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Athletics (track and field)

Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
 

Auto Racing

• Indianapolis 500
  Indianapolis 500
  
  The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
   - Wilbur Shaw
  Wilbur Shaw
  
  Warren Wilbur Shaw was a noted United States racing driver and president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1945 until his death....
  

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...

• The Cincinnati Reds
  Cincinnati Reds
  
  The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the National League Central of the National League....
   defeated the Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit, Michigan in ....
   in the World Series
  World Series
  
  The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's playoff each October. Since the Series takes place in mid-autumn, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic, a usage reflected in the logo for the 2008 World Series; it is also sometimes known as the October Clas...
  , 4 games to 3.
• Dom DiMaggio
  Dom DiMaggio
  
  Dominic Paul DiMaggio is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox from 1940 to 1953....
   debuted April 16; Pee Wee Reese
  Pee Wee Reese
  
  Harold Henry "Pee Wee" Reese was an United States professional baseball player who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958.Reese was a ten-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game shortstop who contributed to seven league championships for Brooklyn....
   debuted April 23.
• Final season for Wally Berger
  Wally Berger
  
  Walter Anton Berger was an United States center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for four National League teams, primarily the Atlanta Braves....
  .
• Trade: June 12, the Brooklyn Dodgers
  Brooklyn Dodgers
  
  The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York City, playing in the National League from 1890 until 1957. The team was first known as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms and later the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers before being shortened to the Brooklyn Dodgers....
   traded four players and $125,000 cash to the St. Louis Cardinals
  St. Louis Cardinals
  
  The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the National League Central in the National League of Major League Baseball....
   for Joe Medwick
  Joe Medwick
  
  Joseph Michael Medwick , nicknamed "Ducky", was an United States player in Major League Baseball. A highly competitive left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals during the "Gashouse Gang" era of the 1930s, he also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers , San Francisco Giants , and Atlanta Braves ....
   and another player.

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....

• The eighth South American Basketball Championship
  South American Basketball Championship 1940
  
  The South American Basketball Championship 1940 was the eighth South American Basketball Championship. It was held in Montevideo, Uruguay and won by the host Uruguay national basketball team....
   in Montevideo
  Montevideo
  
  Montevideo is the largest city, the capital and chief port of Uruguay. Montevideo is the only city in the country with a population over 1,000,000....
   is won by Uruguay
  Uruguay national basketball team
  
  The Uruguay national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Uruguay in international competitions.Uruguay's best achievement in basketball was obtaining the bronze medal in the both the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics....
  .

Chess

Chess

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two Player . Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from History of chess and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older...

Football

Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (American

American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
)

• Minnesota Golden Gophers
  Minnesota Golden Gophers
  
  The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the college sports team for the University of Minnesota. The university fields both men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country running, gymnastics, golf, ice hockey, swimming, tennis, and track and field....
  , Stanford Indians
  Stanford Cardinal
  
  The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the sport teams at Stanford University....
  , and the Boston College Eagles
  Boston College Eagles
  
  The Boston College Eagles are the athletic teams representing Boston College. They compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports offered by the ACC....
   three way tie for National college football
  College football
  
  College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American University, colleges, and United States military academies....
   champions.
• Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the NFC North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
   crush the Washington Redskins
  Washington Redskins
  
  The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. area. The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, Maryland, which is in Prince George's County, Maryland....
   73-0 for the NFL championship.

Football

Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (Australian

Australian rules football

Australian football, or simply known as football, footy, Aussie rules or as AFL, is a team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a football in the shape of a prolate spheroid....
)

• Victorian Football League
  Victorian Football League
  
  The Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association is the premier league in Victoria. It is also known as the VFA/VFL, is the second-oldest Australian rules football league, formed in 1877, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that had been the hallmark of the Australian Rules Football - Early...
  
