From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 06/Jul/2018 - Part 2
Hi Steemians,
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. Eva Green
Eva Green is an French actress and model who acted as bond girl Vesper Lynd in James Bond movie Casinao Royale.
Besides Casinao Royale, she has acted in movies Kingdom of Heaven, Perfect Sense, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Dark Shadows.
She has also acted on television series and theatre shows.
Times magazine has ranked her 18th on list of their 50 Most Beautiful Women in Film and Empire has ranked her Sixth Sexiest Movie Star of all Time.
She is a winner of a BAFTA Award and an Empire Award.
2. George W. Bush
George W. Bush as known by most of us, he is an American politician who was the 43rd President of United States.
He previously served as Governor of Texas.
He was known to be a popular president yet he was criticized for war on Iraq and Afghanistan after America was attacked by terrorists on famous 9/11 incident during his presidency.
He is also remembered for his economic programs during Great Recession in 2008.
3. Mary Peters
Mary Peters is a British former athlete who use to be a shot put and pentathlon athlete.
She won a gold medal in 1972 Munich Olympics in pentathlon event.
She is also a winner of 3 gold and a silver medal in Commonwealth Games.
She has started a Trust and supports talented young sportsmen.
She has been made Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1973, Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2015.
4. Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso is the current Dalai Lama, a spiritual leader of Tibet People.
He is the 14th Dalai Lama and Dalai Lamas are know to work on re-unification of Tibet .
For his efforts on re-unification of Tibet and to make it a separate country from China, he is honoured with Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
5. Max Mirnyi
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Max Mirnyi is a Belarusian professional tennis player and former world no.1 doubles player.
He is a winner of 10 grand-slam titles (2 US Open, 4 French Open along with 3 US Open mixed doubles titles and 1 US Open title ).
Besides grand slams, he is also a winner of mixed doubles gold medal (along with Victoria Azarenka) in 2012 London Olympics.
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