From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 05/Aug/2018

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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. Neil Armstrong

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Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and was the first person to walk on moon way back in 1969.

He studied aeronautical engineering with the help of US Navy and was part of Korean war (1950-1953) where his Warcraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire.

After the Korean war, he continued his studies, completed his bachelors and became a test pilot.

When he landed on moon to become the first man to be landed on moon, all he said was That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

He was honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom along with his other colleagues on the voyage to moon, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

He also received Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

2. Kajol

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Kajol is an Indian film actress who mainly acts in Bollywood movies and is wife of famous Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan.

She is also the daughter of yesteryear Bollywood actress Tanuja Mukherjee.

She has been part of some of the epic Bollywood movies like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Ishq, Dilwale, Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, Baazigar, Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham..., Fanaa to name a few.

She is a winner of 6 Filmfare Awards, 5 Star Screen Awards along with being honoured by Indian government with fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri.

3. Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and also an author who is the co-founder and executive chairman of Linkedin, a professional social networking website.

He was among World's billionaires list announced by Forbes in 2017 with a networth of US$ 3.3 billion.

He was also among the member of board of directors which founded Paypal.

He has also written some well known books like The Alliance, The Start-Up of You, Masters of Scale.

He has been honoured with Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2017.

4. Federica Pellegrini

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Federica Pellegrini is an Italian swimmer who is a record holder in women's 200 m freestyle.

She is a winner of a gold medal in 2008 Beijing Olympics and won a silver medal in the previous version held in Athens in 2004.

Besides 2 Olympic medals, she has also won 6 gold medals, 6 silver medals and 5 bronze medals in World championships.

She also holds the record for men and women who have won medals consecutively across 6 world championships in same event, i.e 200 m freestyle.

She was World Swimmer of the Year in 2009.

5. Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Alfred Lord Tennyson was an English baron and Poet laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during Queen Victoria's era.

He is among one of the most famous poets of all time.

Some of his works include From the Princess; A Medley, In memoriam of A.H.H, "Ring Out, Wild Bells", Idylls of the King.

For his services to the poetry, he was honoured with a post of Baron Tennyson from 1884 to 1892.

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