# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmer-gedeon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:59:09.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmer-gedeon"
name: "Elmer Gedeon"
slug: "elmer-gedeon"
description: "Elmer John Gedeon was an American professional baseball player, appearing in several games for the Washington Senators in 1939. Gedeon and Harry O'Neill were the only two Major League Baseball players killed during World War II. Gedeon flew several missions in the European Theater of Operations as an officer of the United States Army Air Forces before being shot down over France."
tagline: "United States Army Air Force Captain, Major League Baseball player, one of two MLB players killed in World War II (1917-1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elmer_gedeon_1938_UofM_football_team.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1917-04-15"
deathDate: "1944-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.64
  momentum:             3.240418118466899
  historical:           10.76069333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
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    title: "المير جيديون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%87%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "エルマー・ギデオン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gedeon"
    title: "Elmer Gedeon"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2306581"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump