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1861 – 1939James Naismith (1861-1939)Died 28 November 1939, aged 78Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator who invented basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. He later founded the basketball programme at the University of Kansas. He lived to see the sport played at the 1936 Olympics.