05/13/1914 - 04/12/1981
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Lou...
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02/26/1933 - 03/25/2009
John Edwin Blanchard (February 26, 1933 – March 25, 2009) was a professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as an outfielder and catcher from 1955 and 1959-1965.
06/26/1911 - 09/27/1956
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field. She was named the 10th Greatest North American Athlete o...
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Red Hickey (Red Hickey)
02/14/1917 - 03/30/2006
Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey (February 14, 1917 — March 30, 2006) was an American football player and coach who played for two teams and served as head coach for the San Francisco 49ers, where he was most famous for creating the shotg...
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07/29/1933 - 10/14/2009
Louis Vincent "Captain Lou" Albano (July 29, 1933 – October 14, 2009) was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor.
08/25/1927 - 09/28/2003
Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is...
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03/21/1972 - 04/28/2005
Christopher Raul Candito (March 21, 1972–April 28, 2005)was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Chris Candido. Throughout most of his career, he was accompanied by his high school sweetheart Tammy Lynn Sytch.
Pat Tillman (Patrick Daniel Tillman)
11/06/1976 - 04/22/2004
Corporal Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman Jr. (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American football player who left his professional career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002 i...
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Joe Frazier (Joseph William Frazier)
01/12/1944 - 11/07/2011
Joseph William "Joe" Frazier (January 12, 1944 – November 7, 2011), also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-figh...
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01/04/1935 - 05/11/2006
Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American 2-time world heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson was then the youngest man to win the world heavyweight championship and, later, the first to regain it. He had a reco...
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Frankie Frisch (Francis Frisch)
09/09/1898 - 03/12/1973
Francis "Frankie" Frisch (September 9, 1898–March 12, 1973), nicknamed the Fordham Flash, or The Old Flash, was a German-American Major League Baseball player of the early twentieth century. Frisch was a switch-hitter who threw rig...
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01/16/1985 - 08/04/2008
Craig Jones, one of the rising stars of British motor sport, died on 4 August, 2008, after a high speed crash at Brands Hatch.
04/02/1925 - 01/27/2004
Don Stansauk (April 2, 1925 - January 27, 2004)was a professional wrestler and actor, known by his ring name, Hard Boiled Haggerty. He was previously a professional American football player, and became a successful character actor after his wrestl...
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08/27/1908 - 02/25/2001
Sir Donald George Bradman, (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), often referred to as The Don, was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94...
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04/09/1957 - 05/07/2011
Severiano "Seve" Ballesteros Sota was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. He gained attention in the golfing world in 1976, when at the ag...
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