His premature death from cancer played out in the public spotlight and added to his legend.
They are also tireless in promoting his legend in everything from exhibitions to biographies.
His elusiveness, at least some of which must be put down to luck, only burnishes his legend.
Lockyer cemented his legend status by surpassing Mal Meninga's all-time appearance record in that immense clash at the Twickenham Stoop.
Yet an understanding of Mahatmanomics is critical to understanding Gandhi and the catastrophically impoverished post-imperial India his legend helped to create.
He died in 2004 but his legend lives on in his company, thanks largely to his daughter, who is chairman and owner of Ecco.
Wanjiru died last year from a fall in Kenya, increasing his legend and, ahead of Sunday's Olympic marathon, raising anxiety that somebody may try to repeat his tactic.
With his legend growing, Solomon plowed his prize money into setting up his own recording studio and has since released a handful of mixtapes, including the well-received Redrum this past Halloween.
Critical of earlier historians who tended to treat Garibaldi with condescension, Ms Riall is anxious to display him as the resourceful manipulator of his own legend.
St Andrew was the first ever apostle and brother to Simon Peter and after his death, legend has it that a Greek Monk called St Rule was warned in a dream to move his remains.
Now his fellow comics legend Alan Moore has decided to weigh in on the matter as well.
According to legend his body was found and carried in a carpet to a stream where it was purified.
From his first day at Michigan, Hagelin emerged as something of a legend for his performance in Berenson's infamously grueling conditioning drills.
First of all, that bearded man who hosts the spots to his French soccer legend, Eric Cantona, who is totally unknown to U.S. viewers.
Like the legendary ancient Roman hero, Publius Horatius Cocles (Horatius to his friends) - who legend has it saved his city and made possible its future glory by singlehandedly holding off an army of Etruscan warriors at a bridge over the Tiber River - he has not been dissuaded from fighting for what he believes in by long odds or intense political pressure.
Though his name hardly suffered, basketball legend Michael Jordan long ago closed his own foundation because of such difficulties.
His six sixes in one over playing for Nottinghamshire is now the stuff of legend, while his 365 against Pakistan was a Test record that stood for 36 years before fellow West Indian Brian Lara bettered it.
Dr. John's funky takes on jazz standards, his original blues, and his unstoppable stage persona (deer antlers and robes figure prominently) have made him a legend well beyond his hometown of New Orleans.
Well, to be diplomatic about it, Moffett, 72, is already a legend in his own time.
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Chicago's Buddy Guy, a blues legend in his own right, gave an electrifying performance.
The Australian legend finished his Test career with 6, 996 runs from 52 matches at an average of 99.94.
Author Pressfield, a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, is best known for his best seller The Legend of Bagger Vance.
He was nominated for an Oscar for his role as music legend Johnny Cash in Walk The Line in 2005.
But the one that stands out is the event that forged the Reagan legend: his brush with assassination in 1981.
But Steinhardt himself is, simply put, a legend in his own right.
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The hip-hop legend cofounded his eponymous headphone line with Interscope Records chief Jimmy Iovine and quickly developed a mutually-beneficial manufacturing arrangement with Monster.
Davy Crockett was a legend in his own time: a pioneer of the American West and US congressman who established the political book tour.
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