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Sports Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Age for January 7

Last Updated 01-01-2024

🏆🏁🏃Charles Lamont Jenkins -- is 90 in the year 2024 and 91 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1934
Runner, Olympic Athlete
Misc: 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)

🏆🏌Lou Graham -- is 86 in the year 2024 and 87 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1938
Golfer
Names/Places: not to be confused with rock singer Lou Gramm

🏆⚾Jim Lefebvre -- is 82 in the year 2024 and 83 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1942 N.S.
MLB Manager, MLB Coach, MLB Player
Sports Teams: Seattle Mariners

🏆🏈Steve Reese -- is 72 in the year 2024 and 73 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1952
NFL Linebacker

🏆🏒Morris Titanic -- is 71 in the year 2024 and 72 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1953
NHL Player, Canadian

🏆Rosalyn Evette Bryant -- is 68 in the year 2024 and 69 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1956
Olympic Athlete, Track and Field
Misc: 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1976)

🏆🏒Steve Janaszak -- is 67 in the year 2024 and 68 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1957
NHL Goaltender, Olympic Athlete, American
Misc: 1980 US Olympic Hockey team

🎭🏆Donna Rice -- is 66 in the year 2024 and 67 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1958
Mistress, Actress, Model

🏆⚾Jeff Montgomery -- is 62 in the year 2024 and 63 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1962
MLB Pitcher

💰🏆⚾Craig Shipley -- is 61 in the year 2024 and 62 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1963
Executive, MLB Player, Australian

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🏆⚾Allan Anderson -- is 60 in the year 2024 and 61 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1964
MLB Pitcher

🏆⚾Dave Meads -- is 60 in the year 2024 and 61 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1964
MLB Pitcher

🏆🏒Luciano Borsato -- is 58 in the year 2024 and 59 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1966
NHL Center, Canadian

🏆🏒Randy Burridge -- is 58 in the year 2024 and 59 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1966
NHL Player, Canadian

🏆🏈Scott Galbraith -- is 57 in the year 2024 and 58 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1967
NFL Tight End
Misc: 2x All-Pac-10

🏆🏒Guy Hebert -- is 57 in the year 2024 and 58 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1967
NHL Goaltender, American

🏆⚾Rob Maurer -- is 57 in the year 2024 and 58 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1967
MLB First Baseman

🏆🏈Erric Pegram -- is 55 in the year 2024 and 56 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1969
NFL Runningback

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🏆🏈Todd Kinchen -- is 55 in the year 2024 and 56 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1969
NFL Player

🏆⚾Chris Hatcher -- is 55 in the year 2024 and 56 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1969
MLB Outfielder

🏆🏀Todd Day -- is 54 in the year 2024 and 55 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1970
NBA Guard

🏆🏒Denny Lambert -- is 54 in the year 2024 and 55 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1970
NHL Player, Canadian

🏆🏈Todd Yeaman -- is 53 in the year 2024 and 54 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1971
NFL Player, Football Defensive Tackle

🏆🏈Chuck Levy -- is 52 in the year 2024 and 53 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1972
NFL Runningback

🏆🏒Donald Brashear -- is 52 in the year 2024 and 53 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1972
NHL Player, American

🏆🏈Bobby Engram -- is 51 in the year 2024 and 52 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1973
NFL Wide Receiver

🏆🏈Brian Milne -- is 51 in the year 2024 and 52 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1973
NFL Fullback

🎭🏆Jennifer LeRoy -- is 50 in the year 2024 and 51 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1974
Actress, Model, Playmate
Misc: February 1993

🏆⚾Alfonso Soriano -- is 48 in the year 2024 and 49 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1976 N.S.
MLB Player, Dominican Republican
Misc: All Star MVP 2004
Sports Teams: Texas Rangers

🏆⚾Francisco Rodríguez -- is 42 in the year 2024 and 43 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1982 N.S.
MLB Pitcher, Venezuelan

🏆⚾Edwin Encarnación -- is 41 in the year 2024 and 42 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1983 N.S.
MLB First Baseman, Dominican Republican
Misc: 3x All-Star

🏆⚾Jon Lester -- is 40 in the year 2024 and 41 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1984 N.S.
MLB Pitcher
Misc: NLCS MVP (2016)
Sports Teams: Chicago Cubs

🏆🏁Lewis Hamilton -- is 39 in the year 2024 and 40 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1985 N.S.
Auto Racer, English

🏆🏈Scott Pendlebury -- is 36 in the year 2024 and 37 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1988 N.S.
Australian Rules Football Player, Australian
Misc: midfield

