11 November 2015
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.
10 November 2015
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).
09 November 2015
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.
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.
08 November 2015
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