From History: Today's Famous Birthdays

Hi Steemians,

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. Rod Laver

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Rod Laver is an Australian former professional tennis player and winner of 11 Grand slam singles titles.

He is regarded as one of the greatest of all time and was ranked no. 1 as a professional tennis player from 1964 to 1970.

He has won a total of 200 ATP singles titles, which itself is a record.

He is the only professional tennis player to achieve calendar year grand slam twice.

He was honoured with Member of the Order of British Empire in 1970, Companion of the Order of Australia in 2016 and has been inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1981 and Sports Australia Hall of Fame in 1985.

Center Court at Melbourne Park which hosts Australian Open is named in his honour.

2. Mahesh Babu

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Mahesh Babu is an Indian actor and producer who mainly acts in South Indian language of Telugu and is one of the famous Telugu actors.

He is from a actors family as his father Krishna was a superstar in Telugu movie industry.

Mahesh started his acting career as a child artist by acting at the age of 4 in the movie Needa and acted in about 9 films as a child artist before making his debut as a hero in movie Rajakumarudu in 1999.

He has acted in some of the blockbuster movies in Telugu such as Okkadu, Pokiri, Dookudu, Businessman, Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, Srimanthudu.

He is a winner of 8 Nandi Awards(the state movie award from Andhra Pradesh state), 5 Filmfare South Awards and 3 South Indian International Movie awards.

3. Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy who is regarded as one of the greatest authors in the history was a Russian writer.

He is known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina besides his other works like Family Happiness, The Death of Ivan Ilyich including his semi autobiographical trilogy "Childhood, Boyhood and Youth".

Besides the novels, he also wrote many short stories, plays and non-fictional works.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were impacted by his work of The Kingdom of God Is Within You.

4. Whitney Houston

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Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress who was among the best selling music artists of all time and was a Guinness record holder for most awarded female act of all time.

During her career, she had released 7 studio albums and 2 soundtrack albums all of those had been certified as either diamond or platinum or gold or multi-platinum.

She was the only artist to have 7 consecutive no. 1 billboard hot 100 songs.

She won more than 400 awards which is a record and the awards include 22 American Music Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards, 1 Emmy Award, 8 Grammy Awards, 6 People's Choice Awards, 14 World Music Awards and a whopping 15 Guinness World Records.

5. William A Fowler

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William A Fowler was an American nuclear physicist and astrophysicist who was a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1983.

He was a graduate from Ohio State University and a Ph. D holder in nuclear physics from California Institute of Technology.

He worked as a director of Kellogg Radiation Laboratory and his main publications include "synthesis of the elements in stars", "nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of chemical elements in the universe", "Neutron capture chains in heavy element synthesis".

Besides Nobel Prize, he was a winner of Vetlesen Prize, National Medal of Science, Eddington Medal.

Please also note that one of the moderators of eSteemApp and my friend Hive account@horpey is also celebrating his Birthday today. Wishing him a fun filled happy and prosperous Birthday :)