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 source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. Judi Dench

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Judi Dench is an British film and theatre actress who is famous for her roles in James Bond movies under the role "M", James Bond's boss.

She started her career as a theatre actress and was part of many of Shakespeare's plays like Ophelia in Hamlet, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

She gradually started acting in movies and received BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer for movie "Four in the Morning".

She was nominated to Oscars 7 times and won it once for her role Queen Elizabeth I in movie "Shakespeare in Love"(Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress).

Besides Oscar, she has won 6 British Academy Film Awards, 4 BAFTA TV Awards, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2 Golden GLobe Awards and a Tony Award.

She is also a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts.

2. John Milton

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John Milton was an English poet who is famous for his epic poem "Paradise Lost".

He is regarded as "Greatest English Writer" and one of the preeminent English writers in English language.

It is understood that when he started composing Paradise Lost, he was blind and he used to narrate the story to his 3 daughters who used to write the content for him.

3. Dia Mirza

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Dia Mirza is an Indian actress, model, producer and a beauty queen who won beauty pageant Miss Asia Pacific in 2000.

She mainly works in Bollywood movies and is also a social worker.

Her debut movie was Rehnaa Hain Terre Dil Mein and she acted in other movies like Deewanapan, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Dus, Salam Mumbai to name a few.

She is a recipient of IIFA Green Award for her contribution towards green environment.

4. Grace Hopper

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Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral who was a prominent computer programmer and is known to be the inventor of one of the compiler related tools and also influenced the development of COBOL, an high level programming language.

She was the recipient of 40 honorary degree from different universities across the world.

She received National Medal of Technology in 1991.

In 2016, she was posthumously awarded with Presidential of Medal of Freedom by the then President Barrack Obama.

5. Bob Hawke

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Bob Hawke is an Australian politician and was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

He is regarded as most electorally successful Labor Party Leader in the history.

During his governance, "Advance Australia Fair" was made official national anthem.