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Wilma Rudolph
Sports & Athletics
30
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,950

Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Glodean Rudolph
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
23 June 1940 โ€“ 12 November 1994 (54 years old)

Wilma Rudolph was an inspirational American sprinter who overcame childhood polio, scarlet fever, and wearing leg braces until age twelve to become 'the fastest woman in the world'. At the 1960 Rome Olympics, she became the first American woman in history to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay), returning home to demand the complete desegregation of her hometown parade.

Brentwood, Tennessee, United States
Jersey Joe Walcott
Sports & Athletics
28
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,050

Jersey Joe Walcott

Arnold Raymond Cream
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
31 January 1914 โ€“ 25 February 1994 (80 years old)

Arnold Raymond Cream, known professionally as Jersey Joe Walcott, was an enduring boxing master who set the record as the oldest man in history to win the World Heavyweight Championship at age thirty-seven (a record held until George Foreman in 1994). Renowned for his exquisite 'Walcott shuffle' side-stepping footwork, he captured the title on his fifth attempt by knocking out Ezzard Charles in 1951.

Camden, New Jersey, United States
Draลพen Petroviฤ‡
Sports & Athletics
31
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 3,780

Draลพen Petroviฤ‡

Draลพen Petroviฤ‡
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia
22 October 1964 โ€“ 7 June 1993 (28 years old)

Draลพen Petroviฤ‡, 'The Mozart of Basketball', was a virtuoso Croatian shooting guard who conquered European basketball with Cibona Zagreb and Real Madrid before breaking open the NBA for European stars with the New Jersey Nets. Renowned for his obsessive shooting drills, fiery competitive spirit, and Olympic heroics for Yugoslavia and independent Croatia, his brilliant career was tragically cut short in a car crash at age twenty-eight.

Denkendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Ernst Happel
Sports & Athletics
30
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,820

Ernst Happel

Ernst Franz Hermann Happel
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
29 November 1925 โ€“ 14 November 1992 (66 years old)

Ernst Happel was an Austrian tactical mastermind and one of the most successful football managers in European history. He was the first manager to win the European Cup with two different clubs (Feyenoord in 1970 and Hamburger SV in 1983) and won league championships across four European nations, as well as taking the Netherlands to the 1978 World Cup Final.

Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Larbi Benbarek
Sports & Athletics
31
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Larbi Benbarek

ุงู„ุนุฑุจูŠ ุจู† ู…ุจุงุฑูƒ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1917 โ€“ 1992 (75 years old)

Legendary Moroccan-French football pioneer acclaimed as the original 'Black Pearl' (La Perle Noire), whose dazzling dribbling genius inspired Pelรฉ, starring for Olympique de Marseille and Atlรฉtico Madrid.

Casablanca, Morocco
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