1972. |
| 5/12/2006 | Ukranian grandmaster David Bronstein dies at the age of 82. He was one of the greatest postwar chess players, who though never managed to win the World Championship. In 1951 he challenged Michael Botvinik, the world champion but he drew 12-12 and according to FIDE rules, the title remained with the holder. He wrote many chess books and he had a regular chess column in the soviet newspaper Izvestia |
| 5/12/2005 | Rena “Natalie” Liveri, kart racing champion in the beginning of the ‘70s when races were conducted at the Agios Kosmas circuit, dies at the age of 57 |
| 5/12/1997 | In a meeting with represenatives of Panathinaikos fan clubs president Giorgos Vardinogiannis announces a series of measures aiming to solve once and for all the problem of violence |
| 5/12/1984 | Kareem Abdul Jabbar becomes the oldest NBA player (37 years old) to sign a one-year contract with the LA Lakers |
| 5/12/1969 | Emil Zatopek is stripped of his military rank (colonel of the Czechoslovakian army) after criticizing the USSR's military intervention on his homeland |
| 5/12/1951 | ''Shoeless'' Joe Jackson, the legendary player of the White Sox in 1910-20, dies in South Carolina aged 64. He and 7 of his teammates were accused of fixing the 1919 World Series when they were bribed by powerful bookmakers to lose. Chick Gandil who acted as go-between paid them $80.000 |
| 5/12/1931 | No corner kick is conceded during the match Newcastle - Portsmouth |
| 5/12/1908 | Numerals are first used on football jerseys by Pittsburg University Panthers in their game against Washington & Jefferson University (14-0) |
