From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 09/Oct/2018
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. Annika Sörenstam
Annika Sörenstam is a Swedish retired professional golfer who is a winner of 10 women's majors titles.
She has been regarded as one of the leading ladies and all time great women's golf player.
She has won a total of 72 LPGA tournaments and she is the leading lady in terms of earnings more than US$ 22 million.
She was Player of the Year a record 8 times.
She was inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.
2. Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric was an Yugoslav novelist, short story writer and poet who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
He was known for his writings depicting life of the people of Bosnia under the rule of Ottoman empire.
Some of his works include Na Drini ćuprija, Pod gradićem: Pripovetke o životu bosanskog sela, Eseji i kritike, Put Alije Đerzelez.
He was honoured with Legion of Honour, Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour.
3. John Lennon
John Lennon was an English singer, songwriter and peace activist who was one of the co-founders of music band the Beatles.
He worked as team member of the Beatles as well as a solo artist and had 25 number one singles on US Billboard Hot 100.
He had as many as 14 million albums sale way back in 2012 itself.
He was inducted to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as member of the Beatles and in 1994 as a solo artist.
He was also inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987.
4. Eddie Guerrero
Eddie Guerrero was an American professional wrestler who worked for various wrestling agencies including WWF/WWE.
He was a WWE Tag Team champion as well as WWE championship.
He was one of the most liked wrestlers of his time and was also an inspiration to other wrestlers.
He was inducted into WWE Hall of Fame posthumously.
5. Emil Fischer
Emil Fischer was a German chemist who is known for Fischer esterification, a special type of esterfication by refluxing carboxylic acid and alcohol in presence of an acid catalyst.
He was known for his work on sugars, organic synthesis and glucose.
He is regarded as a prominent person in the discovery of barbiturates.
He was a foreign member of Royal Society and won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902.
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Dear sir,
Good evening.
Happy Birthday to all and soecially to Eddie Guerrero his unfortunate death due to heart attack during a tag team match, breaks my heart and it's still hurting me when I recall that match.
God bless you dear sir.
Yes, an untimely death for Eddy Gurrero, I think he was all of 38.
Nice to know you are a wrestling fan. :)
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