From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 16/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. Pierce Brosnan

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Pierce Brosnan is an Irish born American actor, film producer and activist who acted in many James Bond movies as part of Eon Productions film series.

He started as a stage actor after getting trained in Drama Centre in London.

His movies include Tomorrow Never Dies, Golden Eye, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Dane's Peak, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Ghost Writer.

Brosnan has been made the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

2. Gabriela Sabatini

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Gabriela Sabatini is an Argentine former professional tennis player and was one of the leading players during 1980's and early 1990's.

She is a US Open champion in 1990 and has won a grand-slam doubles title too in 1988 Wimbledon.

Besides grand-slams, she has won silver medal in women's tennis sinles in 1988 Seoul Olympics and has been in WTA finals in 1988 and 1994.

She is known for her charity works and is part of campaigns of UNICEF and UNESCO.

She has been nducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.

3. Janet Jackson

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Janet Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress who has sold over 100 million records making her one of the World's Best Selling Music Artists.

She is second only to Maria Carey in Billboard's Most Successful Recording Artist of the decade.

She has released 11 studio albums and has been called as Queen of Pop.

She has been nominated to Academy Awards once, has won 11 American Music Awards, 10 Billboard Music Awards, 5 Grammy Awards and 9 Guinness Warld records.

4. Olga Korbut

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Olga Korbut is a Belarusian former gymnast who is called as Sparrow from Minsk.

She is 4 gold and 2 silver medal winner in 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics.

She became the first gymnast to be inducted into International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988.

Besides 6 medals in Olympics, she has won 2 gld and 4 silver medals in World Championships and a silver in European Championships in short career of her which spanned just for 8 years.

5. Megan Fox

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Megan Fox is an American actress and model and started her career in 2001 by acting in minor television and movie roles.

She first made a film debut in 2004 with teen comedy movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.

Her movies include Transformers and it's sequel, Jennifer's Body, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

She has been on the covers of magazines Maxim, Rolling Stone and FHM and has been considered as the modern female sex symbols.

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