SOCCER PLAYER

Roger Byrne

1929 - 1958

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Roger William Byrne (8 September 1929 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a full-back and captain of Manchester United. He died at the age of 28 in the Munich air disaster. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the disaster on 6 February 1958. He made 33 appearances for the England national team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Byrne is the 1,175th most popular soccer player (down from 640th in 2019), the 2,316th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,491st in 2019) and the 78th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roger Byrne ranks 1,175 out of 21,273Before him are Waldo Machado, Roger Hunt, Asim Ferhatović, Dušan Tadić, Bobby Collins, and Domènec Balmanya. After him are Michele Andreolo, Ante Žanetić, Josip Katalinski, Peter Crouch, Ralf Edström, and Pietro Vierchowod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Roger Byrne ranks 207Before him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Josef Suk, Gerhard Hanappi, and Peter Yates. After him are Shakuntala Devi, René Laloux, Julinho, Adrienne Rich, Edison Denisov, and Andrew Bertie. Among people deceased in 1958, Roger Byrne ranks 79Before him are Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Yutaka Taniyama, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Goro Yamada, Isidora Sekulić, and Maurice Germot. After him are Salama Moussa, László Hudec, Robert Donat, Alexandre Tuffère, Marie Stopes, and Varvara Stepanova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Byrne ranks 2,316 out of 8,785Before him are W. V. D. Hodge (1903), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Bobby Collins (1931), H. J. R. Murray (1868), Edward Low (1690), and Jim Carter (1948). After him are Thomas Otway (1652), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Peter Crouch (1981), Robert Maynard (1684), Taliesin (518), and Geoffrey Hughes (1944).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Roger Byrne ranks 78Before him are Jimmy Jones (1928), Dixie Dean (1907), Bert Williams (1920), Bob Wilson (1941), Roger Hunt (1938), and Bobby Collins (1931). After him are Peter Crouch (1981), Gordon Milne (1937), Glen Johnson (1984), Bill Foulkes (1932), Jamie Vardy (1987), and Ernest Payne (1884).