Tom Gentry 1998 Deaths
Tom Gentry
Age: 67offshore speedboat racer who set several world records before a crash at the 1994 Key West World Offshore Championship left him hospitalized and in a coma; just a month before the crash, Gentry, who already owned the transatlantic speed record, captured a new world record, reaching an average speed of 157.4 mph; of respiratory failure
Died: Honolulu, Jan. 15, 1998Martha Gellhorn | G - L | Larry Gilbert |