LOCATION

Population:
4,600,000 (2001)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	1961
University of Calcutta	1857

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Satyendra Nath Bose	Physicist	1-Jan-1894	4-Feb-1974	Bose-Einstein condensates
John Bowen	Novelist	5-Nov-1924		The Truth Will Not Help Us
Sasthi Brata	Author	16-Jul-1939		Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater
Bikram Choudhury	Business	1946		The Bad Boy of Yoga
Thomas Frognall Dibdin	Author	1776	18-Nov-1847	English bibliographer
T. R. Fraser	Scientist	5-Feb-1841	4-Jan-1920	Made poison and venom into medicine
Rakesh Gangwal	Business	1953		CEO of Worldspan
Rajat K. Gupta	Business	2-Dec-1948		Managing Partner of McKinsey, 1994-2003
Shashi Kapoor	Actor	18-Mar-1938		Deewaar
Bharati Mukherjee	Novelist	27-Jul-1940	28-Jan-2017	The Tiger's Daughter
Margaret Murray	Archaeologist	13-Jul-1863	13-Nov-1963	Egyptologist, mother of Wicca
Satyajit Ray	Film Director	2-May-1921	23-Apr-1992	Pather Panchali
Gayatri Spivak	Scholar	24-Feb-1942		Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak?
Rabindranath Tagore	Poet	7-May-1861	7-Aug-1941	Gitanjali
R. H. Tawney	Scholar	30-Nov-1880	16-Jan-1962	The Acquisitive Society
William Makepeace Thackeray	Novelist	18-Jul-1811	24-Dec-1863	Vanity Fair
Penry Williams	Historian	25-Feb-1925	30-Apr-2013	The Tudor Regime

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Satyendra Nath Bose	Physicist	1-Jan-1894	4-Feb-1974	Bose-Einstein condensates
Bankim Chandra Chatterji	Novelist	26-Jun-1838	8-Apr-1894	Krishna Kanta's Will
Satyajit Ray	Film Director	2-May-1921	23-Apr-1992	Pather Panchali
Rabindranath Tagore	Poet	7-May-1861	7-Aug-1941	Gitanjali
Mother Teresa	Religion	26-Aug-1910	5-Sep-1997	Missionaries of Charity
Teddy Weatherford	Jazz Musician	11-Oct-1903	25-Apr-1945	Jazz ambassador to the Far East
James Wilson	Publisher	3-Jun-1805	11-Aug-1860	Founder of The Economist

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