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Moses Malone
Sports & Athletics
16
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,390

Moses Malone

Moses Eugene Malone
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
23 March 1955 โ€“ 13 September 2015 (60 years old)

Moses Eugene Malone was a relentless American basketball center and three-time NBA Most Valuable Player who perfected the art of offensive rebounding, earning the title 'Chairman of the Boards'. The first modern player to jump straight from high school to professional basketball, he led the Philadelphia 76ers to the 1983 NBA championship with his famous playoff prediction 'Fo', Fo', Fo''.

Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Ron Clarke
Sports & Athletics
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,050

Ron Clarke

Ronald William Clarke
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia
21 February 1937 โ€“ 17 June 2015 (78 years old)

Ronald William 'Ron' Clarke was an Australian long-distance running phenomenon who broke seventeen official world records across distances from two miles to the one-hour run during the 1960s. Chosen to light the Olympic cauldron as a promising teenager at the 1956 Melbourne Games, his relentless pace revolutionized world distance running, and he later served as Mayor of the Gold Coast.

Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Alfredo Di Stรฉfano
Sports & Athletics
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,890

Alfredo Di Stรฉfano

Alfredo Stรฉfano Di Stรฉfano Laulhรฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina
4 July 1926 โ€“ 7 July 2014 (88 years old)

Alfredo Di Stรฉfano was an extraordinary Argentine-Spanish footballer whose unmatched versatility, endurance, and leadership turned Real Madrid into the undisputed kings of European football. Winning five consecutive European Cups between 1956 and 1960 and scoring in every single final, he is widely regarded as the most complete footballer who ever lived.

Madrid, Spain
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Sports & Athletics
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,840

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Rubin Carter
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
6 May 1937 โ€“ 20 April 2014 (76 years old)

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter was a fearsome American middleweight boxing contender known for his devastating power punches, who spent nineteen years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey, by an all-white jury. Vindicated and released by a federal judge in 1985, Carter became an internationally renowned human rights advocate and champion of the wrongfully convicted.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mustapha Zitouni
Sports & Athletics
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mustapha Zitouni

ู…ุตุทูู‰ ุฒูŠุชูˆู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1928 โ€“ 2014 (85 years old)

World-class Algerian central defender who abandoned his stardom with the French national team and AS Monaco on the eve of the 1958 World Cup to join the historic FLN Football Team, weaponizing sport for Algerian independence.

Algiers, Algeria
Eusรฉbio
Sports & Athletics
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,520

Eusรฉbio

Eusรฉbio da Silva Ferreira
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Mozambique
25 January 1942 โ€“ 5 January 2014 (71 years old)

Eusรฉbio da Silva Ferreira, 'The Black Panther', was a Mozambique-born Portuguese striker whose explosive speed, ferocious right-foot shot, and athletic grace made him one of the most feared goalscorers of the twentieth century. He led S.L. Benfica to European Cup glory in 1962, won the 1965 Ballon d'Or, and was the nine-goal top scorer of the 1966 World Cup in England.

Lisbon, Portugal
Nilton Santos
Sports & Athletics
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,880

Nilton Santos

Nรญlton dos Reis Santos
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
16 May 1925 โ€“ 27 November 2013 (88 years old)

Nilton Santos was an extraordinary Brazilian defender widely acclaimed as the greatest left-back in the history of football. Known as 'The Encyclopedia' for his encyclopedic knowledge of the game and flawless technique, he revolutionized defending by becoming the first full-back in World Cup history to attack down the flank, winning consecutive World Cups in 1958 and 1962.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sergey Belov
Sports & Athletics
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,080

Sergey Belov

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
23 January 1944 โ€“ 3 October 2013 (69 years old)

Sergey Alexandrovich Belov was an elite Soviet shooting guard who scored 20 points in the historic, controversial gold-medal game at the 1972 Munich Olympics, ending the United States' 63-game Olympic winning streak. Winning eleven Soviet championships and two EuroLeague titles with CSKA Moscow, in 1992 he became the first international, non-American player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Perm, Russia
Emile Griffith
Sports & Athletics
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,880

Emile Griffith

Emile Alphonse Griffith
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
3 February 1938 โ€“ 23 July 2013 (75 years old)

Emile Griffith was a brilliant US Virgin Islands-born boxer who captured world championships in both the welterweight and middleweight divisions, fighting an astonishing 339 championship roundsโ€”more than any other boxer in history. A gentle and compassionate man who carried the psychological burden of his tragic 1962 televised bout with Benny Paret, he was an early barrier-breaker for LGBTQ+ visibility in professional sports.

Hempstead, New York, United States
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