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. Rahul Dravid

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Rahul Dravid is an former cricket player and former captain of Indian Cricket team who is called as "The Wall" because of his solid defense while batting.

He is regarded as one of the best batsmen in cricket history.

He was one among the 5 "Cricketers of the Year" announced by Wisden Cricketers' Almanac in 2000 and was declared "Player of the Year" and "Test Player of the Year" in the inaugural ICC Awards ceremony in 2004.

He is the fourth highest run getter in test cricket with a tally of 13288 runs behind the master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Kaques Kallis.

He holds number of records in test cricket.

He is the only player to score centuries in all 10 test playing nations(excluding Afghanistan and Ireland, which are 11^th and 12^th countries awarded with test cricket status).

He is also hold the record for most catches taken by a non keeper with 210 catches.

His other unique record is that of not getting out for a golden duck during his 286 test innings.

He has been honoured with India's 3^rd and 4^th highest civilian awards Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri respectively.

He was also honoured along with Australian pacer Glen McGrath during annual Bradman Awards in Australia in 2012.

2. Kailash Satyarthi

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Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children rights activist, founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan and Nobel Peace Prize winner (along with Malala Yousafazai of Pakistan) in 2014.

As part of his Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Satyarthi and his team has rescued more than 86,000 children from child labour, trafficking and slavery.

He was among Fortune's "World's Greatest Leaders" in 2015.

He is also a winner of many other international awards such as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, Golden Flag Award(Netherlands), The Trumpeter Award(US), Gold Medal of Italian senate, Freedom Award(US) to name a few.

3. James Paget

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James Paget was an English surgeon and pathologist who is remembered for his naming of Paget's disease(a condition involving cellular remodeling and deformity of one or more bones).

He along with Rudolh Virchow as the founder of scientific medical pathology. His works include "Lectures on Tumours" and "Lectures on Surgical Pathology", which are collection of his lectures as part of his professorship at Royal College of Surgeons.

He was a made a Fellow of Royal Society in 1851.

4. Lindsay Arnold

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Lindsay Arnold is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer who was a contestant of So You Think You Can Dance.

She is also a professional dancer and choreographer on "Dancing With the Stars" show.

She participated in Dancing With the Stars from season 16 in 2013 till season 25 in 2017.

In season 25^th, she finished as winner with her partner.

5. Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton was an American statesman and one of the founding fathers of the United States.

He is regarded as the promoter of U.S. Constitution and founder of nation's financial system, the Federalist Party, Coast Guard of United States, Bank of New York and the New York news paper.

He is among Hall of Fame for Great Americans, sculptured by Giuseppe Ceracchi.