01/10/2026
1st October
Famous people born in India
1842
Sir Subbier Subramania Iyer KCIE (died: 5 December 1924) was an Indian lawyer, jurist and freedom fighter who, along with Annie Besant, founded the Home Rule Movement. He was popularly known as the "Grand Old Man of South India".
1861
Sir Nilratan Sarkar (died : 18 May 1943) M.A., MD, D.Sc. was an eminent Indian doctor, educationist, philanthropist and swadeshi entrepreneur. He was awarded honorary DCL by University of Oxford & LL.D by University of Edinburgh. He was a renowned figure in promoting Science and Technology education in contemporary India.
1862
Dewan Bahadur Sir Raghupathi Venkataratnam Naidu (died: 26 May 1939) was an Indian social reformer who hailed from Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh in India. His father Appayya Nayadu worked as a subedar in Madras Army. Their forefathers served as commanders in Madras Army and East Indian Company Army since its inception i.e. late 17th Century. He was a disciple of Veeresalingam, and has been described as "the most powerful orator of his day".
1887
Hridya Nath Kunzru (died: 3 April 1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and public figure. He was a long-time Parliamentarian, serving in various legislative bodies at the Provincial and Central level for nearly four decades. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946–50) that drew up the Constitution of India. He was also keenly interested in international affairs and co-founded the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Indian School of International Studies.
1892
Manazir Ahsan Gilani (died: 5 June 1956) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar and former Dean of The Faculty of Theology in Osmania University. He wrote Tadwin-e-Hadith, Muqaddama Tadwin-e-Fiqh and Sawanih Qasmi.
1894
Sudhi Ranjan Das (died: 18 September 1977) was the 5th Chief Justice of India, serving from 1 February 1956 to 30 September 1959. Das also served as chairman of The Statesman.
1895
Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan (died: 16 October 1951), widely known as Quaid-e-Millat (Leader of the Nation) and Shaheed-e-Millat, was one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan, statesman, lawyer, and political theorist who became and served as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan; in addition, he also held cabinet portfolio as the first foreign, defence, and the frontier regions minister from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. Prior to his assassination, Khan briefly tenured as the first finance minister in the interim government led by its Governor General Mountbatten.
1901
Subramanya Ramachandra Iyer (date of death unknown) was an Indian lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 10 May 1961 to 1 November 1964
1902
Arthur Erskine Ellis (born in Banguluru; died: 28 February 1983), often known as A.E. Ellis, was a British scientist, biologist and naturalist. Ellis is best known for his large number of malacological publications, including some which became essential texts on the subject of British non-marine malacology. To a lesser extent, Ellis published papers about other land invertebrates and various aspects of the fauna and flora of Britain. In addition Ellis had five ghost stories published
1902
Phirozshah Dorabji Mehta (died: May 2, 1994) was an Indian-born writer and lecturer on religious topics. He also had many other interests including astronomy, poetry and philosophy.
1904
Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan (died: 22 March 1977), popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist leader. A.K.G was a Communist who showed how the avenues of parliamentary democracy could be utilized for advancing the cause of the people. He served as the leader of the opposition since the first Lok Sabha in 1952.
1906
Henry Evans Maude, OBE (died: 4 November 2006) was a British civil servant, historian and anthropologist.
1906
Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer. A member of the Tipra royal family, he started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one of the most successful and influential Bollywood film music composers. Burman composed the soundtracks for over 100 movies, including Hindi and Bengali films.
1909
Y. Gadilingana Goud (died: 18 April 1974) was twice a member of the Parliament. He got elected to the 1st Lok Sabha (1952–57) as a representative of the Praja Socialist Party and to the 4th Lok Sabha (1967–71) from the Swatantra Party, respectively.
1911
Sardar Mohammed Hussain (died: 28 February 1977) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was the captain for the hockey club Manavadar, which was then a British protectorate. He is said to have had a melodious voice. Muhammad Hussein worked for the Prince of Manavadar. and also represented India against South Africa in soccer in 1934
1913
Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, VrC (died: 14 November 1999), was a senior General Officer in the Indian Army. As the Western Army Commander, Singh commanded the Indian Army forces and played a key role during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. For his role in the war, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1966.
1914
Tula Ram was a member of 5th Lok Sabha from Ghatampur (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttar Pradesh State. He was elected to 4th, 3rd and 2nd Lok Sabha from Ghatampur.
1918
Govindappa Venkataswamy (died: July 7, 2006) was an Indian ophthalmologist and 1973 recipient of Padma Shri award. Dr Venkataswamy was the founder of Aravind Eye Hospitals, which are one of the biggest network of ophthalmology hospitals in the world and perform nearly 50 percent of all eye surgeries in India.
1919
Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (died: 14 December 1977) was a Marathi poet, lyricist, writer and actor from India. He is popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma. He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969. He has written 157 screen play and over 2000 songs in his career. He was called adhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki) of current era due to his composition of Geet Ramayan (lit. Ramayana in Songs) as the most notable work.
1919
Fr. Joseph Vadakkan (died: 28 December 2002) was a political activist priest of Kerala in India, freedom fighter, and the founder of the political party known as Karshaka Thozhilali Party (KTP). Vadakkan organised many agitations and took part in protest marches, satyagrahas, and rallies. He was also arrested and jailed. He was reprimanded by his own Church.
1919
Majrooh Sultanpuri (died: 24 May 2000) was an Indian Urdu poet, known for his work as an Urdu poet, and as a lyricist and songwriter in the Hindi language Bollywood film industry. He was one of the dominating musical forces in Indian cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s and was an important figure in the Progressive Writers' Movement. He is considered one of the finest avant-garde Urdu poets of 20th century literature.
1920
Amarendra Nath Sen was a Bengali Indian jurist, who served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1979 and as a judge in the Supreme Court of India. He had started out as an advocate at the Calcutta High Court prior to independence in January 1947. He was appointed an additional judge, and later a permanent judge there in 1966. He was appointed as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in December 1979. He was appointed as a judge in the Supreme Court of India in January 1981. He retired in September 1985.
1920
Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi (died: 9 June 2018) was an Indian politician of Indian National Congress from Bihar. He was the Member of the Legislative Assembly between 1980 and 1985 from Lalganj. In 1984, he became Member of Parliament from Muzaffarpur and became the Education & Culture Minister in the Indian Government.
1921
Tikkavarapu Venkata Ramana Reddy (died: 11 November 1974) was an Indian film, character actor, comedian and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. Ramana Reddy is regarded as one of the finest comic actors of India, noted particularly for his comic expressions, and dialogues during the golden age of Telugu cinema. During his career spanning 24 years he has acted in more than 200 movies.
1922
Dr. Sri. Allu Ramalingaiah (died: 30 July 2004) was an Indian Telugu comic actor from Palakol, who appeared in over 1000 Tollywood films. Allu began his film career in 1953 with Puttillu and his last film Jai was in the year before his death. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990 by the Government of India, and received the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award in 2001.
1922
Jayaben Vijubhai Shah was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress political party. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India in 1957 from Girnar in Bombay State and in 1962 and 1967 from Amreli in Gujarat
1922
Terence Gavaghan (died: 10 August 2011) was a British colonial administrator. As a colonial district officer in Kenya, he was responsible for six detention centres in Mwea during the Mau Mau insurrection of the 1950s
1926
Paresh Nath Kayal is an Indian politician. He was elected from Jaynagar, West Bengal to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress
1927
Gutha Ramineedu (died: April 29, 2009) was an Indian film director known for his works in Telugu cinema. He is known for works such as Chivaraku Migiledi which won the Filmfare Award for Best Film - Telugu, Maa Inti Mahalakshmi, Palnati Yuddham, Bangaru Sankellu etc.
1928
Villupuram Chinnaiah Ganesan (died: 21 July 2001) better known as Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian stage, and film actor who was active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. He was well known for his versatility and variety of roles depicted on screen, which gave him also the Tamil honorific name Nadigar Thilagam (lit. the pride of actors). In a career that spanned close to five decades, he had acted in 283 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. His eidetic memory helped him remember his scripts at a glance.
1929
Mohammad Rabey Hasani Nadwi is an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar, imcumbent President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, incumbent Chancellor of Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, incumbent Vice President of the Aalami Rabita Adab-e-Islami, Riyadh (K.S.A.) and a founding member of Muslim World League. He is President of Majlis-e-Tehqiqat-o-Nashariyat Islam, Lucknow, President of Deeni Taleemi Council, Uttar Pradesh, President of Dare Arafat, Raebareli, Member of Darul Musannifeen, Azamgarh, Trustee of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University, U.K., Patron of Payam-e-Insaniyat, and Patron of Islamic Fiqh Academy, India. He has been regularly listed among the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world
1930
Debo Prasad Barooah (died: 28 January 2013), was an Indian academician, author, historian and the former Vice-Chancellor (the Chief Executive) of Gauhati University. Barooah is credited for a large number of research papers, which are highly regarded in intellectual circles. Some of those have been published in national and international journals.
1930
Jayadevappa Halappa Patel (died: 12 December 2000) was the 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 31 May 1996 to 7 October 1999.
1930
Radha Govind Laha (died: 14 July 1999) was a probabilist, statistician, and mathematician, known for his work in probability theory, characteristic functions, and characterisation of distributions. His dissertation was entitled Some Characterization Problems in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics.
1931
Debendranath Bandyopadhyay is an Indian politician belonging to the Trinamool Congress.He was elected to the Rajya Sabha the Upper house of Indian parliament from West Bengal in 2011.He was an IAS officer and came into public life when he joined the Singur and Nandigram protests
1932
Biswa Ranjan Nag (died: 6 April 2004) was an Indian physicist and the Sisir Kumar Mitra chair professor at Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta. Known for his research in semiconductor physics, Nag was an elected fellow of Indian National Science Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Physical Sciences in 1974
1932
Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Barasat constituency of West Bengal in 1996 and 1998 as a member of the Trinamool Congress.
1934
Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri, AVSM, is an Indian politician. He has served as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2007–2009 and 2011-2012. He is a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha. He represents the Garhwal Parliamentary Constituency of Uttarakhand in Lok Sabha and is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janta Party. Earlier, He has also served as a Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Surface Transport of the Government headed by former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
1934
Shakeeb Jalali (died: November 12, 1966) was a Pakistani Urdu poet.
1935
Krishna Chattopadhyay (died: 23 May 2009) was an Indian singer, who along with her contemporary Manju Gupta, was the leading exponent of the songs composed by Atulprasad Sen, Dwijendralal Ray and Rajanikanta Sen. She also sang compositions by Himangshu Dutta.
1935
Salil Banerjee is an Indian former cricketer. He played five first-class matches for Bengal between 1958 and 1962
1935
Usha Thakkar is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Kutch in Gujarat as a member of the Indian National Congress
1937
Muhammad Arshad Khan Lodhi (died: 29 January 2019) was a Pakistani politician who served as a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, between 1985 and May 2018.
1937
Saeed Ahmed is a Pakistani preacher and former cricketer who is the member of Tablighi Jamaat. He played in 41 Test matches between 1958 and 1972. He played as a right-handed middle order batsman with a powerful drive and bowled off-breaks.
1937
Vijay Hanumantrao Bhosle is a former Indian cricketer who played for various teams in Indian domestic first class cricket. Most of his career was spent with Maharashtra but he finished his final years at Baroda and Bombay.
1938
Michael Ferreira (born in Bombay), nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion. He participated in the Indian National Billiards Championship in 1960 for the first time, and in 1964 represented India in the World Amateur Billiards Championship (WABC) held in New Zealand, where he progressed to the semi-finals. In 1977, he won his first World Amateur Billiards Champion title and followed it up with the World Open Billiards Championship title in the same year. He has two other WABC titles. In 1978 he became the first amateur to break the barrier of 1,000 points, in the billiards national championships, and created a new amateur world record by scoring 1,149 points
1939
Ramesh Prasad Mohapatra (died: 14 January 1989) was an archaeologist and scholar on Orissan Studies. He served as curator for archaeology at the Orissa State Museum from 1963 to 1989 and made important contributions to historical research especially in the fields of archaeology, art history, religion, and other aspects of Orissan cultural history.
1940
Bishambar Singh (died: 2004) is a retired Indian bantamweight wrestler. In 1966 he won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and a bronze at the Asian Games, both in freestyle wrestling. Next year he won a silver medal at the world championships, he is the 1st Indian who won the Silver medal in world wrestling championship. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics in freestyle and Greco-Roman divisions with the best result of sixth place in freestyle in 1964. The same year he received the Arjuna Award
1943
Naushad Ali Rizvi is a Pakistani retired Army officer and former cricketer. He retired as the colonel in Pakistan Army
1945
Isher Judge Ahluwalia is an Indian economist. She is Chairperson, Board of Governors, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
1945
Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and 14th President of India. Prior to his nomination, he served as the 26th Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006. Kovind was nominated as a presidential candidate by the ruling NDA coalition and won the 2017 presidential election. Before entering politics, he was a lawyer for 16 years and practised in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court until 1993.
1947
Aloke Mazumdar is an Indian former cricketer. He played three first-class matches for Bengal between 1965 and 1968.
1947
Dalveer Bhandari is an Indian member of the International Court of Justice. He is a former Judge of Supreme Court of India. He is also the former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and a Judge of Delhi High Court.
1948
Ramesh C. Deka is an ENT specialist and the Ex-Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, which is globally recognised as the premier Medical Institute of India. He is one of the pioneers of cochlear implant surgery in India and has performed the country's first bilateral cochlear implantation surgery.
1949
Srimanta Banerjee is an Indian former cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Bengal between 1977 and 1979
1950
Dr. Jagdish Sharma is an Indian politician. He was a vice president of the Hindustani Awam Morcha, a political party. His wife Shanti Sharma was MLA from Ghosi. His son Rahul Kumar became MLA from Ghosi constituency. After being found guilty in criminal conspiracy to save bureaucrats involved in Fodder Scam, Sharma was sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment and disqualified as an MP along with RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav
1950
Neidonuo Angami is an Indian social worker and one of the founders of the Naga Mother's Association, a non governmental organization working for remedying the social problems in Nagaland, India. She is reported to have been selected as one of the 1000 women shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005. In 2000, she was honored with the award of Padma Shri.
1950
Vadivelu is an Indian film actor, comedian and playback singer. Since the 1990s, he performed supporting roles as a comedian in Tamil films and is renowned for his slapstick comedies. While having worked in over 200 films, Vadivelu received many awards in the Best Comedian category.
1951
Anita Das (died: 11 May 2018) was an Indian film and television actress in Odia cinema. She received three Odisha State Film Awards during her career
1951
Ganti Mohana Chandra Balayogi (died: 3 March 2002) was an Indian lawyer and politician. He was serving as the speaker of 12th Lok Sabha when he died in a helicopter crash. In 1991, Balayogi was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha lower house parliament under the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ticket. He also elected for 12th & 13th Lok sabha.
1951
Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Sikar since 2014. He belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party and is a member of Arya Samaj.
1952
Neeraj Chaturvedi is an Indian politician and a former member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly three times. He is an active member of BJP. He represented Generalganj Constituency of Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh legislative Assembly from 1991 to 2002.He is also member of Executive Committee of BJP Uttar Pradesh.
1953
Hashim Qureshi is a pro-independence Kashmiri separatist leader and one of the founding members of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and is now the Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Democratic Liberation Party (JKDLP), one of the main separatist Kashmiri political organisations which strives to find a political solution to the Kashmir issue through peaceful and political activities.
1953
Veerabhadrappa Kumbar, popularly known by the pen name KumVee, is an Indian novelist, poet, story writer and critic in the Kannada-language. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007 for his work Aramane, Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award Awarded Thrice and many others.
1954
Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala is an Indian politician and Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, representing the Indian state of Gujarat and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a former member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Amreli and formerly served as a minister in Government of Gujarat.
1954
Shingada Damodar Barku was a five-time member of the Lok Sabha in 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing the Dahanu constituency of Maharashtra state. He is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.
1954
Vijay Mahajan is an Indian social entrepreneur and the Founder and was the CEO till 30 September 2016 of the BASIX Social Enterprise Group[6] which is engaged in livelihood promotion of low income households in over 20 states in India and six developing countries. Since the middle of 2018, Vijay is the CEO of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies.
