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Franklin James Tossas, TSGT Sr. (1934 - 2008)

U.S. Distinguished International Shooters Badge, 1970 Phoenix Frank Tossas SSgt, USAF World Championships, Mens Team.This event was held in 1970 Bronze Metal Frank Tossas participated in the 19...

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Marcel Cerdan MP (1916 - 1949)

Official Web Site Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan (French pronunciation: ​[maʁsɛl sɛʁdɑ̃]; July 22, 1916 – October 28, 1949[1]) was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxin...

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Byron Nelson (1912 - 2006)

John Byron Nelson, Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946. Nelson and two other well-known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead,...

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Mike Hastings (1894 - 1965)

Hall of Fame Rodeo Star. He ran away from home when he was 11 years old and went to work busting wild broncs. Eight years later he entered his first rodeo. He was willing to try any and all events, b...

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Gus Sonnenberg (1898 - 1944)

Gustave Adolph Sonnenberg (March 6, 1898 – September 9, 1944) was an American football player and professional wrestler of German descent. As a wrestler, he was National Wrestling Association world h...

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Ingmar Johansson MP (1932 - 2009)

Ingmar Johansson Ingmar Johansson became world heavyweight champion June 26, 1959. Won by knockout of Floyd Patterson after two minutes and three seconds in the third round. Ingmar Johansson blev v...

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Wylie G. Woodruff (1866 - 1930)

Wylie Glidden Woodruff (March 4, 1866 – June 21, 1930) was an American football player and coach. He played guard at the University of Pennsylvania under his older brother, George Washington Woodruff...

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Craig Robinson

Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States

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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884 - 1970)

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, july 6, 1884, july 4, 1970, "Mike", nicknamed "professor", of Newport RI, was born at Oakdale New York. Vanderbilt graduated from Harvard Law School in 1910, then entered ...

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Captain Hobey Baker (1892 - 1918)

Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker (January 15, 1892 – December 21, 1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Considered the first American star in ice hockey by the Hockey H...

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Benjamin

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Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., Governor (1919 - 2006)

. Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. (8 August 1919 – 1 February 2006) was an American politician and the 12th Governor of Arizona, serving from January 1965 till January 1967. He also remained active in po...

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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899 - 1992)

Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (February 20, 1899 – December 13, 1992) was an American businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, as well as the owner of a leading stable of thoroughbre...

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Maribel Vinson (1911 - 1961)

Maribel Yerxa Vinson-Owen (October 12, 1911 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater and coach. She competed in the disciplines of ladies singles and pair skating. As a single skater, she...

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Maribel Owen (1940 - 1961)

Maribel Yerxa Owen (April 25, 1940 – February 15, 1961) was an American pair skater. With partner Dudley Richards, she was the 1961 U.S. national champion and represented the United States at the 1...

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Laurence Owen (1944 - 1961)

Laurence Rochon "Laurie" Owen ( /lɔrˈɔːns/; May 9, 1944 – February 15, 1961) was a Hall of Fame American figure skater. She was the 1961 U.S. National Champion and represented the United States at ...

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Guy Owen (1913 - 1952)

Guy Owen (August 22, 1913 – April 21, 1952) was a Canadian figure skating champion. Guy Rochon Owen initially competed in the men's individual figure skating event, winning the1929 Canadian jun...

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Mimi Lee, First Lady of Maryland (1920 - 2011)

Mathilde B. "Mimi" Lee (May 1, 1920 – August 9, 2011) was an American chemist, athlete and philanthropist who served as the First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979 when her husband, then Lt. Governo...

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Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius MP

Oscar Pistorius (born 22 November 1986, Johannesburg), South African sprint runner who is a double amputee was selected to run in both the individual 400 metres and the 4x400 relay at the London Olympi...

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Abby Wambach MP

Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach is an American professional soccer player, coach and Olympic gold medalist. She played college soccer for the University of Florida, where she was a member of a national uni...

