1311-04-24 – Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India 1329-08-09 – Quilon the first Indian Diocese was erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus was appointed the first Bishop 1459-05-12 – Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur 1497-07-08 – Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India 1498-05-20 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India 1500-03-09 – Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India 1502-02-12 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India. 1509-02-02 – The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey. 1509-02-03 – The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India. 1542-05-06 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time. 1556-03-28 – Origin of Fasli Era (India) 1565-01-25 – Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar’s army 1575-03-03 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi. 1597-08-20 – 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East 1600-12-31 – British East India Company chartered 1601-02-13 – John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London 1602-03-20 – United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms 1608-08-24 – 1st English convoy lands at Surat India 1609-03-25 – Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co 1612-08-29 – Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese 1614-04-05 – American Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John Rolfe 1621-06-03 – Dutch West India Company receives charter for “New Netherlands” (NY) 1622-03-22 – 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain 1633-10-22 – Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633), Ming dynasty won great victory. 1639-08-22 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. 1641-01-14 – United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed 1641-08-26 – West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola 1643-12-25 – Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary. 1658-12-09 – Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India 1668-03-26 – England takes control of Bombay India 1668-03-27 – English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company 1690-02-08 – French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire 1690-08-24 – Job Charnock founds Calcutta India 1692-02-29 – Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem 1699-04-14 – Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar. 1733-05-29 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City. 1737-10-07 – 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) 1737-10-11 – Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India 1739-02-24 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. 1739-03-20 – Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. 1751-08-31 – English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India 1752-06-09 – French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India 1755-04-02 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India. 1755-07-09 – Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War 1756-05-17 – Britain declares war on France (7 Years’ or French & Indian War) 1756-06-20 – 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die 1756-06-20 – India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army 1756-09-08 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition. 1756-12-06 – British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India 1757-01-02 – British troops occupy Calcutta India 1757-11-05 – Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War) 1758-05-21 – Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. 1759-04-08 – British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India 1760-01-22 – Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French 1761-01-07 – Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten 1761-01-16 – The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French. 1764-11-09 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. 1767-09-28 – Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope 1772-02-12 – Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India 1773-10-14 – American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland. 1783-04-09 – Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India 1786-02-24 – Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India 1795-03-11 – Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1796-04-13 – 1st elephant arrives in US from India 1798-09-01 – England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India 1800-07-10 – The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. 1803-02-27 – Great fire in Bombay, India 1803-09-23 – Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army 1806-07-10 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. 1818-06-03 – Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends 1829-12-04 – Britain abolished “suttee” in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre 1835-02-24 – Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag 1838-11-03 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. 1839-01-10 – Tea from India 1st arrives in UK 1839-01-19 – Aden conquered by British East India Company 1839-11-25 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster. 1842-01-06 – 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 1846-01-28 – Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) 1846-02-10 – British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India 1846-02-16 – Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India 1849-03-29 – Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India 1851-12-22 – The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India. 1853-04-16 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane. 1857-05-10 – Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut 1858-07-28 – William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1858-08-02 – Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown 1859-02-10 – Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny 1865-11-11 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company. 1866-06-11 – The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India. 1868-04-13 – Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala. 1870-09-08 – Neth & Engl sign “Koelietraktaat” Br-Indian contract work in Suriname 1876-10-31 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths. 1877-01-01 – England’s Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India 1879-05-14 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas. 1882-06-06 – Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000 1884-09-26 – Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed 1888-04-20 – 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India 1888-12-18 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde. 1889-03-23 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India. 1891-09-18 – Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief 1892-07-06 – Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. 1897-06-12 – Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll) 1905-04-04 – Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000 1905-10-16 – The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred. 1906-12-30 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. 1907-05-01 – Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies) 1911-02-18 – The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away. 1911-03-25 – L D Swamikannu publishes “Manual of Indian Chronology” in Bombay 1911-12-12 – Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. 1913-11-06 – Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in S Afr 1914-06-30 – Mahatma Gandhi’s 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa 1916-05-13 – 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day 1916-05-24 – Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname 1917-03-11 – World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. 