Marion Tinsley

American checkers player (1927–1995).

Born February 3rd, 1927 in Ironton.

Died April 3rd, 1995 at 68 years old in Houston (pancreatic cancer).

Occupations
mathematician
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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