From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 02/Jul/2018

in #onthisday6 years ago (edited)

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. Lindsay Lohan

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Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, businesswoman, singer and fashion designer who was signed by Ford Models as a child model.

She has acted on television series, stage performances and movies and has started her acting career at the age of 10 by acting in Another World.

Her movies include Liz & Dick, The Canyons, Machete, Mean Girls, Just My Luck, Bobby, I Know Who Killed Me, Scary Movie 5.

As a music artist, she has released 2 studio albums Speak and A Little More Personal(Raw) as part of her deal with Casablanca (American Record Company) and both her albums were well received with receiving Platinum and Gold.

She is a winner of a Kids Choice Award, 3 MTV Movie Awards, 4 Teen Choice Awards and an Young Artist Award.

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2. Hermann Hesse

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Hermann Hesse was a German poet, novelist and painter who was known for his works Demian, The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf.

His books lead to exploration of authenticity and spirituality.

His interest to write novels and poems started when he started working in a bookshop in Tübingen where he use to work on organizing, packing and archiving books and during his free time he use to read the books there and gradually started writing his own small poems and short stories.

He received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946 and Goethe Prize in the same year.

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3. Alex Morgan

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Alex Morgan is an American soccer player who was part of Olympic gold medal winning football team in 2012 London Olympics and silver medal winning team at 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup winning team.

She holds the record of being the youngest player to score 20 goals in same year when she was 22 and for her performance, she was named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year and was a finalist for FIFA World Player of the Year.

Time magazine in 2015 named her as Top paid American women's soccer player because of her earnings on endorsements along with her soccer play earnings.

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4. Bret Hart

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Bret Hart is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler who works as an author and actor and is from a wrestling family.

He is regarded as one of the all time great wrestlers with 5 WWF World Heavyweight titles, 2 WCW World Heavyweight titles.

He is the first to hold WCW and WWF triple crown titles.

His other accolades include a Royal Rumble match winner in 1994 and 2 time King in the Ring winner.

He has been inducted into WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.

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5. René Lacoste

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René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman who was nicknamed as The Crocodile because of his dealing with his opponents on the court.

He was the creator of Lacoste tennis shirt in 1929.

He was a winner of 7 grand-slam singles titles and 3 grand-slam doubles titles and helped France to win Davis Cup titles in 1927 and 1928.

He won a bronze medal in 1924 Paris Olympics in men's tennis doubles event.

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