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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. Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane is a French former professional football player who works as a professional football coach now.
He played for Real Madrid football club and French National Football team and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
Real Madrid bought him for a record fee of 77.5 million Euros.
Zidane helped France win 1998 FIFA World Cup by scoring goals twice in the final.
He was FIFA World Player thrice and won Ballon d'Or once and has been honoured by Légion d'honneur Award and won Golden Ball for Player of the tournament at 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Since 2014, he is working as manager and coach after his retirement.
2. Hamsalekha
Hamsalekha is an Indian film composer and songwriter who works mainly with South Indian cinemas especially in Kannada and also in Telugu and Tamil languages.
He is known by title Naadha Brahma(Meaning, Brahma of Music) and has composed and written songs fr over 300 movies.
He has won a National Film Award and 6 Filmfare Awards for the Best Music Director and 7 Karnataka State Film Awards.
For his services to music industry, Bangalore University has honoured by with an honorary doctorate.
Some of the best music scored movies by him include Nenapirali, Preethse, Yaare Neenu Cheluve, Aakasmika, Ramachaari, Sri Manjunatha.
3. Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph was an American sprinter was a record holder in Olympics and was an International sports icon in track and field.
She was part of 1956 and 1960 Olympic games and won 3 gold medals and a bronze medal.
In winning 3 gold medals in 1960 Olympics, she became the first American and also first African American to do so.
She was an inductee into U.S. National Track and Field Hall of Fame, National Women's Hall of Fame, U.S. Olympics Hall of Fame.
4. Colin Montgomerie
Colin Montgomerie is a Scottish professional golf player who is a winner of record 8 European Tour Order of Merit titles.
He has won a total of 31 European Tour Events and holds the record for winning 7 consecutive European Tour Order of Merit titles.
His records at majors stands at 5 runner up titles and he held a highest ranking of second.
He is an inductee into World Golf Hall of Fame and has been made Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2004.
5. Francesca Schiavone
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Francesca Schiavone is an Italian profession tennis player who is a winner of 2010 French Open Singles Title, thus becoming the first Italian woman to win a grand-slam singles title.
She is a winner of 8 WTA singles titles and helped Italy win Fed Cups in 2006, 2009 and 2010.
She was a winner of WTA Most Improved Player in 2010 and Italian Sportswoman of the Year in the same year.
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