Pranab Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian statesman who served as the country's 13th president from 2012 to 2017. Mukherjee was a top politician in the Indian National Congress and held numerous cabinet positions in the Indian government over his five-decade political career. Mukherjee served as Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012 before being elected President. In 2019, his successor as President, Ram Nath Kovind, bestowed on him India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna.

Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian composer and musician best known for popularising the Indian classical instrument Sitar around the world. Shankar grew up learning music and performing with his brother's dance ensemble. He began touring India and the United States after serving as the director of All-India Radio. During this time, he worked with a number of prominent musicians, including George Harrison and Philip Glass. He has cooperated with the famed band 'The Beatles,' further popularising Sitar. Shankar, who received three of India's highest civilian honours, died in California in December 2012, at the age of 92.

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist who specialised in light scattering. Using a spectrograph he invented, he and his student K. S. Krishnan found that as light passes through a transparent medium, the wavelength and frequency of the deflected light changes. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian, receives the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on light scattering, making him the first Asian and non-white person to do so.

On 9 December 2019, Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah tabled the Bill in the 17th Lok Sabha, and it was approved on 10 December 2019 with 311 MPs voting in favour and 80 voting against it. On December 11, 2019, the Rajya Sabha passed the measure with 125 votes in favour and 105 votes against.

With his innumerable poetry, novels, plays, and songs, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), better known as Gurudev, captivated the sphere of literature. His contributions are still firmly ingrained in India and worldwide. In 1883, Tagore married Mrinalini. He divorced his wife and never remarried in a period of 19 years. Even during his married life, it was considered that he desired personal company. "It would be lovely if you and I could be comrades in all our labour and in all our thoughts," he reportedly wrote to his wife in a letter, "but we cannot reach all that we seek."

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and philosopher who worked for the Commonwealth of England's Council of State and subsequently Oliver Cromwell as a government official. He wrote at a period of theological and political upheaval, and his epic poem Paradise Lost is his most famous work (1667). Paradise Lost is usually regarded as one of the finest masterpieces of English literature, written in blank verse.

In April 2003, while filming Stuck on You in Miami, Damon met his Argentine wife, Luciana Bozán. They were engaged in September 2005 and married on December 9, 2005, in a private civil ceremony at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Their three girls were born in June 2006, August 2008, and October 2010 respectively. From Bozán's previous marriage, he has a stepdaughter, Alexia Barroso (born 1998), whom he considers his own. They've lived in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area since 2012, after previously residing in Miami and New York City.

Shatrughan Prasad Sinha (born July 15, 1946) is an Indian politician and actor. He served in the Lok Sabha (2009–2014, 2014–2019) and the Rajya Sabha (1996–2002, 2002–2008) representing Patna Sahib. In the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, he was a Union Cabinet Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Shipping. From 2014 until 2019, he served on the standing committee on transportation, tourism, and culture, as well as the consultative committee in the Ministry of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs. Anything except Khamosh, his biography, was published in 2016.

Dame Judith Olivia Dench is an English actress who was born on December 9, 1934. She is regarded as a "peerless performer" with parts spanning from James Bond blockbusters to Shakespearean tragedies, and is regarded as one of the finest actresses in British history. On several times, she has been crowned Britain's finest actor. Dench made her stage debut with the Old Vic Company in 1957. She appeared in numerous of Shakespeare's plays during the next several years, including Hamlet's Ophelia, Romeo and Juliet's Juliet, and Macbeth's Lady Macbeth.

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi is a name that has become synonymous with Carnatic music. This immaculate vocalist, whose voice had almost heavenly power, is the first singer to receive India's highest civic distinction, the Bharat Ratna. M.S. was exposed to Carnatic music at an early age. That was because she was born into a musical household. Her grandmother, Akkammal, was a violinist, and her mother was a well-known Veena performer. She died on December 11, 2004 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She died as a result of bronchopneumonia and heart abnormalities.

Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "for his deeply sensitive, fresh, and beautiful poem, through which, with great ability, he has made his poetic philosophy, articulated in his own English language, a part of the Western literature."

Sonia Gandhi aka Edvige Antonia Albina Maino is an Indian politician who was born on December 9, 1946. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, a broad-based political party that has ruled India for the majority of the country's post-independence history.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. Alfred Nobel is well-known for the yearly prizes he bestows in research, literature, and peace. Despite being born into poverty, his family members were innovative and enterprising; they worked hard and achieved success. Alfred was the family's scientist, creating and producing dynamite, the blasting cap, gelignite, and ballistite. He became extremely wealthy as a result of the profits from his explosives enterprises. Alfred Nobel died on December 10, 1896, at the age of 63, in San Remo, Italy, of a stroke.