American football player

Chuck Howley

Charles Louis Howley is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. He spent his first two seasons with the Chicago Bears, who selected him seventh overall in the 1958 NFL draft, and played the remainder of his career for the Cowboys. Recognized as an original member of the Doomsday Defense, Howley received six Pro Bowl and five first-team All-Pro selections, while appearing in two consecutive Super Bowls and winning Super Bowl VI. Howley was also named the MVP of Super Bowl V and is the only player on a losing team to receive the award.

Born

1936

June 28

Died

Living

Era

1930s

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Chuck, in brief

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Key dates

1936 Born

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1461 Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
1495 A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

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The world in 1936

When Chuck arrived

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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Elon Musk 1971– South African-born American entrepreneur Alexis Carrel 1873–1944 French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944) Charles Cruft 1852–1938 English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (died 1938) Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949) Fabien Barthez 1971– French footballer Jaime Guzmán 1946–1991 Chilean lawyer and politician (born 1946) Jon Nödtveidt 1975–2006 Swedish musician (born 1975) Kurt Eichenwald 1961– American journalist Laura Tyson 1947– American economist and academic

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1936

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) Bill Mazeroski 1936– American baseball player and coach (died 2026) 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)

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