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Dick Button

1929 - 2025

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Richard Totten Button (July 18, 1929 – January 30, 2025) was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time consecutive world champion (1948–1952). He was also the only non-European man to have become European champion. Button is credited as having been the first skater to successfully land the double Axel jump in competition in 1948, as well as the first triple jump of any kind – a triple loop – in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dick Button is the 18th most popular skater (up from 147th in 2019), the 4,557th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,034th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Dick Button ranks 18 out of 483. Before him are Sjoukje Dijkstra, Walter Jakobsson, Åke Seyffarth, Madge Syers, Fred Anton Maier, and Tonya Harding. After him are Donald Jackson, Oleg Protopopov, Karol Divín, Ludowika Jakobsson, Roald Aas, and Lidiya Skoblikova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Dick Button ranks 239. Before him are Nina Ponomaryova, Nigel Hawthorne, Jack Higgins, Kishore Kumar, Anna Walentynowicz, and Liz Sheridan. After him are George Crumb, Milton Glaser, Péter Szondi, Alla Horska, István Kertész, and Lolita Torres. Among people deceased in 2025, Dick Button ranks 148. Before him are Jayant Narlikar, Sly Stone, Bernhard Vogel, Kiril Ivkov, Gazi Yaşargil, and Loretta Swit. After him are Taina Elg, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Pamela Bach, Claude Allègre, Xu Qiliang, and Garth Hudson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dick Button ranks 4,557 out of 20,380. Before him are Crawford Long (1815), Tommy Aldridge (1950), Bruno Kirby (1949), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), and Harry Hillman (1881). After him are Kelly Johnson (1910), George Crumb (1929), Clarence Clemons (1942), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Edward Gorey (1925), and Josephine Hull (1877).

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Among SKATERS In United States

Among skaters born in United States, Dick Button ranks 2. Before him are Tonya Harding (1970). After him are Charles Jewtraw (1900), Eric Heiden (1958), Tony Hawk (1968), Ken Henry (1929), Irving Jaffee (1906), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), Carol Heiss (1940), Jeanne Ashworth (1938), David Jenkins (1936), and Terry McDermott (1940).

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