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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. Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer who is was the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at the age of 20.
He was also the first heaveyweight boxer to simultaneously hold WBA, WBC and IBF titles.
Tyson, known as Kid Dynamite is regarded as one of the all time greats of boxing and won 50 of his 58 bouts during his career.
He is also known for controversies during his professional days as we was charged with a rape case and he was again into controversy when he bit the ears of Evander Hollyfield during his WBA title match in 1996.
He has been inducted into International Boxing Hall of Fame and World Boxing Hall of Fame.
He is also a WWE Hall of Fame inductee of class of 2012.
2. Serzh Sargsyan
Serzh Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who is a 2 time Prime Minister of Armenia who later served as third President of Armenia for 2 consecutive terms starting from 2008 to 2018.
He was a candidate of Republican Party of Armenia and currently he serves as the Chairman of the same.
He got into controversy when he became Prime Minister after the end of his tenure as President of Armenia and resigned just after 6 days owing to pressure.
He was honoured with Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour by France government in 2011.
3. Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward was an American actress and singer who was a 5 time Academy Award nominee winning it once.
She started her career as a fashion model but subsequently got contracts for acting.
She has acted in movies like Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, My Foolish Heart, With a Song in My Heart, I'll Cry Tomorrow, I Want to Live!.
She was a winner of an Academy Award, 2 Golden Globe Awards and has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
4. C. N. R. Rao
C. N. R. Rao is an Indian chemist with main area of work on solid state chemistry and structural chemistry.
He is the head of the scientific advisory council to the Prime Minister of India.
He has more than 60 honorary doctorates from Universities around the world and is a author of more than 1600 publications along with 51 books.
He has been honoured by Government of India with highest Indian civilian award of Bharat Ratna in 2013.
He is also a winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize, Abdus Salam Medal, Legion of Honour from France government, Royal Medal from Royal Society of London along with Order of the Rising Son honour from Government of Japan.
5. Paul Berg
Paul Berg is an American biochemist who works as professor emeritus at Stanford University.
He researched on nucleic acids and he along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger were honoured with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980.
He worked as professor at various universities and later director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine.
Along with the Nobel Prize, he is also honoured with National Medal of Science and is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Foreign Member of Royal Society of London.
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