From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 19/Sep/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. Jeremy Irons

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Jeremy Irons is an English actor who has acted on stage, theater, television and films.

He took acting training from Bristol Old Vic theatre and has appeared in many West End theatre productions like Macbeth, Godspell, Much Ado About Nothing, Embers, Richard III, Winter's Tale.

His first major movie role was in 1981 with movie The French Lieutenant's Woman and then went on to act in movies like Moonlighting, The Mission, Dead Rangers, M. Butterfly, Kafka, The House of the Spirits, Dungeons & Dragons, The Merchant of Venice, Kingdom of Heaven, Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice of League being the recent one.

He is an Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

He has been a recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor, 2 Golden Globe Awards, 3 Primetime Emmy Awards, a César Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award.

2. William Golding

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William Golding was a British novelist, playwright and poet who was known for the novel The Lord of the Flies.

He eventually won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 and a Booker Prize in 1980.

besides The Lord of the Flies, his other works include Rites of Passage, To the Ends of the Earth, Free Fall, The Pyramid.

He was honoured with appointment of Knight Bachelor in 1988.

3. Sally Pearson

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Sally Pearson is an Australian athlete who participates in short distance running including 100 m, 60 m and 4 X 100 m relay.

She has participated in Olympics, Commonwealth Games and World Championships.

She has won a gold and a silver in Olympics in 100 m hurdles event, 2 golds and a silver in World Championships and 2 golds and a silver in Commonwealth Games as well.

She was Female Athlete of the Year in 2011 and has been honoured with Medal of the Order of Australia in 2014.

She has been inducted into Sport Australia Hall of Fame and was IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2011.

4. George Cadbury

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George Cadbury was an Britain citizen and son of John Cadbury who founded Cadbury's Cocoa and Chocolate company.

He and his brother Richard Cadbury took over his father's business in 1861 and opened a new factory in 1879.

Concerned with their employee's health conditions, they constructed affordable houses for their employees in Bournville and the houses are still being provided to employees and affordable price.

He was also the prominent person in setting up The Birmingham Civic Society, a voluntary body.

5. Emil Zatopek

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Emil Zatopek was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner who was a winner of 3 gold medals in 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics.

He participated in 5000 m and 10000 m runs and a marathon in 1952 Olympics and won gold medals in all the events although he didn't have prior plans of participating n marathon.

He was also the first to break 29 minute barrier in 10000 m.

He was the first to introduce the concepts of interval training and hypoventilation training.

He also holds the record for being the only person to win 5k, 10k and marathon gold medals in same Olympics.

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