Muhammad Ali (January 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016); American boxer, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, and died on June 3, 2016 at the age of 74 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. He was born into a middle-class black American family and his father was a Methodist, but his mother raised him and his brother on the Baptist faith, after he converted to Islam in 1964 AD and changed his name to Muhammad Ali without his last name - Clay -, Clay won th