1955
B N Chandrappa is a member of the Indian National Congress and former member of Parliament from the Chitradurga (Lok Sabha constituency Before getting elected as the MP of the Chitradurga, he has served in various positions such as Chairman, Karnataka State LIDKAR Board & Vice President of Chikkamagaluru Zilla Parishad
1955
Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman and one of the country's richest people. He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016. India Today magazine ranked him 8th in India's most powerful people of 2017 list
1955
P. B. Abdul Razak (died: 20 October 2018) was a Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Manjeshwar constituency from 2011-2018
1956
Probir Chail is an Indian former cricketer. He played seven first-class matches for Bengal between 1977 and 1983
1958
Anand Kumar Bachhawat is an Indian geneticist, biochemist, professor in biological sciences and the dean of faculty at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. Known for his studies on microbial genetics, Bachhawat is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Science Academy
1958
Sanskritirani Desai is Gujarati poet from India. She works as the General Manager in the Information Technology Department of a Public Limited Company. She knows Gujarati, Hindi, English, Marathi, Bengali, Sanskrit and Russian languages. She is a painter, swimmer, dancer as well as karateka. Her Suryo Ja Suryo received her several awards such as Takhtasinh Parmar Prize (1992-93)[4] and Phanishwarnath Renu Sahitya Award. She has also received two prizes from Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Gira Gurjari Award, Dinkar Shah Kavi 'Jay' Prize.
1959
Atul Tandon is a nonprofit executive, entrepreneur, humanitarian and author. Tandon currently serves as CEO of Opportunity International United States, leading the organization’s activities to engage American donors, funders, corporations, foundations and the public in Opportunity’s work to help the very poor.
1959
Dr Kalpana Saini is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the president of backward Commission of Uttarakhand government. She previously served as Director of National fertiliser Limited and District President of Roorkee (Uttarakhand), before that State Secretary of the state of Uttarakhand, State President of Uttarakhand Pradhanacharya Parishad from 2003 to 2005. She has also served as the General Secretary of Durga Vahini, Roorkee Uttarakhand and President of Sewa bharti Matri Mandal, Roorkee and Councilor of the BJP, 1995–2000. She holds many senior position at BJP, VHP and Yogi Mangalnath Saraswati Shishu mandir. She began her career as a lecturer and served as Principal at Gandhi mahila shilp Vidyalaya from 1987 and used her long-term connections with the Hindutva organization, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to become involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
1959
Sarojini Hembram is an Indian politician from the Odisha state. She belongs to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party. She was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Bangriposi (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 2009 and became the minister for textile, handlooms and handicrafts in the Odisha Government. She was elected to the Rajya Sabha the Upper house of Indian Parliament in 2014 from Odisha
1960
Usha Ananthasubramanian is the former managing director and chief executive officer of the Allahabad Bank. Ananthasubramanian started her career in banking in February 1982, when she joined the Bank of Baroda as a specialist officer in its planning stream. Prior to joining Bhartiya Mahila Bank, Ananthasubramanian worked at Punjab National Bank and was recognised in different roles. She was ranked the 19th Most Powerful Woman in business by Fortune India First women CHAIRMAN of IBA.
1961
Ravinder Kumar, publicly known as Ravi Dhiman, is MLA from the Jaisinghpur constituency of Himachal Pradesh and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Ravi Dhiman started his career as a laborer. Then he joined Defence Formations and worked there for two years. In 1986 he joined the Punjab National Bank as a stenographer, and in 2012 he took voluntary retirement. He is also a chairperson for NGO Projects. He ran as an independent candidate in 2012. In 2017, he sought nomination from BJP for the Jaisinghpur constituency and won.
1962
Jharna Das is an Indian politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She is a Member of the Parliament of India, representing Tripura in the Rajya Sabha. She was elected unopposed in March 2010. Das is a member of the Tripura State Committee of the CPI(M). Before being elected to parliament, she served as the chairperson of the State Social Welfare Board. Das is the first Dalit to be elected to the Rajya Sabha from Tripura, and the second woman representing the state in the Rajya Sabha
1962
Surendra Nath Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Bairia constituency in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party
1963
Sidharth Nath Singh is an Indian politician and the Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is one of the official spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a grandson of former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri. Suman Shastri (1936-2002), his mother, was the daughter of Lal Bahadur Shastri. He is BJP state in-charge of Andhra Pradesh and co-in-charge of West Bengal. He is also serving as a Bharatiya Janata Party National Secretary
1964
James Vasanthan is a popular Indian Television (Tamil) Host, a Film Music Composer and a Filmmaker. For more than two decades, he has worked as an anchor in popular Tamil satellite television channels like Sun TV, Vijay TV and Makkal TV before debuting as a film music composer in the Tamil Film Industry in the year 2008, and a filmmaker in 2015.
1964
Tapir Gao is an Indian politician.He is the President of Arunachal Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing the Arunachal East constituency of Arunachal Pradesh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Gao was General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party in 2011 & Gao is currently National Executive Member of BJP.
