Glenn Cowan
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Glenn Cowan (1951?-2004), American table tennis player, and arguably one of the two critical personalities, another one being the Chinese table tennis player Zhuang Zedong, in the 1971 Ping Pong Diplomacy which served as a prelude to the normalization of the Sino-American relations.
Cowan died in 2004. He had been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment, he had a bypass surgery, then went into a coma and died of a heart attack.
Zhuang Zedong called from Beijing to express his sympathy.
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