Dudley Wolfe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mountaineer who died on K2 in 1939
Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1896
Place of Birth: New York, United States
Date of Death: 30-Jul-1939
Profession: mountaineer
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Dudley Wolfe
- Dudley Francis Cecil Wolfe (February 6, 1896 – July 30, 1939) was an American racing yacht owner and captain who was the first person to race a sixty-foot yacht across the Atlantic, competing against much larger vessels.
- He was to inherit a large fortune from his maternal grandfather provided he changed his family name to "Smith", to which he agreed before reverting again.
- Wolfe became posthumously famous when he died on the 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 in controversial circumstances.
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