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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. Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton is an American politician known by many of us and was the 42nd President of United States.
He served as President from 1993 to 2001 and before that, he was the governor of Arkansas serving 2 terms from 1979 to 1981 and then 1983 to 1992.
He was the third youngest to become President at the age of 46.
He has been honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 by then President Barack Obama and National Order of Honour and Merit from government of Haiti for his initiatives including the earthquake relief in 2010.
2. Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella is an Indian American business executive and current CEO of Microsoft working in that rank since 2014.
He previously worked as Vice President of Microsoft looking after cloud and enterprise group.
He is responsible for creation of Microsoft's database, Windows server and tools related to development for Azure cloud.
He helped in growing the revenue from cloud services which improved to US$20.3 billion from the prior revenue of 16.6 billion.
3. Mary Joe Fernandez
Mary Joe Fernandez is an American former professional tennis player who is a winner of 2 gold medals in women's doubles and a bronze medal in women's singles events of Olympics.
She rose to as high as 4th in WTA rankings and was a finalist of 3 grand slam singles tournaments with 2 US Opens in 1990 and 1992 and a French Open tournament in 1993.
She is a winner of 2 grand slam doubles titles one each for Wimbledon in 1991 and French Open in 1996 besides being the finalist of US Open in 1989.
She was also a winner of Year End tours title in doubles in 1996.
4. Orville Wright
Orville Wright is one half of the Wright brothers along with his brother Wilbur who were the engineers, aviators, inventors and are credited with inventing, building and flying the first successful airplane.
Their method of building an aircraft remains the fundamental even now also to build an aircraft for all kinds.
They built Wright Company in 1909 with Wilbur as President and his brother Orville as Vice President.
Upon his brother's death in 1912, Orville became the President of Wright Company and he sold the company in 1915 although he wasn't as skilled as his brother.
Wright brothers were inducted into the Hall of Fame of Great Americans.
5. Sudha Murthy
Sudha Murthy is an Indian philanthropist and writer in South Indian language of Kannada and is wife of co-founder of Infosys, Mr. Narayan Murthy.
She is a Computer scientist and engineer by profession and works as chairperson of Infosys Charity Foundation and a member of Gates Foundation founded by Owner of Microsoft, Mr. Bill Gates.
She has written many books in Kannada and taught Computer Science in various schools and colleges.
She is a recipient of India's fourth highest civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2006.
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