Happy Birthday: Ashapurna Devi (8 January 1909 – 12 July 1995), was a prominent Bengali novelist and poet.
Day: January 12, 2023
Happy Birthday: Saeed Jaffrey (8 January 1929 – 15 November 2015) was an Indian-born British actor.
Happy Birthday: Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist.
Happy Birthday: Kelucharan Mohapatra (8 January 1926 – 7 April 2004) was an Indian classical dancer, guru, and exponent of Odissi dance, who is credited with the revival of the classical dance form in the 20th century.
Happy Birthday: Hemchandra Goswami (January 8, 1872–May 2,1928) was an eminent writer, poet, historian, teacher and a linguist from Assam in the early part of modern Assamese literature.
8 January 1973-Soviet space mission Luna 21 is Launched.
Happy Birthday: Mary Ann Evans (8 January 1908 – 9 January 1996) was an actress and stuntwoman, who is most remembered as the masked, cloaked adventurer in Hunterwali, released in 1935.
Happy Birthday: Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), was an American singer and actor.
Happy Birthday: Mohan Rakesh (8 January 1925 – 3 December 1972) was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of the Hindi literature in India in the 1950s.
8 January 1889 Herman Hollerith is issued U.S. Patent #395,782 for the “Art of Compiling Statistics” his punched card calculator.
Happy Birthday: Nanda Karnataki (8 January 1939 – 25 March 2014) was an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi and Marathi films.
Happy Birthday: Shashibhushan Raychaudhuri (8 January 1863 – 1922), also known as Shashida, was a patriotic educationist connected with the radical revolutionary activities that had their origins in Bengal.
