From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 16/Jul/2018 - Part 2
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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. Margaret Court
Margaret Court is an Australian former professional tennis player who is former world no.1 and the first to achieve career grand slam in singles(by winning all 4 grand slams in same year in 1970).
She won a record 24 grand slam singles titles, 19 doubles titles and 21 mixed doubles titles with a total tally of 64 grand slam titles.
All in all, 192 WTA titles she won with a win loss ratio of 593 wins against 56 losses with win percentage of 91%.
She achieved the grand slam box set twice by winning all the grand slams under 3 different categories (singles, doubles and mixed doubles).
In 1967, she was made Member of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to tennis.
She has been inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979, Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993.
2. Miguel Induráin
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Miguel Induráin is a Spanish retired road race cyclist who won 5 consecutive Tour de France titles from 1991 to 1995.
He is overall fourth person to win Tour de France titles 5 times and he is also the last person to do so.
Besides Tour de France, he won a gold medal in Time trial category in 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a gold, 2 silver and a bronze medal in world championships across 3 championships.
He has been honoured with French Legion de Honour award, Prince of Asturias Award for Sports.
He was inducted into UCI Hall of Fame.
3. Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, singer and dancer who has acted on stage, television and movies besides appearing on radio.
Her movies include 42nd Street, Swing Time, Top Hat, Kitty Foyle.
She was one of the highest paid Hollywood actresses of 1940's .
She won an Academy Award for Best Actress and is one of the Kennedy Centre's Honorees.
4. Dan Bricklin
Dan Bricklin is an American computer programmer known for his spreadsheet skills and referred to as Father of Spreadsheets.
He is the co-creator of VisiCalc Spreadsheet program along with Bob Frankston.
He is founder of Software Garden, Inc. and serves as Chief Technology Officer of Alpha Software.
He is winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award for VisiCalc.
5. Trygve Lie
Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as first first secretory general of United Nations from 1946 to 1952.
He had good reputation as a politician and later as general secretory of UN.
He was instrumental in building the draft for United Nations and supporting foundations of Israel and Indonesia.
He was honoured with highest civilian award in Norway Medal for Outstanding Service in 1966 and Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog in 1954.
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