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Khan, Hashim, 1914?-2014

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Personal name headingKhan, Hashim, 1914?-2014
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Variant(s)Hashim Khan, 1914?-2014
Associated placeDetroit (Mich.)
Birth date1914-07-01?
Death date2014-08-18
Place of birthPeshawar (Pakistan)
Place of deathDenver (Colo.)
Field of activitySquash (Game)
Profession or occupationSquash players
Found inAuthor's Squash racquets, 1967.
LC database, Aug. 22, 2014 (hdg.: Khan, Hashim, 1916- )
New York times (online), viewed Aug. 22, 2014 (in obituary published Aug. 21: Hashim Khan; b. in Peshawar; his date of birth is not certain, but his family celebrated his 100th birthday on July 1 this year; moved to the U.S. in 1961, where he spent the second half of his life teaching at squash clubs, first in Detroit and later in Denver; d. Monday [Aug. 18, 2014], Denver; learned to play squash when he was a boy, retrieving stray balls for British military officers in Pakistan, and went on to become a champion and the patriarch of a family dynasty in the sport)
Washington post (online), viewed Aug. 22, 2014 (in obituary published Aug. 19: Hashim Khan; believed to have been born in 1914, or as early as 1910, in Nawakille, near Peshawar; the family never had a birth certificate, but his birthday was later celebrated every July 1; d. Aug. 18, at his home in Aurora, Colo.; widely believed to be 100, possibly 104)
Denver post (online), viewed Aug. 22, 2014 (in obituary published Aug. 20: Hashim Khan; b. July 1, 1916, Peshawar; d. Aug. 18, 2014)
Associated languageeng