From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 11/Jun/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. Shia LaBeouf

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Shia LaBeouf is an American actor and filmmaker who is part of movies like Transformers and it's sequels, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

He received Young Artist Award nomination for his performance as Louis Stevens in Disney Channel series Even Stevens and that made him famous and won him a Daytime Emmy Award.

His other movies apart from the ones mentioned above include Lawless, The Company You Keep, American Honey, Borg vs McEnroe, Constantine, Eagle Eye, Disturbia.

He won a BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award and 2 Teen Choice Awards.

He has directed few short films and has worked as performance artist and has collaborated with well known artists.

2. Diana Taurasi

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Diana Taurasi is an American professional basketball player and played for Phoenix Mercury team of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

She has won 3 WNBA championships in 2007, 2009 and 2014 and an WNBA Most Valuable Player Award in 2009.

She is also a winner of 4 Olympic gold medals as part of team in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

She also holds the record of being one of the 9 women to win Olympic gold medal, an NCAA championship and a WNBA championship.

She is called by nickname White Mamba and is considered as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

3. Robin Warren

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Robin Warren is an Australian pathologist and researcher who is credited with re-discovery of bacterium Helicobacter pylori which is proved as the cause of most peptic ulcers.

Warren got trained at Royal Adelaide Hospital and got appointed as honorary clinical assistant in same college and later went onto become registrar at Royal Melbourne Hospital.

As part of his work at University of Western Australia, he along with his colleague Barry. J. Marshal proved that bacterium is the main cause of stomach ulcers and he developed a diagnostic test to detect the ulcers.

For the bacterium related research, he and Barry. J. Marshal were awarded with Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2005.

He was appointed as Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007.

4. Tiffany Cohen

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Tiffany Cohen is an American former swimmer who is a double gold medal winner in 1984 Summer Olympics.

She participated in 400 and 800 m freestyle and took gold in both events.

Besides Olympics medals, she is also a winner of 3 gold medals in 1986 US national championships where she won 400 m and 800 m freestyles along with 200 m butterfly gold medals.

She has been inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in 1996.

5. Yuriy Sedykh

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Yuriy Sedykh is a retired Soviet track and field athlete who mainly competed in hammer throw and is a world record holder with 86.74 m.

He is a winner of 2 gold medals and a silver medal in Olympics and is a winner of a gold and a silver medals in world championships along with 3 golds in European championships.

He was Men's Track & Field Athlete of the Year in 1986 and has been inducted into International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 2013.

Special Mentions:

Happy to announce that some of our established Steemians like @nairadaddy, @preciousimo are celebrating their Birthdays today and a heartfelt Birthday wishes to them, thanks to @eunireal1 for asking me to include the names of these people in my daily birthday post.

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