OverviewAI-generated
Rafer Johnson was an American male author and musician. Born in 1935, he passed away on December 2, 2020. His physical measurements were recorded as a height of 190 and a mass of 91.
As a writer, Johnson is associated with three works, including *Great athletes* and *The best that I can be*. In the music field, he performed in genres such as 27 club, acoustic blues, american, blues, and country blues.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1935
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Great athletes
- Great athletes
- The best that I can be
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-05-08
- Active to
- 1938-08-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,916x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,297x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- Optical Constants of the Noble Metals
· 1972 · cited 18,252x
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,885x
via Crossref · CC0
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)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lewis
- Family name
- Johnson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hillsboro
- Place of death
- Sherman Oaks
- Child
- Jenny Johnson Jordan
- Sibling
- Jimmy Johnson
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- UCLA Bruins men's basketball
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 91
- Image
- Rafer Johnson 1960.jpg
- Height
- 190
Show 11 more facts
- cause of death
- stroke
- date of birth
- 1935-08-18
- Commons category
- Rafer Johnson
- sports discipline competed in
- decathlon
- member of
- Peace Corps
- date of death
- 2020-12-02
- name in native language
- Rafer Johnson
- manner of death
- natural causes
- record held
- decathlon world record progression
- writing language
- English language
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rafer Johnson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.