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): Buster Williams • Chuck Menville • Emil Fuchs (baseball) • James Last • Lagle Parek • Martin Clemens • Michael IX Palaiologos • Rooney Mara • Tony Boselli
Born in the same month (April 1899): Alan Arnett McLeod • Alfred Blalock • Alfred Mosher Butts • Bertil Ohlin • Cemal Tollu • Duke Ellington • George O'Brien (actor) • Gustavs Celmiņš • Harold Osborn • Hillel Oppenheimer • Mary Petty • Minoru Shirota • Oscar Rabin • Osman Achmatowicz • Randall Thompson • Robert Casadesus • Vladimir Nabokov • Walter Lantz