American swimmer.
Born July 19th, 1935 in Buffalo. [ref]
Died November 9th, 2019 at 84 years old in New Jersey (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel