Herb Brooks was an ice hockey player and a celebrated coach. He was born in August 1937 and died on August 2003. He died in Forest Lake, Washington County, Minnesota, USA. He was buried at Roselawn Cemetery in Roseville Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA. In 1980, he was the head coach of the gold medal-winning US Olympic hockey team at Lake Placid.
At the games, the Brooks team unsettled the favorite Soviet team in a match that came to be known as "Miracle on ice." After this, Brooks coached several National Hockey League teams, as well as the French team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. It has been stated that Brooks perished in a car accident because he had neglected to wear his seat belt. Before his death, he was the director of player personnel for the NHL's Pittsburg Penguins.