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Major General Peter C. Hains III (1901 - 1998)

Peter Conover Hains, III, born May 11, 1901, was an American Army cavalry officer and Major General who competed in the 1928 Olympic games in the modern pentathlon. Hains graduated from West Point in...

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Laila

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Kathrine Switzer MP (1947 - d.)

Kathrine Switzer Highlights: Broke the gender barrier at the 1967 Boston Marathon, when she was the first woman to officially enter the race. Winner of the 1974 New York City Marathon Emmy ...

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Eusébio

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Luís Filipe

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Carlos Alberto

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Rosa Maria

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Cristiano Ronaldo

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Arthur Antunes Coimbra, "Zico" MP

É um treinador, ex-futebolista e ex-dirigente brasileiro que atuava como meia. Atua como comentarista esportivo na TV Esporte Interativo. Atualmente, treina a seleção iraquiana. Notabilizou-se como...

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Paulo Roberto

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César Augusto

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Gustavo

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Ronaldo, Ronaldo Fenômeno MP

É um ex-futebolista brasileiro que atuava como atacante. Já era conhecido como Ronaldo no início da carreira, sendo por algum tempo chamado de Ronaldinho. O diminutivo surgiu na Copa do Mundo de 19...

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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé MP

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, mais conhecido como Pelé (Três Corações, 23 de outubro de 1940), é um ex-futebolista brasileiro que atuava como atacante. É reconhecido entre especialistas de futebol e e...

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Clare

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Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873 - 1942)

A member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family, Cornelius Vanderbilt III was a distinguished American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman. Called Neily by his close friends, V...

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Canada Lee (1907 - 1952)

Canada Lee (March 3, 1907 — May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, he died shortly before he was scheduled to...

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William Henry Grenfell, 1st and last Baron Desborough MP (1855 - 1945)

GRENFELL, WILLIAM HENRY, BARON DESBOROUGH (1855-1945), athlete, sportsman, and public servant, was born in London 30 October 1855, the eldest son of Charles William Grenfell, M.P., of Taplow Court, B...

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Piers Courage (1942 - 1970)

Piers Raymond Courage (27 May 1942, Colchester, England – 21 June 1970, Zandvoort, Netherlands) was a racing driver from England. He participated in 29 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, deb...

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James John Corbett MP (1866 - 1933)

James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (September 1, 1866 – February 18, 1933) was a heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at th...

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John L. Sullivan, Boxing Champion (1858 - 1918)

John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and i...

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Tiger Woods MP

Orlando, FL, USA

American golfer Tiger Woods is the youngest man ever, and the first man of color, to win the Masters Tournament of golf. Born Eldrick Tont Woods in Cypress, California. He is the only child of Earl a...

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Larry Bird MP

Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a former American NBA basketball player and coach. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1978, Bird started at small forward and power ...

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Robert Edward "Ted" Turner MP

American media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner, as a businessman, is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, wh...

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Dorothy Hamill MP

Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is an American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion in Ladies' Singles and 1976 World Champion. Early life Hamill was born in Chicago, Il...

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Earvin

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Dennis

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Sam Snead (1912 - 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. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events incl...

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Briggs Cunningham (1907 - 2003)

Briggs Swift Cunningham II (January 19, 1907 - July 2, 2003) was an American entrepreneur and sportsman, who raced automobiles and yachts. Born into a wealthy family, he became a racing car construct...

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Michael

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Helen Stephens ("The Fulton Flash") (1918 - 1994)

Helen Herring Stephens (February 3, 1918 – January 17, 1994) was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1936. Stephens, nicknamed the 'Fulton Flash' after her birthplace Fulton, Missou...

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Christen

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Charles Adams, III MP (1866 - 1954)

Charles Francis Adams III (August 2, 1866 – June 10, 1954) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover and well-known as a yachtsman. A scion of the Adams family that gave the co...

