David Crockett
August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 (aged 49)
Birth place: Limestone, Greene County, North Carolina, USA
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier & politician. Portrayed numerous times on film & tv, most famously by Fess Parker as Walt Disney's 'King of the Wild Frontier'. Recently (& more realistically) played by Billy Bob Thornton in <i>The Alamo</i> (2006). Birthplace now part of Tennessee.