Donald "Don" King is an American boxing promoter whose career highlights include promoting "The Rumble in the Jungle" and the "Thrilla in Manila". King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio C�sar Ch�vez, Ricardo Mayorga, Andrew Golota, F�lix Trinidad, Roy Jones, Jr.,Marco Antonio Barrera and Bash Ali. Almost all of them sued him for defrauding them; King settled most lawsuits for six- to eight-digit pay-offs while managing to avoid a conviction of felony fraud or time in jail. [More at Wikipedia]

August 20th, 1931 in Cleveland (Age 93)