From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 20/Feb/2018
Hi Steemians,
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. Rihanna
Rihanna is a singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer and actress from Barbados and is one of the greatest selling artists of all time and is regarded as an Icon of today's music at the age of 30.
She rose to fame in 2005 with her debut album Music of the Sun and backed it up with another hit album A Girl Like Me in 2006.
Her solo records sold over 230 million making her one of the most sought after singers.
She has released a total of 8 studio albums and a total of more than 54 million albums have been sold worldwide.
She has won 9 Grammy Awards, 2 BRIT awards among more than 200 awards during her career so far.
2. Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford is an American model and actress who acted on tv shows and movies solely based on her popularity as an international model.
She has been on the covers of 100's of popular magazines.
Crawford was among the most popular supermodel in the 1980's and 1990's.
She has hosted the tv show House of Style apart from being part of many tv shows and also some films as well.
3. Robert Huber
Robert Huber is an German biochemist who worked on crystallography to explain the structure of organic compounds such as proteins.
Since 2005, Huber has been working on researches at the Center for medical biotechnology of the University of Duisburg-Essen and was one of the first editors of Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry.
He was co-awarded with Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Johann Deisenhofer and Hartmut Michel for their work in first crystallizing an intra-membrane protein important in photosynthesis in purple bacteria and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to explain the protein's structure.
He is a Foreign Member of Royal Society of London.
4. Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist whose black and white landscape photographs are reproduced on calendar, books, posters and also on the internet making him one of the widely recognized photographers.
He is credited as one of the photographers who initiated the photography group known as Group f/64.
He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966 and was awarded with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
He was inducted into California Hall of Fame in 2007 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
5. Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown is a British politician and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010.
Brown served as Chancellor of Exchequer under previous Prime Minister Tony Blair during the period of 1997 to 2007.
As a Chancellor, he was known for reform of Britain's monetary and fiscal policy architecture.
Ohhh rihanna birthday, lets play his music :)
Why not, she is a legendary singer and I felt we need to celebrate her Birthday :)
my instagram feed was full with Rihanna birthday wishes :))) Happy birthday to all of them :)
Oh, so nice to know that, people love music, love singers..
I feel happy that, I am able to reach many people with these daily blogs about Birthdays.
Thank you, have a good day :)
yes that's true. I think most people love music :) Yea, you're doing a great job! It's always interesting to know :)
Thank you, same to you!
My best friend have birthday today! Good to know who else have :)
There you go, Rihanna, Cindy Crawfold and few gentlemen...
Happy Birthday to your best friend as well :)
Hope he enjoys the party today
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They all are legends, happy birthday to all from me. Ellen page Canadian actress born in Halifax Nova Scotia have also her birthday today I like Ellen page her acting.
Thank you @maliksajad for the information on Ellen Page.
Yes, the people mentioned have some weight of performance against their name and hence I felt like writing about them.
I myself constrain to write about 5 people only because of the time limit and also not to create more bigger blog for the audience to get bored... So, I may have to miss some people who might be equally good enough as compared to the ones included in my posts.
Thanks for visiting, have a good day.
It's good post sir, ya people feel boring after we can create a big blog because everyone have a time limit of viewing the blogs. Have a nice day too sir ol the bst for ua future
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How is this a stewardsofgondor post???????
Looks like a new york times 4th page column. Interesting.
Because I am one of the #stewardsofgondor of @fulltimegeek.
Oh is it? You found some information on a new york times newspaper 4th page? Not sure, but I can confirm I didn't copy or refer this from that paper and I have the referential information mentioned.
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