Famous Birthdays in Indian History

Famous Birthdays in Indian History

1889-11-14 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64)
1891-04-14 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d.1956)
1893-01-05 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
1894-01-01 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
1894-02-25 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
1894-04-10 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983)
1894-05-20 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1894-06-23 – Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India (1936)
1894-08-10 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
1895-05-12 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22]
1895-05-22 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12]
1895-06-03 – Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
1895-09-01 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896-02-29 – Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India (1977-79)
1896-09-01 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1896-11-12 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1897-01-23 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician
1897-04-19 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1897-05-03 – V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
1897-11-23 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1898-12-02 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)

1898-12-05 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)
1902-06-04 – Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928)
1902-10-11 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979)
1903-07-15 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1904-02-29 – Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (d. 1986)
1904-03-04 – Chief Tahachee, American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
1904-07-29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1904-10-01 – A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
1904-10-02 – Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri, India premier (1964-66)
1905-09-09 – Hussain Sha – Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram
1906-05-05 – Ursula Jeans, Simla India. actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon)
1906-05-29 – Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist (England Have My Bones)
1906-07-23 – Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
1906-10-10 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
1907-05-15 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1907-09-27 – Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1907-09-28 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1908-04-05 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)
1908-06-24 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
1908-07-25 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)

1908-10-22 – John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly)
1909-10-30 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1909-12-20 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1910-01-30 – C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1910-07-03 – Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant
1910-10-19 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1910-12-04 – Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India (1987-92)
1911-02-19 – Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
1911-09-20 – Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
1911-10-13 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
1912-01-27 – Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling, Indian/British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet)
1912-02-27 – Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1913-05-13 – Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
1913-05-19 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India
1914-01-01 – Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
1914-07-08 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1916-01-22 – Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994)
1916-05-05 – Zail Singh, President of India (d. 1994)
1916-05-08 – Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist (d. 1993)
1916-08-03 – Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970)
1916-09-15 – Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)
1916-09-16 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
1917-01-12 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
1917-01-17 – Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, (MGR), Indian film star, politician
1917-02-11 – T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary (d. 1976)
1917-03-12 – Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917-11-05 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1917-11-19 – Indira Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM (1966-77, 1980-84)
1918-04-16 – Spike Milligan, India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
1918-12-14 – B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
1918-12-23 – Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
1919-01-19 – Dharam Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1919-08-12 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
1919-08-31 – Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
1919-11-08 – P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
1919-12-25 – Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)
1920-02-12 – Pran, Indian actor
1920-03-15 – Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1920-04-05 – Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
1920-04-07 – Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
1920-10-19 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)

1920-10-27 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
1920-10-29 – Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
1920-12-04 – Michael Bates, Jhansi India, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton)
1921-01-20 – Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1921-02-15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
1921-05-02 – Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
1921-06-28 – P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991- )
1921-08-08 – Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
1921-12-07 – Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader
1922-01-09 – Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
1922-02-04 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
1922-12-11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
1923-04-17 – Lindsay Anderson, Bangalore India, director (Thursday’s Children)
1923-05-15 – Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
1923-05-28 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star (Patala Bhairavi)
1923-07-10 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
1923-07-22 – Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1923-09-26 – Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
1924-01-04 – Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (d. 1993)
1924-01-27 – Sabu, [Dastagir], India, actor (Elephant Boy, Drum)
1924-12-14 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
1925-08-07 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
1925-09-24 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1925-12-24 – Mohd. Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (d. 1980)
1926-01-08 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
1926-05-19 – Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
1926-11-23 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
1927-01-18 – Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
1927-01-27 – Michael Craig, Poona India, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror)
1927-03-25 – Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1927-05-10 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
1927-07-27 – Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1927-08-26 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1928-08-04 – Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
1929-01-08 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
1929-03-29 – Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
1929-05-20 – Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
1929-06-06 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
1929-07-20 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)

1929-07-25 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929-08-04 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1929-09-28 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer

