From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 24/Jan/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. Sharon Tate
Sharon Tate was an American actress and model of 1960's and was regularly part of magazine as a model and cover girl.
She was murdered in her house when she was just 26 and had an modeling and acting career of 9 years.
She started her acting career in 1966 with the film Eye of the Devil.
She was part of other movies such as Valley of the Dolls (earned a Golden Globe nomination), The Fearless Vampire Killers, Don't Make Waves, Eye of the Devil.
She was regarded as one of the Hollywood's most promising newcomers.
2. Jim Montgomery
Jim Montgomery is an American former swimmer who is 4 time Olympic medalist in 1976 Montreal Olympics.
He was the first man to break 50 seconds barrier in 100m freestyle.
Besides 3 golds and a bronze medal in 1976 Olympics, he also won 5 World Championships gold medals in 1973.
He was inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1986.
3. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was an American novelist short story writer and designer who is regarded as the first woman to be honoured with Pulitzer Prize(an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States).
Her stories and novels depicted the people and morals of the 19th century.
Some of her novels include The Valley of Decision, The Reef, The Marine, A Son at the Front, The Gods Arrive.
She was inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
4. Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in is a South Korean politician and current President of South Korea.
He previously worked as student activist, human rights lawyer and chief Presidential secretary to the former President Roh Moo-hyun.
He was a Presidential candidate in 2012 Presidential elections, but lost to Park Geun-hye and in 2017 Presidential elections, Moon Jae-in became the favorite to win after reigning President Park Geun-hye was removed through an impeachment.
5. Subhash Ghai
Subhash Ghai is an Indian movie director, producer and screenwriter who is popularly known as showman.
He has given popular hit movies such as Kalicharan, Karz, Meri Jung, Ram Lakhan, Khalnayak, Taal and Black & White.
He was a National Award recipient for his social problem and awareness movie Iqbal in 2006.
He is also a recipient of IIFA Award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
Nice post @coolguy123 we come to know about them.thanks for sharing with us...
Thank you @bangsayyid. Glad you liked it. This is a daily blog from me.
Nice post, I don't know all but I know two one is
Jim Paul Montgomery the 3 Olympic gold medalist and one Olympic bronze medal in swimming. My dad do call him the human fish lol
Moon Jae-in the south Korea president all thanks to CNN for making me know him.
Happy birthday day to you all. Kisses and don't forget to send me my share of the birthday cake.
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