As a boxer, Ali will be remembered as a three-time world heavyweight champion who won 56 bouts over a 21-year career.
Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Macellus Clay Jr on January 17, 1942, in Louisville Kentucky
Aged 22, he took on heavyweight champion Sonny Liston in Miami. He won and proclaimed to the world: "I am the world's greatest!"
Ali was the first man to win heavyweight titles three times, Ali attended his first Nation of Islam meeting in 1959 and converted to Sunni Islam in 1975. In 1967, he famously refused to fight in Vietnam, citing religious reasons.
Married four times, he had seven daughters and two sons. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1984, at the age of 43. Ali died late on June 3, 2016, in a hospital in Arizona after being admitted with respiratory problems
Ali's funeral will take place in Louisville. Ali is survived by his wife, the former Lonnie Williams, who knew him when she was a child, along with his nine children
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