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John Pemberton

Defender · Manchester United FC

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American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831–1888)

Age 61

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John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmacist, chemist, and Confederate States Army officer who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to Asa Griggs Candler for roughly 2,300 dollars shortly before his death in 1888.

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