From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - Part 2

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. Katie Holmes

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Katie Holmes is an American actress who along with Tom Cruise are nicknamed as TomKat because of their marriage from 2006 to 2012.

Her movies include Disturbing Behavior, The Ice Storm, Batman Begins, Thank You for Smoking, Woman in Gold and recent one Logan Lucky.

The pair of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise is called as Supercouple.

She was ranked No. 38 on a list of "50 Sexiest Stars of all Time" by TV Guide in 2005.

She received MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for her movie Disturbing Behavior in 1998.

2. Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Stalin was Soviet political leader governing Soviet Union as dictator from mid 1920 till 1953.

He was a follower of Carl Marx and Lenin and tried to formalize the ideas as Marxism-Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism.

He is widely considered as one of the most prominent figures of 20th Century.

3. Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg is an American director, producer and screenwriter who is known as one of the founding fathers of New Hollywood era and also one of the popular director and producer of all time.

In his career of 4 decades, Spielberg has directed masterpieces like Jaws, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Bridge of Spies, The Post, Jurassic Park, War of the Words to name a few.

He is an Academy Award Winner for Best Director category and 2 more for other categories and has been nominated for 7 more times.

His net-worth is estimated at US$3 billion.

He is honoured with Legion d'honneur(France), honorary knight commander of Order of the British Empire(England), Federal Cross of Merit(Germany), Presidential Medal of Freedom(America).

4. Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Stone Cold Steve Austin is an American retired professional wrestler, actor and a media personality who hailed by professional wrestling journalist Wade Keller as "The most profitable and the most influential".

He was part of WCW, ECW and the then WWF which is now WWE.

He is even said to have surpassed Hulk Hogan in terms of popularity.

He has won a total of 19 championships throughout his wrestling career.

He was inducted into WWE Hall of Fame in 2009.

He is also a host for WWE Tough Enough reality show.

5. Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

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Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is a Spanish former World No.1 Tennis player who is a winner of 14 Grand-slam titles.

Those include 4 Singles titles, 6 women's doubles titles and 4 mixed doubles titles.

In 1989, she became the youngest French Open champion at 17 by defeating Steffi Graff.

She still holds the record of most matches won by a player in Federation cup with the win of 72 matches.

She is also a 4 medals winner in Olympics out of her 5 Olympics appearances with 2 silver and 2 bronze.

TENNIS magazine has named her 27th of "40 Greatest Players of the Tennis era" in 2005 and she was inducted to Tennis Hall of Fame in 2007 thus becoming the first Spanish woman to be inducted.