Five Famous People From Colorado

5 FAMOUS PEOPLE  FROM COLORADO

ADOLPH HERMAN JOSEPH COORS, SR
Was born on February 4, 1847 in Barmen, Germany.  He immigrated to the United States and started the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873. In Colorado he lived and raised his family for a number of years.
He jumped to his death from a hotel window in Virginia Beach, Virginia on June 5, 1929.

LON CHANEY (actually born Leonidas Frank Chaney) known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces”, was an actor during the silent film era. We was considered a pioneer of horror films such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. He born on April 1, 1883, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Chaney developed bronchial lung cancer and died from complications at the age of 47, on August 26, 1930, in Los Angeles, California.

Douglas Elton Ulman was his given name at birth on May 23, 1883, but the world knew him as DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, SR the American actor most famous for his roles in the silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro.  He was also a businessman, a founder of United Artists, and also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy.  He was a host of the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929.  Fairbanks died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California on December 12, 1939.

WILLIAM HARRISON “JACK” DEMPSEY was born Manassa, Colorado on June 24, 1895. He was an American boxer who held world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926.  He died of natural causes at the age of 87, in New York City on May 31, 1983.

He was born,Timothy Allen Dick on June 13, 1953, but most know him as TIM ALLEN an American comedian best known for his role in the television show, Home Improvement from 1991-1999. He was born in Denver, Colorado and also where he still resides at present.

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