19th August – What Happened Today In History?

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Today In History?

Find out what happened on the 19th of August 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 occur 19th of August

Nandana Sen (born Nandana Dev Sen on 19 August 1967) is an Indian actress. Sen was born in Kolkata, West Bengal to a Bengali Hindu family. She is the daughter of Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri winner Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the most prominent authors in the contemporary Bengali literature.

Sudha Murty is an Indian social worker and author. Mrs. Murthy began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer, currently she is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and member of public healthcare initiative of the Gates Foundation.

Ashraf ‘Ali Thanwi (August 19, 1863 – July 4, 1943) was an Indian Deoband deobandi Hanafi scholar of the Deobandi school. Thanwi graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1884.It is claimed that when Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, one of the founders of the institution.

Purbi Joshi (Born: August 19, 1984) is an Indian Television Actress and voice-dubbing actress who speaks Hindi. Purbi Joshi is the daughter of well known television actor Sarita Joshi and sister of Ketki Joshi (Ketki Dave, after marriage).

Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, F.C.C., or Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception (19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946) was a Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister who is now honored as a saint.

Death Anniversaries on 19th August

Saraswathi Gora (1912–2006) was an Indian social activist. Notable as the leader of the Atheist Centre for many years, she campaigned against untouchability and the caste system. Born on September 28, 1912 at Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh, she got married at the age of ten to Goparaju Ramachandra Rao.

Swami Satchidananda (December 22, 1914 – August 19, 2002), born as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder, was an Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept, who gained fame and following in the West during his time in New York.

Utpal Dutt (29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the ‘Little Theater Group’ in 1947, which enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the ‘Epic theater’.

Jan Nisar Akhtar (February 14, 1914 – August 19, 1976) was an important 20th century Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood.

Major Xan Fielding DSO (26 November 1918 – 19 August 1991) was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as an Special Operations Executive agent in Crete, France and the Far East during World War II.