11th death anniversary of Yasser Arafat (August 24, 1929, Cairo, Egypt - November 11, 2004, Clamart, France) --was a Palestinian leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

95th birth anniversary of Johnny Walker (11 November,1920, Indore, Central Provinces, British India - 29 July 2003 Mumbai) -- an Indian movie comedian, who acted in around 300 movies. He was born as Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi, the son of a mill worker.

79th birthday of Mala Sinha (November 11, 1936, Kolkata) -- an ethnic Nepali actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali films. Recognised for her talent and beauty, she went on to become a popular leading actress in Hindi films from the early 1950s until the late 1970s.

127th birth anniversary of Maulana Kalam Azad (11 November 1888, Makkah, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Saudi Arabia) - 22 February 1958, Delhi, India) --an Indian scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement. Following India's independence, he became the first [Minister of Education] in the Indian government. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.

30th birthday of Robin Uthappa (November 11, 1985, Kodagu district) -- an Indian cricketer. He plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket and Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. Uthappa made his One Day International debut in the seventh and final match of the English tour of India in April 2006.

53rd birthday of Demi Moore (November 11, 1962, Roswell, New Mexico, United States) -- Demi Guynes, known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress, filmmaker, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue an acting career.

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41st birthday of Leonardo DiCaprio (November 11, 1974, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States) -- an American actor and film producer and an award-winning actor and a three-time Academy Award nominee.

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77th death anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (May 19, 1881, Thessaloniki, Greece - November 10, 1938, Istanbul, Turkey) -- was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey.

287th birthday of Oliver Goldsmith ( November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774, London, United Kingdom) -- an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer.

167th birthday of Surendranath Banerjee - was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Raj. He founded the Indian National Association, one of the earliest Indian political organizations, and later became a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was also known by the sobriquet, Rashtragur.

51st birthday of Ashutosh Rana (November 10, 1964, Gadarwara) -- an Indian actor, working in Bollywood, as well Marathi, Kannada and Telugu film industries. He has also worked on television with shows such as Kaali – Ek Agnipariksha. Has received Filmfare Best Villain Awards for movies Dushman(1999) and Sangharsh (2000).

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101st birth anniversary of Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1914, Vienna, Austria - January 19, 2000, Casselberry, Florida, United States) -- was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor. Developed spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology and the principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology.

97th birth anniversary of Choi Hong Hi (November 9, 1918, Myongchon County - June 15, 2002, Pyongyang, North Korea) -- also known as General Choi, was a South Korean army general and martial artist who is a controversial figure in the history of the Korean martial art of taekwondo.

4th death anniversary of Har Gobind Khorana (January 9, 1922, Raipur, Punjab - November 9, 2011, Concord, Massachusetts, United States) -- an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins.

10th death anniversary of K. R. Narayanan (October 27, 1920, Uzhavoor - November 9, 2005, New Delhi) -- Kocheril Raman Narayanan was the tenth President of India. He was the first – and, so far, only – member of the Dalit community, to hold the post.

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341st death anniversary of John Milton (December 9, 1608, Cheapside, United Kingdom - November 8, 1674, Chalfont St Giles, United Kingdom) -- an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

88th birthday of Lal Krishna Advani (November 8, 1927, Karachi, Pakistan) -- an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Advani served as Minister of Home Affairs in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government from 1998 to 2004.

39th birthday of Brett Lee (November 8, 1976, Wollongong, Australia) -- a former Australian international cricketer, a Channel Nine cricket commentator and an actor. During his international career, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in the world of cricket.

168th birth anniversary of Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847, Clontarf, Dublin, Republic of Ireland - April 20, 1912, London, United Kingdom) -- an Anglo-Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula.

388th death anniversary of Jahangir (August 30, 1569, Fatehpur Sikri - November 8, 1627, Kashmir) -- Nur-ud-din Mohammad Salim, known by his imperial name Jahangir "conqueror of the world", was the fourth Mughal Emperor who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627.

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153rd death anniversary of Bahadur Shah II (October 24, 1775, Delhi - November 7, 1862, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)) -- Mirza Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor of the Timurid dynasty. He became the successor to his father, Akbar II with his death on 28 September 1837.

