From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 19/Apr/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. Kate Hudson
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Kate Hudson is an American actress and businesswoman who got a nomination to Academy Award for Best Supporting actress and a winner of Golden Globe Award for her role in movie Almost Famous.
Her other best known movies include Gossip, How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days, Raising Helen, "You, Me and Dupree", Bride Wars, Nine.
She is also a well known name on television series such as Saturday Night Live, Clear History, Jamie and Jimy's Friday Night Feast.
She is a winner of a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and nominated to 3 Screen Actor's Guild Awards, 9 Teen Choice Awards and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
2. Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani is an Indian business magnate and chairman, MD and largest share holder of Reliance Industries Limited(RIL), which is a Fortune 500 company mainly dealing in refining, petrochemicals and oil and gas sectors.
Mukesh Ambani was ranked 18th richest person in the world by Forbes as of January 2018 with a networth of US$43.2 billion.
He is also the owner of Indian Premier League's cricket team of Mumbai Indians.
He is a Foreign Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering and was ranked 5th best performing global CEO by Harvard Business Review in 2010.
3. Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player who resides in America since 1994 and one of the 10 women to hold a Career Grand-slam along with being a silver medalist in women's singles in 2012 London Olympics.
She is a winner of 5 grand-slam singles titles(one each in Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open and 2 French Open titles) along with 35 WTA Singles titles.
According to Forbes, she was the highest paid athlete in the world for 11 consecutive years since she turned pro in 2001 and has been featured in many magazines and modeling assignments.
4. Rivaldo
Rivaldo is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played for Brazil National Football team along with football clubs like Barcelona, Milan, Mogi Mirim, Santa Cruz to name a few.
He, along with Ronaldo and Ronaldinho were instrumental in Brazil's victory of FIFA World Cup in 2002.
He was also part of the teams which won Spanish La Liga in 1998 and 1999 and Copa del Rey in 1998 as part of Barcelona.
He is a winner of Ballon d'Or in 1999 and was named in FIFA World Cup All Star Team in 1998 and 2002.
He currently works as President of Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube in Brazil.
5. James Franco
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James Franco is an American actor who has acted in some of the highest grossing movies like Spider-Man and it's sequels, Milk, Pineapple Express, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, This is the End, The Disaster Artist to name a few.
Franco is known for his charitable works as he volunteered for the charity works of Art of Elysium and has supported foundations for AIDS research and tsunami reliefs.
He was nominated to Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for movie 127 Hours and has won 2 Golden Globe Awards along with nominated to Screen Actors Guild Awards and Emmy Awards.
Kate Hudson and Frank James are one of my favorite actors! I did not know they were celebrating the year today, thanks for the information
Great!!! I am happy that I could bring one or 2 of your favorites in my daily blog.
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