From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 09/Jun/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. Johnny Depp

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Johnny Depp is an American actor, producer and musician who is a 3 time nominee to Academy Awards and is famous for his role as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl movie and it's sequels.

He is also known for his roles in movies like Platoon, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, Black Mass, The Tourist.

He has been listed in Guinness World Records in 2012 for being the highest paid actor with earnings of $75 million.

He has been inducted as a Disney Legend(a hall of fame program that recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary and integral contribution to The Walt Disney Company) in 2015.

Depp has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and is a winner of a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, a Empire Award and has been a winner of People's Choice Award on numerous times.

2. Miroslav Klose

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Miroslav Klose is a retired professional football player from Germany who played as striker for Italian club Lazio and German National Football team and is current member of Germany national team's coaching staff.

He was part of 2014 German team which won FIFA World Cup and also part of the German teams in 2002 when team finished second and 2006 and 2010 teams where German team finished third.

He holds the record for being the top goalscorer in FIFA worldcup history with 5 goals in his debut worldcup in 2002.

He is a winner of FIFA World Cup - Golden Boot in 2006 and was named German Footballer of the Year in 2006.

3. Natalie Portman

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Natalie Portman is an Israeli/American actress and film producer who is best known for her role Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

She is also part of movies like Closer, V for Vendetta, The Other Boleyn Girl, No Strings Attached, Thor and it's sequel.

She worked as youngest member of 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury in 2008.

She is a winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress, a British Academy Film Award, 2 Golden Globe Awards and an Screen Actors Guild Award.

4. George Stephenson

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George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is known as Father of Railways.

He is known for building first steam locomotive along with his son Robert Stephenson and was also the first to build first public inter-city railway line in the world to use locomotives, Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

His rail gauge of 4 feet and 8.5 inches is called as Stephenson Gauge and still remains as the standard gauge by name and convention for most of the world's railways.

There are many museums and a college in memory of George Stephenson and he worked as first President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

5. Laurie Hernandez

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Laurie Hernandez is an American artistic gymnast who won a gold in team event and a silver in balance beam even of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Besides Olympics, she is also a winner of gold medal in 2016 Pacific Rim Championships and 4 bronze medalist in US National Championships in 2016.

She was part of Dancing with the Stars season 23 in 2016 and she was the winner along with her partner and she was the youngest to win at the age of 16.

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