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Margaret

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Lt. General Sir Philip Neame VC, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ (1888 - 1978)

- lots of info -------------------- Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame VC, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ (12 December 1888 – 28 April 1978) was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...

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Maj. General Ernest N. Harmon (1894 - 1979)

Ernest Nason Harmon (26 February 1894-13 November 1979) was a United States Army general. He is best known for his actions in reorganizing U.S. II Corps after the debacle at the Battle of the Kasserine...

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David

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Lucinda

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Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907 - 1967)

Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (13 August 1907 – 30 July 1967), often referred to as Alfried Krupp, was a convicted war criminal, an industrialist, a competitor in Olympic yacht rac...

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Joseph N. Pew, Jr. (1886 - 1963)

. Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. (November 12, 1886 – April 9, 1963) was an American industrialist and influential member of the Republican Party. Early life Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pew was...

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Hans Wilhelm Henie (1872 - 1937)

Wilhelm Henie (7 September 1872 – 10 May 1937) was a Norwegian sportsman and furrier. He was track cycling World Champion in 1894, and competed at the European Speed Skating Championships in 1896. He...

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Sonja Henie (1912 - 1969)

Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912 – October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies Singles, a ten-time World Champion (1927...

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Porfirio Rubirosa (1909 - 1965)

Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza , (January 22, 1909 - July 5, 1965) was a Dominican diplomat, polo player and race car driver who competed in the 1950 and 1954 24 Hour of Le Mans, but was best known as an in...

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Helen Jacobs (1908 - 1997)

Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 – June 2, 1997) was a World No. 1 American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. She was born in Globe, Arizona, United States. Tennis career J...

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Don Budge (1915 - 2000)

John Donald ("Don" or "Donnie") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. H...

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Senda Berenson (1868 - 1954)

Senda Berenson Abbott (March 19, 1868, Butrimantsy, Vilno gubernia, Russian Empire – February 16, 1954) was a pioneer of women's basketball, authoring the first Basketball Guide for Women (1901–07). ...

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Eugene Luther Vidal, Sr. MP (1895 - 1969)

Eugene Luther "Gene" Vidal (April 13, 1895 – February 20, 1969) was an American athlete and aviation pioneer. He was the father of author Gore Vidal. Contents [hide] * 1 Athletic highlights * 2...

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Benjamin Eastman ("Blazin' Ben") (1911 - 2002)

Benjamin "Ben" Bangs Eastman (July 19, 1911 – October 6, 2002), alias "Blazin' Ben", was an American middle distance runner. He was born in Burlingame, California, and graduated from Stanford Univers...

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Winthrop W. Aldrich GBE, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1885 - 1974)

Winthrop Williams Aldrich GBE (November 2, 1885 – February 25, 1974) was an American banker and financier, scion of a prominent political family, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Early ye...

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Gene Tunney (1897 - 1978)

James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's success...

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George Lauder, Jr. (1878 - 1916)

George Lauder, Jr. was a philanthropist and yachtsman whose 136-foot (41 m) schooner once held the record for the fastest trans-Atlantic yacht passage.

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Aidan Roark (1905 - 1984)

Aidan Roark (October 23, 1905 - March 27, 1984) was an Irish 10-goal polo player and in Hollywood he acted as a personal assistant to Darryl Francis Zanuck. Biography He was born on October 2...

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Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998)

Helen Newington Wills Roark (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve in...

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Bobby Jones (1902 - 1971)

Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national...

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Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War (founder of the Davis Cup) (1879 - 1945)

Dwight Filley Davis (July 5, 1879 – November 28, 1945) was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. Biogra...

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Edith Cummings (1899 - 1984)

Edith Cummings (March 26, 1899 – November 1984) was one of the premier amateur golfers of her generation. She was one of the Big Four debutantes in Chicago, at the end of the First World War. She bec...

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James Stillman Rockefeller MP (1902 - 2004)

James Stillman Rockefeller (June 8, 1902 - August 10, 2004) was a member of the prominent U.S. Rockefeller family. Personal life A paternal grandson of William Rockefeller, his maternal grand...

