From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 06/May/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. George Clooney

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George Clooney is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, businessman and philanthropist who is a 2 time Academy Award winner and has acted in some of the high grossing movies including the Ocean's Eleven and it's sequels.

Clooney started as a television actor in drama ER and received 2 Primetime Emmy Awards for the same.

He started acting in movies with smaller roles and his first movie in a lead role was in Three Kings released in 1999.

After that, Clooney has acted in some of the big hit movies like Ocean's Eleven and it's sequels, Syriana, Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, The Descendants to name a few.

Time magazine named him among the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009.

Clooney is the only person to be nominated to Academy Awards in 6 different categories.

He is a winner of 2 Academy Awards(1 for acting and other one for production), a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe award.

2. Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who mainly worked on Bengali literature and had interests in music.

He was the first non European to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in literature.

India's national anthem Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's national anthem Amar Shonar Bangla have been composed by him.

He is the founder of Visva Bharati University. Tagore's best known works include Gitanjali, Gora and Ghare-Baire.

He was awarded a Knighthood from King George V in 1915 Birthday honours, which, Tagore returned back in 1919 in protest of Jallainwala Bagh massacre.

3. Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis(a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst).

He was a qualifier of Doctor of Medicine from University of Vienna and worked as an affiliated professor and then setup a clinic to practice medicine.

He was also an early researcher of cerebral palsy and published many medical papers on the same.

4. Tony Blair

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Tony Blair is a British politician and former Prime Minister of United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.

It's notable that he was the last Prime Minister from British Labour Party to have won a general election.

He was instrumental in getting the approval of National Minimum Wage Act, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act as part of his first of three terms as Prime Minister.

After resigning as Prime Minister in 2007, Blair was appointed as Quartet on the Middle East and now he works on his institute Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

He is honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom from United States Government.

5. Amadeo Giannini

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Amadeo Giannini was an American banker and founder of Bank of America.

He is credited with inventing many modern banking practices and was the first to offer banking services to middle-class Americans.

He was also the founder of Bank of Italy, which was founded before the Bank of America was found.

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