From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 11/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. Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan is an American retired professional wrestler, actor, entrepreneur and musician who is a 12 time world champion including 6 time WWF World Heavyweight champion.
He is regarded as the greatest wrestler of all time because of his popularity and his wins.
His wins include 6 time WWF World Heavyweight championships and 6 time WCW world heavyweight championships, a total of 12 world championships.
He was the the first wrestler to win back to back royal rumble titles.
He is an inductee into WWE Hal of Fame in 2005.
2. Christiaan Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and physiology professor who is the discoverer of anti-neuritic vitamins especially thiamine.
It was during the investigation of disease beriberi in Dutch East Indies when Eijkman discovered that the polished rice is the cause for beriberi disease and that led to invention of thiamine , i.e. vitamin B1.
For this invention, he was co-honoured with Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1929 along with Frederick Hopkins.
Other honours include being appointed as Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign associate of National Academy of Sciences.
3. Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak is an American inventor, engineer, technology entrepreneur, programmer and co-founder of Apple Inc. along with Steve Jobs.
He was also responsible for development of Apple I and co-development of Apple II computers.
He currently works as Chief Scientist at Data Virtualization company Primary Data.
His networth is estimated at US$100 million and has received National Medal in Technology along with Steve Jobs.
4. Jacqueline Fernandez
Jacqueline Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress, model and winner of Miss Universe Sri Lanka in 2006.
She mainly acts in Bollywood movies and has acted in movies like Aladin, Murder 2, Race 2, Housefull 2, Kick, Housefull 3, Judwaa 2.
She has also worked a judge of ninth season of Jhalak Dikhala Jaa in 2016-2017.
She is a supporter of charities and causes like PETA.
5. Charles William Paddock
Charles William Paddock was an American athlete who use to participate in 100m and 200m running events.
He participated in 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris Olympics winning 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals.
Besides Olympics, he participated in Universiadade representing United States winning gold medals in 100 m and 200 m events.
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