From History: Today's Famous Birthdays
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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. Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was an American singer, musician and actor who is regarded as one of the greatest cultural icons of 20th century and use to be called with nicknames "King of Rock and Roll" and "the King".
He started his music career in the year 1954 by recording a song for music director Sam Phillips.
Presley's first single was "Heartbreak Hotel", which became number one in US.
He made his acting debut in 1958 with movie Love Me Tender.
He suffered heart attack in 1977 when he was just 42 years old and passed away.
He is regarded as one of the best selling artist in the history of music.
He got 3 Grammy awards and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 36.
Presley has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986), the Country Music Hall of Fame (1998), the Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2001), the Rockabilly Hall of Fame (2007) and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame (2012).
2. Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, author and director of research with University of Cambridge.
His theoretical prediction on black holes emit radiation, is popularly known as Hawking radiation.
He is a recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom and is an Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Arts.
He is also made the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1982, but Hawking declined the Knighthood.
Hawkings was one among "100 Great Bitons" published by BBC via UK-wide public voting in 2002.
3. Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un is the Supreme Commander of North Korea and chairman of Workers' Party of Korea.
Kim became supreme leader of North Korea after the death of Kim -Jong-il, his father and supreme leader of North Korea in 2011.
Kim Jong Un has been in news recently regarding the claims of developing hydrogen bomb and nuclear weapons.
on his 2018 New Year speech, he said to have told that "the button to nuclear weapons is always at his desk".
4. David Bowie
David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter and actor who was a popular name in popular music for almost 50 years.
He was one among the world's best selling music artists.
In UK, Bowie has been awarded with 9 platinum certifications, 11 gold certifications and 8 silver certifications.
He is also an inductee in to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
He has been a winner of 6 Grammy Awards and 4 Brit Awards.
5. Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte is an Americana actor and a former model, who is a winner of Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama.
His prominent movies include The Prince of Tides(he got an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for this), Affliction(second nomination to Academy Award for Best Actor), Warrior, Hulk, Cape Fear, The Good Thief, Hotel Rwanda to name a few.
Besides acting, Nick has been named as "Sexiest Man alive" in 1992.
His recent movie is The Ridiculous 6 in 2017 and upcoming movie The Padre, set to release in this year.
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