Sharmila Tagore, an Indian actress, was born in 1946.
Sharmila Tagore is a former Indian actress who was born on December 8, 1944. Tagore is most recognised for her contributions to Hindi and Bengali film, for which she has won two National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award, and the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour, in 2013 for her contributions to Indian culture via the performing arts. Tagore was born into the renowned Tagore family, one of Calcutta's most powerful families and a pivotal figure during the Bengali Renaissance. At the age of 14, she made her acting debut in Satyajit Ray's classic Bengali drama The World of Apu (1959). Devi (1960), Nayak (1966), Aranyer Din Ratri (1970), an
Related On This Day
C. Rajagopalachari, India's liberation warrior and the country's first Governor General, was born in Thorapalli, Madras Presidency, British India, in 1878.
Sonia Gandhi aka Edvige Antonia Albina Maino (Antonia Maino for Short), an Indian politician of Italian origin, was born in Lusiana, Veneto, Italy, in 1946.
In 1930, Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on light scattering, making him the first Asian and non-white person to receive the award.
Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen of Scotland, was born at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, in 1542.
Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, is the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work "Gitanjali."
Judi Dench, the British actress best known as M in the James Bond films, was born in York, England in 1934.
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish scientist who created dynamite and organised the Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, died at the age of 63 in 1896.
Matt Damon, star of "Bourne," married Argentine-born Luciana Barrosa in 2005 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau outside New York City Hall.
Shatrughan Sinha, an Indian actor and politician, was born in 1946 in Patna, Bihar, British India.