Plato (427 BC-347 BC) was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. In countries speaking Arabic, Turkish or Persian, he is called Eflatun, which means a spring of water, and, metaphorically, of knowledge.Plato lectured extensively at the Academy but he also wrote […]

Brazilian footballer, Edson Arantes do Nasiemento aka Pele was born on 23 October 1940.Pele is regarded by many as the greatest footballer to have played the beautiful game.Born in Tres Coracoes, Minoas Gerias, Brazil, Pele was dicovered at the age of 11 and a few years later was brought to Sao Paulo to play for

Paul Newman was born on 26 January 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio.Actor, director, producer, Paul Newman’s career spans full fifty years. From his earliest appearances in films such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), to his more recent roles like in 2002’s The Roadto Perdition, Newman has been a major player in the cinema

Patanjali, is the compiler of the Yoga Sutra, a major work containing aphorisms on the practical and philosophical wisdom regarding practice of Raja yoga. (‘Yoga’ in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to the one common soul, God.Various references suggest he lived between 200 BC and 400

Pevez Musharraf born on August 11, 1943 in a haveli situated in Mohalla Kachcha Saadullah in Old Delhi.President Musharraf’s father Syed Musharraf Uddin, a graduate of Aligarh University, served in the Civil Services, Delhi. After partition, he joined the Foreign Department and retired as Director, Foreign Affairs. His mother received her Master’s degree from Lucknow

Paris Hilton was born February 17, 1981, to Rick and Kathy Hilton, making her the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton hotels and source of the family fortune—estimated at $300 million. Her grandfather, Conrad ’Nicky’ Hilton, Jr., also brought some notoriety to the family, as he was the first of Elizabeth Taylor’s many

The contemporary doyen of North Indian vocals, Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj was born into a family that has given to Indian music four generations of outstanding musicians. The Mewati maestro, Pandit Jasraj had his initial grooming in music under his father, the Late Pandit Moti Ramji. He then underwent intensive training under the tutelage of

Pamela Denise Anderson was born on 1 July 1967, in British Columbia, Canada.Pamela Anderson went from fitness instructor to possibly the world’s best known glamour model in one easy step. Such a summing up is by no means an exaggeration for a woman who has beguiled the world with her every move.It was during a

Painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on 25 October 1881 in No. 36 Plaza de la Merced, Malaga, Andalusia.Picasso’s father taught drawing and painting in the ‘Escuela de San Telmo’.In 1891 Pablo Picasso made his first real attempts at painting. As the dust-cover of ‘Picasso’ by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim puts it: “Picasso was painting pictures which

The first Indian woman (and the fifth Indian) to reach the final of an Olympic event by winning her 400 m hurdles Semi-final. She was born in Kerala in 1964. When she was just 12, she joined a Sports school at Cannanore where she received guidance and training from O.P. Nambiar, the noted athlete coach.In

Osho was born Rajneesh Chandra Mohan in 1931 in Kuchwada, a small village in India. He is currently in a state of disembodiment, or death, having left his body in l990. From an early age he questioned everything, a process which became more and more intense until the age of 21, when he became enlightened,

Nostradamus, (December 14, 1503- July 1, 1566) born Michel de Nostredame, is one of the world’s most famous authors of prophecies.He is most famous for his book ‘Les Propheties’, which consists of rhymed quatrains (4-line poems) grouped into sets of 100, called Centuries.Born in Saint-Remy de Provence, in the south of France, he was the

NR Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys Technologies one of the biggest IT empire in India, was born on August 20, 1946 in Karnataka. Murthy obtained his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (B.E.) from University of Mysore in 1967 and his Master of Technology (M.Tech.) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 1969. In the early seventies,

Name : Naomi Campbell, Nationality : British, Height : 5’9.5″ Measurements : 34-23-34, Hair : Brown, Eyes Brown (but wears blue and green contacts sometimes). Born : May 22, 1970 in Streatham, South London, England.Naomi began her career at 15, when Beth Boldt, an agent at Elite, spotted her walking down a London Street near

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born 18 July, 1918) is a former President of South Africa, was one of its chief anti-apartheid activists, and was also an anti-apartheid saboteur and guerrilla leader. He is now almost universally considered to be a heroic freedom fighter, but during the time of the apartheid regime some Western politicians such as