48th birthday of Ian Bishop (October 24, 1967) - a former West Indian cricketer who represented his team between 1989 and 1998. He reached 100 test wickets in only 21 Test matches. A powerful fast bowler with a talent for outswing, severe back injuries cut him down in 1991.

2nd death anniversary of Manna Dey - Prabodh Chandra Dey, known by his stage name Manna Dey, was an Indian playback singer. He debuted in the film Tamanna in 1942, and went on to record more than 4000 songs from 1942 to 2013.

94th birth anniversary of R. K. Laxman (October 24, 1921, Mysore - January 26, 2015, Pune) - Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He was best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily cartoon strip, "You Said It" in The Times of India, which started in 1951.

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58th death anniversary of Christian Dior (21 January, 1905 - Granville, Manche, France --- 23 October, 1957 - Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy) -a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, but now owned by Groupe Arnault.

75th birthday of Pelé (October 23, 1940 - Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who is widely regarded to be the greatest player of all time.

41st birthday of Aravind Adiga (October 23, 1974, Chennai) - an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

58th birthday of Sunil Bharti Mittal (October 23, 1957, Ludhiana) - an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder, chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises, which has interests in telecom, retail, financial services, and agri business.

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115th birth anniversary of Ashfaqulla Khan (October 22, 1900, Shahjahanpur - December 19, 1927, Faizabad) -was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement who had sacrificed his life along with Ram Prasad Bismil. Bismil and Ashfaq were good friends and Urdu poets.

आप सबको दशहरे की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें !!!!!!!!

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182nd birth anniversary of Alfred Nobel ( October 21, 1833 - December 10, 1896) - was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.He was the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors and held 350 different patents.His fortune was used posthumously to institute the Nobel Prizes.

3rd death anniversary of Yash Chopra (September 27, 1932 - October 21, 2012) - an Indian film director, script writer and film producer, predominantly working in Hindi cinema. Yash Chopra began his career as an assistant director to I. S. Johar and elder brother, B.R. Chopra.

84th birth anniversary of Shammi Kapoor (October 21, 1931 - August 14, 2011) - an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s.

आप सबको नवरात्री एवं दुर्गाष्टमी की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें !!!!!!!!

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52nd birthday of Navjot Singh Sidhu (October 20, 1963) - a former Indian cricketer and was a Member of Parliament from Amritsar. After retirement from cricket Navjot Singh Sidhu took up television commentary, and politics.

37th birthday of Virender Sehwag (October 20, 1978) - an Indian cricketer. An aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler, he played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test team in 2001.

आप सबको नवरात्री की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें !!!!!!!!

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270th death anniversary of Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745) - an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

58th birthday of Sunny Deol (October 19, 1957) - an Indian film actor, director and producer. He is the son of veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra and the elder brother of actor Bobby Deol.

आप सबको नवरात्री की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें !!!!!!!!

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84th death anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) - an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

31st birthday of Freida Pinto (October 18, 1984) - an Indian actress and model. She was born in Mumbai and aspired towards acting from a young age. As a student at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, she took part in amateur plays.

38th birthday of Kunal Kapoor (October 18, 1977) - an Indian actor who appears in Hindi cinema.

65th birthday of Om Puri (October 18, 1950) - an Indian actor who has appeared in mainstream commercial Indian and British films, Independent films and art films. His credits also include appearances in American films.

आप सबको नवरात्री की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें !!!!!!!!

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