Celebrity Birthdays - Pt II

 

Name	Birthday	Famous for
Mother Teresa	26th August, 1910	Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
M.S. Subbulakshmi	16th September,1916	Renowned carnatic vocalist and winner of Bharat Ratna
Indira Gandhi	19th November,1917	First Lady Prime Minister of India
Vikram Sarabhai	21st August,1919	Father of Indian Space Program and Chairman of ISRO
Satyajit Ray	2nd  May,1921	Famous Film Director, Producer, Writer
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi	4th February,1922	Indian vocalist and recipient of Bharat Ratna
Lata Mangeshkar	28th September,1929	The Nightingale of Bollywood
Dhirubhai Ambani	28th December, 1932	Founder of Reliance Group
Amartya Sen	3rd November, 1933	Indian Economist and Nobel Prize winner
Francis Xavier	7th April, 1506	Jesuit missionary to India
Debendranath Tagore	15th May, 1817	Indian religious reformer
Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar	2nd November, 1833	Bengali medical doctor, the second MD graduated from the Calcutta Medical College
Dr. Sundari Mohan Das	17th December, 1857	first MD of Calcutta Medical College
Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji ]	18th February, 1836	hindu religious leader
Haraprasad Shastri	6th December, 1853	Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature
Bipin Chandra Pal	7th November, 1858	Indian freedom fighter
Jagdish Chandra Bose	30th November, 1858	Indian physicist
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	15th September, 1860	Indian engineer
Gopal Krishna Gokhale	9th May, 1866	Leader of Indian Independence Movement
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay	15th September, 1876	Indian novelist
The Mother	21st February, 1878	Indian spiritual leader
Jatindramohan Bagchi	27th November, 1878	Indian (Bengali) poet
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar	28th May, 1883	Indian activist
Rash Behari Bose	25th May, 1886	Indian freedom fighter
Srinivasa Ramanujan	22nd December, 1887	Indian mathematician
Sarvepalli Radhakrishan	5th September, 1888	Indian president and philosopher
Satyendra Nath Bose	1st January, 1894	Indian mathematician
Varahagiri Venkata Giri	10th August, 1894	Fourth President of India
Ranchhodji Morarji Desai	29th February, 1896	4th Prime Minister of India
Nirad C. Chaudhuri	23rd November, 1897	Indian writer
Jayaprakash Narayan	11th October, 1902	Indian freedom fighter
Rukmini Devi Arundale	29th February, 1904	Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra
Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri	2nd October, 1904	Indian freedom fighter
Chandrasekhar Azad	23th July, 1906	Indian revolutionary