From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 20/Sep/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. Lesley Thompson
Lesley Thompson is a Canadian rower and an Olympic champion who competed in 8 Olympic games.
She first participated in Olympics in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics winning a silver in coaxed four event.
She went on to participate in 1992, 1996, 2000 and finally in 2012 Olympics winning a gold, 2 silvers and a bronze making her 5 medals wining Olympian.
Besides Olympics, she participated in World Championships and won a gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze medals and in Commonwealth Games, she won a gold medal.
She is the first Canadian to win medals at 5 different Olympic games.
2. Khabib Nurmagomedov
Khabib Nurmagomedov is a Russian mixed martial artist and reigning UFC lightweight champion.
He is a record holder for longest undefeated streak in MMA with 26 wins.
He also holds the record for being the first Russian as well as as first Muslim to win a UFC title.
He has been part of 2 gold medal winning world championships in 2009 and 2010.
3. Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is an Italian actress and singer who started acting at the age of 16.
She has been part of movies like The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, It Started in Naples, Two Women, Sunflower, The Voyage.
She became the first actress to win an Oscar for a foreign language performance in movie Two Women.
She also holds the record of winning most David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress with 6 awards.
She has been a winner of 2 Academy Awards(1 for Best Actress and other one being honorary Oscar), a Grammy Award, 5 special Golden Globes and a BAFTA Award.
4. Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American writer who was the author close to 100 books.
He was known for his classical novels The Jungle and The Brass Check, both known for exposing the issues in American system.
His other works include King Coal, The Coal War, The Fivver King, Oil!.
Four of his movies have been adapted as films and he won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for fiction Dragon's Teeth.
5. Robert Wrenn
Robert Wrenn was an American tennis player of 1890's and was a winner of 5 grand slam titles.
He won US Open singles titles in 1893, 1894, 1896 and 1897 and a doubles title in 1895.
He served as Vice President and then as President of US Tennis Association from 1902 to 1915.
He was one of the inaugural inductees into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1955.
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I didn't know any of them but happy birthday to them