American baseball player and coach (born 1940)

Willie Stargell

Wilver Dornell Stargell, nicknamed "Pops" later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1962–1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Among the most feared power hitters in baseball history, Stargell had the most home runs (296) of any player in the 1970s. 282 with 2,232 hits, 1,194 runs, 423 doubles, 475 home runs, and 1,540 runs batted in, helping his team win six National League (NL) East division titles, two NL pennants, and two World Series championships in 1971 and 1979, both over the Baltimore Orioles. Stargell was a seven-time All-Star and two-time NL home run leader.

Born

1940

March 6

Died

2001

Era

1940s

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Willie, in brief

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1940 Born
2001 Died

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-12 The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
845 The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.
1204 The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1323 Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.

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The world in 1940

When Willie arrived

april 14 World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later.
april 23 The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
april 7 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
april 8 The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Antoine-Henri Jomini 1779–1869 French-Russian general (born 1779) Donald Davidson 1917–2003 American philosopher and academic (born 1917) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861 English poet and translator (born 1806) Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014 Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927) Gordon Cooper 1927–2004 American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (died 2004)[citation needed] Lefty Grove 1900–1975 American baseball player (died 1975) Mário Bližňák 1987– Slovak ice hockey player Michelangelo 1475–1564 Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475) Obafemi Awolowo 1909–1987 Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 1987)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1940

Abbas Kiarostami 1940–2016 Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer (born 1940) Abdurrahman Wahid 1940–2009 Indonesian journalist and politician, fourth President of Indonesia (born 1940) Bruce Chatwin 1940–1989 English-French author (born 1940) Bruce Lee 1940–1973 American actor and martial artist (born 1940) David Jason 1940– English actor, director, and producer Edmund White 1940–2025 American novelist, memoirist, and essayist (died 2025) Fabrizio De André 1940–1999 Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1999) Fran Tarkenton 1940– American football player and sportscaster Frank Zappa 1940–1993 American singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and producer (died 1993)

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