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🏆🏈Michael Sam -- is 34 in the year 2024 and 35 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1990
NFL Player, Gay
Misc: The first openly gay NFL player

🏆⚾Tucker Barnhart -- is 33 in the year 2024 and 34 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1991 N.S.
MLB Catcher
Misc: 2x Gold Glove

🏆⚽Eden Hazard -- is 33 in the year 2024 and 34 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1991 N.S.
Soccer Player, Belgiumese

🏆Nadine Leopold -- is 30 in the year 2024 and 31 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1994 N.S.
Model, Austrian

🏆🏈Lamar Jackson -- is 27 in the year 2024 and 28 in the year 2025; b.1/7/1997 N.S.
College Football Player, Football Quarterback
Misc: Heisman Trophy (2016), Maxwell Award (2016), Walter Camp Award (2016), Sporting News Player of the Year (2016), ACC Player of the Year (2016), ACC Offensive Player of the Year (2016)
Sports Teams: University of Louisville

🏆🎾Maurice McLoughlin -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1890 d.12/10/1957 (67)
Hall of Famer, Tennis Player

🏆🏒"Hooley" Smith -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1903 d.8/24/1963 (60)
Hall of Famer, NHL Center, NHL Defensive, NHL Right Wing, Canadian
Misc: played 1924-1941
Sports Teams: Toronto Granites, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins, New York Americans

🏆⚾John Robert "Johnny" Mize -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1913 N.S. d.6/2/1993 N.S. (80)
Hall of Famer, MLB First Baseman
Names/Places: NN:The Big Cat and Big Jawn
Misc: 10x All-Star, 5x World Series champion, 4x NL home run leader
Sports Teams: St. Louis Cardinals (1936-1941), New York Giants (1942, 1946-1949), New York Yankees (1949-1953)

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🏆🏀Robert "Bobby" McDermott -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1914 d.10/3/1963 (49)
Hall of Famer, Basketball Coach, Basketball Player
Misc: 3x NBL champ, 2x NBA Coach of the Year; star scoring guard and player coach for the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons during The Wars Years of the 1940s.
Sports Teams: Brooklyn Visitations (player 1934-1936), Baltimore Clippers (player 1939-1941), Fort Wayne Pistons (player 1941-1946), Chicago American Gears (player 1946-1947), Sheboygan Red Skins (player 1947), Hammond Calumet Buccaneers (player 1949), Wilkes-Barre Barons (player 1949-1950), Grand Rapids Hornets (player 1950), Fort Wayne Pistons (coach 1943-1946), Chicago American Gears (coach 1946-1947), Sheboygan Red Skins (coach 1947-1948), Tri-Cities Blackhawks (coach 1947-1949), Grand Rapids Hornets (coach 1950)

🏆Paul Keres -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1916 d.6/5/1975 (59)
Chess Player, Estonian
Misc: chess grandmaster, three times chess champion of the U.S.S.R., three times European champion, and the winner of four world chess Olympiads.

🏆🏒Walter "Babe" Pratt -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1916 d.12/16/1988 (72)
Hall of Famer, NHL Defensive, Canadian
Misc: played 1935-1952
Sports Teams: New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins

🏆⚾Alvin Dark -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1922 d.11/13/2014 (92)
MLB Manager, MLB Shortstop
Names/Places: NN:Blackie and The Swamp Fox

🎨🏆🥊George Gordienko -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1928 N.S. d.5/13/2002 N.S. (74)
Hall of Famer, Artist, Wrestler, Canadian

🏆🏁Kenneth Henry -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1929 d.3/1/2009 (80)
Speed Skater, Olympic Athlete
Misc: Olympic-gold-1952

🏆🏈Eddie LeBaron -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1930 d.4/1/2015 (85)
NFL Player

🏆⚾John Richard "Ducky" Schofield -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1935 N.S. d.7/11/2022 N.S. (87)
MLB Shortstop
Names/Places: Not to be confused with Dick Schofield

🏆🏋Vasili Alexeyev -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1942 d.11/25/2011 (69)
Weightlifter, Russian
Misc: Olympic gold; Soviet super-heavyweight weightlifter (over 110-kilogram [242{sup 1} /{sub 2}-pound] class) who between 1970 and 1978 set 79 world records.

