From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 15/Aug/2018

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Happy Independence Day to all our friends from India, South and North Korea and Republic of Congo.

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. Ben Affleck

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Ben Affleck is an American actor and filmmaker who is a 2 time Academy Award winner.

He started his career as a child artist and acted in PBS series The Voyage of the Mimi and then in Dazed and Confused.

He has acted in movies like Good Will Hunting, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Sum of All Fears, Hollywoodland, Gone Baby Gone.

His directorial movies include Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo, Live by Night.

Besides his 2 Academy Awards, he is also winner of 2 BAFTA Awards, 3 Golden Globe Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards and a César Award.

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2. Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, poet and freedom fighter during Indian Independence movement.

He completed Indian civil service from Cambridge King's college and worked in various civil service works before moving onto national politics in India.

He was the first to introduce the concept of internal yoga as part of his spiritual experiences.

He wrote many books related to spirituality and some of those are The Life Divine, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol.

He was nominated to Nobel Prize twice once each for Literature and Peace prize in 1943 and 1950 respectively.

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3. Jennifer Lawrence

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Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress who was the highest paid actress in 2015 and 2016 and is regarded as one of the most influential people.

At the age of 14, she was discovered by a talent scout and that's how her acting career started as she started her acting with sitcom The Bill Engvall Show.

Her movies include X-Men: First Class, Winter's Bone, Hunger Games series, Silver Linings Playback, American Hustle, Joy.

She is a supporter of charitable works through her charity foundation Jennifer Lawrence Foundation.

She is a winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award, an Empire Award, 3 Golden Globe Awards, a Satellite Award and 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards besides being holder of a Guinness record for being Highest Grossing Action Heroine for Katniss Everdeen in 2015.

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4. Louis de Broglie

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Louis de Broglie was a French physicist who is one of the main contributors to the quantum theory and his postulates related to wave behavior of electrons is popularly known as de Broglie hypothesis.

de Broglie hypothesis is the central part of the quantum mechanics.

He served as perpetual secretary of French Academy of Sciences and was honoured with Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929 for his demonstration of wave like behavior of electron particles.

He was also the winner of Kalinga Prize provided by UN on inaugural year 1952.

He was a Fellow of Royal Society of London and Fellow of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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5. Kerri Walsh Jennings

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Kerri Walsh Jennings is an American profession beach volleyball player who is a 3 time gold medalist in Olympics along with a bronze medal in the same event.

She is in the lead as for as career victories as well as total winning amounts are concerned with respective values of 133 victories along with prize money of US$2,542, 635.

She won gold medal in 2004, 2008 and 2012 summer Olympics and settled for a bronze in 2016 version of Olympics held in Rio.

Besides Olympics, she is a 3 time gold medalist and a bronze medalist in World Championships and has won 43 gold medals, 11 silver medals and 7 bronze medals in FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.

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