* 1902 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer ( d. 1999 )

* May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer ( b. 1902 )

** Gene Sarazen, American golfer ( d. 1999 )

Until 1999, he was joined by Gene Sarazen, and until 2001, by Byron Nelson.

During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, New Port Richey became the winter home of silent screen star Thomas Meighan and golfer Gene Sarazen ; Meighan attempted to bring other Hollywood figures to the city.

Gene Sarazen, one of the top golfers in the 1920s, also built a home in New Port Richey.

Such golfers have included Fred McLeod, Jock Hutchinson, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.

Gene Sarazen, who stood at the 18th Green of St George's later said of Norman's achievement: " I never thought I would live to see golf played like this.

* US Open – Gene Sarazen

* USPGA Championship – Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen, who has won the career grand slam once

Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern Majors at any time during their career, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.

Gene Sarazen (; February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999 ) was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s.

He also established an endowed scholarship fund at the college, The Gene and Mary Sarazen Scholarship, which is awarded annually to students reflecting the high personal, athletic, and intellectual ideals of Dr. Sarazen.

Gene Sarazen began to win tournaments in 1935 with a new club he had invented that was specialized for sand play.

This win made him the youngest player, age 26 ( his fifth year on Tour ), and the only one after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, and Gary Player ( until Tiger Woods at age 24 in 2000, also during his fifth year on Tour ) to win all four major championships, now known as the Career Slam.

His victory also made Nicklaus the only player since Gene Sarazen in 1922 and Ben Hogan in 1948 to win the U. S. Open and PGA Championship the same year ( subsequently equaled by Tiger Woods in 2000 ).

* British Open – Gene Sarazen

* U. S. Open – Gene Sarazen

* Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Gene Sarazen ( golf )

Manero defeated Cooper, who had already finished with a then-record score, by two shots to win the tournament ; over the final holes, Manero was apparently receiving assistance in club selection from Gene Sarazen, a top player and fellow Italian-American, who had already finished his round.

Cruickshank rose to prominence in reaching the semi-finals of the 1922 and 1923 PGA Championship, losing both times to eventual champion Gene Sarazen.

After working as a commentator for " All Star Golf " in the early ' 60s, he replaced George Rogers as co-host for Shell's Wonderful World of Golf along with Gene Sarazen in 1966.

Torrence ( with Gene Brownell ) won a Grammy Award for " Album Cover of the Year ", for the group Pollution in 1973.

Stephen Goosson's elaborate sets won him the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, and Gene Havlick and Gene Milford shared the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

Although he viewed himself as an entertainer first and foremost, his consummate artistry won him the admiration of such twentieth century dance legends as Gene Kelly, George Balanchine, the Nicholas Brothers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margot Fonteyn, Bob Fosse, Gregory Hines, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Jackson and Bill Robinson.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White ( Gene Callahan ).

" It won four Academy Awards: Best Original Score, Best Sound ( Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, Gene Cantamessa ), Best Sound Effects Editing ( Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt )

In 1968, The Producers won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — Written Directly for the Screen, and Gene Wilder was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

He was also Oscar-nominated for his performance in the film version of Fiddler, but lost to Gene Hackman, who won for his performance in The French Connection.

It also won Academy Awards for Best Actor ( Gene Hackman ), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Ernest Tidyman ).

* Gene Mayer ( born 1956 ), former tennis player from the United States who won fourteen singles titles during his career.

After assisting Gene Kelly in choreographing films, Haney won a Tony Award for her role in The Pajama Game.

At the 2003 Academy of Country Music Awards, Jackson won Album of the Year for Drive and Video of the Year for the video to " Drive ( For Daddy Gene ).

In 1967, he played the supporting role of C. W. Moss in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde alongside Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.

Baxter co-starred with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney in 1946's The Razor's Edge, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Hersey's first novel A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945, was adapted into the 1945 film A Bell for Adano directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney.

The Athletics won a fifth consecutive division title in 1975, but by then, Gene Tenace had replaced Fosse as the Athletics ' starting catcher.

Danny Ford, Howard Schnellenberger, and Gene Stallings all won national championships as head coaches for NCAA programs while Joey Jones, Mike Riley, and David Cutcliffe are active head coaches in the NCAA.

Tennessean reporters Nat Caldwell and Gene Graham won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962 " or their exclusive disclosure and six years of detailed reporting, under great difficulties, of the undercover cooperation between management interests in the coal industry and the United Mine Workers.

Tiger took on Gene Fullmer and won the world's Middleweight title by decision in fifteen.

In a postseason performance for the ages, the 36-year-old hurler, known throughout his career as a clutch " big game " pitcher, lived up to his billing by throwing 10 innings of shutout baseball against the Braves as the Twins won the World title on a 10th inning single by Gene Larkin that scored Dan Gladden.

A famous version by The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy in 1981 for its arranger, Gene Puerling.

The play is still disputed by those involved, particularly by living personnel from the Raiders and their fans, who insist the Raiders should have won ( in an NFL Films production about the play years later, Raider guard Gene Upshaw theorized that the real purpose of Swearingen's phone conversation was to see if there were enough police on hand to ensure the players ' safety if the play was ruled incomplete, and was then called in the Steelers ' favor out of fear ).