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): Eyvind Earle • Francis Lai • Georgios Kostikos (footballer, born 1958) • H. G. Carrillo • John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute • John Grierson • Michael Kergin • Owen Willans Richardson • Paul Almond • Roger Moens • Roxana Saberi • Virgil Trucks • Óscar García (footballer, born 1973)

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