1929-10-19 – Balbir Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1948-56)
1930-07-21 – Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1930-09-17 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
1931-02-18 – Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire (Caparo)
1931-05-16 – Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1931-06-30 – June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
1931-08-27 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1931-10-14 – Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1931-10-15 – Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India
1932-06-22 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932-08-01 – Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
1932-09-27 – Yash Chopra, Indian director
1932-09-29 – Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
1932-10-26 – Chinadorai Deshmutu, India, field hockey player (1952)
1932-10-30 – Barun De, Indian historian
1932-12-28 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
1933-02-14 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
1933-09-08 – Asha Bhonsle, Indian singer
1933-11-03 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933-12-02 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
1934-03-15 – Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
1934-05-19 – Ruskin Bond, Indian author
1934-10-15 – N. Ramani, Indian flutist
1935-12-08 – Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935-12-11 – Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
1936-02-09 – Clive Swift, Liverpool, actor (Frenzy, Passage to India)
1936-04-29 – Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic)
1936-05-03 – Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnolde Dorsey], India, singer (EH Show)
1936-09-25 – Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1936-12-25 – Ismail Merchant, Bombay India, producer (Householder)
1937-01-14 – Shoban Babu, Indian actor
1937-12-03 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist
1937-12-28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1938-02-07 – S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader
1938-03-18 – Shashi Kapoor, Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust)
1938-07-19 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1939-01-20 – Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Indian astronomer
1939-06-27 – Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
1939-09-25 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor
1939-11-21 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1939-11-22 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1940-01-02 – S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
1940-01-20 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician

1856-07-23 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
1858-10-21 – Ramabai Dongre’ Medhavi, India, social reformer
1858-11-07 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)
1858-11-30 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1860-08-10 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
1860-09-15 – Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
1861-05-06 – Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1861-05-07 – Rabindranath Tagore, First Indian to win Nobel Prize for Liturature. (d. 1941)
1861-12-25 – Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946)
1865-01-28 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
1865-01-31 – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
1866-05-09 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915)
1867-12-16 – Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951)
1868-08-12 – Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
1869-10-02 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist and spiritual leader
1872-04-14 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
1873-11-22 – Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1875-10-31 – Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
1876-09-15 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
1877-11-24 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
1878-02-21 – The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
1878-11-27 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d.1948).
1878-12-10 – Rajaji, India’s freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
1879-02-13 – Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949)
1879-09-17 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
1880-07-31 – Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
1880-10-08 – Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)
1882-07-05 – Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (d. 1927).
1882-12-11 – Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1883-05-28 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian activist (d. 1966)
1884-12-03 – Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
1885-02-14 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim Indian/Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)
1886-05-25 – Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1886-11-02 – Philip Merivale, Rehutia India, actor (Nothing But Trouble)
1887-02-26 – Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
1887-06-07 – William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily)
1887-12-22 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
1888-09-05 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher
1888-11-07 – Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1888-11-11 – Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India

1483-02-15 – Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30)
1506-04-07 – Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
1542-10-14 – Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogol emperor of India (1556-1605)
1542-10-15 – Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)
1569-08-31 – Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India
1592-01-05 – Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal
1592-01-14 – Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India
1618-11-03 – Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707)
1643-10-14 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
1682-07-10 – Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1685-01-07 – Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company
1725-09-29 – Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India)
1725-09-29 – Robert Clive, founder (British empire in India)
1732-12-06 – Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)
1750-11-20 – Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1767-05-04 – Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847)
1787-06-28 – Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1796-12-27 – Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869)
1809-01-23 – Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter
1809-12-24 – Christopher “Kit” Carson, KY, Union brig-general/indian fighter
1817-05-15 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
1817-10-17 – Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)
1823-06-30 – Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1824-02-12 – Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
1825-05-08 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer (d. 1898)
1825-09-04 – Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament
1827-07-19 – Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
1831-11-08 – Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English under king of India
1832-06-10 – Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India)
1833-11-02 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
1835-11-19 – Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
1836-02-18 – Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Indian mystic/hindu leader
1839-03-03 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
1845-11-04 – Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, The First Indian Revolutionary (d. 1883)
1848-04-16 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (d. 1919)
1849-09-21 – Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
1850-09-09 – Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1853-12-06 – Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature (d. 1931)
1856-04-01 – Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
1856-04-11 – Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India

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