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. Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon is an American actress, producer and entrepreneur who is an Academy Award winner and one of the most powerful Hollywood actresses.
She started her acting career as a child artist making her screen debut in 1991.
Her movies include Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, Walk the Line (fetched her Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress), Monsters vs. Aliens, Water for Elephants.
She is also active on television as a producer and has co-produced HBO series Big Little Lies and has won a Prime Time Emmy Award as a Producer.
She serves on the board of Children's Defense Fund. Besides an Academy Award, she is a winner of 2 Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Prime Time Emmy Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2. Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American physicist who mainly worked on experiments on photoelectric effect.
He was also the person who measured the elementary electronic charge.
For that, and for his contributions to photoelectric effect, he was honoured with Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923.
He worked as professor in University of Chicago and then director of California Institute of Technology.
He worked as President of American Physical Society.
3. Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist who is a winner of an Academy Award, 8 Tony Awards, 8 Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award along with Presidential Medal of Freedom.
His works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George.
He has been described by Cameron Mackintosh as Possibly the greatest lyricist ever.
4. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and impresario(a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role similar to that of an artist manager or a film or television producer) of musical theater who has composed 13 musicals along with many other works including film scores.
He is regarded as the most commercially successful composer in history.
He is an Academy Award winner along with 3 Grammy Awards, 7 Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, 7 Laurence Olivier Awards and a Brit Award besides being Knighted in 1992.
He has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and an inductee into Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
5. Laurie David
Laurie David is an American environmental activist who has created an Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
She is also a trustee on Natural Resources Defense Counsel and is a member of the advisory board of Children's Nature Institute.
She has produced Too Hot Not to Handle, another documentary on effects of climate change.
Special Mentions:
It gives me great pleasure to announce that below mentioned Steemians are also celebrating their Birthdays today. Happy Birthday to all these people.
@sift666 a friend of @andysantics48,
@sagaolga,
@adahmiracle,
@nippel66,
Brother of @mauriciovite,
@viverridae,
Alisha, a friend of @madhu.mita,
@techmojo,
@grantcardone,
Belated Birthday wishes to @kwakumax.
Oh, so many wonderful people celebrating their Birthday.
wow happy birthday to people who are destined to be famous and successful
Thank you @morikin for the wishes and thanks for visiting :)
These people make our world even more beautiful! And this is important.
That's right. It's my goal to introduce some people who have entertained us, helped us with their inventions, brought us some sense of joy with their play or whatever to have done.
Thanks again, good day :)
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