Aleksander Klumberg

Aleksander Klumberg was an Estonian decathlete. He competed in several events at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the decathlon in 1924. In 1922 he became the first official world record holder in the decathlon, albeit with a performance inferior to the Stockholm 1912 series of Jim Thorpe.

17 April 1899

Born on the same birth day (17 April): Jan Hammer • Jinho • Katrin Koov • Ken Daneyko • Luke Mitchell • Michael IX Palaiologos • Mike Stroud (physician) • Ursula Ledóchowska

Born in the same month (April 1899): Alfred Mosher Butts • George O'Brien (actor) • Hillel Oppenheimer • Minoru Shirota • Osman Achmatowicz • Vladimir Nabokov