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. Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl is a Czechoslovakian born American retired former world no. 1 tennis player who is one of the greatest tennis players in the history of tennis.
He is a winner of 8 grand-slams (runner-up a record 11 times) and 5 time winner of Tour Finals.
He was world no. 1 for 270 weeks and has won a total of 94 singles titles.
He worked as coach to Britain's number one tennis player, Andy Murray and helped him to win 3 majors and reach world No. 1.
2. David Baltimore
David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator who served as President of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006. He is a key contributor to immunology, virology, cancer research, biotechnology and recombinant DNA research.
He is a winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and has trained many doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.
He is also a winner of National Medal of Science and is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
3. Viv Richards
Viv Richards is a former West Indies test and ODI cricket player who is one of the greatest batsmen of all time and is voted as one of the 5 cricketers of the century (along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne) by a panel of 100 members in 2000.
He was chosen by Wisden as Greatest ODI Player of All Time and Third Greatest Test Player of All Time.
He was knighted by his native country Antigua and Barbuda.
He has been inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
4. Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress who was a recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actress. H
er movies include L'Amore, Bellissima, The Rose Tattoo, The Fugitive Kind.
Apart from being the winner of Academy Award for her movie The Rose Tattoo, she was nominated to Academy Award for another movie Wild is the Wind.
5. Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher is an Indian actor and present chairman of Film and Television Institute of India.
He mainly works in Hindi films and has acted over 500 movies in many languages with majority being Hindi films.
He has even worked some international projects like "Bend it Like Beckham", "Lust, Caution", "Silver Linings Playbook".
He is a winner of a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor and has won 5 Filmfare awards for Best Performance in a Comic Role.
He has been honoured with India's third and fourth highest civilian awards Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri respectively.