23rd October- What Happened Today In History? | On This Day In History

What Happened Today In History?

Find out what happened on 23rd October in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred on 23rd October.

• Prabhas Raju Uppalapati (born 23 October 1979) (Telugu: ప్రభాస్ రాజు ఉప్పలపాటి), popularly known as Prabhas, is an Indian film actor in Telugu cinema. He made his debut with Eeshwar. His notable filmography includes Varsham, Chatrapathi, Munna, Billa, Darling, and Mr Perfect. Prabhas was born to U.Suryanarayana Raju and Siva Kumari.
• Sunil Bharti Mittal (born 23 October 1957) is an Indian telecom mogul, philanthropist and the founder, chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises. The US$8.3 billion turnover company runs India’s largest GSM-based mobile phone service and world’s fifth largest wireless company with over 190 million customers across 19 countries in Asia and Africa.
• Aravind Adiga (Kannada: ಅರವಿಂದ ಅಡಿಗ, born 23 October 1974) is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga, Kannadigas both of whom hailed from Mangalore.
• Perizaad Zorabian (born 23 October 1973) is an Indian actress. Her film debut was with Nagesh Kukunoor’s Bollywood Calling and she gained international recognition for her role as Jenny in Subhash Ghai’s Joggers’ Park (2003). Perizaad Zorabian was educated in New York City, where, in addition to her studies for a Master’s degree in Business Administration at Baruch College.
• Siddharth Jadhav (Marathi: सिद्धार्थ ज़ाधव) is an Indian film actor. He is popular on television and has acted in Marathi and Hindi movies. He is known for his comic roles in Marathi cinema. He has acted in successful Bollywood movies like Golmaal and Golmaal Returns. Born and brought up in a low middle class Maharashtrian family at Sewree, Mumbai.
• Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900 – 18 June 1958) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933–34. A right-handed batsman, he played 22 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches, winning nine, losing one and drawing five.
• Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (23 October 1923 – 15 May 2010) was the 11th Vice-President of India. He served in that position from August 2002, when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant, until he resigned on July 21, 2007, after losing the presidential election to Pratibha Patil.
• Ramesh Choudary, also known by his stage name Jithan Ramesh, is a Tamil and Telugu film actor from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is the son of film producer R. B. Choudary and brother of actor Jeeva. He made his debut in the film Jithan (2005) and, as of 2010, he became a producer for the film Vaanam. Ramesh Choudary was born October 23.
• Joginder “The Hulk” Sharma  pronunciation (help·info) (born 23 October 1983 in Rohtak, Haryana, India). Is an Indian cricketer who made sporadic appearances for the Indian cricket team. A bowling all rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler and captains his state, Haryana.

Death anniversaries on 23rd October :

• Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali: সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় Shunil Gônggopaddhae), (born 7 September 1934) is an Indian poet and novelist. He was born in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. He studied at the Surendranath College, Dumdum Motizhil College, City College, Kolkata – all affiliated with the University of Calcutta.
• Subedar Joginder Singh Sahnan (26 September 1921 – 23 October 1962), a Saini Sikh, born in Moga, Punjab (British India), was a Subedar in the Indian Army who distinguished himself by winning Param Vir Chakra, the highest war-time gallantry award of the Indian Army. On 28 September 1936, he was enrolled in the 1 Sikh Regiment.
• Purohita Thirunarayana Narasimhachar (Kannada: ಪುರೋಹಿತ ತಿರುನಾರಾಯಣ ನರಸಿಂಹಾಚಾರ) (17 March 1905 – 23 October 1998), commonly known as PuTiNa, was a playwright and poet of the Kannada language. Along with, Kuvempu and D. R. Bendre, he forms the well-known trio of Kannada Navodaya poets. He is a Sahitya Akademi fellow and the winner of the Pampa Award given by the Government of Karnataka in 1991.
• Bhau Kalchuri (born Vir Singh Kalchuri on January 13, 1927) is an Indian author, poet, trust administrator, and one of Meher Baba’s mandali (close disciples). Bhau Kalchuri is also the principal biographer of Meher Baba’s life. Bhau Kalchuri was born one of seven children to well-to-do parents in a northern Indian village.
• Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar Rangaswami Iyengar (January 6, 1887 – October 23, 1926) was an Indian lawyer and journalist who served as the editor of The Hindu from 1923 till his own death in 1926. He was the son of S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar and nephew of S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar. Rangaswami was born to civil servant S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar on January 6, 1887.

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