07/25/1957 - 11/01/1999
Walter Payton (July 25, 1954 – November 1, 1999) was an American football player who spent his entire professional career with the National Football League's Chicago Bears. Walter Payton was known around the NFL as "Sweetness...
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02/18/1952 - 10/31/2010
Maurice Lucas was a professional basketball player. The first two years of his postcollegiate career were spent in the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the Spirits of St. Louis and Kentucky Colonels. He then played twelve seasons in the...
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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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06/07/1945 - 07/26/2005
Jean Gilles Marotte (June 7, 1945 – July 26, 2005) was a Canadian defenceman in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Los Angeles Kings and St. Louis Blues.
12/12/1981 - 07/25/2011
Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (December 12, 1981 – July 25, 2011) was an American World Cup aerial skier from Boise, Idaho, skiing out of Bogus Basin. A three-time Olympian, he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouve...
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Buck Buchanan (Junious Buchanan)
09/10/1940 - 07/16/1992
Junious "Buck" Buchanan (September 10, 1940 – July 16, 1992) was an American collegiate and professional Football defensive tackle. He played for the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League (AFL) and in the National Foot...
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Marty Springstead (Martin John Springstead)
07/9/1937 - 01/17/2012
Martin John Springstead (July 9, 1937 – January 17, 2012) was a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1966 to 1985 and had since worked as an umpire supervisor. He was the youngest umpire ever to serve...
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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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09/24/1911 - 02/27/1972
Viktor Győző Barna (Braun) (August 24, 1911, in Budapest, Hungary – February 27, 1972) was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player.
05/27/1912 - 05/23/2002
Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. He and two of the other greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, we...
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Reggie White (Reginald Howard White)
12/19/1961 - 12/26/2004
Reginald Howard "Reggie" White (December 19, 1961 – December 26, 2004), nicknamed "The Minister of Defense" because of his faith, was a professional American football player who playeddefensive end...
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Chuck Daly (Charles Jerome Daly)
07/20/1930 - 05/09/2009
Charles Jerome "Chuck" Daly (July 20, 1930 – May 9, 2009) was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) Championships in 1989 and 1990, and the Dream Team to...
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Willie Stargell (Wilver Dornell Stargell)
03/06/1940 - 04/09/2001
Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" in the later years of his career, was a Major League Baseball left fielder and first baseman. He played his entire 21-year baseball career...
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03/28/1973 - 12/04/2009
Edward Smith "Eki" Fatu was a Samoan-American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Umaga. He was best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment, where he was a two-time Intercontinental Champion.
