American baseball player and coach (died 2026)

Bill Mazeroski

William Stanley Mazeroski, nicknamed "Maz" and "the Glove", was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1956 to 1972. A ten-time All-Star known during his career primarily for his spectacular defensive play, he came to be known best for one of the most memorable home runs in baseball history, a dramatic ninth-inning drive in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series that beat the favored New York Yankees. It was the first time that the major league season ended with a home run, and remains the only walk-off home run to clinch a World Series championship in Game 7. ESPN ranked the World Series winner at the top of its list of the 100 Greatest Home Runs of All Time, while Sports Illustrated had it eighth in its compilation of the 100 Greatest Moments in Sports History.

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1936

September 5

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1930s

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april 15 First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
april 19 The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
april 27 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
april 3 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

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Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840 German painter and educator (born 1774) Dave Dryden 1941– Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022) Fan Zhongyan 989– Chinese chancellor (died 1052) Gareth Evans 1944– Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791–1864 German composer and educator (born 1791) Henry Maitland Wilson 1881–1964 English field marshal (born 1881) Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player Morris Carnovsky 1897– American actor (died 1992) Otto Bauer 1881–1938 Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1881)

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Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Anthony Payne 1936–2021 English composer (born 1936) Antonin Scalia 1936–2016 American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936) B. J. Habibie 1936–2019 Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019) Bobby Ross 1936– American football player and coach Brian Blessed 1936– English actor Canaan Banana 1936–2003 Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003) Carl Icahn 1936– American businessman and investor

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