Short answers, pulled from the story.
Muhammad Ali was born on the 17th of January 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. into a family where his father worked as a sign painter and his mother worked as a domestic helper.
Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston on the 25th of February 1964 in Miami Beach. He became the youngest boxer to take the title from a reigning heavyweight champion at that time after Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh round.
Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. Armed Forces in April 1967 because he declared himself a conscientious objector. He stated that he had nothing against the Viet Cong and that they never called him a racial slur.
Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight title back from George Foreman on the 30th of October 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire. He used the rope-a-dope strategy to defeat Foreman in the eighth round during the event known as The Rumble in the Jungle.
Muhammad Ali died on the 3rd of June 2016 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's syndrome in 1984. His condition was attributed by some to boxing-related injuries, though he and his doctors disputed this claim.