1918-05-18 – Neth Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia 1919-04-13 – Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India 1919-04-13 – British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) 1919-08-13 – British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 1919-09-10 – Indian’s Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 1920-03-23 – Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms 1920-10-10 – Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play 1920-10-10 – Indian’s Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam 1922-03-18 – Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience 1925-12-26 – The Communist Party of India is founded. 1926-08-28 – Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox) 1926-12-28 – Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service 1928-08-30 – Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India 1929-01-06 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India’s poorest and diseased people. 1929-01-26 – Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India’s independence 1929-04-08 – Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. 1929-04-24 – 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off 1929-04-26 – 1st non-stop England to India flight lands 1930-03-08 – Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1931-02-10 – New Delhi becomes capital of India 1931-03-23 – Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. 1932-10-08 – The Indian Air Force is established. 1932-10-15 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight. 1933-01-28 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence. 1933-05-08 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India. 1934-01-15 – 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die 1934-04-07 – In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience 1934-08-02 – William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour 1936-02-08 – Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party 1936-04-01 – Orissa constituted a province of British India 1938-10-02 – Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times) 1938-11-16 – K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India 1939-03-03 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India. 1939-03-10 – 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India 1939-04-13 – In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British. 1939-05-03 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. 1940-03-23 – All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland 1940-03-23 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. 1940-07-02 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. 1941-05-25 – 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India 1941-11-24 – Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar 1942-08-09 – Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a “quit India” campaign by the All-India Congress 1942-10-16 – Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India 1943-12-30 – Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. 1944-04-01 – Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India 1944-04-14 – Freighter “Fort Stikene” explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376 1944-08-19 – Last Japanese troops driven out of India 1945-11-13 – Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India 1946-03-15 – British premier Attlee agrees with India’s right to independence 1946-08-08 – India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles 1946-09-02 – Nehru forms govt in India 1946-12-01 – Australia compile 645 v India at the Gabba (Bradman 187) 1947-02-20 – Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India 1947-06-03 – British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan 1947-07-18 – King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill 1947-08-14 – India granted independence within British Commonwealth 1947-08-15 – India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan 1947-08-17 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed. 1947-10-26 – Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India 1948-01-01 – Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India 1948-01-01 – Orissa province accedes to India 1948-01-01 – After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan. 1948-01-03 – Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG 1948-01-23 – Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six 1948-01-23 – Test debut of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide 1948-01-24 – Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*) 1948-04-15 – Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created 1948-06-21 – Lord Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India 1948-09-12 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah’s death. 1949-01-14 – Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die 1949-02-19 – Mass arrests of communists in India 1949-03-05 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India. 1949-05-12 – 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India) 1949-09-23 – Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant 1949-10-15 – Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian govt 1949-10-15 – Tripura accedes to Indian union 1949-11-26 – India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic 1949-12-30 – India recognizes People’s Republic of China 1950-01-01 – The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India. 1950-01-26 – India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion 1950-07-02 – Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit 1950-08-15 – 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000 1950-08-15 – Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. 1950-10-26 – Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India 1950-11-06 – King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India 1950-12-05 – Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India 1952-01-21 – Nehru’s Congress party wins general election in India 1952-05-13 – Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India 1952-05-13 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting. 1952-07-19 – Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford 1952-07-19 – India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day 1952-10-16 – Pakistan’s 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi 1952-10-18 – Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash 1952-10-25 – Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan’s 1st Test century 124* v India 1953-04-01 – Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India 1953-10-01 – Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras 1954-11-01 – India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements 1955-04-11 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1955-04-30 – Imperial Bank of India nationalized 1955-05-02 – India poses discrimination “onaanraakbaren” punishable 1955-06-07 – India premier Nehru visit USSR 1956-09-01 – Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory 1956-09-02 – Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India) 1956-11-01 – Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union 1956-11-01 – Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms 1956-11-01 – Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection 1956-11-01 – Formation of Kerala state in India. 