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ASHA BHOSLE ASHA BHOSLE
Asha Bhosle was born on September 8, 1933 in a small village named Goar in Maharashtra in a Brahmin family. Asha Bhosle was born was born in a musical family to Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar and mother Shudhmati. Dinanath Mangeshkar who was a classical singer and a theatre actor belonged to Gomantak Maratha Samaj. Asha Bhosle was born along with four siblings, her brother named Hridayanath Mangeshkar and three sisters by name Lata, Usha, and Meena of which we all know about the legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar.

Latha Mangeshkar was also a professional rival to her sister Asha Bhosle. Though the art of singing in Asha Bhosle was instilled in her by her father even as an infant she lost her father in 1942 when she was nine years old and the family had to move out of Goar to make their living because they faced of financial hardships....



Atal Bihari Vajpayee Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee more popularly known as Vajpayee was referred by the by the previous Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as the Bhishma Pitamah of Indian Politics. Atal Bihari Vajpayee takes the credit of being the eleventh Prime Minister of India...

K.J.YESUDASK.J.YESUDAS
K.J.YESUDAS - Kattassery Joseph Yesudas more popularly known as K.J.Yesudas was one of the distinguished playback singer from the Indian Classical Musical family. K.J. Yesudas was born in Koch in the state of Kerala on 10th January, 1940...

K.S.CHITRA K.S.CHITRA
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra more popularly known as K.S.Chitra was born in Thiruvanathapuram on 27th July 1963.Chitra is a great Indian playback singer and a native of Kerala. Apart from playback singing she has also proved her talents...

KISHORE KUMAR KISHORE KUMAR
One of the most popular Indian film playback singer Abhas Kumar Ganguly more popularly known as Kishore Kumar was born on August 4, 1929 in a place called Khandwa, situated in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

L.K.ADVANI L.K.ADVANI
Lal Krishna Advani more popularly known as L.K. Advani was born on 8th November in the year 1927 in Karachi, Sindh which was then a part of undivided India. Advani was born to a Hindu Sindhi family of Kishanchand D Advani and Gyani Devi...

LATA MANGESHKAR LATA MANGESHKAR
Lata Mangeshkar is one of the legends of the Hindi film industry who has more than 30,000 solo, duet and chorus backed songs in 20 different languages from 1948 to 1987. Of course mow it must have crossed more than 40,000 songs...

MANMOHAN SINGH MANMOHAN SINGH
Manmohan Singh Kohli more popularly known as Manmohan Singh was born on 26 September 1932 in a Sikh family in Gah which was initially in Pakistan but now in Punjab. Manmohan Singh was the 14th Prime Minister...

MOHAMMED RAFI MOHAMMED RAFI
Mohammed Rafi was born on December 24th, 1924 Punjabi village of Kotla Sultan Singh which was close to Amritsar. Mohammed Rafi is one of the greatest playback singers who is been in the industry for more than 4 decades and has almost...

Narendra ModiNarendra Modi
Narendra Modi was born in Vadnagar in Mehsana district which initially belonged to the state of Bombay but now in Gujarat. He was born on 17 September 1950 to Damodardas Mulch and Modi and his wife, Heeraben. Narendra Modi belonged to the backward community known as Ghanchi-Teli...

RAJIV GANDHI RAJIV GANDHI She is a woman of great determination. At the 1984 Olympics she heart-stoppingly came near to winning India its first bronze medal in athletics but missed it by the skin of her teeth. At the Asian Athletic events at Jakarta in 1985 she won many medals and got a huge haul of medals...

S.JANAKI S.JANAKI
Sishtla Sreeramamurthy Janaki more popularly known as S.Janaki was born on 23rd April, 1938 in the state of Andhra Pradesh. She was born in a Telugu speaking Brahmin family in a place called Pallapatla, Repalle village, in Guntur which during that time belonged to the Madras presidency...

SONIA GANDHI SONIA GANDHI
Sonia Gandhi today the leader of the opposition party in the Lok Sabha was born on 9th December 1946 at Lusiana in Veneto, Italy. Her parents were Stefano and Paola Maino. Most of the families in the town of Veneto which was about some 30kms away from Vicenza had their family ...

SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE
Subash Chandra Bose was more popularly known as Netaji and was one of the most energetic and vigorous leaders of the India who participated in India's struggle for independence. Subash Chandra Bose led the team of Bengal Congress and then...

MAHATMA GANDHI MAHATMA GANDHI Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi more popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi and Bapu was born in the year 1869 on October 2nd. Gandhi was born in a coastal town on the Kathiawar peninsula in named Porbandar. Porbandar was a princely state of the Kathiawar region which fell under the British Indian Empire...

K.L.SAIGAL K.L.SAIGAL
Kundan Lal Saigal more popularly known as K.L.Saigal was born on 11th April in 1904 in Jammu. K.L.Saigal is supposed to be the first superstar in the Bollywood film industry.K.L Saigal ruled the Hindi film industry as Superstar even before Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna ...

INDIRA GANDHI INDIRA GANDHI
Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 in Allahabad to Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru. As we all know her father Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of Independent India who initially led India's political struggle for independence from British rule...

ILAYARAJA ILAYARAJA
Ilayaraja the legend of the music world is a veteran music director of the South Indian film industry. Ilayaraja was born in a very family in a remote village named Pannaipuram in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu...

B.R.AMBEDKAR B.R.AMBEDKAR
Bhimarao Ambedkar more popularly known as Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 in Mhow in Madhya Pradesh. Ambedkar was born in a lower middle class family belonging to the Mahar caste. He was born in the military cantonment ...