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August 7, 1937

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1937Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (died 2011)[†]

Zoltán Berczik was a Hungarian table tennis player. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two titles at the Table Tennis European Championships.

1937Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (died 2012)[†]

Donald Wilson was an English cricketer, who played in six Test matches for England from 1964 to 1971. His first-class cricket career, which lasted from 1957 to 1974, was spent with Yorkshire County Cricket Club and he later became a noted cricket coach. He was born in Settle, Yorkshire and died at York.