Hi Steemians,
This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day. Due to some personal issues, I couldn't write this blog on 1st of March, but as I intend to write a blog on every day about Birthdays of people on that day, I am completing this today and here is the information.
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. Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter who is the first artist to have seven songs from a debut record chart on the Billboard Hot 100 with his debut album EP, My World released in 2009.
Bieber is among the world's best selling music artists at the age of 24 and has sold over 140 millions records worldwide and is also the second person to reach 100 million followers on twitter(after Katy Perry).
Forbes has named Bieber among Top 10 most powerful celebrities in the world for years 2011, 2012 and 2013.
He also holds the record for being the first artist to surpass the 10 billion total video views on Vevo (an American multinational video hosting service).
Bieber is a winner of 17 American Music Awards, 14 Billboard Music Awards, 2 Brit Awards, 1 Grammy Award, 14 Guinness World Records and 2 Latina American Music Awards.
2. Ron Howard
Ron Howard is an American actor and filmmaker who is a 2 time Academy Award winner along with 2 time Golden Globe awards and a Grammy Award.
He has acted on television sitcoms as well and has 2 stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame (once for television and other one for his movies acting).
He was part of television show The Andy Griffith Show for 8 years and has acted in films like The Music Man, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, American Graffiti, Grand Theft Auto to name a few.
He has directed some of the blockbuster movies like Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon.
Howard is a winner of National Medal of Arts in 2003.
He has been inducted into Television Hall of Fame in 2013 and has 2 Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
3. David Niven
David Niven was an English actor, novelist and memoir who is famous for his roles in movies like A Matter of Life and Death, Around the World in 80 Days and The Pink Panther.
He was an Academy Award winner for Best Actor category for movie Separate Tables.
He was voted as the Second Most popular British actor in 1945 in a popularity poll conducted by British Film Stars.
Niven had authored 4 books including his autobiography The Moon's a Balloon, which sold over 5 million copies.
Besides Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Niven won 2 Golden Globe Awards and has 2 stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
4. Mary Kom
Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer who is a 5 time amateur boxing champion and is the only woman boxer who has won a medal in each of the 6 world championships.
She is also a bronze medal winner in 2012 London Olympics.
Nicknamed as Magnificent Mary, she was nominated for Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament by President of India in 2016.
She is an awardee of India's awards for sportsmen Rajiva Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Award and third and fourth highest Indian civilian awards Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri respectively.
5. Archer Martin
Archer Martin was an English chemist and inventor of partition chromatography(a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture) along with Richard Synge and both of them were awarded with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952.
Martin worked in Dunn Nutritional Laboratory and Boots Pure Drug Company and then head of Physical chemistry division at National Institute for Medical Research.
He is notable for publishing far lesser papers for a Nobel Laureate, all in all a 70 papers and his 9th paper won him the Nobel Prize.