1957-01-26 – India annexes Kashmir 1957-03-22 – Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian 1959-01-01 – Rohan Kanhai completes 256 v India at Calcutta 1959-03-17 – Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1959-03-31 – Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India 1959-07-27 – Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut 1959-08-24 – England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India 1959-09-21 – 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US 1959-10-23 – Chinese troops move into India, 17 die 1959-12-20 – Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur 1960-02-12 – Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers 1960-05-01 – India’s Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states 1961-11-05 – India’s premier Nehru arrives in NY 1961-12-17 – India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies 1961-12-18 – India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu 1962-02-25 – India Congress Party wins elections 1962-05-30 – 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India) 1962-09-08 – Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) 1962-10-10 – Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack 1962-10-20 – Chinese army lands in India 1962-11-21 – The Chinese People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War. 1963-05-28 – Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India) 1963-12-01 – Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union 1964-01-13 – Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta – now Kolkata – resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people. 1964-02-09 – Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi 1964-06-02 – Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India 1964-10-29 – Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY 1964-12-23 – India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed 1965-01-08 – Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History 1965-04-09 – India & Pakistan engage in border fight 1965-05-11 – 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India) 1965-05-25 – India & Pakistan border fights 1965-05-28 – Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400 1965-06-02 – 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India) 1965-08-06 – Indian troops invade Pakistan 1965-09-01 – India & Pakistan border fights 1965-09-06 – India invades West Pakistan 1965-09-07 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border. 1965-09-22 – India & Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect 1966-01-10 – India & Pakistan sign peace accord 1966-01-19 – Indira Gandhi elected India’s 3rd prime minister 1966-04-06 – Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India 1966-06-24 – Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die 1966-11-01 – Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created 1966-12-13 – Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78 1967-05-06 – Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India 1967-06-09 – Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six 1967-09-04 – 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 1967-09-11 – Indian/Chinese border fights 1967-12-11 – 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed 1968-01-31 – Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years 1968-02-16 – Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1968-12-25 – 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers. 1969-12-25 – India all out for 163 at Madras v Aust, Ashley Mallett 5-91 1970-04-02 – Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India’s Assam state 1971-01-25 – Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state 1971-03-09 – J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain 1971-08-24 – India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms 1971-11-21 – Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. 1971-12-03 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. 1971-12-04 – The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan. 1971-12-04 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. 1971-12-16 – India’s army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders 1971-12-17 – Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir 1972-01-21 – Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union 1972-01-21 – Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory 1972-01-21 – Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India. 1972-03-19 – India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty 1972-07-02 – India & Pakistan sign peace accord 1972-07-10 – Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India 1972-12-17 – New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan 1972-12-23 – Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi 1973-02-09 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India. 1973-02-27 – American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota 1973-02-27 – Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee 1973-07-07 – 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India) 1973-08-28 – India & Pakistan sign POW accord 1973-11-01 – The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu . 1974-05-18 – India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb 1974-07-13 – India’s 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley) 1974-11-07 – 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o) 1975-01-29 – W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2 1975-04-19 – India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR 1975-05-16 – India annexes Principality of Sikkim 1975-05-19 – Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India 1975-06-26 – Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency 1975-06-26 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1975-07-20 – India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship. 1975-12-27 – Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India) 1976-02-17 – Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell 1976-04-12 – India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare 1976-04-25 – India all out for 97 v West Indies 1977-01-19 – World’s largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival 1977-03-20 – Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India 1977-03-22 – Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India 1977-03-28 – Morarji Desai forms govt in India 1977-12-17 – Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41 1978-01-01 – Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 1978-01-03 – Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win 1978-02-03 – Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test 1978-02-03 – India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445 1978-10-16 – Test debut of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad 1978-12-19 – Indira Gandhi ambushed in India 1978-12-26 – India’s former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail 1979-01-02 – Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) 1979-02-07 – Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur 1979-06-01 – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. 1979-06-07 – Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched 1979-07-15 – Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India 1979-07-17 – David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston 1979-08-20 – India premier Charan Singh resigns 1979-09-04 – India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429 1979-09-20 – The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML). 1979-10-17 – Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1980-01-06 – Indira Gandhi’s Congress Party wins elections in India 1980-07-18 – Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit 1981-01-03 – Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG 1981-01-08 – India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia 1981-01-24 – Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide 1981-02-11 – Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win 1981-06-06 – A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed. 1981-06-19 – India’s APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched 1981-07-16 – India performs nuclear Test 1981-10-14 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. 