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. Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage is an American actor, director and producer who is an Academy Award winner along with Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He started his acting career with a small role in 1982 movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".
His famous movies include Valley Girl, Honeymoon in Vegas, Leaving Las Vegas(He won an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for this), The Rock, Face/Off, Con Air, Adaptation, Ghost Rider, National Treasure, Knowing, Kick-Ass etc.
Besides acting, Cage has produced the movie Dresden Files and directed movie Sonny in 2002.
Cage is known for his charity works.
He donated $2 million to Amnesty International for using the money to provide rehabilitation shelters, medical services, psychological and reintegration services to forced to fight in conflicts across the world.
He was also part of donors who donated for Hurricane Katrina and donated $1 million.
2. Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton a British racer who is currently part of Mercedes Formula 1 team and a 4 time world champion.
At the age of 34, he is considered as one the greatest Formula One drivers in the history of sport.
He became the youngest Formula One champion when he won it for the first time in 2008 and that was his second season as a Formula One racer.
In 2015, he was named as the richest British sportsperson with an fortune of 88 million pounds.
He has been honored with "Member of the Order of the British Empire".
3. John E. Walker
John E. Walker is a British chemist and winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 1997 along with Paul D Boyer for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Walker works as Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge along with being a Fellow of Sidney Sussesx College, Cambridge.
He has received Kinghthood in 1999 for his works on molecular biology.
He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1995.
He is a Fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.
4. Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was a US politician and 13th US President from 1850 to 1853.
He is regarded as the last President to be a member of Whig party.
He served as Vice President (with President Zachary Taylor) before being elevated to the post of President after the death of President Zachary Taylor.
Fillmore was instrumental in getting the 1850 bill of Compromise passed.
5. Vanessa Lorenzo
Vanessa Lorenzo is a Spanish model who has been featured in various magazines such as Vogue, ELLE, sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and Glamour.
She started her modeling career at the age of 10.
She has modeled for brands like Pepe Jeans, Victoria's Secret, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani etc.
She has even acted in Spanish movies Entreacte (1989), Fuochi d'artificio (1997) and El topo y el hada (1998).
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