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Happy birthday today (Thursday) to an Olympic champion who won two Olympic gold medals at the age of 29.

You can unscramble these seven letters to see where this champion was born: Northic

A very famous singer, who died at the age of 73, shares the same initials as our Olympic champion.

Our birthday athlete was born on the 26th and died on the 26th.

Born 93 years ago this day, our birthday athlete died the same day that Nolan Ryan threw his fifth no-hitter of his career.

The League of Nations was organized the day our birthday champ was born.

Also an Olympic gold medal winner, the older brother of our birthday athlete won an Olympic gold medal in the same track and field event as his younger brother.

Graduating from a university which was founded the same year Jame Monroe was re-elected as president of the United States, our birthday athlete had a brother who was seventeen years older.

Admitted to the Union as the 42nd U.S. state, this is where our birthday champion died over thirty years ago.

Name this birthday athlete with three Olympic track and field gold medals in the family.

[gennady]

2012-93 = 1919
1919+29 = 1948
The options are:
Mel Patton - 200m gold and 4x100 gold.
Roy Cochran - 400H gold and gold 4x400m.
Great singer is Ray Charles.
The title of the post "Braxton" response - LeRoy Braxton "Roy" Cochran.
Individual champion in the earlier Olympiads with same name there is no.
It remains to recall the older brother of Olympic champion in relay 4x400m.
This is Commodore Cochran - Paris 1924 U.S. team member 4x400m gold.
He also coached his younger brother.

[DoubleRBar]

Good job, gennady. Today is the birthday of Olympic champion Roy Cochran. Of course, Roy won the 1948 400 meter hurdles (by a wide margin) and he ran the third leg on the winning four by 400 meter relay (he split 47.8). Cochran had a little luck when Jamaica's Arthur Wint pulled a muscle after gaining on Cochran during that third leg. Jamaica came back four years later to win and set the world record in Helsinki.

Commodore Cochran, Roy's older brother, ran the first leg in the Paris Olympics of 1924. Commodore split 50.1 and the U.S. team set a new world record of 3:16.0.

Even though Roy Cochran died in 1981, we say happy birthday to Roy Cochran today.