1982-07-09 – Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval 1982-07-27 – Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years 1982-12-27 – Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory v India at Karachi 1983-01-15 – Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India 1983-02-22 – Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India 1983-04-17 – India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket 1983-11-16 – Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose 1983-11-27 – Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India 1984-02-01 – Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) 1984-04-03 – Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7 1984-04-15 – Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India 1984-06-06 – 1,200 die in Sikh “Golden Temple” uprising India 1984-08-03 – Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed 1984-09-28 – 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi) 1984-11-03 – 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India 1984-11-03 – Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated 1984-12-03 – 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1984-12-28 – Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress party wins election in India 1984-12-29 – Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections 1984-12-31 – Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India’s 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira 1985-01-15 – Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200′s v India 1985-04-08 – India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster 1985-05-11 – Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India 1985-06-23 – Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 1985-08-17 – Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India 1985-09-25 – Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India 1985-12-13 – David Boon’s 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide 1985-12-13 – Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India) 1986-01-04 – David Boon’s second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide 1986-02-02 – Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India 1986-02-11 – Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1986-03-28 – Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India 1986-07-25 – Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India 1986-09-19 – Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras 1986-10-02 – Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi 1986-10-02 – Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 1986-10-19 – Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay) 1987-07-06 – 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India 1987-11-25 – India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24 1987-12-11 – Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay 1987-12-20 – 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0) 1988-01-11 – Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras 1988-07-21 – ESA’s Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian) 1988-08-20 – 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed 1988-11-30 – Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed 1989-10-20 – Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin 1989-11-29 – India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns 1989-12-02 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India 1990-02-23 – Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat 1990-03-24 – Indian troops leave Sri Lanka 1990-03-27 – Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die 1990-04-17 – Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die 1990-07-27 – Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord’s 1990-07-30 – Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333 1990-12-10 – Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die 1991-10-16 – Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India. 1991-10-20 – 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die 1991-10-25 – Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah 1991-12-26 – Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India 1992-01-02 – Test debut of Shane Warne, v India at Sydney 1992-01-20 – Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1992-01-28 – Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 v India at Adelaide 1992-05-20 – India launches its 1st satellite independently 1992-05-22 – India launches its Agni rocket 1992-06-23 – “Tin Bigha Day” protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh 1992-06-26 – India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh 1992-10-18 – Start of Zimbabwe’s 1st Test match, v India at Harare 1992-10-20 – David Houghton gets Zimbabwe’s 1st Test ton (121 v India, debut) 1992-12-06 – 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die 1993-01-23 – Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die 1993-01-29 – Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman 1993-02-23 – India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England 1993-09-30 – 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed 1994-01-25 – Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55 1994-03-15 – Experts from AL certify Indian’s Jacobs Field is properly lit 1994-04-13 – United Arab Emirates’ 1st official ODI, losing to India 1994-05-20 – Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe 1994-05-21 – Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe 1994-07-24 – Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India 1994-07-29 – India army kills 27 Moslem militants 1994-10-29 – National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC) 1994-11-19 – Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World 1995-02-25 – Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) 1995-03-12 – Congress party loses India national election 1996-03-09 – Javed Miandad’s last international in Pak’s WC QF loss to India 1996-03-13 – Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play 1996-08-20 – India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord’s 1996-09-16 – 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto 1997-03-13 – India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. 1997-07-25 – K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India’s 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called “untouchable”— to hold this office. 1998-03-24 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others. 1998-04-06 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India. 1998-05-11 – India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device. 1998-05-13 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. 1998-05-28 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. 1999-01-22 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India. 1999-03-11 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. 1999-04-08 – Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. 1999-08-11 – Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) 2000-02-15 – Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails. 2000-11-15 – A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people. New Jharkhand state came into existence in India. 2001-01-26 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths. 2001-06-18 – Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India. 2001-09-21 – University of Roorkee, becomes India’s 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee 2001-12-13 – the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists. 2002-05-03 – A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight. 2003-06-05 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region. 2003-10-17 – Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics. 2003-11-18 – The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal’s CPI(ML). 2004-03-23 – Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India. 2004-06-06 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. 2004-09-17 – Tamil is declared the first classical language in India. 2004-09-21 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People’s War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist). 2005-01-25 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258. 2005-07-26 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days. 2006-07-06 – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years. 2006-07-11 – 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. 2007-07-25 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first woman president 2008-10-22 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. 2008-11-26 – Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India. 2010-02-13 – A bombing at the German Bakery in Pune, India, kills 10 and injures 60 more.
