Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1935
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Great athletes
- Great athletes
- The best that I can be
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-05-08
- Active to
- 1938-08-16
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,700x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,936x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
- Optical Constants of the Noble Metals
· 1972 · cited 18,060x
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,486x
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Key facts
- Full name
- Rafer Lewis Johnson
- Born
- ( 1934-08-18 ) August 18, 1934, Hillsboro, Texas , U.S.
- Died
- December 2, 2020 (2020-12-02) (aged 86), Sherman Oaks , California , U.S.
- Height
- 6 ft 3 in (1.90 m)
- Weight
- 201 lb (91 kg)
- Spouse
- Elizabeth Thorsen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 )
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Decathlon
- Club
- Southern California Striders, Anaheim
- Personal best s
- 100 m – 10.3 (1957), 220 yd – 21.0 (1956), 400 m – 47.9 (1956), 110 mH – 13.8 (1956), HJ – 1.89 m (1955), PV – 4.09 m (1960), LJ – 7.76 m (1956), SP – 16.75 m (1958), DT – 52.50 m (1960), JT – 76.73 m (1960), Decathlon – 8392 (1960)
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 91
- Image
- Rafer Johnson 1960.jpg
- Height
- 190
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1935-08-18
- Commons category
- Rafer Johnson
- date of death
- 2020-12-02
- name in native language
- Rafer Johnson
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Rafer Lewis Johnson (August 18, 1934 – December 2, 2020) was an American decathlete and film and television actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold at the 1955 Pan American Games. Johnson was the U.S. team's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics and lit the Olympic cauldron at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
In 1968, Johnson, football player Rosey Grier, and journalist George Plimpton tackled Sirhan Sirhan moments after he had fatally shot Robert F. Kennedy.