Fanny Blankers-Koen

Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname "the Flying Housewife", and was the most successful athlete at the event.

26 April 1918

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Aaron Judge • Anna Mucha • Bernie Brillstein • Carol Burnett • Charles Farrar Browne • Colin Anderson (footballer) • Colin Scotts • Frank Hahn • Granny Hamner • Jeanne Sauvé • Joey Jordison • John Battle (politician) • John Grierson • John II of France • Kiko (footballer, born 1972) • Novlene Williams-Mills • Odysseas Vlachodimos • Rahul Verma • Rudolf Hess • Steve Lombardozzi • Vladimir Boltyansky

Born in the same month (April 1918): Alfredo Ovando Candía • Astrid Varnay • Betty Ford • Bobby Doerr • Gabriel Axel • George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe • Graham Payn • Gérard de Vaucouleurs • Hans Billian • Kai Siegbahn • Louis Applebaum • Mary Healy (entertainer) • Maurice Druon • Mickey Vernon • Richard Wainwright (politician) • William Holden • William Jay Smith