From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 12/Jun/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. Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima is a Brazilian model and actress who is known for her modeling as Victoria's Secret Angel since 1999, thus becoming the longest running model and named as most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel in year 2017.
She has modeled/being model for brands like Maybelline, Kia Motors, Super Bowl, Armani, Ellie Saab, Blumarine.
Since 2014, she is the world's second highest paid model with over US$ 8 million and her 2016's earnings were 10.5 million.
She has been featuring in FHM magazine's list of Sexiest Women in the World ever since she started modeling in 1999.
2. George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush is an American politician who served as 41st President of the United States after serving as 43rd Vice President.
He is the oldest living president and vice president besides being the longest lived president in history.
Bush has been known for his humanitarian activities along with Bill Clinton.
3. Javed Miandad
Javed Miandad is a former Pakistani cricketer who was known for his unconventional style of batting as well as captaincy.
He was part of Pakistani test and ODI teams between 1975 and 1996 and is still remembered for his last ball 6 to win an ODI against India when 4 runs were required of last ball.
He has scored over 8800 test runs and 7300 ODI runs and is regarded as one of the finest batsmen in cricket history.
After his retirement from cricket, he has worked thrice as coach of Pakistan national cricket team.
He is one of the only 2 to appear in 6 world cup competitions.
4. Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a German born diarist and is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of Holocaust.
She became famous with her book The Diary of a Young Girl which is one of the world's most known books and has been translated into more than 60 languages.
Her other publications which were posthumously published include Tales from the Secret Annex and Het Achterhuis.
5. Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist who is known for his inventions of function of single ion channels in cells and invention of patch clamp.
He worked as a professor at Heidelberg University and is currently leading an emeritus group at Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
He along with Erwin Neher were awarded with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991.
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Who won't know George Bush ?
And I think I know Adriana Lima . Happy Birthday to them all
Great!! Bush senior is well known to even outsiders of USA.
And Adriana Lima is one of the famous supermodel and hence, will be popular among all.
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In fact, I love the history of George H. W Bush, he has a good potential record and everyone knew his good heart in the world. Thanks for keeping us updated
Great!!, Yeah, George W Bush has done some good work for the people of USA and tried his best to maintain relations with other countries and was instrumental even when Vietnam war was going on.
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