1351-03-20 – Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies 1510-03-01 – Francisco d’Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59 1539-03-05 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487) 1605-10-15 – Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63 1627-10-28 – Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies 1629-04-19 – Sigismondo d’India, Italian composer 1631-06-07 – Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal) 1666-02-01 – Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies 1680-04-03 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630) 1680-04-17 – Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (b. 1656) 1699-06-22 – Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630) 1707-02-20 – Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies 1707-03-03 – Aurangzeb, Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88 1713-02-11 – Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of India (b. 1664) 1754-10-04 – Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief 1755-07-09 – E Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French & Indian War 1760-04-10 – Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75 1773-11-22 – Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48 1781-05-18 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742) 1799-05-04 – Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750) 1815-09-24 – John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70 1818-08-22 – Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85 1843-12-18 – Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748) 1856-09-24 – Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies 1857-04-08 – Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827) 1858-06-17 – Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828) 1860-10-12 – Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73 1868-05-23 – Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809) 1869-02-15 – Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796) 1871-03-18 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806) 1871-06-08 – Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death 1881-07-17 – Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804) 1883-02-17 – Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845) 1890-12-10 – Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84 1893-11-07 – Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, dies at 37 1898-03-01 – George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825) 1898-03-27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817) 1902-07-04 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863) 1905-01-19 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817) 1908-08-11 – Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889) 1915-02-19 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India’s social reformer/politician, dies 1918-07-22 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898) 1918-10-15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838) 1919-05-27 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848) 1920-04-26 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887) 1920-08-01 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies 1925-06-16 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870) 1927-02-05 – Inayat Khan, Indian sufi 1927-06-13 – Henry CK “Clan” Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82 1928-11-17 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865) 1931-03-23 – Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters 1936-09-19 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860) 1937-11-23 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858) 1938-04-21 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877) 1940-01-01 – Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865) 1941-03-28 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877) 1941-08-07 – Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80 1948-01-30 – Mahatma Gandhi, India’s political and spiritual leader, assassinated in New Delhi 1948-01-30 – Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India 1950-04-14 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879) 1950-08-08 – Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies 1950-12-05 – Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872) 1950-12-15 – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875) 1951-12-05 – Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871) 1952-01-05 – Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64 1952-03-07 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893) 1953-12-10 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872) 1955-09-16 – Leopold C M S Amery, Brit minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81 1956-12-06 – Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891) 1958-06-27 – Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78 1959-12-23 – Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78 1962-04-12 – Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (b. 1861) 1963-02-28 – Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884) 1964-05-27 – Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India’s 1st PM, dies at 74 1966-01-11 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61 1966-01-24 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909) 1966-02-26 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883) 1967-10-12 – Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader 1969-01-31 – Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894) 1969-05-03 – Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897) 1969-06-24 – Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), dies 1970-06-07 – Edward M Forster, Brit writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91 1970-07-24 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897) 1970-11-21 – Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888) 1971-12-31 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (b. 1919) 1972-03-31 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932) 1972-05-28 – Edward VIII, King of Gr Brit/N Ireld/emperor (India 1936), dies at 77 1972-07-28 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918) 1972-09-27 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892) 1973-09-11 – Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru 1974-02-04 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894) 1975-04-17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (b. 1888) 1975-10-02 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903) 1975-10-31 – SD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1906) 1976-08-27 – Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923) 1977-03-22 – A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904) 1979-12-03 – Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905) 1980-06-23 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies 1980-06-23 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894) 1980-07-24 – Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926) 