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Irving Baxter

1876 - 1957

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Irving Knott Baxter (March 25, 1876 in Utica, New York – June 13, 1957 in Utica, New York) was an American athlete, who won the gold medal in both the men's high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irving Baxter is the 178th most popular athlete (down from 82nd in 2019), the 3,860th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,565th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Irving Baxter ranks 178 out of 6,025Before him are Johan Grøttumsbråten, Giuseppe Moioli, Saïd Aouita, Ecaterina Oancia, Gaston Reiff, and Naoto Tajima. After him are Carlo Airoldi, Karin Balzer, Duje Bonačić, Annelie Ehrhardt, Dorando Pietri, and William Petersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Irving Baxter ranks 96Before him are Lev Berg, Sibilla Aleramo, Georg Hilmar, Thomas Hicks, Francesc Cambó, and Erhard Schmidt. After him are Ioannis Georgiadis, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Walter Tewksbury, William Sealy Gosset, Alexandre Tuffère, and Yusuf Akçura. Among people deceased in 1957, Irving Baxter ranks 103Before him are Valery Larbaud, Umberto Saba, Musidora, Luigi Ganna, Hasui Kawase, and Rudolf Weigl. After him are Walter Jakobsson, Katie Johnson, Sholem Asch, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Halil Kut, and Charles Kay Ogden.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irving Baxter ranks 3,860 out of 20,380Before him are Orson Scott Card (1951), Raymond Franz (1922), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), Frank Knight (1885), Melissa Etheridge (1961), and George Wendt (1948). After him are Roy Jones Jr. (1969), Ray Wise (1947), Jimmy Butler (1989), Terry Goodkind (1948), Mike Connors (1925), and Gutzon Borglum (1867).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Irving Baxter ranks 53Before him are Harrison Dillard (1923), Hélène de Pourtalès (1868), Maxie Long (1878), John Anderson (1907), Barbara Jones (1937), and Jim Bausch (1906). After him are Walter Tewksbury (1876), Jim Hines (1946), Earle Meadows (1913), John Powell (1947), Morgan Taylor (1903), and Edwin Moses (1955).