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Stephen "Laddie" Sanford (1899 - d.)

Stephen "Laddie" Sanford was an international polo player as well as director of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. In 1923 he became the first American to win the most prestigious steeplechase race...

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Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. (1900 - 1944)

. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. (February 11, 1900 - April 19, 1944) was an American polo player who was killed in an air crash during World War II. He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame. ...

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Thomas Hitchcock, Sr. (1860 - 1941)

Thomas Hitchcock (November 23, 1860 - September 29, 1941) was one of the leading American polo players during the latter part of the 19th century and a Hall of Fame horse trainer and owner known as t...

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Spessard Holland, Governor, U.S. Senator (1892 - 1971)

Spessard Lindsey Holland (July 10, 1892 – November 6, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 28th Governor of Florida from 1941 to 1945, and as a United States Senator from Flo...

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Scott W. Lucas, U.S. Senator (1892 - 1968)

Scott Wike Lucas (February 19, 1892 – February 22, 1968) was an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1935-...

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Kevin

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William W. "Bill" Bradley, U.S. Senator MP

William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully ...

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William Warren Barbour, U.S. Senator (1888 - 1942)

William Warren Barbour (July 31, 1888 – November 22, 1943) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 unt...

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Sir Henry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet (1911 - 1999)

Name: H Colonel Llewellyn Given Name: H Colonel Surname: Llewellyn Sex: M _UID: A63F486F245647B08D6738EDFD6449 2FFF07 Change Date: 7 Apr 2006 at 18:09 Marriage 1 Christine De Saumarez Marr...

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Ernesto Greenleaf Cilley (1907 - 1992)

Ernesto Greenleaf Cilley was born on 29 April 1907 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was the son of Luis Prince Cilley and Anselma Sarah Hernandez. He married María Elena Beláustegui, daughter of Albert...

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Stefanie

Las Vegas, NV, USA

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Andre Agassi MP

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Andre Kirk Agassi is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States and is generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all tim...

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William A. Wellman (1896 - 1975)

William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer an...

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Robert A. Gardner (1890 - 1956)

) Robert Abbe Gardner (April 9, 1890 – June 21, 1956) was an American multi-sport athlete best known for winning the U.S. Amateur in golf twice. Gardner was born in Hinsdale, Illinois. He spent mos...

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Mary

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Raymond Greene (1901 - 1982)

Charles Raymond Greene (17 April 1901-1982) was a Doctor of Medicine and mountaineer, brother of the novelist Graham Greene and the broadcaster Hugh Greene. Raymond Greene (born Berkhamsted, Hertfo...

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Brig. General Robin Olds (USAF) (1922 - 2007)

Robin Olds (July 14, 1922 – June 14, 2007) was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and th...

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Ivor Montagu (1904 - 1984)

The Honorable Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, London, England – 5 November 1984, London) was a British filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player and app...

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Mark Udall, U.S. Senator MP

Mark Emery Udall (born July 18, 1950) is the senior United States Senator from Colorado and a member of the Democratic Party. From 1999 to 2009, Udall served in the United States House of Representat...

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Morris "Mo" Udall (1922 - 1998)

Morris King "Mo" Udall (June 15, 1922 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961 to May 4, 1991. A former professional basketbal...

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Stewart Udall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1920 - 2010)

Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, un...

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Jarvis Hunt (1863 - 1941)

Jarvis Hunt (August 6, 1863 - June 15, 1941) was a "renowned Chicago architect" who designed a wide array of buildings, including train stations, suburban estates, industrial buildings, clubhouses an...

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Otto Graham, Jr. (1921 - 2003)

Otto Everett Graham, Jr. (December 6, 1921 – December 17, 2003) was a professional American football and basketball player who played for the Cleveland Browns in both the All-America Football Confere...

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