From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 18/Jul/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. Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela was a South African politician and anti apartheid revolutionary who was the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

He was known as Father of the Nation.

He was the first black head of a state of South Africa and strive to eradicate the racism and apartheid against blacks.

Because of his activities and campaigns against apartheid, he was repeatedly put in jail by the ruling government and he spent almost 27 years in prison.

During his rule as President and even after his term got over, he was focused on eradicating poverty, helping and guiding people on HIV/AIDS through his charity foundation Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Because of his reforms and measures to bring peace and harmony among the people of South Africa, he was honoured with more than 250 awards and honours and Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

He was also honoured with highest honoures from India and Pakistan Bharat Ratna and Nishan-e-Pakistan respectively and other honours include Sukharov Prize, Order of Lenin, Presidential Medal of Freedom among those.

2. Priyanka Chopra

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Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress who also works on Hollywood movies and television shows and is also a singer, film producer.

She was the Miss World beauty pageant winner in 2000.

She is among highest paid actresses in India and is named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine and Forbes named her among World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2017.

Her best movies include Aitraaz, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Bajirao Mastani, Fashion, Krrish, Don.

She is also part of American ABC series Quantico and is the first South Asian to be heading an American network drama series.

She has been honoured with India's fourth highest civilian honour Padma Shri in 2016.

She has won 5 Filmfare Awards, 6 IIFA Awards and a National Film Award for her role in movie Fashion.

3. Dennis Lillee

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Dennis Lillee is an Australian former cricketer who was a fast bowler.

He was the world's highest wicket taker with 355 wickets and later surpassed by many.

He was among the 5 cricketers who were selected by Wisden as Cricketer of the year in 1973 and after his retirement, he contributed in helping young pacemen in India through MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai.

He was honoured with an induction to ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009, Australian Sports Hall of Fame in 1985 and Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996.

Besdies those, he has been appointed as Member of the Order of British Empire in 1981 and Member of the Order of Australia in 2010.

4. Vin Diesel

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Vin Diesel is an American actor, director, producer and also a screenwriter who is well know for his role in movie The Fast and the Furious and it's sequels and xXx series of movies.

He has even acted in some of the other big hot movies like Find Me Guilty, Avengers: Infinity War, Guardians of the Galaxy, Saving Private Ryan.

He has also produced movies under his production company One Race Films and is also the founder of Racetrack Records and Tigon Studios.

He has won 2 People's Choice Awards.

5. Alexander Morozevich

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Alexander Morozevich is an Russian chess grandmaster who is a former world no.2 FIDE player.

He was on World Championship finals 2 times(2005 and 2007) and is a 2 time Russian champion.

He has also participated in many chess Olympiads and helped Russia win several team and individual medals.

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