Tulip Ammerdan

 

 

 

Age: 31

 

Summary: Dutch-born professional soccer player who was a member of the Rhode Island State University's women's soccer team within the last four seasons before she later became at the center of nationwide headlines in 2000 when she collapsed during a FIFA Women's World Cup Game in Copenhagen, Denmark and had apparently suffered from congestive heart failure, which later required to undergo an open-heart surgery and became the subject of numerous sports documentaries about her near-death experience.

 

 

Cause of Death: Airplane accident

 

Born: February 28, 1974

 

Died: December 26, 2005

 

Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts