Birth & Death Day
of Freedom Fighter of India
Mangal Pandey (July 19, 1827, Nagwa - April 8,
1857, Barrackpore). He was an Indian soldier who played a key part in events
immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. Mangal
Pandey was a sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the British
East India Company. Parents: Divakar Pandey, Abhairani Pandey.
Lakshmibai, the Rani
of Jhansi (November 19, 1835, Varanasi - June 18, 1858, Gwalior). She was born as
Manikarnika, was the queen of the Maratha-ruled Jhansi State, situated in the
north-central part of India. Full name: Manikarnika. Spouse: Raja Gangadhar Rao
Newalkar (m. 1842–1853). Children: Damodar Rao, Anand Rao. Parents: Moropant
Tambe, Bhagirathi Sapre
Ramachandra Pandurang
Tope (1814, Yeola - April
18, 1859, Shivpuri). He was an Indian leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
and one of its notable generals. He is better known by his nickname Tatya
Tope, which is also transliterated as Tantya Tope or Tantia Topi. Parents:
Rukhmabai, Pandurang Rao Tope.
Khudiram Bose was a Bengali revolutionary, one of
the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement. At the
time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 8 months 8 days old. (December 3, 1889,
Habibpur - August 11, 1908, Kolkata)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale CIE - political leaders during the
Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India. (May 9, 1866,
Ratnagiri - Died: February 19, 1915, Mumbai)
Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India,
was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political
and social leader. (September 4, 1825, Mumbai - June 30, 1917, Mumbai)
Chittaranjan Das was an Indian politician and
Founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal under British rule. (November 5,
1869, Kolkata - June 16, 1925, Darjeeling)
Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian revolutionary who
participated in Mainpuri conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori conspiracy of 1925,
and struggled against British imperialism. (June 11, 1897, Shahjahanpur - December
19, 1927, Gorakhpur)
Ashfaqulla Khan was a freedom fighter in the Indian
independence movement who had sacrificed his life along with Ram Prasad Bismil.
Bismil and Ashfaq were good friends and Urdu poets. (October 22, 1900,
Shahjahanpur - December 19, 1927, Faizabad)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (July
23, 1856, Chikhali, Maharashtra - August 1, 1920, Mumbai)
Lala Lajpat Rai popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was part of the Lal
Bal Pal trio. (January 28, 1865, Dhudike - Died: November 17, 1928, Lahore, Pakistan)
Bipin Chandra Pal was among the triumvirate of Lal Bal
Pal. (November 7, 1858, Habiganj, Bangladesh - May 20, 1932, Kolkata)
Chandra Shekhar Azad (July 23, 1906, Bhavra - February 27, 1931,
Allahabad)
Bhagat Singh (September 28, 1907, Khatkar Kalan - March 23, 1931, Lahore,
Pakistan)
Shivaram Hari Rajguru (August 24, 1908, Khed, Pune - March 23,
1931, Lahore, Pakistan)
Sukhdev Thapar (May 15, 1907, Ludhiana - March 23, 1931,
Lahore, Pakistan)
Subhas Chandra Bose (January 23, 1897, Cuttack - August 18, 1945,
Taipei, Taiwan)
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is popularly known as Babasaheb. (April
14, 1891, Central Provinces – December 6, 1956, Delhi). He was an Indian
jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the Modern
Buddhist Movement and campaigned against social discrimination.
Jagjivan Ram (5 April 1908 Chandwa, Bhojpur
District, Bihar, British Raj (now India) - 6 July 1986)
Begum Abida Ahmed (July 17, 1923, Budaun district -
December 7, 2003) Spouse: Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (m. 1945–1977). She was an
Indian politician and the wife of the fifth President of India Fakhruddin Ali
Ahmed, who twice remained member of the Lok sabha from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
in 1980 and 1984.