Daniel McKinnon (ice hockey), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Olympic ice hockey player
Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1922
Place of Birth: Williams, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 06-Aug-2017
Profession: ice hockey player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Daniel McKinnon (ice hockey)
- Daniel Duncan McKinnon (21 April 1927 – 6 August 2017) was an ice hockey player who played for the American national team.
- He won a silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
- He was born in Williams, Minnesota.McKinnon had been an All-Star while playing for the University of North Dakota hockey team following the Second World War.
- In 1951 McKinnon followed a group of friends to San Bernardino, California for a year.
- He played hockey for the San Bernardino Shamrocks and worked as a diesel engine repairman for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
- McKinnon's hockey career came to an end in 1958.
- While he was out deer hunting, his gun misfired and destroyed part of his hand, preventing him from being able to hold a hockey stick properly.
- He retired from the sport and joined the staff of the Marvin Window Company, for which he worked for more than two decades.
- McKinnon died in Warroad, Minnesota.
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