1964
Tista Bagchi Professor of Linguistics in the University of Delhi, is a distinguished Indian linguist and ethicist. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics, her work spans issues of semantics and syntax in languages in general and South Asian languages in particular, questions of ethics in the application of medical technology and social interaction, and translations of iconic texts in Bangla literature and comparative philology.
1964
Govind Singh Dotasra is the President of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee. He also holds the position of Minister of State for primary and secondary education (Independent Charge) and the Minister for Tourism and Devasthan in the Government of Rajasthan. He is member of 15th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and Ex-Chief Whip of congress in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He represents the Laxmangarh constituency of Sikar district of Rajasthan since 2008. He is an active member of Indian National Congress since 1981. He served as Vice President of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee from 2014-2020.
1969
Mahesh Thakur is an Indian actor who has played roles in many films, TV serials and web series
1970
Salim Ahamed is an Indian film director, screen writer and producer. After working for a long time as a travel consultant, he joined as a creative director and script writer in a television channel. His directorial debut, Adaminte Makan Abu (2011), fetched him numerous accolades and was screened at various international film festivals. It was also chosen as India's official entry to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for the 84th Academy Awards. Salim's second project was titled Kunjananthante Kada. Starring Mammootty, it was released on 30 August 2013. His third film Mammootty starrer Pathemari won the Best Feature Film In Malayalam award at the 63rd National Film Awards that was announced March 2016
1970
Vishnu Datt Sharma is an Indian politician and member of the 17th Lok Sabha, representing Khajuraho constituency, Madhya Pradesh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its President in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
1972
Deep Bora is former Indian first-class cricketer. He played 6 first-class matches and 8 List A matches for Assam from 1994/95 to 1997/98. Bora was a right-handed batsman.
1972
Gautam Vadhera is an Indian former cricketer. He played nine first-class matches for Delhi between 1992 and 1995
1972
Jaya Madhavan is an award-winning Indian author, poet, The New Indian Express columnist and comic creator. She is a winner of The Children's Book Trust's All India Competition for Writers of Children's Books
1973
Ruby Jagrut, is an Indian natural dye artist. She paints using only natural dyes on canvas. She is the founder of Abir Charitable Trust
1974
Aditi Sen De is an Indian scientist, an associate professor in quantum information and computation group at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. She is known for her research on quantum information and computation, quantum communication, quantum cryptography and many-body physics. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded her the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for her contributions to physical sciences in 2018. She is the first female physicist to be given this honour.
1976
Ranjeet Suman is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. He represents the Jalesar constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. Sumna belongs to the scheduled caste community
1978
Amit Bhandari is an Indian cricketer. Having made a forgettable debut in 2000, his performances in the 2001–02 season kept him within striking distance of being re-selected.
1978
Surendra Kumar Singh is an Indian long-distance runner who represented India at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the 10,000 metres. He placed 26th in the event. He holds the Indian records for the 3000 metres and 10,000 m with times of 7:50.31 minutes and 28:02.89 minutes, respectively.
1979
Shraddha Nigam is an Indian television actress. Shraddha Nigam's TV debut was the serial Choodiyan.
1980
Dilip Pandey was the Convenor of the Delhi Unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He took over as the convenor of the Delhi unit in July 2014[2] and submitted his resignation in April 2017 after AAP's defeat in the MCD elections. He is a member of delhi legislative assembly.
1980
Vedanth Bharadwaj is a vocalist and composer born in Mumbai, India. He is a qualified guitarist from the Trinity College London and is best known for his work with songs and poems from the Bhakti Movement
1981
Ramesh Pisharody is an Indian stand-up comedian, impressionist, television presenter, actor and film director, who works in Malayalam television, stage, and film industry
1982
Vipin Patwa is a music director, singer and composer who composes music for Hindi Movies or particularly for Bollywood. In 2002, he joined All India Radio as a music composer and began composing jingles and songs for the radio station. His compositions were loved by every citizen.After that, he composed many theme songs and promotional songs for the Congress party. Vipin got his first break with Joe Rajan's Luv U Soniyo.
