Kishore Kumar death anniversary: key events in history on October 13
Singer Kishore Kumar died on October 13, 1987; the date also marks Nero's accession, the Prime Meridian and several notable births and deaths.
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October 13 is the death anniversary of the celebrated singer Kishore Kumar. He was not only a playback singer but also an accomplished composer, lyricist, writer, producer and director. His mastery of changing his voice to suit different styles while singing set him apart from other singers.
In his career he sang thousands of hit songs in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and several other languages, which still rule people's hearts. He won the Filmfare Award eight times for his singing. He died on October 13, 1987, but his evergreen songs and quirky personality live on in people's memories.
The date is also known for several important events in Indian and world history. In 54 BC, Nero became Roman emperor at the age of 17. In 1773, Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy. In 1884, the line passing through Greenwich was taken as zero and world time was fixed with international recognition. In 1923, the capital of Turkey was moved from Istanbul to Ankara.
In 1929, the Parvati temple in Pune was opened to Dalits. In 1944, during the Second World War, the Red Army captured Riga, the capital of Latvia. In 1946, France adopted a new constitution. In 1970, Fiji was admitted to the United Nations. In 1976, Dr F. A. Murphy took the first electron micrograph of the Ebola virus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 1983, Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first cellular network in the United States. In 2016, the Maldives announced its decision to leave the Commonwealth of Nations. In 2019, Brigid Kosgei of Kenya set a new women's world record at the Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:14:04.
Among births, 1877 saw the birth of freedom fighter and Home Rule movement activist Bhulabhai Desai (died May 6, 1946). Film actor Ashok Kumar Ganguly was born in 1911 (died December 10, 2001). Indian politician Moturu Udayam was born in 1924 (died March 31, 2002). Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister, was born in 1925 (died April 8, 2013). Indian veena player and composer Chitti Babu was born in 1936 (died February 9, 1996).
English cricketer John Snow was born in 1941 and Peter Sauber, founder of the Sauber Formula One team, in 1943. Pakistani Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born in 1948 (died August 16, 1997).
Among deaths, the list includes Razia Sultan, Delhi's first woman sultan, in 1240; Nichiren, founder of Japan's Nichiren Buddhist sect, in 1282 (born February 16, 1222); and Sister Nivedita, writer, teacher, social worker and disciple of Swami Vivekananda, in 1911 (born October 28, 1867). E. C. Segar, creator of the Popeye cartoon, died in 1938 (born December 8, 1894), and Milton Hershey, founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company, in 1945 (born September 13, 1857).
Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the contact poisoning effect of DDT on insects, died in 1965 (born January 12, 1899, Olten, Switzerland). Kishore Kumar died in 1987 (born August 4, 1929). Hindi litterateur Dr Rameshwar Shukla died in 1995 (born May 1, 1915), leprosy specialist and noted surgeon Dr Jal Minocher Mehta in 2001, and Nobel-winning Canadian physicist Bertram Brockhouse in 2003.
