Avery Brundage

Avery Brundage (; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1952 to 1972. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Brundage died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany on May 8, 1975 from heart failure and surgical complications, aged 87. He is buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.

Other websites

Avery Brundage Collection at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I.N.A.: Avery Brundage in opening ceremony, Grenoble, 1968 
Transcript of Brundage press conference from 1970 
Avery Brundage's complicated Olympic legacy 

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Category:Burials at Rosehill Cemetery
Category:American track and field athletes
Category:Presidents of the International Olympic Committee
Category:Sportspeople from Chicago
Category:Sportspeople from Detroit
Category:Deaths from heart failure