* 1956 – Gerry Cooney, American boxer

* August 4 – Gerry Cooney, American former boxer

* Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney, for the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship

* Gerry Cooney, former heavyweight boxer.

Holmes won his first forty-eight professional bouts, almost matching Rocky Marciano's streak of 49 straight wins, including victories over Ken Norton, Muhammad Ali, Gerry Cooney, and Marvis Frazier.

On June 11, 1982, Holmes defended his title against Gerry Cooney, the undefeated # 1 contender and an Irish-American.

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De León lost his title in a shocking upset to former Gerry Cooney victim S. T. Gordon by a knockout in round 2 at Cleveland in 1982, and won a comeback fight versus former world Heavyweight champion Leon Spinks by a knockout in round six in 1983.

The win over the title contending Cobb gave Norton another shot at a potential title fight, and on May 11, 1981 at Madison Square Garden he stepped into the ring with top contender Gerry Cooney, who like Cobb was undefeated entering the fight.

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Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney in 1982 was the last great ' White Hope ' bout.

But other matches of note ; Young was stopped ' on cuts ' to new heavyweight contender Gerry Cooney after 4 rounds in an about evens match.

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* June 11 – Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney for the WBC Heavyweight title.

Cooney, a white challenger, was dubbed " The White Hope " in what built up to be a very racially toned fight: see Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney.

During his career, he was managed by Mike Jones, who was also famous for managing Gerry Cooney and Wilford Scypion.

He was close with his younger brother Mario ' Vinnie ' Costello, a noted professional boxer super featherweight boxer from 1981-1990 with a pro record of 20-2-2 but who never fought for a title, who trained with his brother under the late Victor Vallee, who also trained Gerry Cooney.

* June 11-After one of the most racially charged fight promotions in history, Larry Holmes retains his WBC world Heavyweight title with a thirteen round knockout over the fighter dubbed as the White Hope, Gerry Cooney, in Las Vegas ( see: Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney ).

Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 1744, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the third of twelve children.

* Gerry Hutch (" The Monk ", born 1963 ), Irish ex-gangster

Gerry Adams (; born 6 October 1948 ) is an Irish republican politician and Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the constituency of Louth.

Essex County is famous as the area that Elbridge Gerry ( who was born and raised in Marblehead ) districted into a salamander-like shape in 1812 that gave rise to the word gerrymandering.

* Gerry Beckley ( born September 12, 1952, in Fort Worth, Texas )-lead and backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, harmonica ( 1970 – present )

* Gerry Marsden ( born 1942 ), British musician

Salvatore Gravano was born in 1945 to Giorlando ( Gerry ) and Caterina ( Kay ) Gravano.

James Gerard " Gerry " Collins ( born 16 October 1938 ) is an Irish retired Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a wide number of Cabinet poistions, most notably as Minister for Justice and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Gerry Mulligan was born in Queens Village, Queens, New York, the son of George and Louise Mulligan.

** Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer ( Offenbach ) ( born 1946 )

Young was born at Oxford in 1941, the first son of Sir George Peregrine " Gerry " Young, 5th Baronet, and Elizabeth Knatchbull-Hugessen.

Gerry Gable ( born January 1937 ) is a British political activist.

Gerald Neil Steinberg, known as Gerry Steinberg, ( born 20 April 1945 ) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Gerard " Gerry " Sutcliffe ( born 13 May 1953 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bradford South since 1994, and was the Minister for Sport and Tourism in the Brown Government.

Gerry Byrne, PC, MP ( born September 27, 1966 ) is a Canadian politician.

* Gerry Weiner ( born 1933 ), Canadian politician

Gerard Anthony " Gerry " Brownlee ( born 1956 ) is a New Zealand politician.

Grunberg was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Sandy ( née Klein ) and Gerry Grunberg ,< ref >

* Gerry Barba aka DJ Bazura is born and raised in Bibincahan Sorsogon-amateur philosopher and independent short video specialist. He was the official announcer in the first ever Sorsogon extreme games competition specifically in the skim board category.

Caroline was born in Dundalk, County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, 50 miles north of Dublin, to Jean and Gerry Corr.

Schofield was born in Gerry, New York.

Gerard " Gerry " Marsden ( born 24 September 1942 ) is an English musician and television personality, best known for being leader of the British band Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Gerry Phillips ( born September 11, 1940 ) was a politician in the riding of Scarborough — Agincourt which is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.