| 1923 | Country's tabla player Pandit Kishan Maharaj was born. |
| 1906 | India's famous film actor Prithviraj Kapoor was born in Peshawar (now Pakistan). |
| 1940 | Famous composer of Hindi cinema Pyarelal was born. |
| 2014 | More than 200 people died due to floods in India and neighboring Pakistan. |
| 2008 | In 2008, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was re-elected head of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations organization. |