🎵🏆🥊Danny Williams -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1942 d.12/6/2005 (63)
Singer, Karate, South African
Misc: Karate instructor
Song Titles: White on White

🎨🎭🏆Christine Williams -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1945 N.S. d.11/21/2017 N.S. (72)
Artist, Actress, Model, Playmate, American, English
Misc: October 1963

🏆⚾Tony Conigliaro -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1945 d.2/24/1990 (45)
MLB Outfielder
Misc: one of baseball's great tragedies and the youngest major leaguer ever to win the home-run crown; Conigliaro had power and speed, but was nearly killed by a pitch from Jack Hamilton, resulting in vision damage that greatly reduced his skills. He still hit 36 homers in 1970.
Sports Teams: Boston Red Sox

🏆🥊Chavo Guerrero Sr. -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1949 N.S. d.2/11/2017 N.S. (68)
Wrestler
Misc: RN: Salvador Guerrero III, aka Chavo Guerrero and Chavo Classic

🏆🏈Kevin Williams -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/7/1958 d.2/1/1996 (38)
NFL Player, College Football Player, USFL Figure
Sports Teams: University of Southern California, Los Angeles Express (USFL)

🏆⚾George Mullin -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/4/1880 d.1/7/1944 (63)
MLB Pitcher
Misc: no-hitter on 7/4/1912
Sports Teams: Detroit Tigers

🏆🎾Dorothy Douglass Chambers -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/13/1878 d.1/7/1960 (81)
Hall of Famer, Tennis Player, English
Misc: was the leading female competitor in the period prior to World War I.

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🏆🏁🏊Robert J. H. Kiphuth -- Death Anniversary -- b.11/17/1890 N.S. d.1/7/1967 N.S. (76)
Hall of Famer, Swimmer
Names/Places: RN: Robert John Herman "Bob" Kiphuth; Swimming Coach

🏆🏒John Douglas "Jack" Ruttan -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/5/1889 N.S. d.1/7/1973 N.S. (83)
Hall of Famer, NHL Coach, NHL Defensive, Canadian
Misc: played 1905-1918
Sports Teams: Winnipeg Hockey Club, Winnipeg Somme

🏆⚾George (Baseball) Burns -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/31/1893 d.1/7/1978 (84)
MLB Player
Names/Places: NN:Tioga George
Misc: AL League Award Winner 1926
Sports Teams: Cleveland Indians

🏆🎾Simonne Mathieu -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/31/1908 d.1/7/1980 (71)
Hall of Famer, Tennis Player, French
Names/Places: FN:Rene; aka Simone Mathieu
Misc: doubles tennis star (Wimbeldon 1934)

⚖💰🏆Joseph "Joe" Robbie -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/7/1916 d.1/7/1990 (73)
Attorney/Lawyer (m), Executive, Sports Figure
Sports Teams: Miami Dolphins (founder, owner, & executive)

🏆🏈🥊Bronko Nagurski -- Death Anniversary -- b.11/3/1908 d.1/7/1990 N.S. (81)
Hall of Famer, NFL Tackle, NFL Fullback, Wrestler, Canadian
Names/Places: RFN:Bronislau
Misc: gained over 4000 yards rushing; Retired numbers #72 and #3; in the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame
Sports Teams: University of Minnesota, Chicago Bears (1930-1937, 1943)

🏆⚾Horace Stoneham -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/27/1903 d.1/7/1990 (86)
MLB Owner
Sports Teams: New York/San Francisco Giants (owner)

🏆🏁Bobby (Racer) Hamilton -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/29/1957 N.S. d.1/7/2007 N.S. (49)
Auto Racer
Names/Places: RN: Charles Robert Hamilton Sr.
Misc: Stock Car Racer

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🏆🏁Edgar White -- Death Anniversary -- b.11/17/1929 d.1/7/2014 N.S. (84)
Yachts Person, Olympic Athlete
Misc: Olympic gold 1952

🏆🏈Jethro Pugh -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/3/1944 d.1/7/2015 (70)
NFL Tackle
Misc: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII
Sports Teams: Dallas Cowboys

🏆🏀John Johnson -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/18/1947 d.1/7/2016 N.S. (68)
NBA Player
Names/Places: RN:John Howard Getty Johnson
Sports Teams: Seattle Supersonics

🏆⚾Tommy Lasorda -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/22/1927 N.S. d.1/7/2021 N.S. (93)
Hall of Famer, MLB Manager, MLB Player
Misc: has managed LA Dodgers to 2 World Series titles (1981,88) in 4 appearances; entered 1994 season with 1,422 regular-season wins in 18 years; Dodgers #2 retired
Sports Teams: Brooklyn Dodgers (1954-1955), Kansas City Athletics (1956), Los Angeles Dodgers (manager, 1976-1996)

🎭🏆Mark Forest -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/6/1933 N.S. d.1/7/2022 N.S. (89)
Actor, Body Builder
Movie Titles: Goliath and the Dragon, Hercules (series)

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