Which famous people have you outlived?

Walter George

British runner

Died when: 84 years 268 days (1016 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Walter George

Walter Goodall George (9 September 1858 – 4 June 1943) was a nineteenth-century British runner from Calne who after setting numerous world records as an amateur, went professional in part to challenge the mile record-holder William Cummings, defeating him in several highly publicized races.

In one of those races on 23 August 1886, he set a mile record which was not surpassed for almost 30 years.


Related People

Roger Bannister
British runner
Ron Hill
British runner
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License