From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 03/Jun/2018

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This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.

Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. Rafael Nadal

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Rafael Nadal is a Spanish professional tennis player and is current world number 1 on ATP rankings and is known as King of Clay because of his dominance on clay courts.

Eventhough he is described as King of Clay, he has proved that he is a threat on any surface and has won 16 grand-slam singles titles with as many as 10 French Open grand-slams in that.

He is also a winner of record 32 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, 20 ATP World Tour Masters 500 titles along with a gold medal in 2008 Olympics in men's singles category and another gold in men's doubles in 2016 Olympics.

All these trophies and titles makes him One of the Greatest Tennis Players of all time.

He is one among the Big 4 along with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray and is known for his rivalry with all of them including the other Swiss, Stanislas Wawrinka.

2. Larry McMurtry

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Larry McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose novels have been adapted into films which got 26 Academy Award nominations.

His novels include Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove.

He is a winner of Pulitzer Prize for novel Lonesome Dove.

He has won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, 2 BAFTA awards for Best Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.

3. Wasim Akram

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Wasim Akram is a former Pakistani cricketer who works as a commentator currently and a television personality.

He was known to bowl 6 different balls in an over making it difficult for batsmen to adjust against his bowling.

He use to be a left hand fast bowler and useful lower order batsman with a highest test score of 257.

His bowling figures include 414 test wickets from 104 tests and 502 ODI wickets from 356 ODI's.

He has been inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009 and he was among the best players of all time of Wisden list in 2002.

4. Yelena Isinbayeva

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Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian pole vaulter who is a 2 time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008 Olympics), 3 time world champion and current world record holder in pole vault with 5.06 m as her personal best.

She is considered as one of the greatest pole-vaulters of all time with 5.06 m as her best and was the first to clear 5 metre barrier.

She was the Female Athlete of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2008 as announced by IAAF and World Sportsman of the Year announced by Laureus in 2007 and 2009.

She is one one of the 9 athletes to win world championships at youth, junior and senior levels of an athletic event.

She has been inducted into FICTS(Fédération Internationale Cinéma Télévision Sportifs) Hall of Fame in 2007.

5. Otto Loewi

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Otto Loewi was a German pharmacologist pshycobiologist who was the discoverer of the role of acetychloline as an neutrotransmitter.

Signaling across the synapse was not clear whether it's bi-electrical or chemical until Loewi's research in 1921 and Loewi researched on 2 frogs to come to a conclusion that it's the electrical stimulation which helps in slowing down the heart beats.

For his research works, Loewi was co-awarded with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 along with Henry Hallett Dale.

He was a Foreign Member of Royal Society of London in 1954 and received honorary doctorates from various universities.

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