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Elgin Baylor

American basketball player, coach, executive

1934 - 2021

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His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2024). Elgin Baylor is the 47th most popular basketball player (down from 25th in 2024), the 3,916th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,707th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Basketball Player.

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Elgin Baylor's biography appears in 40 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 96% of all Basketball Players.

Sep 16

Elgin Baylor shares a September 16 birthday with Karl Dönitz, Lee Kuan Yew, and B.B. King.

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Among Basketball Players

Among basketball players, Elgin Baylor ranks 47 out of 1,757. Before him are James Harden, Derrick Rose, Jim "Bad News" Barnes, Bogdan Tanjević, Jimmy Butler, and Karl Malone. After him are Ben Wallace, Bob Pettit, George Mikan, Dragan Kićanović, Alexander Gomelsky, and Vladimir Tkachenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Elgin Baylor ranks 184. Before him are George Segal, Eddie Fenech Adami, Robert D. Hare, Vernon Dobtcheff, George Hilton, and Peter Berling. After him are Maureen Connolly, Eva Mozes Kor, Steve Lacy, Fou Ts'ong, Giancarlo Baghetti, and Lev Polugaevsky. Among people deceased in 2021, Elgin Baylor ranks 203. Before him are Dani Karavan, Horst Eckel, Kjell Askildsen, Yevhen Marchuk, Benigno Aquino III, and Gustavo Noboa. After him are Pilar Bardem, Dilip Kumar, Andrey Myagkov, Vasily Lanovoy, Françoise Arnoul, and Ronald Inglehart.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elgin Baylor ranks 3,916 out of 20,380. Before him are Jean Smart (1951), Augustine Washington (1694), James Michael Harvey (1949), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929), Jeff Buckley (1966), and Christopher Connelly (1941). After him are Clyde Cessna (1879), James B. Donovan (1916), Walter Cronkite (1916), Nadia Cassini (1949), Maureen Connolly (1934), and Richard Carlson (1912).

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Among Basketball Players In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Elgin Baylor ranks 32. Before him are Doug Collins (1951), James Harden (1989), Derrick Rose (1988), Jim "Bad News" Barnes (1941), Jimmy Butler (1989), and Karl Malone (1963). After him are Ben Wallace (1974), Bob Pettit (1932), George Mikan (1924), Anthony Davis (1993), Bob Cousy (1928), and John Havlicek (1940).

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