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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Verne Gagne
Wrestler -- via the Washington Post. An iconic "face" (good-guy archetype) in the ring from 1950 through the '80s, he was the mainstay and owner of the American Wrestling Association from 1960 through 1991.