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Jigorล Kanล
Sports & Athletics
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๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,890

Jigorล Kanล

ๅ˜‰็ด ๆฒปไบ”้ƒŽ (Kanล Jigorล)
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
10 December 1860 โ€“ 4 May 1938 (77 years old)

Jigorล Kanล was a visionary Japanese educator, polymath, and martial artist who created modern Judo (the 'Gentle Way') in 1882 by establishing the Kลdลkan in Tokyo. Pioneering the concept of physical culture combined with moral development ('Maximum Efficiency with Minimum Effort' and 'Mutual Welfare and Benefit'), he was the first Asian member of the International Olympic Committee.

At Sea (aboard SS Hikawa Maru, Pacific Ocean), Japan
Ray Ewry
Sports & Athletics
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,920

Ray Ewry

Raymond Clarence Ewry
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
14 October 1873 โ€“ 29 September 1937 (63 years old)

Raymond Clarence 'Ray' Ewry was an American track and field phenomenon who won eight official Olympic gold medals (and two more at the 1906 Intercalated Games) without ever losing a single Olympic competition. Confined to a wheelchair as a boy due to childhood polio, he developed superhuman leg spring to dominate the standing high jump, standing long jump, and standing triple jump.

Long Island, New York, United States
Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II
Sports & Athletics
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 310

Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II

เชฐเชฃเชœเซ€เชคเชธเชฟเช‚เชนเชœเซ€ เชตเชฟเชญเชพเชœเซ€ เชœเชพเชกเซ‡เชœเชพ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1872 โ€“ 1933 (60 years old)

Indian ruler, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, and pioneering cricketer who played for England, inventor of the leg glance stroke; namesake of the Ranji Trophy.

Jamnagar, India
Ernest Shackleton
Sports & Athletics
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland
1874 โ€“ 1922 (47 years old)

Anglo-Irish polar explorer renowned for supreme leadership during the 1914โ€“1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, rescuing his entire twenty-eight-man crew without losing a single life after their ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice.

South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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