| 1905 | Devendranath Tagore Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Thakur's father and Indian thinker, Thinker, died. |
| 1905 | Rajneesh, popularly known as Osho, died in Pune. |
| 1966 | On this day, the Congress Party chose Indira Gandhi as its leader for the post of Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only daughter of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. |