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 source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. Milla Jovovich

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Milla Jovovich is an American actress, model and musician who is part of many sci-fi and action movies including Return to the Blue Lagoon and Resident Evil movie series.

She was the highest paid of model of 2004 as per Forbes.

Her other movies include The Night Train to Kathmandu (her debut movie), The Messenger: The Story of Joan Arc, Resident Evil (including it's 5 sequels), The Divine Comedy.

Besides acting, she has also made a name in music and modelling careers as well.

She is a brand model for brands like Banana Republic, Damiani, Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, H&M and Revlon.

She topped the list of "Richest Supermodels of the World" announced by Forbes in 2004 with an earning of US$10.5 million.

2. Pope Francis

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Pope Francis is the 266th and current pope of Catholic Church who is the first Jesuit Pope (Member of The Society of Jesus).

He is also the first Pope from Americas and the first pope from outside Europe since the 8th Century pope Gregory III from Syria.

Pope Francis is noted for his humanity, concern for the poor.

3. Willard Frank Libby

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Willard Frank Libby was an American Physical chemist who was was famous for his role in development of radiocarbon dating (a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon) which helped on works related to archaeology (study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture) and paleontology (study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch. Mainly related to study of fossils).

For his work on radiocarbon dating, Libby received Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.

He was one of the persons named by Time as "Person of the Year" in 1960.

4. Muhammadu Buhari

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Muhammadu Buhari is the President of Nigeria from 2015.

He was head of state (as part of his military rule) from 1983 to 1985 as he was the major general during that period.

He was unsuccessful in previous 3 Presidential elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011, but in 2015, he was able to defeat the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, thus becoming the first President to defect an incumbent president.

He took full responsibility on the decisions taken as part of his military rule as head of state and after winning Presidential elections in 2015, he said that he is the "converted democrat".

5. Manny Pacquiao

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Manny Pacquiao is a Filipino professional boxer and politician who is the only eight-division world champion (winning boxing championships under 8 different weight categories) in the history of boxing and he has totally 11 times champion till date.

He was named Fighter of the Decade in 2000 by Boxing Writers Association of America, WBC and WBO.

He was second highest paid athlete in the world in 2015 as per Forbes magazine.

Currently he serves as Senator (2016 to 2022) after being selected as House of Representatives of Philippines in 2014 and 2015.