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Donald George Bradman 

The Don", born on August 27, 1998 in Cootamundra, New South Wales, died on February 25, 2001 in Adelaide, South Australia when he was 92 years old. he was an australian, he was an australian international cricketer

His parents were George Bradman and Emily Bradman, he had four brothers Victor Bradman, Elizabeth Bradman, Lilian Bradman, Islet Bradman. He married on April 30, 1932 with Jessie Martha Menzies, they had three children, their first son died when he was a baby in 1936, the second     son John Bradman (born 1939) and their daughter: Shirley Bradman (born 1941)

Hoir hobbies were playing tennis, singing, playing the piano, listening to music.

Bradman did not receive any coaching. He leraning all his cricket skills with the golf ball. When he was 19, he debuted his first-class career, scoring 118 runs and becoming the 20th Australian to score a Maiden Century. At that time they called him "The Boy from Bowral". In 1930, Bradman became a national hero when he scored 974 runs with a 139.14 average in the series.  

He was also a good singer, he composed many songs on the piano in the early 1930s. He suffered his personal disaster while raising his children; his first son died as an infant in 1936, his second son had polio, his daughter suffered cerebral palsy from birth. On 28 june 1940, during the second world war, Bradman joined the “Royal Australian Airforce” but, later in 1941, he was declared invalid for the service as he lost the sensation in his right index finger and thumb.

In 1949, Bradman was knighted for his service to Cricket. He is the only Australian sportsman to achieve this feat, widely recognized as the greatest hitter of all time. 

He is the only Australian sportsman to achieve this feat, widely recognized as the greatest hitter of all time. Bradman's career batting average of  99.94 has been cited as the greatest achievement of any athlete in any major sport.

He had such achievements as The Bachelor Knight (1949) and Companion of the Order of Australia (June 16, 1979). In 2001, when he died, the Australian government honored him by minting 20 cents in his image.

Heath Ledger 
(1979–2008)

Heath Ledger was an Academy Award-winning, Australian actor best known for his
roles in 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'The Dark Knight.' He died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in 2008.

Ledger was born in Perth, Australia, on April 4, 1979, to mother Sally Ledger Bell, a French teacher, and father Kim Ledger, a racecar driver and mining specialist. He and his sister, Kate, were reportedly named after two main characters in Emily Brotë's Wuthering Heights. He also had two half-sisters: Ashleigh Bell and Olivia Ledger, both of whom were born into his parents' second marriages. But Ledger's closest family relationship was with Kate, whom he later credited for spurring his acting career.

After various small roles on television, Ledger's feature film debut came in 1997 in the emotional drama Blackrock. This led to a starring role in the historical fantasy series Roar, costarring Keri Russell and backed by financiers in the United States. The series was nominated for several awards and exposed Ledger to American audiences and Fox executives.

• Making it in Hollywood: '10 Things' to 'A Knight's Tale'
  
  In 1999, Ledger was fully exposed to an international audience with his breakout role opposite Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You. The film was a cult success among younger audiences.

• 'Brokeback Mountain'
  
  
  Ledger worked steadily on independent films until 2005 when he was once again thrust into the spotlight with his contribution to one of the most controversial films to date. Ledger received "Best Actor of 2005" awards from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle for his performance in Brokeback Mountain.

It was on the set of Brokeback Mountain that Ledger met actress Michelle Williams. The two began a whirlwind relationship, and their daughter, Matilda Rose, was born on October 28, 2005, in New York City. Matilda Rose's godparents are Ledger's Brokeback co-star Jake Gyllenhaal and Williams' Dawson's Creek (1998-03) castmate Busy Philipps.

Tragic Death
On January 22, 2008, Ledger was found unconscious in his bed by his housekeeper, Teresa Solomon, and his masseuse, Diana Wolozin, at his apartment in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, Emergency medical technicians arrived at Ledger's apartment at 3:33 p.m. But were unable to revive him. At 3:36 p.m., Ledger was pronounced dead and his body was removed from the apartment.

Ledger had told The New York Times in November 2007 that he was taking Ambien, a prescription medication used for the short-term treatment of insomnia. He discussed the difficulty that he was having with portraying the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight, a character he described as a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. The coroner's report ruled his death an accident.