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Adolph Kiefer after winning the 100-meter backstroke at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin with a world-record time. He was 18.
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Adolph Kiefer
Died on May 5, 2017 at age 98
A celebrated swimming champion, Kiefer won gold as a teenager at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and might well have become one of America’s greatest Olympic champions if World War II had not intervened.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.