Noble Snippets

Rabindranath Tagore, Polymath, Composer of India & Bangladesh's National Anthem - Indologist & Sanskrit Scholar Pandurang Vaman Kane - Dravidian Linguist Robert Caldwell - Alexander Papov, Introducer of World's First Radio Set - Geoffrey Dummer, Integrated Circuit - May 7

International No Diet Day - Motilal Nehru, Lawyer, Activist, Politician - Maria Montessori, Italian Physician & Educator - Sigmund Freud, Father of Modern Psychiatry - Paul Christian Lauterbur, Developer of MRI - May 6

Indian Arrival Day - Karl Heinrich Marx, German philosopher - Alan Shepard, First American to travel into Space - Former President Giani Zail Singh - Renowned Singer & Tamil Film Actor P.U.Chinnappa - Freedom Fighter & Educationist T.S.Avinashilingam - Great Warrior Napoleon - May 5

International Firefighters Day - World Password Day - Tyagaraja, Composer & Vocalist of Carnatic Music - Robin Cook, Famous American Novelist - Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore - Margaret Thatcher, UK's First Female Prime Minister - May 4

World Press Freedom Day - Sujatha, Indian Author, Renowned Novelist, Screenwriter - James Joseph Brown, American Singer, Dancer, Musician, Record Producer, Bandleader - Raja Harishchandra, First Indian Feature Film - Zakir Hussain, Former President of India - May 3

Satyajit Ray, Indian Polymath, Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Documentary Filmmaker, Author, Essayist, Lyricist, Magazine Editor, Illustrator, Calligrapher, Music Composer, Nobel Laureate - Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci - Italian Polymath, Painter, Draughtsman, Engineer, Scientist, Theorist, Sculptor, Architect - World's First Jet, De Havilland Comet 1- Cyclone Nargis, killed 138,000 - Osama bin Laden, Founder of Al-Qaeda - May 2