From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 30/Aug/2018

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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. Cameron Diaz

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Cameron Diaz is a retired American actress, producer, author and fashion model who is fifth highest grossing US domestic box office actress as of 2018.

In 2013, she was named as the Highest paid actress over 40 in Hollywood.

She has acted in movies like The Mask, Charlie's Angels and it's sequel, My Best Friend's Wedding, There's Something About Mary, Bad Teacher, In Her Shoes, What Happens in Vegas, My Sister's Keeper, Gangs of New York.

She is also author of a New York Times bestseller The Body Book.

She is a 4 time nominee to Golden Globe Awards and has won a People's Choice Award, 2 Teen Choice Awards, a Jupiter Award.

She has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2. Ernest Rutherford

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Ernest Rutherford was a New-Zealand-British physicist who is known as Father of nuclear physics.

He was the first to demonstrate about the concept of radio active half life(time required to reduce the quantity by half) and was also the first to differentiate the alpha and beta radiation.

He proposed that atoms have their own charge concentrated in a small nucleus and discovered and interpreted the Rutherford Scattering.

He was honoured with Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his inventions on disintegration of elements and chemistry of radioactive substances.

He was made Baron of Nelson and called as Baron Rutherford of Nelson.

3. Leisel Jones

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Leisel Jones is an Australian former competitive swimmer who was a participant in Olympics at the age of 15.

She participated in 2000 Summer Olympics held at Sydney when she was 15 and won silver medals in 100 m backstroke and 4 X 100 medley events.

She returned to 2004 Athens Olympics and won a gold in 4 X 100 m medley and silver in 200 m backstroke along with a bronze in 100 m backstroke.

2008 Beijing Olympics was much more fruitful for her as she won a gold each in 100 m breaststroke and 4 X 100 m medley events and won a silver in 200 m breaststroke.

She had even more better results in world championships where she won 7 gold medals, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals.

Her Commonwealth Games medals tally reads as 10 gold medals and a lone silver medal.

She has been honoured with Order of Australia in 2004 for her services to the sports.

She was Australian Swimmer of the Year in 2006 and World Swimmer of the Year in 2005 and 2006 and has been inducted into Sports Australia Hall of Fame in 2015.

4. Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist and speaker who is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

He is regarded as one of the successful investors and with a networth of US$ 84 billion, he is among the Top 3 wealthiest persons in the world putting him at third position.

He is notable for his philanthropic works and has pledges to give away 99 percent of his wealth as part of a pledge via Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and he is the co-founder of The Giving Pledge along with Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

He was World's Richest Person in 1995 and 2008 to 2009.

5. Vic Seixas

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Vic Seixas is an American former tennis player and winner of 15 grand slam titles including 2 singles titles of Wimbledon and US Open Championships.

All in all his 15 grand slams includes 5 doubles(a Australian Open, 2 French Open and 2 US Open titles) and 8 mixed doubles(a French Open, 4 Wimbledon and 3 US Open titles) besides his 2 singles titles.

He also helped US win Davis Cup in 1954 and is an inductee into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.

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