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Jesse Owens
Dead
Born: 9/12/1913Died: 3/31/1980
Age: 66
Full name: James Cleveland Jesse Owens
Noted For: track athlete; won 4 Olympic gold medals in one day (1936) -- 100 m, 200 m, 4x100 m, running broad jump. Disproved Adolf Hitler's proclamation of Aryan supremacy. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1976).
