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. Hrithik Roshan

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Hrithik Roshan is an Indian actor who mainly acts in Bollywood movies who is best known for his dancing.

He is currently one of the highest paid Bollywood actors. He made his debut in the film Kaho Naa.. Pyaar Hai in 2000, the movie was a big hit and paved way for him into many different movies.

He continued to impress in his next movies Fiza, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Koi... Mil Gaya and it's sequels Krrish and Krrish 3, Dhoom 2, Jodhaa Akbar, Agneepath to name some of them. He had almost versatile roles in the movies mentioned.

He is also parallelly working on television as a judge for Just Dance program.

He became the first actor to receive the Best Debut and Best Actor Filmfare Awards in the same year for his debut movie Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.

He has won 6 Filmfare Awards(One for Best Debut, 4 Best Actor and other one for Best Actor Critic's choice) and was nominated for 8 other Filmfare Awards, 9 IIFA Awards, 6 Zee Cine Awards.

Recently he was declared as the third most handsome man in the world.

He has featured in Forbes list of Most Powerful Indian Film Star (being 2nd in the list).

2. Rod Stewart

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Rod Stewart is a British singer and songwriter who is considered as one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

He has sold over 100 million records worldwide and at one time, he had 6 consecutive number one albums in UK and has a total of 62 hit singles.

He is a Grammy Award and a Brit Award recipient who was inducted into US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006.

3. George Foreman

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George Foreman is an American former professional boxer, a minister and an entrepreneur who is a 2 time World Heavyweight champion and an Olympics Gold Medalist.

He had 2 knockout victories including one against the undefeated Joe Frazier in 1973.

But, after that, he had 2 back to back losses, one against the great Muhammad Ali in 1974 and the other one against Jimmy Young in 1977, which forced him to retire in 1977.

He has been inducted into World Boxing Hall of Fame and International Boxing Hall of Fame.

The Ring magazine in 2002, has rated him as one of the 25 greatest fighters of past 80 years.

4. Abbey Clancy

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Abbey Clancy is an British catwalk and lingery model and television personality who was runner up of Britain's Next Top Model in 2013. She is also the winner of Strictly Come Dancing winner of series 11 in 2013.

She modeled for magazines and covers with brands/magazines like Sports Illustrated, Umbro Sportswear, Elle, Marie Claire to name a few.

She was ranked 37 on the FHM's list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World" in 2007, 12^th in 2009 and 10^th the next year.

5. Sune Bergström

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Sune Bergström was a Swedish Biochemist who was a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or medicine in 1982 along with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane for their discoveries related to prostaglandins and related substances.

He became the member of Board of Directors of Nobel Foundation.

Bergström was elected to be a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1965 and it's President in 1983.

He was also a Foreign Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966.