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 courtesy, google.com.

1. Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks is an American television personality, producer, businesswoman, former model, author, actress and occasional singer who started her career as a model at the age of 15.

She has the distinction of being the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuite Issue and GQ.

She was one of the favorites of Victoria's Secret Models from 1997 to 2005.

She was part of movies like Higher Learning, Coyote Ugly.

She is the creator or long running television show "America's Next Top Model".

She currently is a host for show "America's got Talent".

She has featured on Time's list of "World's Most Influential People".

2. Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges is an American actor, singer and producer who has won an Academy Award for movie Crazy Heart.

He started his career acting in famous serial Sea Hunt, in which he acted along with his father and brother.

He has earned nominations for Academy Awards for 6 other movies apart from Crazy Heart.

His movies include The Last Picture Show, Starman, The Contender, True Grit, The Big Lebowski, Iron Man, Tron: Legacy.

3. R Venkataraman

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was an Indian freedom fighter who served as Eighth President of India.

Before joining politics, he practiced as Lawyer in Madras High Court and Supreme Court of India.

He was elected to Lok Sabha(Lower House of India's Parliament) and served as Union Finance Minister and Defence Minister before being elected as Seventh Vice President of India in 1984.

Subsequently, he was elected as Eighth President of India in 1987 and served till 1992.

4. Sergey Bubka

Sergey Bubka is an Ukrainian Pole Vaulter who is famous for breaking the world record for men's pole vault 35 times and breaking his own record 14 times.

He also won an Olympic medal in 1988 Seoul Olympics and 6 consecutive IAAF world championships.

He has been named twice as "Athlete of the Year" by Track & Field News.

He is also one of the athletes who were inducted as inaugural members of "International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame".

He is currently serving as Vice President of "International Association of Athletics" and President of "National Olympic Committee of Ukraine".

5. Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician and a teacher.

He was considered as one of the most influential social commentators of his time.

He is famous for his book "The French Revolution: A History" which was the inspiration for Charles Dickens novel of "A Tale of Two Cities".

He is also famous for his works on Mathematics and is known for Carlyle Cycle, a method used in quadratic equations and for developing ruler-and-compass constructions of regular polygons.