From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 10/Jun/2018

in #onthisday6 years ago (edited)

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. Kate Upton

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Kate Upton is an American model and actress who in 2011 named as Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Rookie of the Year.

She went on to be the cover model for the same magazine for 2012, 2013 and 2017 issues along with being the cover girl of 100th anniversary issue of Vanity Fair.

She has been part of movies Tower Heist, The Other Woman and The Layover.

She has also modeled/appeared on magazines for the brands like Garage, Dooney & Bourke, Harper's Bazaar, V, LOVE, GQ, Elle.

She is a winner of People Magazine Award for People's Sexiest Woman in 2014.

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2. Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow was a Canadian American writer who is the only writer to win National Book Award for Fiction 3 times and is regarded as one of the greatest authors of twentieth century.

He was also a winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, Pulitzer Prize and National Medal of Arts.

His best works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift, Ravelstein.

He was inducted into Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2010.

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3. Prakash Padukone

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Prakash Padukone is a former badminton player from India and is a former World no. 1 player.

He became the first Indian to win All England Open Badminton Championships in 1980.

He is a co-founder of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation dedicated to promotion of Olympic sports in India.

Besides All England Open Badminton Championship, Padukone has won a gold in World cup, a bronze in World Championships, gold in Commonwealth Games and 2 bronze in Asian Games.

He is a recipient of Arjuna Award(second highest sports award in India) and Padma Shri Award(fourth highest Indian civilian award).

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4. Prince Philip

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Prince Philip is the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen of United Kingdom.

Prince Philip was born in Greece and was born into Greek and Danish royal families.

He is a patron, president or a member of over 780 organizations and is chairman of Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

He holds the record for longest serving consort of a reigning British monarch and oldest ever male member of British Royal Family.

On their 70th wedding anniversary in 2017, Queen appointed him Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) of the Royal Victorian Order.

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5. E. O. Wilson

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E. O. Wilson is an American biologist, researcher, author and naturalist who is a world's leading expert in myrmecology, the study of ants.

He is also being called as Father of biodiversity, Father of Sociobiology.

He is a 2 time Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Nonfiction category and has published about 14 books and some of those are The Future of Life, Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus, From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth.

He is a member of National Academy of Sciences and is a winner of National Medal of Science, International Prize for Biology, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Kew International Medal.

He was elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of London in 1990.

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Kate Upton was good in the movie Tower Heist.

I hope you are well my friend.

Thank you, I am doing good my friend :)

I am working as a curator for one of the community, so, not finding much time to reply back to the messages I receive.

I hope everything is good with you.

That sounds like fun. I hope you are enjoying it. I am just glad you are doing well. I figure you will get to messages when you have a moement.

Things are good here.

Yeah, it's fin and at the same time consumes lot of time.

I figure you will get to messages when you have a moement.

Yes, but I am trying to ensure I reply to all the messages however late it is. Glad to be back chatting with you on different things.

It is good to chat again. Have an awesome day. :)

Happy birthday to this great minds
Cannot wait for the update for todays Birthday Celebrants

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