Ko Cornelissen, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKo Cornelissen
6 x Dutch boxing champion
Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1904
Date of Death: 10-Nov-1954
Profession: boxer
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Ko Cornelissen
- Jacobus Gerardus “Ko” Cornelissen (29 January 1904, Amsterdam - 10 December 1954, Amsterdam) was a Dutch boxer who was a six-time national champion.
- He won his first title at the age of 16. Cornelissen competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
- After winning the first round by decision against Alf Johan Pedersen from Norway, he lost in the second round against Patrick “Paddy” Dwyer, alias Rocky, from Ireland. Cornelissen was a member of D.O.S Amsterdam for 25 years, and won several National titles: 1920 Featherweight 1921 Lightweight 1923 Welterweight 1925 Unknown weight class 1926 Middleweight 1927 MiddleweightAfter his boxing career he acted for various years as a boxing referee.
- Shortly after the Second World War he contracted typhus and subsequently emphysema from which he died in 1954.
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