144th birth anniversary of Ernest Rutherford – a New Zealand-born British physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry(1908). Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday

163rd birth anniversary of Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff, Jr. – a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is best known for his discoveries in chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure, and stereochemistry.

218th birth anniversary of Mary Shelley – an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

1446th birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad – from Mecca, unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. Believed by Muslims and Bahá’ís to be a prophet and messenger of God, Muhammad is almost universally considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind.

7th death anniversary of Krishna Kumar Birla – an Indian industrialist of the Birla family. Born at Pilani in the northwestern Indian state Rajasthan on Nov. 11, 1918, He was the eldest of the two sons of Maha Devi and Ghanshyam Das Birla, who was a staunch follower of Mohandas Gandhi and a financier of his Congress Party.

62nd birthday of Ravi Shankar Prasad – an Indian lawyer, politician and the current Union Minister holding Communications and Information Technology portfolio in the Government of India.

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