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John Davies

1929 - 2020

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John Griffith Davies (17 May 1929 – 24 March 2020) was an Australian-American swimmer and United States federal judge. As a breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s, he won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, set a world record in the 200 yard breaststroke (short course) and tied the world record in the 200 m breaststroke (long course). After retiring from competition swimming, he became a lawyer in California and, after becoming a naturalized American, was appointed a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and presided over the trial of the Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with assaulting Rodney King. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Davies is the 32nd most popular judge (up from 40th in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from Australia (up from 415th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Judge.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, John Davies ranks 32 out of 53. Before him are Fathima Beevi, Walter Q. Gresham, David Souter, Warren E. Burger, Anthony Kennedy, and Brett Kavanaugh. After him are Anna Chandy, John Paul Stevens, Elena Kagan, Vassilios Skouris, Ninian Stephen, and Peter Tomka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Davies ranks 453. Before him are James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Nirmal Verma, Josef Kloimstein, Dick Tiger, and Betty Carter. After him are J. B. Lenoir, Toimi Alatalo, Jiří Hledík, Antonina Seredina, Givi Kartozia, and Marianna Nagy. Among people deceased in 2020, John Davies ranks 601. Before him are Vladimir Andreyev, Tatyana Prorochenko, Diane di Prima, Ignacio Trelles, Vidin Apostolov, and Tomás Herrera Martínez. After him are Richard Herd, Papa Bouba Diop, Yasumasa Kanada, Irina Kirichenko, Lajos Szűcs, and Keiji Fujiwara.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, John Davies ranks 298 out of 1,143. Before him are Snowy Baker (1884), Thelma Coyne Long (1918), Steven Bradbury (1973), Ben Chifley (1885), Harry Kewell (1978), and Beryl Penrose (1930). After him are Cadel Evans (1977), Nathan Jones (1970), Marlene Mathews (1934), Rebel Wilson (1980), Steve Hooker (1982), and Jack Thompson (1940).

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Among JUDGES In Australia

Among judges born in Australia, John Davies ranks 1. After him are Patrick Keane (1952).

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