- Interesting Read: NY Times: Dan Wieden, The Man Who Coined Nike's "Just Do It" Ad Passes Away At 77 Wieden once admitted that the "just do it" phrase was inspired in part by a famous murderer in Utah who's last words before he was killed by a firing squad were, "Let's do it."
- Bill Nieder, 1960 Olympic Shot Put Champion, Passes Away At 89 He won gold for the USA at the Rome Olympics. After his career, he worked for a company helping develop artificial athletic turf and sold the first-ever synthetic track surface for an Olympics to the 1968 Mexico Games.