1913–1981 · Scottish football manager, Liverpool FC 1959–1974
Bill Shankly was born in the Ayrshire mining village of Glenbuck on 2 September 1913 and died on 29 September 1981. After managing Carlisle United, Grimsby Town, Workington and Huddersfield Town, he took charge of a second-division Liverpool in 1959 and rebuilt it into a club that won three First Division titles, two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup before he retired in 1974. He is remembered as much for his talk as for his trophies — an aphoristic manager whose lines circulate so freely that even his most famous one, the remark about football being more important than life and death, is almost always repeated in a form he did not actually use.