American football player and actor (died 2023)

Jim Brown

James Nathaniel Brown was an American professional football player, civil rights activist, and actor. He played as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 to 1965. Widely considered one of the greatest running backs of all time, as well as one of the greatest players in NFL history, Brown was selected to a Pro Bowl and All-Pro team every season he was in the league, and was recognized as the AP NFL Most Valuable Player three times. Brown won an NFL championship with the Browns in 1964.

Born

1936

February 17

Died

2023

Era

1930s

Country

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About

Jim, in brief

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Key dates

1936 Born
2023 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

1370 Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1411 Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
1500 Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein and King John of Denmark attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1600 On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.

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The world in 1936

When Jim 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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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 17

Billie Joe Armstrong 1972– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer Brenda Fricker 1945– Irish actress Buddy Ryan 1931–2016 American football coach (died 2016) Dominic Purcell 1970– English-Australian actor and producer Don Tallon 1916–1984 Australian cricketer (died 1984) Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1836–1870 Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1836) Jerry O'Connell 1974– American actor, director, and producer Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega 1903–1984 known as "Cagancho", Spanish bullfighter (died 1984) John Cooke 1762–1805 English captain (died 1805)

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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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