American swimmer

Lilly King

Lillia Camille King is an American former competitive swimmer who specialized in breaststroke. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke competition and also won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay, in which she swam the breaststroke leg. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, King won a silver medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay for her efforts in the prelims, the silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke, and the bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay, where she swam the breaststroke leg.

Born

1997

February 10

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Lilly, in brief

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Key dates

1997 Born

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1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1392 Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

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The world in 1997

When Lilly arrived

april 1 Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
april 13 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
april 14 Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing, is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder.
april 29 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Adelina Patti 1843–1919 Italian-French opera singer (died 1919) Alexandre Millerand 1859–1943 French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (born 1859) Ary Scheffer 1795–1858 Dutch-French painter and academic (died 1858) Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956 German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898) C. J. Anderson 1991– American football player Greg Norman 1955– Australian golfer and sportscaster Ira Remsen 1846–1927 American chemist and academic (died 1927) Lee Hsien Loong 1952– Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore Lon Chaney Jr. 1906–1973 American actor (died 1973)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1997

Arike Ogunbowale 1997– American basketball player Asa Butterfield 1997– English actor Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Brittany Broski 1997– American comedian and singer Cha Eun-woo 1997– South Korean singer, actor, and model Daniel Sprong 1997– Dutch ice hockey player Duncan Scott 1997– Scottish swimmer Greyson Chance 1997– American musician Holly Taylor 1997– Canadian-American actress

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