Jim Thorpe -- All-American
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
1 June 1921, Hollywood, California, USA
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
17 August 1898, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
5 June 1909, Booneville, Arkansas, USA
27 October 1920, Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania, USA
26 February 1905, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
February 12, 1891 in Anderson, Indiana, USA
September 15, 1923
7 February 1914, New York City, New York, USA
24 October 1915, Waurika, Oklahoma, USA
4 May 1909, Georgia, USA
21 February 1896, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2 November 1904, Cookesville, Illinois, USA
1 December 1922, Corona, New York, USA
October 16, 1913 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
21 October 1914, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 September 1921, Nebraska, USA
28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
20 November 1919, Portland, Maine, USA
18 February 1918, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 August 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 November 1922, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
April 15, 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA
13 November 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 January 1891, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1889, often given in error)
29 September 1893, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
April 24, 1899 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA
23 September 1904, Glencoe, Illinois, USA
