Gaston Chevrolet, a French-born American racing car racer and automobile pioneer, was born in 1920. Diego Maradona, an Argentine soccer striker, died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Gaston Chevrolet, a race driver from Los Angeles, is died in a track collision. He is the first of three renowned brothers to die in a sad accident. Gaston was Louis Chevrolet's younger brother and co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, which subsequently became part of General Motors. Louis and his middle brother, Arthur, were born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, which also happened to be the hometown of their contemporary, Machine Age architect Le Corbusier. Gaston Chevrolet, the posthumous champion, was 28 years old.
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