• Melbourne
  Melbourne Football Club
  
  Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria ....
   wins the 44th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 15.17 (107) d Richmond
  Richmond Football Club
  
  Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, competes in the Australian Football League. Considered one of the "big four" Melbourne clubs, Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton Football Club, Collingwood Football Club and Essendon Football Club....
   10.8 (68))
• Brownlow Medal
  Brownlow Medal
  
  The Chas Brownlow Trophy ? better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating umpires after each game....
   awarded to Des Fothergill
  Des Fothergill
  
  Desmond Hugh Fothergill was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL/AFL.From Collingwood, Victoria, Fothergill was a gifted sportsman who made his VFL/AFL debut aged 16, for the Collingwood Football Club in 1937....
   (Collingwood
  Collingwood Football Club
  
  Collingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League....
  ) and Herbie Matthews
  Herbie Matthews
  
  Herbie Matthews was an Australian rules footballer who played for Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League. He was recruited from suburban Fairfield under the League's "father and son" rule....
   (South Melbourne
  Sydney Swans
  
  The Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League club based in Sydney, New South Wales.The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans....
  )

Golf

Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
 

• April 4-7 - Masters Tournament - Jimmy Demaret
  Jimmy Demaret
  
  James Newton Demaret was an United States professional golfer. He won 31 PGA Tour events in a long career between 1935 and 1957 and was the first three-time winner of the The Masters Tournament....
  
• June 6-9 - U.S. Open
  U.S. Open (golf)
  
  The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual Open Golf Tournaments of the United States. It is the second of the four men's major golf championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour....
   - Lawson Little
  Lawson Little
  
  William Lawson Little, Jr. was an United States golfer.Little was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He was one of the most dominant amateur players in the history of the sport, winning both the The Amateur Championship and the United States Amateur Championship , then regarded as men's major golf championshipss, in both 1934 and 1935....
  
• British Open
  The Open Championship
  
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four men's major golf championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico....
   - not played due to World War II
  World War II
  
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  
• September 2 - PGA Championship
  PGA Championship
  
  The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August ....
   - Byron Nelson
  Byron Nelson
  
  John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.He and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within 6 months of each other in 1912....
  

• British Amateur
  The Amateur Championship
  
  The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held in the United Kingdom. In the rest of the world, it is often known as the "British Amateur" or the "British Amateur Championship"....
   - not played due to World War II
  World War II
  
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  
• U.S. Amateur - Dick Chapman
  Dick Chapman
  
  Richard D. "Dick" Chapman was an United States amateur golfer.Chapman was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was the 1940 U.S. Amateur golf champion....
  

• Women's Western Open
  Western Open (women's golf)
  
  The women's Western Open was a professional golf tournament which was first played in 1930. The LPGA was established in 1950, and it recognized the Western Open as one of its women's majors until 1967....
   - Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  
  Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
  
• Titleholders Championship
  Titleholders Championship
  
  There have been two professional golf tournaments for women named the Titleholders Championship. The first was of the original women's majors. The 1990s tournament was a standard event on the LPGA Tour....
   - Helen Hicks
  Helen Hicks
  
  Helen L. Hicks was an American professional golfer and one of 13 founders of the LPGA in 1950.Hicks was born in Cedarhurst, New York. She had a successful amateur career, reaching the finals of the U.S....
  

Horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....

• March 2 - In his final race, Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit
  
  Seabiscuit was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many US citizens during the Great Depression....
   wins the $121,000 Santa Anita Handicap
  Santa Anita Handicap
  
  The Santa Anita Handicap is an United States Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. It is a Graded stakes race Thoroughbred horse race for race horse four years old and up , and is considered the most important race for older horses in North America during the winter racing season....
   to become the top money earner of all time.
• May 4 - Kentucky Derby
  Kentucky Derby
  
  The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
   - Gallahadion
  Gallahadion
  
  Gallahadion was an United States Thoroughbred horse racing best known as the 1940 winner of the Kentucky Derby. A son of the Leading sire in North America Father Sir Gallahad III, his damsire was Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year Reigh Count who won the 1928 edition of the Kentucky Derby....
  
• Preakness - Bimelech
  Bimelech
  
  Bimelech was born on February 27th at Edward R. Bradley Idle Hour Stock Farm near Lexington, Kentucky. As usual with Colonel Bradley, he named the latest La Troienne foal with a name beginning with B....
  
