American football player and coach (died 2023)

Bud Grant

Harry Peter "Bud" Grant Jr. was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). Grant was head coach of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings for 18 seasons; he was the team's second (1967–1983) and fourth (1985) head coach, leading them to four Super Bowl appearances, 11 division titles, one league championship and three National Football Conference championships. Before coaching the Vikings, he was the head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for 10 seasons, winning the Grey Cup four times.

Born

1927

May 20

Died

Living

Era

1920s

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Bud, in brief

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1927 Born

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325 The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
491 Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
685 The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
794 While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded.

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The world in 1927

When Bud arrived

april 12 Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.[citation needed]
april 12 Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople, and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
april 19 Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
april 23 Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Albano Carrisi 1943– Italian singer, actor, and winemaker Angela Goethals 1977– American actress Balu Mahendra 1939–2014 Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1939) Bonne of Luxembourg 1315–1349 first wife of John II of France (died 1349) Enes Kanter 1992– Turkish basketball player Hal Newhouser 1921– American baseball player and scout (died 1998) John Stuart Mill 1806– English economist, civil servant, and philosopher (died 1873) José Mujica 1935–2025 Uruguayan politician, 40th President of Uruguay (born 1935) Kōichirō Genba 1964– Japanese politician, 80th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1927

Althea Gibson 1927–2003 American tennis player and golfer (died 2003) Antônio Carlos Jobim 1927–1994 Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1927) Barbara Rush 1927–2024 American actress (died 2024) Carmen Basilio 1927–2012 American boxer and soldier (died 2012) Clive Churchill 1927–1985 Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1927) Eugene Parker 1927– American astrophysicist and academic (died 2022) Ferenc Puskás 1927–2006 Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2006) Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014 Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927) Gene Savoy 1927–2007 American explorer, author, and scholar (died 2007)

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