From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 10/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. Antonio Banderas

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Antonio Banderas is a Spanish actor, producer and singer who started his acting career by acting in Spanish movies but later moved to Hollywood and has been part of some of the blockbuster movies including Mask of Zorro.

His Hollywood movies include Philadelphia, Evita, Assassins, Desperado, The Expendables 3, Spy Kids and The Mask of Zorro.

Although he wanted to become a soccer player as a kid, but a broken foot during practice means, he has to give the aspiration of a footballer.

Besides the movies, he owns wine business with 50% stake in a winery in Villalba de Duero, Spain.

He is a 4 time winner of Spanish awrd Premios Juventud and has won an honorary Platino Award and European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award.

2. Wolfgang Paul

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Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist who was the co-developer of the non magnetic quadrupole filter which was the base for the invention of ion trap, a combination of electric or magnetic fields used to capture charged particles.

He worked as a private lecturer for many years and then became a professor at University if Bonn.

Besides the ion trap, he was responsible for the development of molecular beam lenses.

For his development of ion trap, he along with Hans Georg Dehmelt shared half of Nobel Prize(other half was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.) in Physics in 1989.

3. Marja-Liisa Hamalainen

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Marja-Liisa Hamalainen is a Finnish former cross country skier who is a winner of 3 gold medals in 1984 Winter Olympics held at Sarajevo.

She was the most successful athlete of 1984 Winter Olympics with those 3 gold medals and added 3 more bronze medals in the subsequent Olympics held in 1988 and 1994.

In the World Championships, she won 3 gold medals and 5 silver medals in the championships she played between 1978 to 1993.

For her achievements, she was honoured with Holmenkollen medal(Norwegian skiing's highest award for competitors) in 1989.

4. Juan Manuel Santos

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Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian former politician who was President of Columbia from 2010 to 2018.

He is an economist by profession and also a journalist and worked in various positions like deputy director and later director of a newspaper, a visiting fellow at Tufts University, President of Freedom of Expression Commission for Inter American Press Association before being appointed as Columbia's first Minister of Foreign Trade in 1991 by the then President César Gaviria Trujillo.

He was then appointed as Minister of National Defence and was successful in taking a stance against FARC(a guerilla movement in Columbia) and other guerrilla groups and for this effort, he was honoured with Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.

5. Henri Nestlé

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Henri Nestlé was a Swiss confectioner and founder of Nestlé, which is the world's largest food and beverage company.

He was also one of the main creators of condensed milk(cow's milk from which water has been removed).

Although born in Germany, he moved to Switzerland and started working as a pharmacist as per his education, and then worked into various professions like producer of nut oil, liqueurs, rum, manufacturing and selling of carbonated water, gas lighters and fertilizers and then finally the powdered milk product which paved way for founding Nestlé Company in 1879.

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