113rd birth anniversary of Darryl F. Zanuck - an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors and founder of 20 Century Fox studio.

189th birth anniversary of John Wisden - an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He is now best known for launching the eponymous Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864, the year after he retired from first-class cricket.

37th birthday of Ayaan Ali Khan - an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Khan is the son of Amjad Ali Khan and often performs with his older brother Amaan Ali Khan, with whom he hosted the music talent show Sa Re Ga Ma.

Expressing grief on the sad demise of Aadesh Shrivastav - a music composer and singer of Indian music. Over the course of his career, he had composed music for over 100 Hindi films. Just a day after he turned 49, he succumbed due to cancer.

29th death anniversary of Neerja Bhanot - a flight attendant for Pan Am, based in Mumbai, India, who was murdered while saving passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on 5 September 1986.

24th death anniversary of Sharad Joshi - a Hindi poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. His stories have been converted into SAB TV show Lapataganj.

30th birthday of Pragyan Ojha - an Indian cricketer who plays for Indian national cricket team. He is a slow left arm orthodox bowler. He also plays for Hyderabad cricket team in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.

20th death anniversary of Salil Chowdhury - an Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He was also a poet and a playwright. He is affectionately called Salilda by his admirers

64th birthday of Vidhu Vinod Chopra - an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, Munna Bhai film series, 3 Idiots and PK are some of his highly popular films. He is the founder of Vinod Chopra Films.

18th death anniversary of Mother Teresa - Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu commonly known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian–born Indian Roman Catholic nun. "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun

127th birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - an Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President of India and the second President of India from 1962 to 1967.

शिक्षक दिवस की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं!!

Happy Teacher`s Day

जन्माष्ट्मी की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं !!

Wishing all of you a happy and prosperous Janmashtami!!!!!!

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81st birth anniversary of Clive Granger - a British economist, who taught in Britain at the University of Nottingham and in the United States at the University of California, San Diego. In 2003, Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

50th death anniversary of Albert Schweitzer - a German—and later French—theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa, also known for his historical work on Jesus. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life"

44th birthday of Daniel Nestor - a Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario. He is one of the foremost doubles players in tennis history due to his longevity and continued success at the top of the men's game.

54th birthday of Shinya Yamanaka - a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning stem cell researcher. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).

57th birthday of Armin Kogler - an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.After his surprise win at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1979, Kogler set a new record in Planica (1981) with a leap of 180 meters. He won two overall World Cup victories (1981 and 1982) along with a complete set of medals at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with gold in the individual normal hill, a silver in the team large hill, and a bronze in the individual large hill.

60th birthday of Shane Gould - an Australian former competition swimmer who won three gold medals, a silver medal and a bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

67th birthday of Tom Watson - an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and now plays mostly on the Champions Tour.In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times.

74th birthday of Raymond Floyd - an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments and four major titles on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989

79th birthday of Dawn Fraser - an Australian freestyle champion swimmer and former politician. She is one of only three swimmers to have won the same Olympic event three times – in her case the women's 100-metre freestyle

110th birth anniversary of Mary Renault - was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece

114th birth anniversary of William Lyons - known as "Mr. Jaguar", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War.

68th birthday of Anant Nag - an actor and politician from Karnataka, India. He is considered one of Kannada cinemaa's finest actors. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with no-failures, by critics.

54th birthday of Kiran More - was the wicket-keeper for the Indian cricket team from 1984 to 1993. He was the Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI till Dilip Vengsarkar took over the job in 2006.

18th death anniversary of Dharamvir Bharati - a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug, from 1960 till his death in 1997.

75th birthday of Sushilkumar Shinde - an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Minister of Home Affairs in the Manmohan Singh government, and the Leader of the house in Lok Sabha until 26 May 2014.

35th birthday of Beyoncé - an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child, and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child.

190th birth anniversary of Dadabhai Naoroji - known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader

64th birthday of Rishi Kapoor - an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer and director. He received the National Film Award in 1971, for his debut role as a child artist, and Filmfare Best Actor Award for Bobby in 1974 as well as a number of other awards including the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.

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116th birth anniversary of Frank Macfarlane Burnet - an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. He won the Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and was best known for developing the theory of clonal selection.

140th birth anniversary of Ferdinand Porsche - an automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner-Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, several other important developments and Porsche automobiles.

30th birthday of Shaun White - an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He holds the X-Games records for gold medals and highest overall medal count, and has won 10 ESPY Awards

40th birthday of Ashley Jones - an American television actress. She is best known for her roles in soap operas as Megan Dennison on The Young and the Restless and as Dr. Bridget Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful.

110th birth anniversary of Carl David Anderson - an American physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932, an achievement for which he received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, and of the muon in 1936.

159th birth anniversary of Louis Henry Sullivan - an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism".

58th birthday of Shakti Kapoor - Sunil Sikanderlal Kapoor - an Indian Bollywood actor. He is known for playing villains in Bollywood movies for more than three decades. He has also been applauded for playing comic roles in several movies

39th birthday of Vivek Oberoi - an Indian actor. He made his film debut with Ram Gopal Varma's film Company. His performance in the film earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Male Debut and Best Supporting Actor

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6th death anniversary of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy - popularly known as YSR, was a two-time Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2004 to 2009

50th birthday of Salma Hayek - a Mexican and American film actress, director, and producer

74th birthday of Sadhana - an Indian actress who was one of the top stars in the 1960s and the early 1970s

27th birthday of Ishant Sharma - an Indian cricketer who has represented India in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. He is a 1.93 m tall right-arm fast-medium bowler. At the age of 18, Sharma was called to join the Indian squad for the tour of South Africa in 2006–07

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