1980-07-31 – Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924) 1981-02-05 – Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I’d Like to See), dies at 75 1981-12-26 – Savithri, Indian actress (b. 1937) 1982-02-22 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898) 1983-01-11 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894) 1984-02-03 – Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England 1984-02-09 – Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras 1984-10-31 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by two of her bodyguards at 66 1984-11-27 – Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead 1985-03-15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921) 1986-02-17 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90 1986-06-06 – Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress 1986-07-06 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908) 1987-10-09 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908) 1987-10-13 – Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929) 1987-12-11 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923) 1990-01-19 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, indian guru, dies at 58 1990-05-21 – Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered 1990-11-07 – Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Alexandria Quartet, Mount Olive), dies at 78 1991-03-23 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913) 1991-05-21 – Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 1991-06-14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83 1992-04-23 – Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70 1993-04-06 – Divya Bharati, “Baby Doll” Indian Bollywood actress (Diwana), dies at 19 by mysteriously falling from her husband’s apartment 1993-11-29 – JRD Tata, Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89 1993-11-30 – Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924) 1994-01-04 – RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939) 1994-12-25 – Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78 1995-04-10 – Morarji Desai, PM of India (1977-79), dies 1995-08-31 – Beant Singh, PM of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73 1996-01-18 – N T Rama Rao, PM of Andhra Pradesh India (1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), dies 1996-01-18 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923) 1996-04-22 – Hiteshwar Saikia, PM of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies 1996-05-20 – Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies 1996-05-31 – Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies 1996-06-01 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83 1998-01-15 – Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies 1998-08-18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950) 1999-07-07 – Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974) 1999-08-01 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897) 1999-08-10 – Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899) 1999-12-26 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918) 2000-07-10 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909) 2000-11-07 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910) 2000-12-23 – Noor Jehan, Indian singer and actress (b. 1926) 2001-05-13 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906) 2001-07-21 – Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927) 2001-12-01 – Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (b. 1909) 2001-12-10 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911) 2002-07-06 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932) 2002-07-07 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933) 2002-10-11 – Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922) 2003-10-31 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908) 2003-11-09 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937) 2004-02-23 – Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934) 2004-02-26 – Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920) 2004-04-17 – Soundarya, Indian actress (b. 1971) 2004-06-26 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929) 2004-07-23 – Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932) 2004-08-15 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941) 2004-08-30 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949) 2004-10-18 – Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945) 2004-12-11 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916) 2004-12-21 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925) 2004-12-23 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921) 2005-01-03 – JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936) 2005-01-12 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932) 2005-01-21 – Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955) 2005-03-30 – O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930) 2005-04-25 – Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908) 2005-05-25 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929) 2005-07-27 – Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934) 2005-10-30 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942) 2005-11-09 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921) 2006-02-09 – Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932) 2006-02-23 – Telmo ZarraonaindÃa, Spanish footballer (b. 1921) 2006-03-26 – Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944) 2006-04-12 – Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada language film actor/singer (India)(b. 1929) 2006-04-21 – T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922) 2006-05-03 – Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949) 2006-05-05 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919) 2006-05-27 – Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944) 2006-08-21 – Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916) 2006-08-27 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922) 2007-02-02 – Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944) 2007-03-04 – Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966) 2007-03-22 – Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918) 2007-04-16 – G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954) 2007-06-30 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943) 2007-10-03 – M.N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic 2008-01-01 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (b. 1919) 2008-02-05 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. ca. 1917) 2008-02-25 – Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912) 2008-03-20 – Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937) 2008-05-19 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928) 2008-06-27 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914) 2008-07-29 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989) 2008-08-01 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916) 2008-09-27 – Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934) 2009-01-27 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910) 2009-01-31 – Nagesh, Indian comedian actor in Kollywood (b. 1933) 2009-04-27 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939) 2009-05-03 – Ram Shewalkar, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.(b.1931) 2009-06-28 – A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955) 2009-07-29 – Gayatri Devi, Ex-Maharani of Indian state Jaipur. (b. 1919) 2009-09-02 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949) 2009-11-11 – Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919) 2010-01-17 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
