From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 08/Aug/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. Roger Federer
Roger Federer as most of us know is a Swiss professional tennis player and winner of 20 grand slam singles titles, which is most for a male player in the history of tennis.
8 Wimbledon titles(that's a record), 6 Australian Open titles(a joint record), 5 US Open title(another record) and 1 French Open title constitutes those 20 grand slam singles for him.
He has also won 6 year end tour finals and a gold medal in doubles in 2008 Beijing Olympics and a silver medal in 2012 London Olympics.
He has won ATP Player of the Year 5 times and tour sportsmanship award 13 times.
He has been known for his philanthropic works whether in South Africa or causes like supporting the victims of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunami.
2. Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman is an American actor and director who is film, theatre and television actor and is known for his versatile acting.
He has been part of the movies like Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man, Papillon, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man.
H has been a winner of 2 Academy Awards, 6 Golden Globe Awards, 4 BAFTA Awards, 2 Emmy Awards.
He is also honoured with Kennedy Center Honors Award and International Emmy Award for Best Actor.
3. Kane Williamson
Kane Williamson is a New Zealand cricketers who plays all the 3 formats and is one of the prolific batsmen of the current generation along with Virat Kohli from India, Joe Root from England and Steve Smith from Australia.
From the 65 test matches he has played, he has scored over 5300 runs at an average over 50 with 18 centuries and 26 half centuries.
He has also scored over 5000 runs in ODI's in the 127 matches he played.
Besides national duty, he has played for various franchises like Northern Districts in his own country, Gloucestershire and Yorkshire in County cricket, Barbados Tridents in Caribbean premier league and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Indian Premier League where he captained the team to the final in 2018 edition.
4. Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Lawrence was an American nuclear scientist who is the inventor of cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator.
He is also know for his work on Uranium isotope separation as part of Manhattan project and was founder of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory.
Chemical element number 103 is named after him with name lawrencium.
For his contribution to nuclear physics, he was honoured with Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939.
His other honours include Officer of the Legion of Honour, Hughes Medal, Holley Medal, Faraday Medal, Enrico Fermi Award, Medal of Merit to name a few.
5. Henry Osborn
Henry Osborn was an American paleontologist, geologist who was president of American Museum of National History for 25 years.
As a trustee of American Museum, he collected finest fossils and was part of many fossil hunting expeditions to American southwest.
He was a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was honoured with Daniel Giaraud Ellit Medal, Hayden Memorial Geological Award.
He has also published books like Men of the Old Stone Age, Evolution and Religion, The Origin and Evolution of Life.
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I think the most popular among them would be Roger Federer?
Obviously, who doesn't know Roger Federer? Even someone who is not a follower of tennis might have also heard/read about him.
Yes . absolutely :)