From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 25/May/2018 - Part 2

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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. Roman Reigns

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Roman Reigns is an American professional wrestler who is hired by WWE and performs on RAW brand.

Reigns is a 3 time WWE World Heavyweight Champion, 1 time United States Champion, 1 time Intercontinental Champion and 1 time WWE Tag Team Champion along with Royal Rumble winner in 2015 and WWE Superstar of the Year in 2014.

He is the 28^th Triple Crown Champion and 7^th Grandslam Champion.

He is known for his rivalry with Brock Lesner and Wyatt family.

2. Cillian Murphy

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Cillian Murphy is an Irish stage and screen actor who started his career as a rock musician but later turned into acting.

He initially got some short roles but came into prominence with movies like 28 Days Later, Intermission, Red Eye, The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Edge of Love, Inception.

His theatre performances include Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Juno and the Paycock, The Country Boy, Disco Pigs.

He is also part of BBC's television series Peaky Blinders and he made his directorial debut as well in 2013 with direction of a music video Hold Me Forever.

3. Aly Raisman

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Aly Raisman is an American gymnast and was a member and captain of the famous 2012's Fierce Five and 2016's Final Five US women's Olympic gymnastics which won their respective team competitions.

As part of 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics, she has won 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals and a bronze medal.

She was also part of 2011 and 2015 World Championships and has won 2 gold, a silver and a bronze medal.

She is a brand ambassador Kind Power champion for UNICEF Kid Power and was a semifinalist in Dancing With the Stars Season 16 in 2013.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet who is seen as a champion of individualism through his more than 1500 lectures and dozens of published poems.

His essays include Nature, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience and his works have influenced writers, thinker and poets.

he is one of the important figures of the American romantic movement and gave a speech entitled The American Scholar, which is considered to be America's intellectual declaration of independence.

5. Jack Steinberger

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Jack Steinberger is an American physicist who mainly worked on radiation, muons, pions and photons.

He worked at Radiation Lab at University of California and experimented on production of neutral pions and their decay to photon pairs.

He contributed to the development of bubble chamber(a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

For his contributions to Physics, Steinberger was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz.

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