From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 08/Oct/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. Bella Thorne
Bella Thorne is an American actress and singer who started as a child model.
Her acting career started when she acted in television series My Own Worst Enemy in 2008.
Her movies include Blended, The DUFF, You Get Me, The Babysitter, Midnight Sun.
She is known for her philanthropic works and supports The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Nomad Organization and is a member of PETA organization.
2. Matt Biondi
Matt Biondi is an American former competition swimmer who is a 11 time Olympic medalist and is one of the greatest swimmers of all time.
He was part of 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics held at Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona respectively.
He won While he won a gold in 1984 Olympics, he went on to win 5 golds, a silver and a bronze in 1988 Olympics including breaking 4 world records.
He came back in 1992 Olympics to win 2 gold medals and a silver to finish his Olympic career with a 11 medal haul.
His other achievements include 6 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronze medals in World Championships, a whooping 13 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronze medals in Pan Pacific Games.
He is a member of International Swimming Hall of Fame and United States Olympic Hall of Fame.
3. Garbiñe Muguruza
Garbiñe Muguruza is a Spanish-Venezuelan professional tennis star who is a winner of 2 grand slams.
She is a former world no.1 WTA player and has won 2016 French Open and 2017 Wimbledon singles titles.
She has won a total of 6 WTA titles including the 2 grand slams and has won 5 WTA doubles titles.
She was an ambassador for International education NGO Room to Read.
She was WTA Player of the Year in 2017.
4. Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of American media services company Netflix.
He is also on the board of Facebook and some non profit organizations and was on the board of Microsoft.
He advocates for education through independent schools having government funding.
He is a owner of over US$ 10 million worth of Facebook shares as of 2016.
5. Laurence Doherty
Laurence Doherty was a British tennis player who won 16 grand slam titles.
He won 5 Wimbledon singles titles and a US Open singles title and 8 Wimbledon doubles titles along with 2 US Open doubles titles.
He also won 2 gold medals in Olympics one each in men's singles and doubles in 1900 Paris Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in mixed doubles in the same Olympics.
He also helped Britain to win Davis Cup for 4 consecutive years in 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906.
He got inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1980.
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