Dan Lurie was a founding father of bodybuilding, television star, entrepreneur, world record holder for amazing feats of strength and a physical fitness pioneer that won the Mr. America title of "America's Most Muscular Man" four times by 1949 and made history arm wrestling U.S. President Ronald Reagan on the Oval Office desk of the White House. Lurie was born in Brooklyn, New York and later moved to Long Island where he lived until age 90. A world-class bodybuilder in the 1940s, Lurie won numerous titles in the Mr. America competitions. In 1948, he established the International Federation of Body Builders and later went on to create The World Body Building Guild. In the 1950s he went on to star as "Sealtest Dan The Muscle Man" in a long running CBS TV series called The Sealtest Big Top. Throughout his career, Lurie had a long standing and well known rivalry with his former business partner, Joe Weider. As a magazine publisher, bodybuilding trainer and contest promoter, Lurie also had well publicized relationships with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. 

April 1st, 1923 in New York City  /  Died:   Nov 6th, 2013 - aged 90