From History: Today's Famous Birthdays

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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. Jennifer Connelly

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Jennifer Connelly is an American actress who started acting when she was a small kid and debuted with move "Once Upon a Time in America" in 1984.

Before starting her acting career, she appeared in magazines, newspaper and TV ads. Her prominent films include Phenomena, Labyrinth, Dark City, The Rocketer, A Beautiful Mind, Hulk, Noah to name a few.

She is a Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winner for her movie A Beautiful Mind. In 2005, she was named as Ambassador for Human Rights Education by Amnesty International.

She was named the first global face of Shiseido company.

She was named as one of the World's Most Beautiful Women by magazines Time, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times.

2. Rajinikanth

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Rajinikanth is an Indian film actor who mainly works in South Indian especially Tamil Cinemas.

He debuted with movie Apoorva Raagangal directed by famous South Indian movie director K Balachander in 1975.

He was the second highest paid Asian actor in 2007 next only to Jackie Chan with an earning of INR 26 Crore (equivalent of US$ 8.6 million in 2016) for his role in movie "Shivaji".

Few of his famous movies include Dharma Yuddam, Billa, Sri Raghavendra, Thalapathi, Baashha, Muthu, Padayappa, Baba, Chandramukhi including Bollywood movie Andha Kanoon.

He has receieved a Filmfare Best Actor Award, 6 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, 4 Best Actor Awards and 2 Special Awards for Best Actor.

He has been honoured with second and third highest Indian civilian awards Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan respectively.

3. Frank Sinatra

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Frank Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer who is hailed as one of the most popular and influential music artists of 20th Century.

He is considered as one of the best selling music artists with more than 150 million albums sold world-wide.

Besides a musician, Sinatra also proved to be a good actor by winning an Academy Award for movie From Here to Eternity, which also won him a Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actor.

4. Yuvraj Singh

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Yuvraj Singh is an Indian cricketer who is an all-rounder and played a significant role in India winning 2012 ICC Cricket World Cup.

He was also phenomenal in many other movies and helped India win matched thru his all-round performances.

He is also remembered for his partnership with Mohammad Kaif during Natwest Trophy in England in 2002.

He was 4th batsman to hit 6 sixes in an over. He was highest paid IPL player during 2015 and 2016 auctions.

He has been awarded with Arjuna Award (2nd highest sporting award) and Padma Shri Award (4th highest civilian award) by Government of India.

5. John Jay

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John Jay was the American statesman, patriot, diplomat, one of the founding fathers' of United States, second Governor of New York and first Chief Justice of United States of America.

He was against slavery and made constitutional amendments during his tenure as Governor of New York to abolish slavery.

Along with being Governor of New York and Chief Justice of USA, Jay also worked as Secretory of Foreign Affairs, Minister to Spain.