Dejan Dabović (Дејан Дабовић, 3 August 1944 – 6 December 2020) was a Yugoslav water polo player notable for winning a gold medal in

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in 1968, with the Yugoslavian

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team. Dabović was born in

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and died from

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, at age 76 during the

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* * * * 1944 births 2020 deaths Sportspeople from Herceg Novi Water polo players from Rijeka Montenegrin male water polo players Serbian male water polo players Yugoslav male water polo players Olympic water polo players for Yugoslavia Olympic gold medalists for Yugoslavia Water polo players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in water polo Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia {{Yugoslavia-Olympic-medalist-stub

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