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Eddie Eagan

1897 - 1967

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Edward Patrick Francis Eagan (April 26, 1897 – June 14, 1967) was an American athlete who won a gold medal as a light-heavyweight boxer at the 1920 Summer Olympics and a gold medal in four-man bobsled at the 1932 Winter Olympics. Few athletes have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games; Eagan is the only one to have won gold in each in different events. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eddie Eagan is the 97th most popular athlete (up from 102nd in 2019), the 3,034th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,813th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Eddie Eagan ranks 97 out of 6,025. Before him are Sid Atkinson, Volodymyr Holubnychy, Jānis Lūsis, Jüri Lossmann, Charles Greene, and Fernando. After him are Ken Matthews, Valeriy Brumel, Friedrich Traun, Inese Jaunzeme, David Jacobs, and Roman Steinberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Eddie Eagan ranks 117. Before him are Polina Zhemchuzhina, Vaso Čubrilović, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Virginia Henderson, Alexandre Tansman, and Fazlollah Zahedi. After him are George Szell, Marian Anderson, Michael Lippert, Edmund Heines, Dirk Stikker, and Peter Högl. Among people deceased in 1967, Eddie Eagan ranks 92. Before him are H. H. Kung, Langston Hughes, Joseph Boxhall, Ernst Niekisch, Harold Holt, and Carl Sandburg. After him are Miklós Kállay, Alphonse Juin, Ernst Wollweber, Pierre Jeanneret, Juliusz Rómmel, and Wolf Albach-Retty.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eddie Eagan ranks 3,034 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles H. Bennett (1943), Fess Parker (1924), Xander Berkeley (1955), Goldust (1969), Cyd Charisse (1922), and John Connally (1917). After him are Jennifer Jason Leigh (1962), Kate Jackson (1948), Charles Curtis (1860), Maria Bello (1967), Ned Beatty (1937), and George Ellery Hale (1868).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Eddie Eagan ranks 30. Before him are Frederick Schule (1879), Glenn Davis (1934), Charles Moore (1929), Wilma Rudolph (1940), Jack Shea (1910), and Charles Greene (1945). After him are Harry Babcock (1890), John Taylor (1883), Tommie Smith (1944), Ken Carpenter (1913), Joe Rantz (1914), and Frank Zane (1942).

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