1926 in India
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- 15 July - BEST buses make its début in Bombay.
- 24 November - Sri AurobindoSri AurobindoSri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress...
retires, leaving the MotherMirra Alfassa-Early life:Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878, of a Turkish Jewish father, Maurice, and an Egyptian Jewish mother, Mathilde. She had an elder brother named Matteo. The family migrated to France the year before she was born. For the first eight years of her life she lived at 62 boulevard...
to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.
January to June
- 8 January - Kelucharan MohapatraKelucharan MohapatraGuru Kelucharan Mohapatra was an Indian classical dancer, guru and proponent of Odissi dance, who is credited for the revival of the classical dance form in the 20th century....
, OdissiOdissiOdissi, also spelled Orissi , is one of the eight classical dance forms of India. It originates from the state of Orissa, in eastern India. It is the oldest surviving dance form of India on the basis of archaeological evidences. The classic treatise of Indian dance, Natya Shastra, refers to it as...
dancer and guru (d.20042004 in IndiaEvents in the year 2004 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam* Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee until 22 May, Manmohan Singh-Events:...
). - 13 January - Bhau KalchuriBhau KalchuriBhau Kalchuri is an Indian author, poet, trust administrator, and one of Meher Baba's mandali . Bhau Kalchuri is also the principal biographer of Meher Baba's life....
, author and poet. - 16 January - O. P. NayyarO. P. NayyarOmkar Prasad Nayyar was an Indian film music director and composer born in Lahore, India, now in modern day Pakistan. He was particularly acclaimed for his peppy numbers.-Career:...
, film music director and composer (d.20072007 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam until July 25, Pratibha Patil* Prime Minister of India – Manmohan Singh-Events:* January–November – Nandigram violence - Clashes between opposition parties, the governing Communist Party of India and police in Nandigram, West Bengal...
). - 20 January - Jamiluddin AaliJamiluddin AaliNawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan better known as Jamiluddin Aali , PP, HI, is a noted Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar of Pakistan...
, poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar. - 20 January - Qurratulain HyderQurratulain HyderQurrat-ul-Ain Haider was an influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is most known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya , a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that...
, novelist and short story writer, academic and journalist (d.20072007 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam until July 25, Pratibha Patil* Prime Minister of India – Manmohan Singh-Events:* January–November – Nandigram violence - Clashes between opposition parties, the governing Communist Party of India and police in Nandigram, West Bengal...
). - 26 May - Sukumar AzhikodeSukumar AzhikodeSukumar Azhikode is a writer, critic and orator, acknowledged for his contributions to Malayalam and insights on Indian philosophy. He is a bachelor and lives in Eravimangalam near Thrissur....
, teacher, critic and orator.
July to December
- 11 August - Ekkirala KrishnamacharyaEkkirala KrishnamacharyaDr Ekkirala Krisnamacharya also known as Master E K was at Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh to Sri Ananthacharya and Smt Butchamma.-Introduction:...
, philosopher and spiritual writer. - 15 August - Sukanta BhattacharyaSukanta BhattacharyaSukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and playwright. Along with Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, he was one of the key figures of modern Bengali poetry, despite the fact that most of his works had been in publication posthumously...
, poet (d.19471947 in IndiaEvents in the year 1947 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* Emperor of India – George VI until August 15* Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru took office on August 15-Events:*15 March - Hindus and Muslims clash in Punjab....
). - 3 September - Uttam KumarUttam KumarUttam Kumar is one of the most famous names of Indian Bengali Cinema.Born Arun Kumar Chatterjee in 1926 at Ahiritola, North Calcutta he is widely known as Uttam Kumar and Mahanayak . He remains as much of a cultural icon as he had been in his lifetime...
, actor (d.19801980 in IndiaEvents in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy* Prime Minister of India – Charan Singh until January 14, Indira Gandhi-Events:*Indira Gandhi was returned to power....
). - 8 October - Raaj KumarRaaj KumarRaaj Kumar , born Kulbushan Pandit was an Indian actor in Hindi movies. Raaj Kumar started out as sub-inspector of Mumbai police in the late 1940s before he turned to acting with the 1952 film Rangili...
, actor (d.19961996 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma* Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao until May 16, Atal Bihari Vajpayee until June 1, H. D...
). - 21 November - Prem Nath, actor (d.19921992 in IndiaEvents in the year 1992 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* President of India – R. Venkataraman until July 25, Shankar Dayal Sharma* Prime Minister of India – P. V...
). - 26 November - Yash PalYash PalYash Pal is an Indian scientist and educator. He was raised in Pai, Kaithal, Haryana , graduated with a degree in physics from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1949 and gained a PhD degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958.Yash Pal has held many positions within...
, scientist and educator. - 31 December - Zahoor QasimZahoor QasimPadma Bhushan Syed Zahoor Qasim is a leading Indian marine biologist. Qasim helped lead India's exploration to Antarctica and guided the other seven expeditions from 1981 to 1988. He was a Member of the Planning Commission of India from 1991 to 1996...
, marine scientist.
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- J. P. Chandrababu, comedian-actor, singer and dancer (d.19741974 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – V. V. Giri until August 24, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed* Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi-Events:*January to May smallpox epidemic...
). - Nalini JaywantNalini JaywantNalini Jaywant was an Indian movie actress from Bollywood in the 1940s and 1950s.-Personal life and education:...
, actress.