From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 18/Sep/2018
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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. Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress of 1920 and 1930's and was a winner of an Honorary Academy Award.
She was known for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances.
She was among the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema as quoted by American Film Institute.
She has acted in movies like Flesh and the Devil, The Saga of Gosta Berling, Grand Hotel, Mata Hari, Camille.
Besides the honorary Academy Award, she has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2. Edwin M. McMillan
Edwin M. McMillan was an American physicist who was the first to produce elements transuranium and neptunium.
He was part of Manhattan project and graduated from California Institute of Technology and worked for Berkele Radiation Laboratory and MIT Radiation Laboratory.
He was also part of a team developing implosion type nuclear weapon.
He was honoured with Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 and was awarded National Medal of Science in 1990.
3. Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress who has acted in films, theater shows and television series.
She is an alumni of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.
She is regarded as one of the finest actresses India has seen and acted in different genre.
Some of her movies include Junoon, Nishant, Shatranj Ke Khilari, Sparsh, Sati, Arth, Godmother, Amar Akbar Anthony.
She has been a recipient of 5 National Film Awards from Indian Government, 5 Filmfare Awards, Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour, Gandhi International Peace Award.
4. John Diefenbaker
John Diefenbaker was a Canadian statesman and 13th Prime Minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963.
He was a criminal defence lawyer by profession and led Progressive Conservative party to victory thrice.
He was also hailed for appoint Canada's first female minister to his cabinet.
He remained as an MP until his death in 1979, by then, he was 83 years old.
He received more than 20 honorary degrees from Universities around the world.
5. Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille was an American dance and choreographer who aspired to be an actress but ended up as a dancer.
As a young girl, she always wanted to be an actress as she loved acting, but, when someone told that she is not pretty enough for acting, she took up dancing and excelled in that.
She choreographed more than a dozen musicals and some of them include Bloomer Girl, Allegro, Brigadoon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
She was a co-recipient of Inaugural Tony Award for Best Choreography for Brigadoon and was also a Kennedy Center Honorees.
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