From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 11/Jul/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. Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player and former world no. 1 singles player.
She holds the record of being the first Scandinavian to hold world no. 1 ranking.
She is a winner of 2018 Australian Open women's singles title winner and has won a total of 29 WTA singles and 2 WTA doubles titles.
She is also a winner of year end WTA Finals title in 2017.
In May 2018, she has been honoured with apointment of Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by Queen of Denmark.
2. John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who was the sixth President of United States.
He was the son of second President of United States, John Adams.
He is regarded as one of the greatest diplomats in American history and is ranked as an above average President.
He was a supporter of abolition of slavery and was also the first U.S. Minister to Russia.
3. Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri is an American author who is winner of 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in short story and currently works as a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
She won Pulitzer Prize for her debut short story collection named Interpreter of Maladies in 2000.
Since then, she has completed works like The Namesake(which has been adapted as a movie), The Lowland, Unaccustomed Earth, Hell Heaven.
Besides Pulitzer Prize, she is a winner of O. Henry Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Asian American Literary Award, National Humanities Medal.
She got a Man Booker Prize nomination and National Book Award for Fiction nomination for he book The Lowland.
4. Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer known for his tailored lines through his company Armani.
His company has an annual turnover of $1.6 billion along with his personal fortune of $8.1 billion.
He has established himself as the most successful designer of Italian origin.
He has been made the Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2008 and has been inducted into The Walk Style.
5. EB White
EB White was an American writer and world federalist who was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine for more than 15 years.
His works include children's books Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan.
He was awarded with with special Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for his contribution to literature.
He was also honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.
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