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): Brad Boyes • Caitlin Parker • Dheeran Chinnamalai • Gianni Raimondi • Gilles Lamontagne • Heidi Alexander • James Last • John Ford (dramatist) • Lela Rochon • Teri Austin • Todd Lickliter • William R. Day • Win Maung

Born in the same month (April 1899): Alan Arnett McLeod • Alfred Blalock • Bertil Ohlin • Cemal Tollu • Duke Ellington • George O'Brien (actor) • Harold Osborn • Hillel Oppenheimer • Minoru Shirota • Oscar Rabin • Osman Achmatowicz • Percy Lavon Julian • Randall Thompson • Vladimir Nabokov • Walter Lantz