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 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 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 ZarraonaindÃa, 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 1940-10-14 – Cliff Richards, [Harry Webb], Lucknow India, rock voclist (Suddenly) 1940-11-01 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India 1940-12-12 – Sharad Pawar, Indian politician 1941-02-27 – Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP (Soc/Lib Democrat) 1941-04-14 – Julie Christie, Assam India, actress (Dr Zhivago) 1941-07-31 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician 1941-09-04 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician 1941-11-25 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Indian Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (d. 2001) 1942-04-02 – Roshan Seth, Indian actor 1942-04-07 – Jeetendra, Indian actor 1942-05-23 – K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director 1942-12-29 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor 1943-01-01 – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist 1943-01-24 – Subhash Ghai, Indian film director 1943-06-02 – Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer 1943-12-25 – Ravish Malhotra, India cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11 backup) 1944-01-11 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician 1944-02-13 – Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006) 1944-05-01 – Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician 1944-08-20 – Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-89) 1945-01-17 – Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter 1945-02-20 – Annu Kapoor, Indian actor 1945-05-04 – Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist 1945-05-23 – Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991) 1945-07-24 – Azim Premji, Indian businessman 1945-12-06 – Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker 1946-05-01 – Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (Abs Fab, OHM’s Secret Service) 1946-05-28 – Satchidanandan, Indian poet 1946-08-20 – N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman 1946-10-06 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor 1946-10-15 – Victor Banerjee, Calcutta India, actor (A Passage to India) 1946-12-08 – Sharmila Tagore, Indian Actress 1946-12-09 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician 1946-12-09 – Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor 1947-01-07 – Shobha De, Indian writer 1947-02-12 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984) 1947-06-11 – Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician 1947-08-15 – Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress 1948-02-24 – J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician 1948-02-25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor 1948-04-09 – Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress 1948-10-16 – Hema Malini, Indian Actress 1949-01-13 – Rakesh Sharma, India, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11) 1949-03-07 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician 1949-04-28 – Indian Larry, American stuntsman (d. 2004) 1949-09-01 – P.A. Sangma, Indian politician 1949-12-18 – Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy) 1950-01-07 – Johnny Lever, Indian actor 1950-04-20 – Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician 1950-05-30 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor 1950-06-15 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist 1950-07-20 – Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor 1950-09-17 – Narendra Modi, Indian politician 1950-09-18 – Shabana Azmi, Indian actress 1950-10-02 – Persis Khambatta, Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce) 1950-10-18 – Om Puri, Indian actor 1950-12-12 – Rajnikanth, Indian actor 1951-01-01 – Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor 1951-11-19 – Zeenat Aman, Indian actress 1952-03-20 – Anand Armitraj, India, tennis player (Brother of ViJay) 1952-04-13 – Erick Avari, British-Indian actor 1952-06-20 – Vikram Seth, Indian poet 1952-09-04 – Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor 1952-11-05 – Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist 1952-12-28 – Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician 1953-09-27 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader 1953-12-14 – Vijay Amritraj, India, tennis player/actor (Octopussy) 1954-03-19 – Indu Shahani, Indian educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai 1954-07-27 – G. S. Bali, Indian politician 1954-11-07 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor 1955-05-17 – Bill Paxton, actor (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies) 1955-11-05 – Karan Thapar, Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator 1955-12-31 – Dawood Ibrahim, Indian crime boss 1956-01-15 – Mayawati, Indian politician 1956-02-01 – Brahmanandam, Indian film actor 1956-03-09 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General 1956-04-18 – Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress 1956-06-02 – Mani Ratnam, Indian dire 1956-08-14 – Johnny Lever, Indian actor 1956-10-19 – Sunny Deol, Indian actor 1957-01-07 – Reena Roy, Indian actress 1957-04-19 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman 1957-08-03 – Mani Shankar, Indian film maker 1957-09-23 – Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer 1957-10-15 – Mira Nair, Indian director 1957-12-10 – Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker 1958-02-01 – Jackie Shroff, Indian actor 1958-04-03 – Jaya Prada, Indian Actress 1959-05-03 – Uma Bharati, Indian politician 1959-07-29 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor 1959-08-26 – Jim Rutledge, Victoria, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Indian Open) 1959-08-29 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor 1959-12-24 – Anil Kapoor, Indian actor 1960-01-03 – Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India 1960-05-21 – Mohanlal, Indian actor 1960-06-10 – Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor 1960-12-13 – Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor 1961-01-07 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress 1961-04-18 – Pamella Bordes, New Dehli India, Brit parliament prostitute 1961-05-04 – Ishita Bhaduri, Indian (Bengali) Poet 1961-05-26 – Tarsem Singh, Indian film director 1961-06-05 – Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis star 1961-06-27 – Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress 1961-07-01 – Kalpana Chawla, Karnal India, astronaut (STS 87) 1961-08-13 – Sunil Shetty, Indian Actor, Producer 1961-11-24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer 1962-02-14 – Sakina Jaffrey, Indian actress 1962-09-30 – Shaan, Indian singer 1963-08-10 – Phoolan Devi, Indian bandit and revolutionary (d. 2001) 1963-08-13 – Sridevi, Indian actress 1963-08-17 – S. Shankar, Indian film director. 