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Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (died 1949)
Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. Beach was a member of the Chicago Athletic Association water polo team which won the silver medal in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Beach served as the first president of the Rollins College Alumni Association.
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Rex Beach was born in 1877. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1877 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 44.2M | 341 million |
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