What is the birthdate of this American actor, model, and director, who played on "Lost" and was honored with a Genesis Award?
December 8, 1978
Title: Genesis Awards
Passage: The Genesis Awards are awarded annually by the Humane Society of the United States to individuals in the major news and entertainment media for producing outstanding works which raise public awareness of animal issues.  Presented by the HSUS Hollywood Outreach program, the awards show takes place every March in California.  The awards have honored such well-known personalities as Michael Jackson, Aaron Sorkin, Anderson Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Goodall, David E. Kelley, Paul McCartney, Arthur Miller, Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, Prince, Jacques Cousteau and Ian Somerhalder, as well as journalists, film and documentary writers and producers, print and broadcast news outlets in the United States.
Title: Ian Somerhalder
Passage: Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978) is an American actor, model and director.  He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama "Lost" and Damon Salvatore in The CW's supernatural drama "The Vampire Diaries".
Title: Vinod Johri
Passage: Vinod Johri (10 June 1935 – 10 May 2014) was an Indian astrophysicist.  He was an eminent cosmologist, a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995.  Johri had over 75 research publications and articles published in pioneering journals.  His major contributions in cosmological research included 'power law inflation, genesis of quintessence fields of dark energy and phantom cosmologies'.  He was the co-author of the first model of power law inflation in Brans–Dicke theory along with C. Mathiazhagan.  He was honored by Uttar Pradesh Government by Research Award of the Council of Science & Technology (CSIR).
Genesis Awards Ian Somerhalder