From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 14/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. Halle Berry

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Halle Berry is an American actress, producer and is among the highest paid Hollywood actresses.

She is a winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in movie Monster's Ball in 2001.

She started her career as a model and was part of 1986 Miss USA beauty pageant where she finished runner -up to earn an entry into Miss World competition where she ended up in sixth place.

Her movies include Boomerang, Bulworth, X-Men and it's sequels, Swordfish, Die Another Day, The Call.

Besides the Academy Award for Best actress, she is a winner of a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and 2 Screen Actor's Guild Awards.

2. John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright who was a winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.

Although he completed his degree in law and trained as a barrister, he wasn't interested into law practice and was interested in looking after his family's shipping business.

His interest towards literature started when he met Joseph Conrad in the harbors of Adelaide Australia and they both got inspired to be the novelists.

Galsworthy's works include Indian Summer of a Forsyte, The Man of Property, The Silver Spoon, Flowering Wilderness, One More River.

He was International President of PEN International from 1921 to 1933.

3. Steve Martin

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Steve Martin is an American actor, comedian, producer, writer, author and musician who started his career as a comedian and is now a more accomplished actor.

He is a winner of an honorary Academy Award in 2013.

Since 2000, he is more into music and has play banjo and tours frequently with Earl Scruggs.

His first solo album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo released in 2013 won him a Grammy Award.

Besides the honorary Academy Award, Martin has won a American Comedy Award for lifetime achievement Award in Comedy, 5 Grammy Awards, 2 People's Choice Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.

4. Debbie Meyer

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Debbie Meyer is an American former swimmer who won 3 gold medals in 1968 Mexico City Olympic where she won gold medals in 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle swimming events.

She was the first swimmer to win 3 individual gold medals in same Olympics.

All in all, she broke 15 world records during her swimming career.

She got inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1977 and US Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986.

5. Fred Davis

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Fred Davis was an English professional snooker and billiards player who was the first to win world titles in both snooker and billiards.

His career as a snooker and billiards spanned over 6 decades and he won 10 major tournaments during that time.

He was 8 time world snooker championship title holder and 2 time world billiards championship holder.

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