From History: Today's Famous Birthdays

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 courtesy, google.com.

1. Britney Spears

Britney Spears is an American singer, dancer and actress who is world famous for her songs like "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!....I Did It Again". These songs broke international sales records in 2001.

She was in the lead role in the 2002 movie Crossroads.

So far, she has released 9 albums and she has announced that she will be developing into a world tour "Britney: Live in concert".

She is regarded as the best selling teen pop of all time and is rightly named as "Princess of pop".

She has won a Grammy Award, 6 MTV Video Music Awards, 7 Billboard Music Awards along with Lifetime Achievement Award.

She has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2002, Forbes named her the Highest paid female musician of 2012 with a total earnings for that year at $58 million.

2. Gianni Versace

Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an International fashion house producing accessories, fragrances, make-up, clothes and home furnishings.

Gianni Versace was friend of Diana, the Princes of Wales, Naomi Campbell, Madonna, Elton John and many other celebrities.

He was awarded with American Fashion Oscar in 1993.

3. Monica Seles

Monica Seles is a Yugoslavian born American former World No.1 tennis player.

She is a member of International Tennis Hall of Fame.

She won a total of 9 grand-slam singles titles(8 as an Yugoslavian and 1 as an American citizen).

She became the youngest player to win French Open at the age of 16 in 1990 and had won 8 grand-slam singles before the age of 20.

She is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time and was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time.

She was inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009.

4. Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado is a Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter who gained fame when she released her first album Whoa, Nelly(in 2000) which had 2 top 10 singles.

She won a Grammy Award for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for her first album.

She has sold over 40 million records worldwide.

She has won 1 Grammy Award, 1 Latin Grammy Award, 10 Juno Awards, 1 BRIT Award, 1 Billboard Music Award, 1 MTV Europe Music Award and 1 World Music Award.

She has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

She was also awarded with "Commander of the Order of Prince Henry"(a Portuguese National Order of Knighthood) in 2014.

5. Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu is an American actress, voice actress, director, producer, singer and artist who became famous for playing the role of Ling Woo in television series Ally Mcbeal.

She was part of movies like Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill, Payback, Chicago and Kung Fu Panda animated movie series.

She was also a host of "Saturday Night Series" in 2000.

She has received "Asian Excellency Award" for Visibility in 2006.