From History: Today's Famous Birthdays

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 courtesy, google.com.

1. Prince Charles

Charles is the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and is the longest serving heir apparent in the history of Britain.

He is holding this position since 1952.

He is also known as Duke of Cornwall in South West England and known as Duke of Rothesay in Scotland.

Charles also served in Royal Navy from 1971 to 1976.

He wrote numerous books including "A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture".

2. Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of India and was one of the prominent leaders of Indian Independence movement.

He is recognized as the architect of modern Indian national-state.

He is called as Pandit Nehru because of his roots with Kashmiri Pandit community.

He was fond of children and hence children used to call him as Chacha Nehru(Uncle Nehru), November 14th, his Birthday is celebrated as Children's Day in India.

3. Yanni

Yiannis Chryssomallis professionally known as Yanni is a Greek composer, keyboardist, music producer and pianist.

He shot into fame when he started producing concerts at historic monuments and producing videos that were broadcast on public television.

Some of the places with monuments where his concerts held include, Taj Mahal in India (One of the New 7 wonders of World), Forbidden City in China, Kremlin in Russia, Burj Khalifa in United Arab Emirates, Egyptian Pyramids.

He has received Grammy Award nominations for 2 of his albums.

He has been called as "True Global Artist".

4. Olga Kurylenko

Ólha Konstantýnivna Kurylénko famously known as Olga Kurylenko is a French actress and a model who is originally from Ukraine who started her movie career with movie Hitman in 2007.

She became popular when she played the Bond Girl in 22nd Bond movie Quantum of Solace in 2008.

Her other prominent movies include Oblivion, The Water Diviner, Momentum, To the Wonder.

She is set to play in the upcoming comedy movie Johny English 3.

5. Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat, who is the first African American Secretory of State as she served as the 66th Secretory of State in the administration of President George W Bush.

She is also the second female Secretory of State of USA.

She also served as the first woman National Security Adviser during first tenure of President George W Bush.

She is currently on Board of Directors of DropBox and Makena Capital Management, LLC.