1964-01-31 – Remi Bouchard, Lasalle Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 India Open) 1964-02-19 – Sonu Walia, Indian actress 1964-12-25 – Anil Kaul, Amritsar India, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96) 1965-03-14 – Aamir Khan, Indian actor 1965-06-01 – India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987) 1965-09-02 – Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker 1965-11-02 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor 1965-12-27 – Salman Khan, Indian actor 1966-01-06 – A. R. Rahman, Indian composer 1966-03-05 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian 1966-03-20 – Alka Yagnik, Indian singer 1966-04-17 – Vikram, Indian actor 1966-05-03 – Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor 1966-08-28 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician 1966-09-28 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director 1967-01-26 – Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer 1967-01-27 – Bobby Deol, Indian actor 1967-02-01 – Patle Shishupal Natthu, Indian politician 1967-02-12 – Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician 1967-05-15 – Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress 1967-08-18 – Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer 1967-09-09 – Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor 1967-11-13 – Juhi Chawla, Indian actress 1968-02-09 – Rahul Roy, Indian actor 1968-03-16 – Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher 1968-04-19 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor 1968-09-29 – Samir Soni, Indian film actor 1968-12-15 – Javid Hussain, Indian film producer 1969-12-11 – Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster 1970-05-30 – Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist 1970-06-01 – R. Madhavan, Indian actor 1970-06-19 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician 1970-08-06 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director 1970-08-16 – Manisha Koirala, Indian actress 1970-08-16 – Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor 1970-09-01 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress 1970-10-26 – Raveena Tandon, Indian actress 1971-04-16 – Natasha Zvereva, Minsk Belarus, tennis ace (finals 1995 Indian Wells) 1971-05-01 – Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor 1971-09-02 – Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor 1971-11-01 – Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier 1971-12-18 – Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist 1972-04-16 – Conchita Martinez, Monzon Spain, tennis star (1996 final Indian Wells) 1972-08-27 – Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler 1972-11-04 – Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress 1972-11-09 – Laxmi Poruri, Guntur India, tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park) 1972-11-26 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor 1972-12-17 – John Abraham, Indian actor 1973-06-17 – Leander Paes, Indian tennis player 1973-07-23 – Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor. 1973-07-30 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor 1973-08-10 – Lisa Raymond, Norristown Penn, tennis star (1995 Indian Wells doubles) 1973-08-23 – Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model 1973-09-01 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor 1973-11-01 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress 1974-01-09 – Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood Director, Actor, Producer, Singer. 1974-01-10 – Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor 1974-05-15 – Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor 1974-06-07 – Mahesh Bhupathi, India, tennis pro 1974-06-22 – Joseph Vijay, Indian actor 1974-06-25 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress 1974-09-09 – Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army 1974-12-25 – Nagma, Indian actress 1975-01-01 – Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress 1975-01-08 – Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer 1975-01-31 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress 1975-03-08 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor 1975-06-08 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress 1975-06-22 – Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress 1975-08-05 – Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress 1975-10-03 – India.Arie, American singer 1976-02-05 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor 1976-02-20 – Rohan Gavaskar, Left-handed batsman, India ODI 2004 (son of Sunil Gavaskar) 1976-06-29 – Sandhya Chib, Miss Universe-India (1996) 1976-09-03 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor 1976-12-15 – Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer 1977-06-09 – Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant 1977-06-09 – Amisha Patel, Indian actress 1977-07-17 – Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer 1977-09-01 – Aamir Ali, Indian television actor 1978-01-01 – Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist 1978-03-21 – Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress 1978-03-28 – Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997) 1978-04-16 – Lara Dutta, Indian actress 1978-06-11 – Ujjwala Raut, Indian supermodel 1978-11-01 – Manju Warrier, Indian actress 1978-12-17 – Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor 1979-01-07 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model 1979-02-02 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress 1979-03-23 – Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor 1979-03-24 – Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor 1979-03-31 – Amey Date, Indian playback singer 1979-04-17 – Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor 1979-04-23 – Yana Gupta, Indian actress & model 1980-02-21 – Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver 1980-08-18 – Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress 1980-09-21 – Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress 1980-12-11 – Arya, Indian actor 1981-02-25 – Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor 1981-03-29 – Jlloyd Samuel, WestIndian-born footballer 1981-06-07 – Amrita Rao, Indian model and actress 1981-06-25 – Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress 1981-09-21 – Rimi Sen, Indian actress 1981-10-12 – Sneha, Indian actress 1981-10-24 – Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress 1981-10-29 – Reema Sen, Indian actress 1981-12-09 – Diya Mirza, Indian actress 1982-02-23 – Karan Singh Grover, Indian Television Actor 1982-03-28 – Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress 1982-04-07 – Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler 1982-07-03 – Kanika, Indian actress 1982-07-18 – Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen 1982-09-11 – Shriya Saran, South Indian actress 1982-09-28 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter 1982-09-28 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian Actor 1982-12-10 – Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress 1983-02-03 – Silambarasan Rajendar,famous south Indian actor 1983-02-23 – Aziz Ansari, Indian American Comedian 1983-04-08 – Allu Arjun, Indian film actor 1983-05-04 – Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress 1983-05-20 – Jr. NTR, Indian film actor 1983-05-25 – Kunal Khemu, Indian actor 1984-01-19 – Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver 1984-02-15 – Meera Jasmine, Indian actress 1984-02-29 – Adam Sinclair, Indian field hockey player 1984-03-12 – Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer 1984-03-19 – Tanushree Dutta, Indian actress 1984-07-16 – Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress 1984-08-03 – Sunil Chetri, Indian Footballer 1985-01-18 – Minnisha Lamba, Indian Actress and Model 1985-01-30 – Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer 1985-06-09 – Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress 1985-10-26 – Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress 1986-01-01 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress 1986-01-05 – Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress 1986-01-28 – Shruti Haasan, Indian actress 1986-03-27 – Ramani, Indian Girl 1986-04-10 – Ayesha Takia, Indian actress 1986-10-20 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress 1986-11-15 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player 1987-03-31 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster 1987-08-05 – Genelia D’Souza, Indian actress 1987-08-19 – Ileana D’Cruz, Indian actress 1988-01-04 – Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer 1988-11-22 – Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, British-Indian novelists 1988-12-02 – Soniya Mehra, Indian Actress 1989-09-02 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008) 1991-08-09 – Hansika Motwani, Indian actress 1996-03-09 – Darsheel Safary, Youngest Indian actor to win filmfare award for best performance.
