Roland W. Hayes, born June 3, 1887 in Curryville, Georgia, became the first African American male to become an internationally acclaimed concert vocalist.
He established himself as the consensus 140-pound champion before becoming a two-division champion with a 147-pound world title in 2016. Trained by his father.
Mikhail Tal, known as Mischa, (Riga, 9 November 1936 – Moscow, 28 June 1992) was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born prematurely on June 23, 1940, in St. Bethlehem, Tennessee. She was the 20th of 22 children her father had between two marriages.