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Athletes Who Died in 1900

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  • Jan 8 Billy Bates, English cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 5 x 50, 50 wickets, BB 7/28, hat-trick 1883; Yorkshire CCC), dies from pneumonia at 44
  • Mar 11 Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
  • Mar 31 Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99), dies
  • Aug 12 Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian World Chess Champion (1866-94), dies at 64
  • Nov 17 J. J. Ferris, Australian cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 61 wickets, BB 7/37; NSWCA, Gloucestershire CCC), dies at 33
  • Nov 21 J. J. Ferris, Australian cricketer (48 wickets for Aust in 8 Tests in 1880's), dies at 33


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