Today in history 25 Jan...

Today in history @ 25 Jan

A. Birth anniversaries of:

a. Noted Indian singer Kavita Krishnamurthy (b. 1958)

b. Noted Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta (b. 1824). Considered by many as the greatest Bengali poet of all times gave the first Bengali sonnet. Besides, he was a lawyer with a degree from London primarily based on the patronage of Iswar C Vidyasagar.

c. Noted Indian physicist A P Balachandran (b. 1938) considered as one of the greatest living exponent of quantum physics.

d. Noted Indian economist Bibek Debroy (b. 1955) who is a permanent member of NITI Aayog since inception. Member of various committees spanning Central & state governments and UN, he is also famous for translating the Mahabharata into a ten volume treatise in  English (this project took 4 years). He was the ideator behind doing away with a separate Railway budget. He is an aluminus of Ramkrishna Mission, Narendrapur, Presidency Kolkata, Delhi School of Economics and Trinity.

e. Noted Indian writer and entrepreneur Ashwin Sanghi (b. 1969).

f. Noted British playwright Somerset Maugham  (b. 1874).

g. Noted British chemist Robert Boyle who gave the world Boyle's Law (b. 1627). He was one of the original founders of The Royal Society, a membership which is still rare and given only to men and women of excellence in Science.

h. Bangiya Vigyan Parishad (estd. 1948) which is India's first organisation for popularisation of science. S N Bose founded the same in Kolkata and it is still popular.

Death anniversary of:

A.  Notorious American gangster Al Capone (d. 1947).