From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 30/Jan/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. Christian Bale

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Christian Bale is a British actor who started his career as a child actor at the age of 12 in movie Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna in 1986.

He is also well known for his roles in the Batman Begins and it's sequels.

Some of his other well known movies include American Psycho, The Machinist, American Hustle, The Big Short, Terminator Salvation.

He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for movie Terminator Salvation and has been nominated 3 times.

He has also won an Golden Globe Award along with 2 Screen Actors Guild Award.

He was named among the Time 100 list of 100 Most Influential People in the World.

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was an American statesman and 32^nd President of United States from 1933 to 1945 and holds the record of winning 4 Presidential elections.

He is regarded as one of 3 greatest US Presidents along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Franklin Roosevelt is the cousin of 26^th US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt is known to have revived America from The Great Depression(related to economic depression of 1930's) and made regulatory reforms with regards to finance, communications and labor.

3. Abdullah II of Jordan

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Abdullah II of Jordan is the King of Jordan since his father King Hussein's death in 1999.

He is regarded as the third longest serving Arab leader and also the most influential Muslim in the world as of 2016.

He is known to making administrative reforms in order to suppress the recession in 2008 and economic reforms and also attracting the foreign investment in order to reduce the recession.

He is also famous for negotiating the Free Trade Agreement with United States and Jordan is the third country to do so.

4. Max Theiler

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Max Theiler was an South African-American virologist and physician and Nobel Prize Laureate in physiology or medicine for developing vaccine against yellow fever.

He is the first African born Nobel Prize winner.

He did his research works from Harvard University School of Tropical Medicine, Cambridge and researched on vaccine for yellow fever.

Besides Nobel Prize, Theiler is also a recipient of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's' Chalmers Medal.

5. Mitchell Starc

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Mitchell Starc is an Australian cricketer who plays in all 3 formats.

He is the fastest to take 100 wickets with number of innings being 52.

He was the Man of the Tournament in 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.

He played for RCB in 2017 IPL and for 2018, he has been selected by KKR.