Basil Heatley

Benjamin Basil Heatley was a British competitive long-distance runner, who was an Olympic marathon silver medallist and former world marathon record-holder. Although he favoured cross country running, he was also a skilled marathon runner and, despite running shoe technology being in its infancy, he was able to adapt easily to the change of conditions underfoot. ^{Basil Heatley, English runner (d. 2019)}

25 December 1933

Born on the same birth day (25 December): Barbara Follett (politician) • Cab Calloway • Choi Sung-yong • Chris Harris (wrestler) • Emmanuel Amunike • Ernest L. Massad • James Fletcher Jnr • Johannes Buxtorf • John IV Laskaris • Muhammad Ali Jinnah • Ned Garver • Rodney Dent

Born in the same month (December 1933): Akihito • Ashleigh Brilliant • Bapu (director) • Caroll Spinney • Donald Kutyna • Donald Woods • Edward Bunker • Gennadiy Agapov • Harry Holgate • Horst Buchholz • Jackie Hendriks • John Hartle • John Y. Brown Jr. • Krsto Papić • Lou Rawls • Mako (actor) • Olavi Salonen • Paul J. Crutzen • Peter Harding (RAF officer, born 1933) • Samuel Brittan • Tim Conway