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. Dean Ambrose

Jonathan David Good professionally known as Dean Ambrose on WWE circuit is an American professional wrestler and actor.

He was one of the 3 members of group "The Shield" with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins being the other 2.

His first title on WWE was United States Championship and he held the for 351 days, which is third longest in the history.

He is also a one time WWE Champion, 2 time Intercontinental Champion and 1 time Tag Team Champion.

He acted in movie "12 rounds 3: Lockdown" which was released in 2015.

2. Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Kuiper was an Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor who is famous for inventing "Kuiper belt"(a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System).

Kuiper is considered as "Father of Modern Planetary Science".

He is also remembered for inventing natural satellites of 2 planets, Miranda satellite for Uranus and Nereid satellite for Neptune.

3. Sean Ervine

Sean Ervine is a Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 2003 Cricket World Cup.

He was one of the rebels against Zimbabwe Cricket Union and eventually settled in England playing for county Hampshire.

He has an ODI century as part of his short International career.

4. Mário Soares

Mário Soares was a Portuguese politician who was Prime Minister of Portugal for 2 terms, from 1976 to 1978 and 1983 to 1985.

He then became the President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.

During his rule, he was known for negotiating Portugal's entry into Europian Economic Community.

In 2000, he was awarded with North-South Prize and he was also awarded with many other awards.

5. Nathan Adrian

Nathan Adrian is a American swimmer and 5 time Olympic Gold Medalist.

He has won a total of 32 medals in international competitions which include 20 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze.

He won 2 gold and 2 bronze medals in 2016 Rio Olympics. Gold medals as part of 4 X 100 m freestyle and bronze medals for individual 50 m freestyle and 100 m free style.