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- Roger Ray was born on 11 June 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Affair (1971), The Hoodlum Priest (1961) and Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1962). He died on 22 October 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- The man who would eventually become known as Yokozuna was born in San Francisco on October 22, 1966. He came from a wrestling family, as his uncles were Afa Anoai and Sika Anoai. He was trained by his uncles and Sam Fatu as a teenager and wrestled in Alabama and the USWA under the name Kokina Anoai. He already weighed 400 pounds.
In Japan, he would work in main events against Big Van Vader (Leon White), and there he met a contingent of sumo wrestlers, which led to the gimmick which would get him the most over, the character Yokozuna, or sumo grand champion. Vince McMahon brought him into the WWF and gave him a monster push in 1992. He wasn't even knocked off his feet for months, until finally Jim Duggan finally pulled it off, and he still won the match. He later won the Royal Rumble (1993), which allowed him to challenge for the WWF Title at WrestleMania IX (1993) against Bret Hart. Anoai won the match and the title, but immediately lost it at the same event to Hulk Hogan. Anoai won the title back at the King of the Ring (1993) and kept it for over 10 months, an incredible amount of time for a 'heel' wrestler. He lost it back to Hart at WrestleMania X (1994).
His weight was becoming a huge issue, and multiple attempts to get Anoai to lose it were failures. The WWF kept him off TV for awhile, then brought him back in as a tag team partner for Owen Hart, with whom he won the Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania XI (1995). His weight gain continued, and at his final appearance in the WWF, during the _Survivor Series (1996) (V)_, he weighed almost 800 pounds. This would make him the heaviest pro wrestler in history, but he was never officially weighed.
He wrestled in the main event of the Heroes of Wrestling pay per view in 1999 and went on a European tour in October 2000. It was during this tour that he died of a heart attack in his hotel room in Liverpool, England. He was only 34. - Anthony Chinn was born in 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Fifth Element (1997). He died on 22 October 2000 in Georgetown, Guyana.
- Gloria Rhoads was born on 17 February 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Girls Town (1959), Frontier (1955) and It's a Great Life (1954). She died on 22 October 2000 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
- Rudolf Jürgen Bartsch was born on 17 October 1921 in Köslin, Pomerania, Germany [now Koszalin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Der versteinerte Wald (1957), I'm an Elephant, Madame (1969) and Smog (1973). He died on 22 October 2000 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Vladimir Alekseev was born on 14 July 1910 in Boguslav, Kanev uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Bohuslav, Bohuslav Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Miners of the Don (1951), Ori okeanis saidumloeba (1957) and Golubaya strela (1959). He died on 22 October 2000.- Jestin Edwards was born on 23 March 1920 in Swansea, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for The Thracian Horses (1946). He died on 22 October 2000 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK.
- Hank Wyse was born on 1 March 1918 in Lunsford, Arkansas, USA. He died on 22 October 2000 in Pryor, Oklahoma, USA.