Ravi Shankar, an Indian musician and composer of Hindustani classical music, was born in 1920.
Pandit Ravi Shankar, also known as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, was an Indian sitarist and composer who lived from 7 April 1920 to 11 December 2012. He was a sitar virtuoso who rose to prominence as the world's best-known exponent of North Indian classical music in the second half of the twentieth century, influencing many musicians in India and around the world. Shankar received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 1999. Shankar was born in India to a Bengali Brahmin family and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with his brother Uday Shankar's dance group. In 1938, he gave up dancing to study sitar with court musician Allauddin Khan. In 1944, he completed his studies.
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