1983
Chandrashekhar Atram is an Indian cricketer. He played 32 first-class and 24 List A matches between 1999 and 2006. He was also part of India's squad for the 2002 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
1983
Prathamesh Mokal is an Indian chess player. He is an International Master as well as FIDE Trainer. He is also a black belt (Sho Dan) in karate and koryu. He received the Shiv-Chhatrapati Award from Maharashtra government in 2004 for his achievements in Chess. In 2014, He was a part of live web video commentary during the World Junior Chess Championship and Prathamesh was a Coach of Mumbai Movers team in the Maharashtra Chess League.
1984
Vineeth Sreenivasan is an Indian playback singer, actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, creative director and dubbing artist. He predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. He made his film debut in 2003 singing the song "Kasavinte Thattamittu" from Kilichundan Mampazham, and later also worked in music albums. Vineeth made his acting debut in Cycle (2008), and since then he has acted in numerous films. His directorial debut was in 2010 with Malarvaadi Arts Club.
1984
Vivek Kajaria is an Indian film producer and director. He is the founder/managing director of Holy Basil Productions Pvt. Ltd. and Co- founder/partner of NAHB, a joint venture between Holy Basil Productions and Navalakha Arts.
1987
Japen Hitesh Patel is an American cricketer of Indian origin. A right-handed all-rounder, he made his debut for the American national side in July 2011, and has since played regularly at international level.
1988
Karma Tsewang is an Indian footballer who currently plays for Salgaocar as a midfielder.
1988
Nahid Hasan is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Kairana constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party.
1988
Rosin Jolly is a television presenter and an actress in Malayalam cinema. Rosin Jolly started her as a dancer and a Television Host in 2011. She anchored shows such as Wedding Bells, Priyasakhi, Love in Canopy, SIIMA film Awards 2014 and Atham Pathu Ruchi. In addition to her movie roles, Jolly was a contestant on Malayalee House, a reality show that aired on Surya TV in 2013. She has also acted in many TV advertisements.
1988
Sanju Jaison better known by his stage name San Jaimt, is an Indian rapper, songwriter and a music producer . He has worked for Malayalam movies and is known for his independent singles.
1989
Pranav Misshra is an Indian actor and writer. He has appeared as Prem Singh Rathod in Aisi Deewangi Dekhi Nahi Kahin show on Zee TV. He started his career by doing varied roles in various television shows.
1990
Anushka S Ranjan is an Indian film actress and model. She has modeled for designers like Manish Malhotra, Vikram Phadnis, Neeta Lulla, Pria Kataris Puri, Babita Malkani, Amy Billimoria and many others. She was the Brand Ambassador for the premium jewellery brand "Varuna D'Jani".
1991
Amrit Singh is an Indian male track cyclist. He competed in the team sprint event at the 2012 and 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
1991
Pooja Kadian is an Indian Wushu player. She won Silver Medal in invitational sports of Wushu at the 9th World Games at Cali in Colombia, in Women's Sanda 60kg. Kadian previously won gold in the 12th South Asian Games and alsobagged silver medals in the World Games 2013 and the World Championship in 2013 and 2015. She also won gold medals in the National Games in 2014 and 2017. Pooja won the first ever gold medal for India at 2017 World Wushu Championships. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious Arjuna Award.
1992
Divya Pratap Singh is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Rajasthan in the 2013–14 Vijay Hazare Trophy
1992
Gauri Shankar is an Indian chess player who is currently a FIDE Master. National Chess Champion of India for Under-7 boys 1999-2000, Aurangabad, 2006 US Junior Open Chess Champion, Texas, United States and 2007 Biel International Youth Chess Champion, Switzerland.
1994
Arathi Sara Sunil is an Indian badminton player. Winner of five BWF International Challenge/Series with one runner up.
1995
Shubham Thakur is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2016–17 Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament. He made his List A debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy.
1996
Akash Ganesan is an Indian Chess Grandmaster and Former National champion. He currently holds National record in chess for being Youngest National Senior Chess Champion at the age of 16 years and 14 days.
1998
Jehan Daruvala is an Indian racing driver competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Carlin Motorsport. He was a protégé of the Force India F1 team, after being one of three winners of a 'One in a Billion hunt' organized by the team in 2011. He is currently a member of the Red Bull Junior Team.
1998
Himanshu Rana is an Indian cricketer who plays for Haryana in domestic cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Rana made his first-class debut against delhi in January 2015 at the age of 16 and top-scored for Haryana
