From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 06/Oct/2018

in #onthisday5 years ago

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. Janet Gaynor

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Janet Gaynor was an actress who acted in films, television series and on stage performances and was a painter as well.

She was one of the biggest box office hit movie actresses of open era and was one of the 3 actresses to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929.

She was also the first to win 3 Academy Awards for Best Actress in open era winning in inaugural year for all her movies of previous 2 years.

Some of her movies include 7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, A Star is Born.

She has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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2. Le Corbusier

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Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter and write and was one of the pioneers of modern architecture.

He was influential in urban planning and had worked over 5 decades in America, Europe, India and Japan to make better living conditions for people staying in cities.

His works include Esprit Nouveau Pavilion, Immeuble Clarté in Geneva, Ville Contemporaine, Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, United Nations Headquarters, Palace of Assembly in Chandigarh, India.

He was honoured with Legion of Honour, Frank Brown Medal, AIA Gold Medal.

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3. Helen Wills

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Helen Wills was an American tennis player who was world no.1 WTA player for 9 years.

She was a winner of 19 grand slam singles titles, 9 doubles titles and 3 mixed doubles titles to make it a total of 31 grand slam titles.

She also won a gold medal each in women's singles and women's doubles events in 1924 Paris Olympics.

Her 31 grand slam titles puts her among the top players of twentieth century.She was inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959.

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4. Richie Benaud

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Richie Benaud was an Australian cricketer who was an all rounder and later worked as a well known commentator.

He was the first to score 2000 runs and to take 200 wickets in test cricket.

He is considered as one of the greatest the cricket game has seen and some have described him as next only to legendary Don Brodman.

He was made Officer of the Order of British Empire in 1961 for his contributions to sports.

He got inducted into ICC Hall of Fame in 2009 and was a winner of Allan Border Medal.

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5. Valerie Adams

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Valerie Adams is a New Zealand shot putter who is a winner of 3 Olympic medals.

She is a record holder in shot put at New Zealand national level, Commonwealth games level and also Oceanian level.

She has a personal best of 21.24 as for as outdoors and 20.54 in indoors and those are enough for her to hold records as mentioned above.

She has won gold medals in 2008 and 2012 Olympics and settled for a silver in recent 2016 Olympics.

Besides Olympics, she has won 4 golds and a silver in World Championships and an equal number of golds and a bronze in IAAF World Indoor Championships.

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