October 24th, 1972

Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (born in 1919) dies on October 24, 1972.

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October 26th, 1972

Death

Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (born in 1889)