• Belmont Stakes
  Belmont Stakes
  
  The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious United States Graded stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes....
   - Bimelech

Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...

• The New York Rangers
  New York Rangers
  
  The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
   defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs
  Toronto Maple Leafs
  
  The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
   4 games to 2 to win the National Hockey League
  National Hockey League
  
  The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
  's Stanley Cup
  Stanley Cup
  
  The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club championship trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League Season structure of the NHL#Stanley Cup playoffs champion....
  .

Awards

• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
  Associated Press Athlete of the Year
  
  The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
  : Tom Harmon
  Tom Harmon
  
  Thomas Dudley Harmon was a star player in United States college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors. As a player, he won the Heisman Trophy and is considered by some to be the greatest football player in Michigan Wolverines history....
  , College football
  College football
  
  College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American University, colleges, and United States military academies....
  
• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year
  Associated Press Athlete of the Year
  
  The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
  : Alice Marble
  Alice Marble
  
  Alice Marble was a World No. 1 United States tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships from 1936 through 1940. Five of those championships were in singles, six were in women's doubles, and seven were in mixed doubles....
  , Tennis
  Tennis
  
  Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
  

Births

January-April

• January 17 — Kipchoge Keino
  Kipchoge Keino
  
  Kipchoge Keino , chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee , is a retired Kenyan Athletics and two-time Olympic Games gold medalist. Kip Keino was among the first in a long line of successful Middle distance track event and Long-distance track event distance runners to come from the country and has helped and inspired many of his fellow coun...
  , Kenyan runner
• January 17 — Leighton Rees
  Leighton Rees
  
  Leighton Thomas Rees was the first ever World Professional Darts Champion....
  , Welsh darts player
• January 20 — Jack Nicklaus
  Jack Nicklaus
  
  Jack William Nicklaus , also known as "The Golden Bear", is one of the most successful professional golfers of all time. Nicklaus currently holds the record for the most victories in major championships....
  , American golfer
• January 31 — Kitch Christie
  Kitch Christie
  
  George Moir Christie, better known as Kitch Christie , was a South African rugby union coach best known for coaching the country's national team, the South Africa national rugby union team, to victory at the 1995 Rugby World Cup....
  , South African rugby coach (d. 1998)
• February 10 — Mary Rand
  Mary Rand
  
  Mary Denise Rand, Member of the Order of the British Empire, is a former England Athletics . She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event....
  , British track and field athlete
• February 11 — Calvin Fowler
  Calvin Fowler
  
  Calvin Fowler was the captain of the United States gold medal basketball team at the 1967 Pan American Games. He also was part of the U.S. gold medal team at the 1968 Summer Olympics....
  , American basketball player
• February 16 — Don Bertoia
  Don Bertoia
  
  Donald Richard Bertoia is a retired middle distance Running from Canada, who represented his native country in the men's 800 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan....
  , Canadian middle distance runner
• February 25 — Ron Santo
  Ron Santo
  
  Ronald Edward Santo is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1960 to 1974, all but the last year with the Chicago Cubs....
  , American baseball player
• February 28 — Mario Andretti
  Mario Andretti
  
  Mario Gabriele Andretti is an Italian American former automobile auto racing driver, and one of the most successful United States in the history of the sport....
  , American race car driver
• March 6 — Willie Stargell
  Willie Stargell
  
  Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell , nicknamed "Pops" in the later years of his career, was a professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball career with the Pittsburgh Pirates as an outfielder and first baseman....
  , American baseball player (d. 2001)
• March 8 — Theo Laseroms
  Theo Laseroms
  
  Matheus Wilhelmus Theodorus Laseroms was a football Defender from the Netherlands, who made a name for himself when he played for Feyenoord Rotterdam....
  , Dutch football defender and coach (d. 1991)
• April 11 — Wladyslaw Komar
  Wladyslaw Komar
  
