From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 27/Jun/2018
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. Dale Steyn
Dale Steyn is an South African cricketer who plays all 3 formats of the game for South African national team.
He is regarded as one of the best fast bowlers the game has seen and all time great fast bowler.
He has taken 419 test wickets from 86 tests he played and has been named as one of the Wisden cricketers of the year in 2013.
He was world number test bowler as per ICC ratings for a record 263 weeks.
He was ICC Test Player of the year in 2008.
2. Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire is an American actor and film producer who is famous for his roles as Spider-man in movie Spider-Man and it's sequels Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
He is also notable for his roles in movies Wonder Boys, The Good German, Brothers, The Great Gatsby.
Since 2012, he is producing movies thru his production company Material Pictures and has produced movies Good People and Pawn Sacrifice.
He is a winner of 2 Saturn Awards along with Teen Choice Awards and got nominations to Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Awards.
3. Helen Keller
Helen Keller was an American author, lecturer and a political activist who was the first blind and deaf person to a Bachelor of Arts degree.
She was known for her authoring and her concern for the women and labour rights and other social causes.
She became a well known speaker and author with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan who taught Helen by tapping her hands for each of the words to make her understand and later Helen started reading Braille codes and started reading thru lip movements.
She was honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom and had been inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame.
4. Rahul Dev Burman
Rahul Dev Burman or simply R.D.Burman was an Indian film music composer and one of the greatest music directors of Indian Cinema.
He composed the music for more than 330 Bollywood movies and also provided voice for some of the movies.
google doodle paid a tribute to him on his 77th on 27 June 2016 by displaying a doodle about him.
He was a winner of 3 Filmfare Awards and there is Filmfare Award in his name which is given every year to an upcoming music talent.
5. Nico Rosberg
Nico Rosberg is a German Finnish Formula 1 race driver who is 2016 Formula 1 World Champion.
He started his Formula 1 career in 2006 and since then, he has worked with Williams, Mercedes AMG Petronas.
He has announced his retirement after winning the World Championship in 2016 and continues to be an ambassador of Mercedes.
He has won 30 grandprix titles and 30 pole positions with Mercedes.
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