From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 15/Apr/2018 - Part 2

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. Emma Watson

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Emma Watson is a British actress, model and activist who started her acting career as a child artist and it's her role of Hermione Granger in the movie series Harry Potter made her more famous.

Since the release of Harry Potter series, Emma acted in movies like The Bling Ring, This is the End, Noah, Beauty and the Beast, The Circle to name a few.

Besides acting, she works as a fashion consultant and as a model.

She was honoured with British Artist of the Year award in 2014 by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

She has been appointed as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and works on advising men about gender equality as part of that program.

She has been nominated and won the Teen Choice Award multiple times along with MTV Movie and TV Awards.

2. Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of Fifteenth century.

He was an inventor and had interests in painting, sculpture mathematics, geology, anatomy, history and many more.

He is remembered by his paintings Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and is considered as one of the greatest painters of all time.

His drawing of Vitruvian Man is regarded as a cultural icon.

3. Nikita Khrushchev

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Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman and the one who led Soviet Union during cold war and worked as Premier during 1958 to 1964.

He is also regarded as responsible for de-stalinization of Soviet Union(consisted of a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin).

Khrushchev worked as political commissar during the days of Joseph Stalin and then made political adviser to Stalin by Stalin himself and after Stalin's death, Khrushchev became the leader.

4. Dara Torres

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Dara Torres is an American former competitive swimmer who won 12 Olympic medals across 5 Olympics she participated during 1984 to 2008.

She was 41 years old when she participated in 2008 Olympics and she won 3 silver medals.

She is one of only few Olympians who have won atleast one medal in 5 different Olympics.

She has been inducted into Florida Women's Hall of Fame.

5. Tomas Tranströmer

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Tomas Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, translator and psychologist whose poems gives a feeling of mystery and mostly contain Swedish winters and beauty of nature.

He is regarded as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II.

He was awarded with 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature and Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

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