INDIAN HEROES BIRTH AND DEATH DATES(need 2 know as indian)

INDIAN HEROES BIRTH AND DEATH DATES:

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Mahatma Gandhi

Born: October 2, 1869
Died: January 30, 1948.

Here is a brief summary of some of the major facts associated with Mahatma Gandhi. These facts highlight some of the major achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and provide valuable information on Mahatama Gandhi.

Birth: October 2, 1869
Death: January 30, 1948
Place of Birth: Porbandar, Gujarat
Father: Karamchand Gandhi
Mother: Putlibai
Wife: Katurbai

1888-1891: Studied law in London

1893: Sailed for South Africa

1906: Began Satyagraha campaign in South Africa to protest the requirement that Indians be fingerprinted and carry identification cards

1915: Returned to India from South Africa

1917: Initiated Champaran Satyagraha to alleviate the condition of indigo planters

1919: Instituted Satyagraha campaign in India to protest the Rowlatt Acts, which deprived all Indians of important civil liberties.

1922: Ended Non-Cooperation movement against British Raj after his followers were involved in a series of riots and disturbances that violated his policy of nonviolence

1930: Led Dandi March to collect salt in protest of the British salt tax.

1931: Signed a pact with Lord Irwin to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement and went to London to attend Round Table Conference.

1932: Fasted to protest the treatment of people who belonged to no Hindu caste, the Harijans or Untouchables

1942: Launched Quit India Movement against British Raj.

January 30, 1948: Assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

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Subhas Chandra Bose

Born: January 23, 1897
Died: August 18, 1945

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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Born: April 14, 1891
Died: December 6, 1956

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Born: November 14, 1889
Died: May 27, 1964

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Born: July 23, 1856
Died: August 1, 1920

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Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Born: September 27, 1907
Died: March 23, 1931

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Chandrashekhar Azad

Born: July 23,1906
Died: February 27, 1931

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Lala Lajpat Rai

Born: January 28, 1865
Died: November17, 1928

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Lal Bahadur Shastri

Born: October 2, 1904
Died: January 10, 1966

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Rajiv Gandhi

Born: August 20, 1944
Died: May 21, 1991

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Motilal Nehru

Born: May 6, 1861
Died: February 6, 1931

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Indira Gandhi

Born: November 19, 1917
Died: October 31, 1984

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Mother Teresa

Born: August 26, 1910
Died: September 5, 1997

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Annie Besant

Born: October 1, 1847
Died: September 20, 1933

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Aruna Asaf Ali

Born: July 16, 1908
Died: July 29, 1996

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Aurobindo Ghose

Born: August 15, 1872
Died: December 5, 1950

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Dadabhai Naoroji(First Indian to become a professor of the college)

Born: September 4, 1825
Died: June 30, 1917

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale(Political guru of Mahatma Gandhi)

Born: May 9, 1866
Died: February 19, 1915

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Born: November 11, 1888
Died: February 22, 1958

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Dr. Rajendra Prasad(First President of independent India)

Born: December 3, 1884
Died: February 28, 1963

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Sardar Patel

Born: October 31, 1875
Died: December 15, 1950

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Sarojini Naidu( She was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the governor of a state in India.)

Born: February 13, 1879
Died: March 2, 1949

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan(First Vice President and second President of India)

Born: September 5, 1888
Died: April 17, 1975

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Veer Savarkar(Founded the Abhinav Bharat Society and Free India Society)

Born: May 28, 1883
Died: February 26, 1966

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SCIENTISTS:

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Srinivasa Ramanujan(Ramanujan independently discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hypergeometric series)

Born: December 22, 1887
Died: April 26, 1920
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C.V. Raman(He was the first Indian scholar)

Born: November 7, 1888
Died: November 21, 1970

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Homi Bhabha(Founded Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; was the first chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission; was chairman of the first United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, held in Geneva in 1955.)

Born: October 30, 1909
Died: January 24, 1966

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Jagdish Chandra Bose(He was the first to prove that plants too have feelings)

Born: November 30, 1858
Died: November 23, 1937

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Meghnad Saha(Made outstanding contribution to the field of Astrophysics.)

Born: October 6, 1893
Died: February 16, 1956

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M. Visvesvaraya(Architect of Krishnarajasagar Dam)

Born: September 15, 1860
Died: April 14, 1962

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Satyendra Nath Bose(Famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory")

Born: January 1, 1894
Died: February 4, 1974

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar(Discovery of Chandrasekhar Limit; awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.)

Born: October 19, 1910
Died: August 21, 1995

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Vikram Sarabhai(Considered the Father of the Indian space program)

Born: August 12, 1919
Died: December 31,1971

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Anil Kakodkar(Dr Anil Kakodkar is a famous Indian nuclear scientist.)

Born: 11 November 1943
Present

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APJ Abdul Kalam(This eminent scientist and engineer has also served as the 11th President of India)

Born - 15 October 1931
Present

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Birbal Sahni(Birbal Sahni was a renowned paleobotanist and geologist of India.)

Born - 14 November 1891
Died - 10 April 1949

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Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar(A noted scientist of India, Dr Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was appointed the first director-general of the prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.)

Born - 21 February 1894
Died - 1 January 1955

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Har Gobind Khorana(Har Gobind Khorana is an American molecular biologist, who was born to an Indian Punjabi couple.)

Born - 9 January 1922
Present

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WRITERS:

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Rabindranath Tagore(Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate when he won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913)

Born: May 7, 1861
Died: August 7, 1941

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R.K. Narayan( Felicitated with Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan)

Born: October 10, 1906
Died: May 13, 2001

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee(Author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India)

Born: June 27, 1838
Died: April 8, 1894

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Premchand(Premchand brought realism to Hindi literature.)

Born: July 31, 1880
Died: October 8, 1936

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