  Wladyslaw Komar was a Poland shot put champion, who was born in Kaunas. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal at Munich in 1972 Summer Olympics....
  , Polish shot putter (d. 1998)
• April 13 — José Napoles
  José Napoles
  
  Jos? ?ngel N?poles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban former world welterweight boxing champion. Napoles is a national hero both in Cuba and Mexico, and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
  , Cuban-Mexican boxer
• April 14 — Robin Tait
  Robin Tait
  
  Robin Douglas Tait was a discus thrower, who represented New Zealand at two Summer Olympics: 1968 and 1972.He won the gold medal at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in the men's discus throw event....
  , New Zealand discus thrower (d. 1984)
• April 15 — Willie Davis
  Willie Davis (baseball)
  
  William Henry Davis is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Los Angeles Dodgers. At the end of his career he ranked seventh in major league history in putouts and total chances in the outfield, and third in games in center field ; he was also ninth in National League history in total outfie...
  , American baseball player
• April 15 — Woody Fryman, American baseball player
• April 21 — Carlos Morocho Hernandez
  Carlos Morocho Hernandez
  
  Carlos Enrique Hern?ndez Ramos was a world champion professional boxer. Known professionally as Carlos Morocho, he ended his career following a KO by Scotland boxer Ken Buchanan....
  , Venezuelan boxer
• April 25 — Maribel Yerxa Owen, U.S. figure skating champion (d. 1961)

May-September

• May 3 — Clemens Westerhof
  Clemens Westerhof
  
  Clemens Westerhof is a Netherlands football coach , who has worked in various football positions on the Africa continent since 1989.He is most noted for his success with the Nigeria national football team....
  , Dutch football manager
• May 19 — Frans Bouwmeester
  Frans Bouwmeester
  
  Frans Bouwmeester is a retired Netherlands footballer who was active as a left winger and who is currently head scout at Feyenoord Rotterdam....
  , Dutch football (soccer) player
• May 19 — Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
• May 20 — Sadaharu Oh
  Sadaharu Oh
  
  Sadaharu Oh or officially Wang Chenchih , is a former baseball player and manager of the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball and is the former manager of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks....
  , Japanese baseball player
• May 20 — Stan Mikita
  Stan Mikita
  
  Stanislav "Stan" Mikita is a Slovakia born, Canada retired professional ice hockey player, generally regarded as the best center of the 1960s. In 1961 he won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks....
  , Slovak-born Canadian hockey player
• May 22 — Lars Haglund
  Lars Haglund
  
  Lars G?sta Haglund is a retired male discus thrower from Sweden. He represented his native country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he had three false tries in the preliminary round....
  , Swedish discus thrower
• June 14 — Bram Leenards
  Bram Leenards
  
  Abraham Cornelis Willem Leenards is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who competed in two Summer Olympics for his native country....
  , Dutch water polo player
• June 15 — Ken Fletcher
  Ken Fletcher
  
  Kenneth Norman Fletcher was an Australian tennis player who won numerous doubles and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to parents Norm and Ethel Fletcher....
  , Australian tennis player (d. 2006)
• June 23 — Wilma Rudolph
  Wilma Rudolph
  
  Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an United States athlete, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in athletics during a single Olympic Games, despite running on a sprained ankle at the time....
  , American runner (d. 1994)
• July 3 — César Tovar
  César Tovar
  
  C?sar Leonardo Tovar , nicknamed "Pepito" and "Mr. Versatility", was an infielder/outfielder and right-handed batter in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins , Philadelphia Phillies , Texas Rangers , Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees ....
  , Venezuelan baseball player
• July 18 — Joe Torre
  Joe Torre
  
  Joseph Paul Torre is the current manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and a former Major League Baseball player. He played for the Atlanta Braves, New York Mets and the St....
  , American baseball player and manager
• July 20 — Tony Oliva
  Tony Oliva
  
  Tony Pedro Oliva is a former Major League Baseball right fielder who played his entire career in the American League for the Minnesota Twins from to ....
  , American baseball player
• July 29 — Gerrit Wormgoor
  Gerrit Wormgoor
  
