Events

• Bengal famine of 1943
  Bengal famine of 1943
  The Bengal famine of 1943 struck the Bengal. Province of pre-partition India. Estimates are that between 1.5 and 4 million people died of starvation, malnutrition and disease, out of Bengal’s 60.3 million population, half of them dying from disease after food became available in December 1943 As...
  
  
• 10 February - 3 March - Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
• 30 December - Subhash Chandra Bose
  Subhash Chandra Bose
  Subhas Chandra Bose known by name Netaji was an Indian revolutionary who led an Indian national political and military force against Britain and the Western powers during World War II. Bose was one of the most prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement and is a legendary figure in...
  
   sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair
  Port Blair
  Port Blair is the largest town and a municipal council in Andaman district in the Andaman Islands and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India...
  
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January to June

• 1 January - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research , a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India....
  
  , scientist.
• 30 March - J. J. Rawal
  J. J. Rawal
  Jitendra Jatashankar Rawal is a Gujarati astrophysicist and scientific educator, recognized for his work in the popularisation of science.Rawal has served as Director of the Nehru Planetarium Mumbai...
  
  , astrophysicist and scientific educator.
• 26 May - Manorama, actress.
• 2 June - Ilaiyaraaja
  Ilaiyaraaja
  Ilaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist mainly in the Tamil film Industry. He is regarded as one of the finest music composers in India. Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, and a songwriter...
  
  , film composer, singer and lyricist.

July to December

• 13 July - E. Harikumar
  E. Harikumar
  E. Harikumar is a Malayalam novelist and short story writer.He was born on July 13, 1943 to the poet and playwright Edasseri Govindan Nair and Janaki Amma...
  
  , novelist and short story writer.
• 11 August - Pervez Musharraf
  Pervez Musharraf
  Pervez Musharraf , is a retired four-star general who served as the 13th Chief of Army Staff and tenth President of Pakistan as well as tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Musharraf headed and led an administrative military government from October 1999 till August 2007. He ruled...
  
  , former President of Pakistan
  President of Pakistan
  The President of Pakistan is the head of state, as well as figurehead, of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Recently passed an XVIII Amendment , Pakistan has a parliamentary democratic system of government. According to the Constitution, the President is chosen by the Electoral College to serve a...
  
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• 23 September - Tanuja, actress of Bollywood
  Bollywood
  Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
  
   films & younger sister of Nutan
  Nutan
  Nutan Behl , better known as Nutan , was an Indian actress. She appeared in more than 70 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades...
  
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• 31 October - G. Madhavan Nair
  G. Madhavan Nair
  G. Madhavan Nair is the former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India since September 2003. He is also the Chairman, Space Commission and acts as the Chairman of Governing Body of the Antrix Corporation, Bangalore...
  
  , Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation
  Indian Space Research Organisation
  The Indian Space Research Organisation is an independent Indian governmental agency established in 1969 for the research and development of vehicles and activities for the exploration of space within and outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Headquartered in Bangalore...
  
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• 11 November - Anil Kakodkar
  Anil Kakodkar
  Anil Kakodkar is an eminent Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy. Before leading India's Nuclear Programme, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic...
  
  , nuclear
  Nuclear power
  Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity...
  
   scientist
  Scientist
  A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
  
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• Prameela Devi, actress (d.2002
  2002 in India
  -Incumbents:* President of India – K. R. Narayanan until July 25, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam* Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee-January:*9 January - The government announces that it is laying landmines along the entire length of its 2,800-km border with Pakistan.*10 January - 800 protesters...
  
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