From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 15/May/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. Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit is an Indian actress who mainly acted in Bollywood movies and is known for her acting and dancing skills.
She is the actress with highest nominations to Filmfare Award for Best Actress with 14 nominations and won it 6 times.
She was part of some of the big hit movies like Ram Lakhan, Dil, Saajan, Beta, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Dil To Pagal Hai, Devdas and Pukar to name a few.
Since 2014, she isn't much active as an actress, but has been working as a judge for dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
She has been honoured with fourth highest Indian civilian award Padma Shri in 2008.
2. Andy Murray
Andy Murray is a British professional tennis player from Scotland and a 3 grand-slam winner(2 Wimbledon Singles titles and a US Open Singles title).
He is also a 2 time gold medalist in Olympic Tennis Men's Singles competition winning it in 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics.
His records in Davis Cups reads 11-0 with 8 singles wins and 3 doubles wins and he helped Britain win Davis Cup in 2015.
He is known for his rivalries with the other top players like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
He has been appointed as Officer of the Order of British Empire in 2013 because of his services to sports and was appointed as Knight Bachelor in 2017.
3. Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie was a French physicist who mainly researched on crystallography, magnetism, radioactivity and piezoelectricity.
It's notable that his wife Marie Curie, his daughter Irene Curie and son in law Frederic Joliet Curie were all scientists like and all of them including Pierre Curie were awarded with Nobel Prize for their researches on radioactivity.
Pierre Curie shared his Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel.
The unit of radioactivity Curie is named after Pierre Curie.
4. Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson was an American economist and first American to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
He was called as Father of Economics by economic historian Randall E. Parker and was considered to be the most influential economist of later twentieth century.
Samuelson was awarded with National Medal of Science in 1996 and was a Fellow of Royal Society of London and Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
5. Veronica Campbell-Brown
Veronica Campbell-Brown is a Jamaican track and field sprinter who mainly competes in 100 and 200 meter run.
She is a 8 time Olympic medalist and second woman in history of Olympics to win 2 back to back medals in 200 meter.
She is also the only woman to win a medal in world championships at youth, junior and senior level of an athletic event.
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