From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 18/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. Roman Polanski

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Roman Polanski is a French-Polish director, producer, writer and an actor who is a winner of an Academy Award for Best Director for the movie The Pianist.

His first feature film was Knife in the Water released in 1962 got a nomination to Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

After that he worked on many films like Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Macbeth, Oliver Twist, The Ghost Writer.

His films in total have won 8 Oscar awards and he himself is a winner of an Academy Award for the movie The Pianist.

Besides the Academy Award, he has won a Golden Globe Award, 3 BAFTA Awards, 8 César Awards, 2 Palme d'Or Awards.

2. Shivnarine Chanderpaul

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul is a former West Indian cricketer who is one of the prolific batsmen in the history of test cricket.

He has scored over 20000 international runs including 11867 in 164 tests he played and over 8700 runs in the 268 ODI matches.

He scored 30 centuries and 66 fifties in his over 2 decades of test career.

Wisden named him as one of the 5 cricketers of the year in 2008 and he was honoured with Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year the same year.

He was captain of West Indies test team for 2004 to 2006 period.

3. Steve Chen

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Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of Social video sharing website YouTube where he later worked as Chief Technology Officer.

He currently works with Google Ventures since 2014.

He is also the co-founder of AVOS Systems, Inc. and responsible for building MixBit video sharing app.

He is a winner of a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and Order of Lincoln Award.

4. Gulzar

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Sampooran Singh Kalra popularly known with his pen name as Gulzar is an Indian poet, lyricist and movie director who has worked with yesteryear Indian music directors like SD Burman and then with RD Burman is one of the well known lyricists in Indian film industry.

He worked as Chancellor of Assam University and has directed movies like Aandhi, Mausam and Kirdaar.

He is known for his lyrics starting from SD Burman to the current list of Indian music directors like A.R. Rahman.

He is a winner of an Academy Award (for Best Original Song of Jai Ho for movie Slumdog Millionaire), 5 National Film Awards, a Grammy Award for Slumdog Millionaire, 20 Filmfare Awards, a Sahitya Academy Award besides the winner of India's highest Award for contribution to films and music, the Dada Saheb Phalke Award and India's third highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan.

5. Michael Greis

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Michael Greis is a German former bi-athlete who is a winner of 3 gold medals in 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.

He won gold medals in 20 km individual, 15 km mass start and 4 X 7.5 km relay medals in Olympics.

Besides the Olympics, he also won 3 golds, 3 silvers and 6 bronze medals in World Championships from 2004 to 2012.

He was German Sportsman of the Year in 2006 because of his 3 gold medal winning achievement.

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