1928 John Disley, Great Britain, distance runner. Welsh athlete John Disley won a bronze medal in the 3,000m steeplechase at the 1952 (Helsinki) Olympic Games, running 8:51.8. He competed in the same event for Great Britain at the 1956 (Melbourne)...

1919 Delfo Cabrera, Argentine distance runner. Successful at distances from 1500m to the marathon, Cabrera won the 1948 (London) Olympic marathon in 2:34:51.6. Winner of numerous South American championship titles in a variety of events, Cabrera was...

1938 Josef Odložil, Czechoslovakia, middle-distance runner. Josef Odložil was the silver medalist in the 1964 (Tokyo) Olympic Games 1,500m, running 3:39.6 behind the great Kiwi athlete, Peter Snell. In 1965 Odložil set a world record of 5:01.2 in...

1934 Jim Beatty, United States, middle-distance runner. James Tully Beatty was a NCAA All-American in the two-mile (1955, 1957) and the 5,000m (1956), but is most notorious for being the first man to run run 4:00 for the indoor mile, setting an indoor...

1898 Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian long-distance runner. Competing for France in the 1928 (Amsterdam) Olympic games, El Ouafi took first in the marathon, the first native-born African to win Olympic gold in that event.