American basketball player and sportscaster

Oscar Robertson

Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a 12-time All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and winner of the 1964 MVP, Robertson is considered to be one of the greatest point guards of all time. In 1962, he became the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season. In the 1970–71 NBA season, he was a key player on the team that brought the Bucks their first NBA title.

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1938

November 24

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Oscar, in brief

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1938 Born

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380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
847 An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.
1190 Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
1221 Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.

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The world in 1938

When Oscar arrived

april 18 Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938).
april 25 U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
april 5 Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.
august 18 The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on November 24

Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677 Dutch philosopher and scholar (born 1632) Cass Gilbert 1859–1934 American architect (born 1859) Clem Burke 1954–2025 American drummer (born 1954) Garret Dillahunt 1964– American actor Lucky Luciano 1897–1962 Italian-American mob boss (born 1897) Scott Joplin 1868–1917 American pianist and composer (born 1868) Stephen Merchant 1974– English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Ted Bundy 1946–1989 American serial killer (born 1946) Ye Gongchuo 1881–1968 Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (born 1881)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1938

Alan Bond 1938–2015 English-Australian businessman (died 2015) Alberto Fujimori 1938–2024 Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, President of Peru (died 2024) Andrew Clennel Palmer 1938–2019 British engineer (born 1938) Anthony Giddens 1938– English sociologist and academic Anthony James Leggett 1938– English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026) Billy Shaw 1938–2024 American football player (died 2024) Caryl Churchill 1938– English-Canadian playwright Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) Daniel Buren 1938– French sculptor and painter

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