61st birthday of Chiranjeevi – an Indian film actor, dancer, producer, singer, voice artist, politician, businessman, investor and a member of the Indian National Congress.

77th birthday of Carl Yastrzemski – an American former Major League Baseball player. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. Yastrzemski played his entire 23-year baseball career with the Boston Red Sox

75th birthday of Bill Parcells – Duane Charles “Bill” Parcells is a former American football head coach, both in college with the Air Force Falcons, and the National Football League with the New York Giants, New England Patriots etc.

52nd birthday of Mats Wilander – a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 to 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles, and one Grand Slam men’s doubles title.

38th death anniversary of Jomo Kenyatta – a Kenyan politician, and the first President of Kenya. Kenyatta was the leader of Kenya from independence in 1963 to his death in 1978, serving first as Prime Minister and then as President.

94th death anniversary of Michael Collins – an Irish revolutionary leader, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood from November 1920 until his death, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations

449th birth anniversary of Saint Francis de Sales – Francis de Sales, CO OM OFM Cap. was a Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

49th birth anniversary of Stéphane Charbonnier – Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was murdered in the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015.

402nd death anniversary of Elizabeth Báthory – Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary known for being a serial killer.

30th birthday of Usain Bolt – Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, CD, is a Jamaican sprinter. Widely regarded as the fastest person ever, he is the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since fully automatic time measurements became mandatory in 1977.

10th death anniversary of Ustad Bismillah Khan – often referred to by the honorific title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularising the shehnai, a subcontinental wind instrument of the oboe class.

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Happy Birthday Randeep Hooda - Indian film actor who appears in Hindi-language films.

70th birthday of Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy CBE, commonly referred to as Narayana Murthy, - Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys, a multinational corporation providing business consulting, technology, engineering, and outsourcing services.

2nd death anniversary of Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, better known as B.K.S. Iyengar, - the founder of the style of yoga known as "Iyengar Yoga" and was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world.

75th birth anniversary of Slobodan Milošević - a Serbian and Yugoslav politician who was the President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Among his supporters, Milošević was known by the nickname of "Sloba".

68th birthday of Robert Anthony Plant - English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. In 2006, Heavy Metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time"

183rd birth anniversary of Benjamin Harrison - 23rd President of the United States; he was the grandson of the ninth President, William Henry Harrison.

115th birth anniversary of Salvatore Quasimodo - Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times".

72nd birth anniversary of Rajiv Ratna Gandhi - the seventh Prime Minister of India, serving from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian Prime Minister.

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49th birthday of Satya Narayana Nadella - Indian-American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer of Microsoft. He was appointed as CEO on 4 February 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer.

145th birth anniversary of Orville Wright -Printer/publisher, bicycle retailer, airplane inventor, pilot trainer.

97th birth anniversary of Malcolm Stevenson Forbes - an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes.

354th death anniversary of Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

70th birthday of William Jefferson Clinton - American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

76th death anniversary of Walter Chrysler - American automotive industry executive and founder of Chrysler Corporation.

116th birth anniversary of Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit - Indian diplomat and politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the aunt of Indira Gandhi and the grand-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi, each of whom served as Prime Minister of India.

60th birthday of Sandeep Madhusudan Patil is - former Indian cricketer, Indian national age group cricket manager and former Kenya national team coach, who guided the minnows to the semi-finals of the 2003 World Cup.

82nd birth anniversary of Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker - a Puerto Rican baseball player. Clemente was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 through 1972

64th birth anniversary of Patrick Wayne Swayze - an American actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter.

71st death anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose, widely known throughout India as Netaji, was an Indian nationalist and prominent figure of the Indian independence movement.

33rd birthday of MIKA, - Lebanese-British singer and songwriter. After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday, Mika was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007.

82nd birthday of Sampooran Singh Kalra, known popularly by his pen name Gulzar, is an Indian poet, lyricist and film director. Born in Jhelum District in British India, his family moved to India after partition.

28th birthday of G-Dragon - South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer.

49th birthday of Daler Mehndi - Indian recording Artist, musician, song writer, author, record producer, performer and environmentalist.

331st birth anniversaary of Brooke Taylor - English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.

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137th birth anniversary of Samuel Goldwyn, also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Jewish Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.

86th birth anniversary of Ted Hughes - English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.

64th birthday of Guillermo Vilas - retired professional tennis player from Argentina who won four major singles titles.

84th birthday of Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC, is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for his comic early novels

73rd birthday of Robert De Niro - American actor and producer who has starred in over 90 films.

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