SOCCER PLAYER

Mark Jones

1933 - 1958

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Mark Jones (15 June 1933 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer and one of eight Manchester United players to lose their lives in the Munich air disaster. Jones was born in Wombwell, near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1933, the third of seven children born to miner Amos Jones (1894–1968) and his wife Lucy (1896–1957). He was the club's first-choice centre-half for much of the 1950s and collected two League Championship winner's medals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Jones is the 1,709th most popular soccer player (up from 5,252nd in 2019), the 2,877th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,107th in 2019) and the 113th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mark Jones ranks 1,709 out of 21,273. Before him are Sandro Puppo, Ruy Ramos, József Nagy, Bernhard Klodt, Pat Jennings, and Juan Botasso. After him are Ahn Jung-hwan, Tetsuya Nishiwaki, Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Renato Cesarini, Yozhef Sabo, and Mladen Mladenović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Mark Jones ranks 252. Before him are Tsuneko Okazaki, Jiří Tichý, Ray Dolby, Ruth Arnon, Vassilis Vassilikos, and Haruo Remeliik. After him are Milena Hübschmannová, Nicolae Rainea, Ela Bhatt, Gene Kranz, Elly Ameling, and Evaristo de Macedo. Among people deceased in 1958, Mark Jones ranks 99. Before him are Paul Reinecke, Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Aarre Merikanto, Henry Kuttner, Cândido Rondon, and Gilbert Walker. After him are Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Evgeny Schwartz, Max Jakob Friedländer, Vittorio Ambrosio, Mike Todd, and Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mark Jones ranks 2,878 out of 8,785. Before him are John Alcock (1892), Nevil Shute (1899), Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621), Mick Ronson (1946), Pat Jennings (1945), and Alma Reville (1899). After him are Ernest Mason Satow (1843), John Neville (1925), Sydney Chapman (1888), Arthur Brown (1942), Tony Brise (1952), and Edward Coke (1552).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Mark Jones ranks 113. Before him are Graeme Souness (1953), John Terry (1980), Peter Thompson (1942), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), Dennis Viollet (1933), and Pat Jennings (1945). After him are Tom Finney (1922), Gary Stevens (1963), Fergus Suter (1857), Neil Young (1944), David Johnson (1951), and Martin Peters (1943).

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