- Born
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- Birth namePatrick Daniel Tillman Jr.
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Pat Tillman was born on November 6, 1976 in San Jose, California, USA. He was married to Marie Tillman. He died on April 22, 2004 in Spera, Khost Province, Afghanistan.
- SpouseMarie Tillman(May 4, 2002 - April 22, 2004) (his death)
- Arizona Cardinals player who made headlines by foregoing his career to enlist in the United States Army in May 2002. The Pentagon disclosed to his family over a month after his death that he died as a result of friendly fire and not from an enemy attack, as originally reported. Tillman was the first football player to be killed in combat since Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from Specialist to Corporal, and received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
- Inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame in 2014.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 544-546. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
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