From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 09/Apr/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. Kristen Stewart

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Kristen Stewart is an American actress, model and director who is famous as an actress for the The Twilight Saga series of movies started in 2008.

She is one of the top grossing Hollywood actresses and has acted in movies like Adventureland, Still Alice, Equals, On the Road, Welcome to the Rileys besides acting in The Twilight Saga series.

She has been named as Top Earning Hollywood Actresses multiple times by Forbes and Vanity Fair.

She has been a winner of an BAFTA Award, a British Film Academy Award and a César Award.

2. Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist and translator who mainly translated the works of famous writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Les Fleurs du mal is known to be his famous work and includes the expressions about beauty of nature.

His other works include Les paradis artificiels, Le Spleen de Paris, Curiosités Esthétiques, Selected Writings on Art and Artist, Critique d'art; Critique musicale.

3. Jaya Bachchan

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Jaya Bachchan is an Indian actress, politician and wife of Bollywood legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan.

She currently serves as Member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament.

She is known for her acting during her acting years and has acted in some of the blockbuster movies like Guddi, Uphaar, Abhimaan, Sholay, Zanjeer, Silsila.

She has been a winner of 9 Filmfare Awards along with many accolades from Bengal Film Association.

She has also been honoured with India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri.

4. Jacques Villeneuve

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Jacques Villeneuve is a Canadian professional racing driver and amateur musician who has won F1 Championship in 1997.

He was active as an F1 driver during 1996 to 2006 and has worked with Williams, British American racing team, Renault and Sauber teams.

He has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998.

5. Yitzhak Navon

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Yitzhak Navon was a Israeli politician and author who was the fifth President of Israel from 1978 to 1983.

He is regarded as the first Israeli president born in Jerusalem.

He was instrumental in improving the literacy of Israel as a civil service department head at the Ministry of Education and Culture which was before he became President of Israel.

He was famous as an author as well and had written 2 folklore poems viz. Romancero Sefardi and Bustan Sefardi.

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Great collection for today sir

Happy birthday to these personalities.

Heey, interesting I always like to read your posts are very informative and curious, Thanks for doing a good job

Happy birthday to them

The kristen stewart look familiar,maybe i've watch one of the movie she acted

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