Born in October

1 October
1898: Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan
1898: Patras Bukhari, Urdu writer
1915: Maulana Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, religious and political leader of Pakistan
1924: Jimmy Carter, 39th US President
1930: Naimatullah Khan, Mayor of Karachi from 2001 to 2005

2 October
1869: Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement
1904: Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nd Prime Minister of India

3 October
1884: Elsa Kazi, German wife of Allama II Kazi

4 October
1919: Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talib-ul-Maula, Sindhi poet

5 October
1924: Javed Iqbal, son of Allama Iqbal
1952: Imran Khan, Chairman of PTI

6 October
1930: Hafiz-ul-Assad, 18th President of Syria

7 October
1853: Mirza Kalich Beg, Shakespeare of Sindhi Language
1885: Neils Bohr, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics
1901: Hyder Bux Jatoi, Peasant leader of Sindh
1952: Vladimir Putin, 4th President of Russia

8 October
1908: HM Khoja, activist from Sindh

9 October
1926: Justice Zafar Hussain Mirza, father of Dr Zulfikar Mirza

14 October
1542: Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, 3rd Mughal Emperor
1938: Farah Pahlavi, widow of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
1976: Tilkaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer
1977: Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer
1981: Gautam Gambir, Indian cricketer

15 October
1931: APJ Abdul Kalam, 11th President of India

16 October
1643: Bahadur Shah-I, 7th Mughal Emperor
1854: Oscar Wilde, Irish writer

17 October
1817: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, founder of Aligarh Movement
1980: Muhammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer

19 October
1897: Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani organic chemist
1909: Muhammad Ali Bogra, 3rd Prime Minister of Pakistan

20 October
1978: Verendra Sehwag, Indian cricketer

21 October
1833: Alfred Bernhard Nobel, founder of Dynamite

23 October
1960: Pir Sadruddin Shah Rashdi alias Yonus Sain, President of PML-F Sindh chapter

24 October
1775: Bahadur Shah Zafar, last Mughal Emperor

26 October
1873: Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazl-ul-Haq, Bengali lawyer, legislator and statesman
1919: Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, last Emperor of Iran
1947: Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton

27 October
1977: Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer

28 October
1955: Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation
1973: Maryam Nawaz, daughter of Nawaz Sharif

31 October
1951: Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer

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