Mirza Tahir Ahmad (December 18, 1928 – April 19, 2003) was Khalifatul Masih IV, Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and fourth successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He was elected as Caliph on June 10, 1982, the day after the death of his predecessor, Mirza Nasir Ahmad.
Vijay Mallya (born on 18 December 1955 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India) is an industrialist and a second-time member of India’s parliament. He is the chairman of the UB Group – one of India’s largest conglomerates, with diverse interests in brewing, distilling, aviation, pharmaceuticals, real estate, engineering, fertilizers, biotechnology and information technology.
Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist and columnist. She is currently the group editor with NDTV. Dutt gained prominence for her reportage of the Kargil War. She has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour.
Arumuka Navalar December 18, 1822 – December 5, 1879) was one the early revivalists of native Hindu Tamil traditions in Sri Lanka and India. He and others like him were responsible for reviving and reforming native traditions that had come under a long period of dormancy and decline during the previous 400 years of colonial rule by various European powers.
Pablo Bartholomew (born 1955) is an award-winning Indian photojournalist. Pablo Bartholomew is an independent photographer based in New Delhi, India. He is noted for his photography, as an educator running photography workshops, and as manager of a software company specializing in photo database solutions and server-based digital archiving systems like Netphotograph.
Death Anniversaries on 18th Of December
Begum Nur Jahan (31 May 1577–17 December 1645), also known as Mehr-un-Nisaa, was an Empress of the Mughal Dynasty that ruled much of the Indian subcontinent. She is an aunt of Empress Mumtaz Mahal, Emperor Shah Jahan’s wife for whom the Taj Mahal was made.
Suryakantham (28 October 1924 – 18 December 1994) was a Versatile popular Indian actress in Tollywood. She was known for her cruel mother-in-law roles.. Suryakantham was born at Venkata Krishnaraya Puram near Kakinada of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. She was the 14th child to her parents, while ten children had died.
Dhani Ram Chatrik (October 4, 1876 – December 18, 1954) is considered the founder of modern Punjabi poetry. He worked all his life to lift the status of the Punjabi language. He was the founding president of Punjabi Sabha, a Punjabi Literary Society. He was the first person to standardize the typeset for Gurmukhi script, publish Guru Granth Sahib and Bhai Kahn Singh’s Mahan Kosh.
Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 March 1915 – 18 December 2004) was an Indian cricketer. He captained India in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India’s 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died.
George Emmett (2 December 1912 – 18 December 1976) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire. He also played one Test match for England in 1948. George Malcolm Emmett was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1912.
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