From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 20/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. Enrique Peña Nieto

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Enrique Peña Nieto is an Mexican politician and current President of Mexico serving since 2012.

He previously worked as governor of State of Mexico and made about 608 promises to voters and fulfilled almost all of those.

His tenure saw reforms related to energy sector liberalization, reforms related to education and financial regulations.

He is also known for controversies as he is criticized for the handling of Igula mass kidnapping and also on escape of drug baron Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán from prison.

2. Edmund Hillary

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Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who was one of the first to reach summit of Mount Everest.

He was part of Royal New Zealand Air Force and worked as navigator during World war 2 and worked with British Reconnaissance expedition before climbing Mount Everest.

He was also the first to climb Mount Everest and both North and South Poles(although, Ronald Amundsen is the first to reach both poles).

Because of him climbing the Mount Everest and establishing a trust to help the Himalayan people of Sherpas, he was made High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh and subsequently ambassador to Nepal.

He was honoured with India's second highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Order of New Zealand.

3. Gisele Bündchen

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Gisele Bündchen is a Brazilian model and actress who is one of the highest paid models and was top earning model of 2012 as per Forbes list.

She has also been named as 89^th most powerful woman in the world in a list announced by Forbes in 2014.

She was part of Victoria's Secret Angels and she is regarded as only the remaining super model.

She has been the goodwill ambassador for UN's environment program and supports charities for Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders.

4. Gregor Mendel

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Gregor Mendel was an Austrian/Czech Republic scientist who is regarded as founder of modern science of genetics.

He was the one who established the laws of heredity while experimenting on pea plants and the laws are known as Laws of Mendelian Inheritance.

His works were published in 1866 which are now known as genes and those weren't recognized until 20^th century.

5. Naseeruddin Shah

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Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian actor who mainly acts in Bollywood movies with occasionally acting on Hollywood movies.

He has been part of Bollywood movies like Aakrosh, A Wednesday, Hum Paanch, Tridev, Mohra, Hey Ram, Iqbal.

His acting on Hollywood movies include The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Great New Wonderful, The Blueberry Hunt.

He is known for his versatile and natural acting.

He has been honoured with India's third highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan along with winning 3 National Film Awards(2 for Best Actor and 1 for Best Supporting Actor), 3 Filmfare Awards and The Volpi Cup, which is an Award for Best Actor in Venice Film Festival.

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