287th birth anniversary of James Cook (November 7, 1728, Marton, United Kingdom - February 14, 1779, Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, United States) -- Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

127th birth anniversary of C. V. Raman (November 7, 1888, Thiruvanaikaval - November 21, 1970, Bengaluru) -- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS was an Indian physicist, born in the former Madras Province, whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.

157th birth anniversary of Bipin Chandra Pal - an Indian nationalist. He was among the triumvirate of Lal Bal Pal.

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60th death anniversary of Dale Carnegie (November 24, 1888, Maryville, Missouri, United States - November 1, 1955, Forest Hills, New York City, New York, United States) --an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.

28th birthday of Ileana D'Cruz (November 1, 1987, Mumbai) -- an Indian film actress, who predominantly appears in Telugu and Hindi films. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South for the 2006 Telugu film Devadasu.

41st birthday of V. V. S. Laxman (November 1, 1974, Hyderabad) -- Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman, commonly known as V. V. S. Laxman, is a former Indian cricketer. Laxman represented Hyderabad in domestic cricket and played for Lancashire in English county cricket.

42nd birthday of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (1 November 1973, Mangalore, Karnataka, India) -- an Indian actress and the winner of the Miss World pageant of 1994. Rai has received several awards, including two Filmfare Awards from ten nominations. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2012.

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31st death anniversary of Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (November 19, 1917, Allahabad - October 31, 1984, New Delhi) -- the first female Prime Minister of India and central figure of the Indian National Congress party.

140th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India.

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48th birthday of Julia Roberts (October 28, 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, United States) -- an American actress and producer. She became a movie star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman, which grossed $464 million worldwide.

148th birth anniversary of Sister Nivedita ( October 28, 1867, County Tyrone, United Kingdom - October 13, 1911, Darjeeling) -- She spent her childhood and early days of her youth in Ireland.

60th birthday of Indra Nooyi (October 28, 1955, Chennai) -- an India-born, naturalized American, business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue.

60th birthday of Bill Gates (October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, United States) -- an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company.

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28th death anniversary of Vijay Merchant (October 12, 1911, Mumbai - October 27, 1987, Maharashtra) -- an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batter and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Merchant played first class cricket for Bombay cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India between 1929 and 1951. Behind his limited Test appearances, he dominated Indian domestic cricket – his batting average of 71.64 is the second highest first class average in history, behind only that of Don Bradman.

410th death anniversary of Akbar (October 15, 1542, Umerkot, Pakistan - October 27, 1605, Fatehpur Sikri) --Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar, popularly known as Akbar I and later Akbar the Great, was Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death. He was the third and one of the greatest rulers of the Mughal Dynasty in India.

29th birthday of David Warner (October 27, 1986 ,Paddington, Australia) -- an Australian cricketer. A left-handed opening batsman, Warner is the first Australian cricketer in 132 years to be selected for a national team in any format without experience in first-class cricket.

38th birthday of Kumar Sangakkara (October 27, 1977, Matale, Sri Lanka) -- a Sri Lankan cricketer, and former captain of the Sri Lankan national team. He is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential cricketers.

51st birthday of Mark Taylor (October 27, 1964, Leeton, Australia) -- nicknamed "Tubby" or "Tubs" is a former Australian cricket player and Test opening batsman from 1988–1999, as well as captain from 1994–1999, succeeding Allan Border.

95th birth anniversary of K. R. Narayanan (October 27, 1920, Uzhavoor, Kerala - November 9, 2005, New Delhi) --Kocheril Raman Narayanan, served as ambassador to Japan, United Kingdom, Thailand, Turkey, People's Republic of China and United States of America and was referred to by Nehru as "the best diplomat of the country". Elected as the ninth Vice President in 1992, Narayanan went on to become President in 1997.

63rd birthday of Anuradha Paudwal (October 27, 1952, Karwar, Uttara kannada, Karnataka) -- an Indian playback singer in Bollywood. She is noted in Hindi cinema with a career spanning three decades.She is a five-time winner from 15 nominations of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer,a recipient of the National Film Award.