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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. Félix Savón
Félix Savón is a Cuban retired amateur boxer who won 3 gold medals in Olympics.
He is regarded as the all time greatest amateur boxer.
Besides Olympics medals, he won 6 gold medals at world championships in heavyweight section.
He is known to have rejected lucrative offers to turn professional and fight with Myke Tyson.
It's also notable that he won 4 gold medals in World Cups.
2. Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a British scientist who mainly contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
He was the discoverer of electromagnetic induction, electrolysis and diamagnetism.
He also contributed to electromagnetic rotary devices and because of his efforts, the practical usage of electricity became possible.
He was a fellow of Royal Society of London and was a foreign member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
3. Junko Tabei
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer and was the first woman to climb Mount Everest.
She was also the first woman to climb all 7 summits by reaching the highest peak on every continent.
The team comprising Junko Tabei started climbing Mount Everest in 1975 and started from Nepal using the same route as Sir Edmund Hillary and others had used for the first Mount Everest summit reach.
On 16th May 1975, the team reached the summit and were congratulated by Japanese Prime Minister and King of Nepal.
4. Martin Crowe
Martin Crowe was a cricketer from New Zealand who was known for his flamboyant batting and was regarded as one of the greatest batsman.
He was captain of New Zealand test and ODI teams and scored over 10,000 aggregate runs in test and ODI's.
He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985.
He worked as a commentator and writer after retiring from cricket.
5. Charlotte Cooper
Charlotte Cooper was a tennis player from England who won 5 grand slam women's singles titles.
She won 5 Wimbledon titles from 1895 to 1908 and was a finalist in women's doubles at Wimbledon in 1913.
She was also a winner of 2 gold medals in 1900 Paris Summer Olympics winning in women's singles and Mixed Doubles events.
She was inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.
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