  Gerrit Hendrik Wormgoor is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who finished in eighth position with the Dutch Men's Team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan....
  , Dutch water polo player
• August 7 — Sally McCallum
  Sally McCallum
  
  Sally McCallum is a retired female track and field Athletics from Canada, who represented her native country in three events at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy....
  , Canadian track and field athlete
• August 28 — Roger Pingeon
  Roger Pingeon
  
  Roger Pingeon is a retired professional road bicycle racer from France. He raced as a professional from 1964 to 1974. In 1967, Pingeon won the 1967 Tour de France....
  , French cyclist
• August 29 — Wim Ruska
  Wim Ruska
  
  Willem Ruska is a retired judoka from The Netherlands.During his career in the 1960's and 1970's he won seven European titles, two world titles and two Olympic titles....
  , Dutch judoka
• August 29 — Valentín Uriona
  Valentín Uriona
  
  Valent?n Uriona Lauciriga was a Spain former professional road racing cyclist. He died in 1967 after he crashed during Spanish Road Championships in Sabadell....
  , Spanish road racing cyclist (d. 1967)
• September 12 — Mickey Lolich
  Mickey Lolich
  
  Michael Stephen Lolich is a former Major League Baseball pitcher from 1962 in baseball until 1979 in baseball, playing the majority of his career with the Detroit Tigers....
  , American baseball player

October-December

• October 3 — Michael Troy
  Michael Troy
  
  Michael Francis Troy is a retired butterfly swimming swimmer from the United States, who broke the World record progression 200m butterfly for five consecutive times before it was taken over by fellow American swimmer Carl Robie in 1961....
  , American butterfly swimmer
• October 5 — Dennis Hay
  Dennis Hay
  
  Dennis Hay is a former Scotland field hockey player, who competed for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Later on he became a coach, leading the GB Women's Team to the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, after having finished in fourth place at the 1988 Summer Olympics....
  , Scottish field hockey player and coach
• October 9 — Joe Pepitone
  Joe Pepitone
  
  Joseph Anthony Pepitone is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder for the New York Yankees , Houston Astros , Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves ....
  , American baseball player
• October 19 — Bill Gairdner
  Bill Gairdner
  
  William Gairdner is a retired track and field Athletics from Canada, who represented his native country in the men's 400m hurdles and the men's decathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan....
  , Canadian track and field athlete
• October 23 — Pelé
  Pelé
  
  Edison Arantes do Nascimento, Order of the British Empire , best known by his nickname Pel? is a Brazilian former Association football player, rated by many as the greatest footballer of all time....
  , Brazilian soccer player
• November 23 — Gösta Pettersson
  Gösta Pettersson
  
  G?sta Pettersson is a Sweden former professional Bicycle road racing cyclist and three-time Olympic medalist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1971 Giro d'Italia....
  , Swedish road racing cyclist
• November 23 — Luis Tiant
  Luis Tiant
  
  Luis Clemente Tiant Vega , born November 23, 1940? in Marianao, Cuba, , is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians , Minnesota Twins , Boston Red Sox , New York Yankees , Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ....
  , Cuban-born American baseball player
• December 5 — Adrian Street
  Adrian Street
  
  Adrian Street is a popular professional wrestler from Wales who was well known for his humorous and flamboyant wrestling persona, brought to prominence in the 70's and 80's....
  , British wrestler
• December 9 — Eddie Blay
  Eddie Blay
  
  Edward Blay was a Ghanaian boxing, who won the bronze medal in the men's Light Welterweight category at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan....
  , Ghanaian boxer
• December 18 — John Cooper
  John Cooper (athlete)
  
  John Cooper was a Great Britain athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles.He competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 400 metre hurdles where he won the silver medal....
  , British hurdler (d. 1974)
• December 29 — George Puce
  George Puce
  
  George Puce is a retired discus thrower, who represented Canada at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in the men's discus throw event at the 1967 Pan American Games....
  , Canadian discus thrower

Deaths