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Jean Despeaux

1915 - 1989

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Jean Despeaux (22 October 1915 – 25 May 1989) was a French boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal in the middleweight class after winning the final against Henry Tiller. He also acted in a handful of films, including Maurice Tourneur's La Main du diable (1943), in which he played a boxer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Despeaux is the 104th most popular boxer (up from 127th in 2019), the 4,387th most popular biography from France (up from 4,794th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Jean Despeaux ranks 104 out of 496. Before him are Oscar De La Hoya, Ulderico Sergo, Jerzy Kulej, Aureliano Bolognesi, Tyson Fury, and Michael Spinks. After him are Charles Mayer, Jess Willard, Sandro Lopopolo, Willy Kaiser, István Énekes, and Santiago Lovell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Jean Despeaux ranks 195. Before him are Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Gozo Shioda, Franz Bartl, Ann Sheridan, Georges Guétary, and Vic Buckingham. After him are Ion Bogdan, Derek Prince, Boris Andreyev, Eugene Polley, Fuad Abdurahmanov, and Stu Hart. Among people deceased in 1989, Jean Despeaux ranks 211. Before him are Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Ján Cikker, László Papp, Ernst Andersson, Don Revie, and Willibald Kreß. After him are Willi Horn, Ernesto Formenti, Roy Eldridge, Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, Federico Saiz, and Manlio Di Rosa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Despeaux ranks 4,387 out of 6,770. Before him are François Chabot (1756), Charles Collignon (1877), Georges Beuchat (1910), Philippe Djian (1949), Jean Tardieu (1903), and Ariane Ascaride (1954). After him are Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), Albert Rust (1953), Virginie Ledoyen (1976), Georges Buchard (1893), Guy Drut (1950), and René Dubos (1901).

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Among BOXERS In France

Among boxers born in France, Jean Despeaux ranks 4. Before him are Roger Michelot (1912), Georges Carpentier (1894), and Paul Fritsch (1901). After him are Charles Mayer (1882), Alexis Vastine (1986), Tony Yoka (1992), Jérôme Thomas (1979), Brahim Asloum (1979), Sofiane Oumiha (1994), Daouda Sow (1983), and Billal Bennama (1998).

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