Ralph Wilson

Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League (AFL), the league with which the NFL merged in 1970, and was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team. At the time of his death he was the oldest owner in the NFL, at age 95, and the third-longest tenured owner in NFL history. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009. ^{Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)}

17 October 1918

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Born on the same birth day (17 October): Alimi Ballard • Anton Geiser • Baccio Bandinelli • Carlos Buhler • George Wendt • Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia • Jacques Cazotte • John Rocker • Josep Puig i Cadafalch • Pablo de Rokha • Paul Haenlein • Rick Mercer • Ronni Chasen • Rüdiger Wittig • Seals and Crofts • Shinichi Suzuki • Steve McMichael • Tommy Kendall • Wally Prigg • Zhao Ziyang

Born in the same month (October 1918): André Pilette • David Ausubel • Doreen Tovey • Harry V. Jaffa • Jerome Robbins • Kenichi Fukui • Louis Althusser • Luis Alberto Solari • Martin Drewes • Robert S. Strauss • Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)