From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 07/May/2018

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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. Russell Crowe

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Russell Crowe is an New Zealand born actor, producer and a musician who lives mostly in Australia.

He became famous through epic historical movie Gladiator released in 2000 and fetched Crowe an Academy Award for Best Actor.

He has acted in other movies like A Beautiful Mind, The Insider, American Gangster, Robin Hood, Les Misérables, L.A. Confidential.

Crowe is a one time Academy Award winner and was nominated two other times, he has won a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

He has a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2. Jackie Chan

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Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, director and stuntman who has become world famous because of his acrobatic fighting style and comedy mixed acting.

He has been acting since 1960's and has acted in over 150 films.

He is the second highest paid actor in the world as of 2016 and is known for his philanthropic works.

He has been among the top 10 most charitable celebrities as per Forbes magazine.

Jackie Chan has a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and has received an honorary Oscar from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

3. William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth was a English romantic poet who was one of the laucnhers of romantic age in English literature.

He along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge jointly published Lyrical Ballads, a famous collection of poems.

His other works include The Borderers, The Prelude, Loadamia, The Excursion.

He was British Poet Laureate between 1843 and 1850.

4. Ravi Shankar

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Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician who is called as Pandit Ravi Shankar and was one of the finest proponents of Sitar of the twentieth century.

Ravi Shankar toured Europe and America and spread the Indian classical music and helped increase the popularity of the same by performing Sitar.

He served a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament and was honoured with India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1999.

He received 5 Grammy Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award.

5. Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer who is a central figure in new Hollywood wave of film making.

He is the director of films like The Rain People, Patton, The Godfather and it's sequels, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, The Cotton Club.

He is one of the 8 filmmakers to win 2 Palme d'Or awards.

He is a winner of 6 Academy Awards, 6 Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award.

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Russell Crowe did a wonderful job in the movie A Beautiful Mind. That movie helped Rob and I work on his depression. There were so many points in the movie that we could relate to.

Jackie Chan is a favorite in our house. Our boys enjoyed watching him do all of the stunts.

Hey, nice to know that a movie has inspired you guys to get out of depression. Movies have become an integral part of our life and actors like Russel Crowe are a huge inspiration to many.

I like the comedy mixed action roles Jackie Chan does and it's so relaxing and have some lighter moments watching his movies.

Yes movies can assist in many things if a person is up for learning. When Rob was on the road to recovery we watched that movie. It inspired quite a bit of conversation.

Yes Jackie Chan is great at comedy and action. He makes it look so easy. Our boys also liked to watch the behind the scenes and how he did his stunts.

That's very true, movies can inspire us to learn something besides the entertainment we get.

I have been out of Steemit for almost a week and just utilized little time to post some blogs. I am hoping to respond to all your messages today.

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