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. Elon Musk
Elon Musk is an American business magnate, engineer and investor who is the founder and CEO along with lead designer of SpaceX.
He is also the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, inc and Neuralink.
He was ranked 21st on Forbes list of World's Most Powerful People in 2016 and has a net worth of US$20.8 billion as of February 2018 and is the 53rd richest person in the world.
Through his companies, he aims at changing the world and humanity and he has goals to reduce global warming by having sustainable energy and have plans to establish human colony on Mars.
2. Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates is an American actress and director who is a winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress.
She has also acted on stage and television performances and got a nomination for Tony Award and 14 nominations to Emmy Awards.
Her movies include 'night, Mother, Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes, Dolores Claiborne, Titanic.
Besides the Academy Award, she has 2 Emmy Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards and has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
3. Mushtaq Ahmed
Mushtaq Ahmed is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in 52 test matches claiming 185 wickets and 144 ODI's taking 161 wickets.
He was one of the 3 best wrist spinners of his time and his stint with county team Surrey was more fruitful as he was the leading County wicket taker for 5 consecutive years from 2003.
Later he worked as spin bowling coach with England cricket team and currently he works as head coach of Pakistan's National Cricket Academy.
He was PCA Player of the Year in 2003.
4. Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker, economist, social entrepreneur who is founder of Grameen Bank.
He is a pioneer in building the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.
He is ranked as no. 2 in the list of Top 100 Global Thinkers announced by Foreign Policy magazine.
For his contributions to microcredit and microfinance and also for founding Grameen Bank, he and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded with Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
He is also a recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom from United States in 2009 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.
5. Sjoukje Dijkstra
Sjoukje Dijkstra is a Dutch former competitive figure skater and Olympic champion in ladies singles in 1964 Olympics.
She is also a silver medalist in ladies singles of 1960 Olympics and 3 time World champion along with being the 5 time European champion and 6 time Holland's National champion.
Her gold in 1964 Olympics was the first gold for Dutch at Winter Olympics.
She has been inducted into International Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2014.
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