From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 03/Jul/2018

in #onthisday6 years ago

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. Tom Cruise

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Tom Cruise is an American actor cum producer who is one of the greatest Hollywood actors.

He started his acting career at the age of 19 with movie Endless Love and since then, he has been a successful actor and is known for his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible and it's sequels.

He was the highest paid actor in 2012 and he is one of the actors whose movies have continuously grossed high in box office.

16 of his movies have grossed over $100 million in US itself and to top that, 23 movies have grossed over $200 million worldwide and is being 8th highest grossing actor in North America.

He has got 3 nominations to Academy Awards and has won an Empire Award, 3 Golden Globe Awards, 3 MTV Movie Awards.

He has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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2. Richard Hadlee

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Richard Hadlee is a New Zealand former cricketer who is one of the best all-rounders the game has seen and one of the greatest fast bowlers.

Wisden has chosen him as second greatest test bowler of all time.

He took 431 test wickets which was a world record for highest number of test wickets at that time.

He was known for his swing bowling and is nicknamed as Sultan of Swing.

He was Knighted and appointed as MBE for his services to cricket.

He has been identified among 12 local heroes in New Zealand and a bronze bust of him is situated outside Christchurch Arts Center.

He has been inducted into International Cricket Council Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009.

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3. David Barry

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David Barry is an American author and columnist who used to write a syndicated humor column for Miami Herald daily newspaper from 1983 till 2005.

He has authored many comic novels as well as humor books.

For his contributions through his humor creativity for serious issues, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

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4. Sebastian Vettel

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Sebastian Vettel is a German race driver who currently drives for Scuderia Ferrari F1 team and is a 4 time Formula 1 Champion.

At the age of 31, he is regarded as one of the greatest formula 1 drivers in history of F1.

When he won the World Championship in 2010, he was the youngest F1 race driver to do so.

He was also a winner at Race of Champions along with Michael Schumacher for 6 consecutive years starting from 2007 till 2012.

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5. Harbhajan Singh

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Harbhajan Singh is an Indian cricketer who is an off-spin bowler and a useful lower order batsman.

He has the second highest number of test wickets(417) for an off-spinner behind only to the spin magician Muttiah Muralitharan.

He was also the first Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in test cricket.

He has been honoured with Padma Shri, fourth highest civilian honour from Indian government.

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