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Bragg, Don, 1935-2019

LC control no.n 2008005874
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Personal name headingBragg, Don, 1935-2019
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Variant(s)Bragg, Donald George, 1935-2019
Birth date1935-05-15
Death date2019-02-16
Place of birthPenns Grove (N.J.)
Place of deathOakley (Calif.)
Field of activityVaulting Kamp Olympik (N.J.)
AffiliationOlympic Games (17th : 1960 : Rome, Italy)
Profession or occupationTrack and field athletes Olympic athletes
Found inBragg, Don. Kamp Olympik, c2008: ECIP t.p. (Don Bragg)
Email from AHLP Books, Jan. 25, 2008: (Donald George Bragg; b. May 15, 1935)
New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 19, 2019 (in obituary published Feb. 18: Don Bragg; b. Donald George Bragg, May 15, 1935, Penns Grove, N.J.; d. Saturday [Feb. 16, 2019], Oakley, Calif., aged 83; was denied his dream of playing Tarzan in the movies but parlayed his imposing physique into a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1960 Rome Olympics; he and his wife operated a summer camp for boys in Chatsworth, N.J., in the 1960s and '70s that concentrated on remedial reading and mathematics)
Associated languageeng