From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 14/Jul/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. Conor McGregor

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Conor McGregor is an Irish national who is a professional mixed martial artist and boxer who is a former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion.

He is at number 3 on the list of UFC pound to pound rankings.

He has the record of winning a bout in lesser time when he defeated Jose Aldo in UFC 194 in 2005 in which, he defected Jose via knockout in just 13 seconds.

He was also part of the biggest pay per view draw in the history of MMA where he was on 4 of the 6 highest pay per view events.

2. Gerald Ford

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Gerald Ford was an American politician and 38^th President of United States.

He holds the record for being the only person to be a vice president and the president without being selected to either of the offices.

He was known for the controversy of pardoning his predecessor President Richard Nixon in Watergate scandal.

He was honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton in 1999.

3. Gertrude Bell

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Gertrude Bell was an English writer, administrator, traveler who was an influential person in British imperial policy making.

She is credited with helping and administering the modern state of Iraq because of her travels to middle east and her relations with tribal leaders there.

Her works as an author includes A Woman in Arabia, Mountains of the Servants of God, The Arabian Report.

For her contributions as an administrator, she was honoured with Order of the British Empire.

4. Geoffrey Wilkinson

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Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English chemist who was a pioneer in inorganic chemistry.

After his graduation from Imperial College London, he was recruited by Friedrich Paneth for a nuclear project as part of recruiting young scientists.

As part of his inroganic chemistry works, he worked on complexes of transition metals and he was instrumental in discovering the structure of ferrocene.

He was honoured with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973 along with Ernst Otto Fischer.

He was a Fellow of Royal Society and received Royal Medal.

5. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish writer who use to write in Yiddish language which is used by Jews.

He is regarded as one of the prominent persons in Yiddish literary movement.

He wrote novels, short stories and stories and poems for children.

Some of his novels are Satan in Goray, The Slave, "Enemies, a Love Story", The King of the Fields, Shadows on the Hudson.

His shorty stories collections are The Snipoza of Market Street, The Fools of Chelm and Their History, Old Love, Short Friday and Other Stories.

He was honoured with Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and 2 U.S. National Book Awards.

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