From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 12/Jul/2018 - Part 2

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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. Brock Lesnar

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Brock Lesnar is an American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist who played football previously and is reigning WWE Universal Champion.

He also takes part in mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championship competing under heavyweight category.

He became the youngest WWE champion at the age of 25 when he won WWE championship in 2002.

Subsequently, he won 2002's King of the Ring, 2003's Royal Rumble and he is a 5 time WWE Champion, 1 time champion in NJPW and IGF, 1 time champion in UFC and 1 time champion in NCAA and that makes him the only person to win all these championships.

2. Jordyn Wieber

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Jordyn Wieber is an American former artistic gymnast who was part of the Fierce Five, the team of 2012 Summer Olympics team competition winners.

Wieber was part of the world championship winning team in 2011 where, she won a individual all-around along with the team gold.

Besides Olympic and world championships, she was part of US National championships winning 4 gold medals in individual categories, 3 golds in American cup and 4 gold medals in Pacific Rim Championships.

After her retirement from elite gymnastics in 2015, she is working as a volunteer assistant coach.

3. Pablo Neruda

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Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet and diplomat who is considered as national poet of Chile.

He started writing poems at the age of 13 and his works include 100 Love Sonnets, Winter Garden, Still Another Day, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Dispair.

He worked in various positions in various countries and was also as senator of Chilean Communist Party once.

He was honoured with Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 for his contributions as a poet.

4. Bruny Surin

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Bruny Surin is a Canadian track and field athlete who is a winner of gold medal in 4 X 100 m relay in 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

He has broken 10 seconds barrier multiple times in 100 m and his personal best stands at 9.84 seconds.

Besides his Olympic gold in 1996 Olympics, Surin has won 2 gold, 2 silver and a bronze medal in world championships in 4 world championships he has participated from 1993 to 1999.

He was made Knight of the National Order of the Quebec and has been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 as part of 4 X 100 relay team which won gold medal in 19996 Olympics.

5. Elias James Corey

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Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist who developed the theory and methodology of organic synthesis with main analysis being retrosynthetic analysis.

He is being regarded as one of the greatest living chemists and has developed numerous synthetic reagents and methodologies as part of his work and discoveries.

He earned his bachelors and Ph.D from MIT after entering there as a 16 year old and after that, he worked as professor at University of Illinois and later at Harvard University.

For his contributions to organic synthesis, he is honoured with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1990, National Medal of Science in 1998, Priestley Medal in 2004.

He is a foreign member of Royal Society of London.

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