Ernest Rutherford

Born – 30 August 1871

Died – 19 October 1937

Father of nuclear physics

Discovery of alpha and beta

Discovery of proton

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Born – 19 October 1910

Died – 21 August 1995

Indian-American astronomer

He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler  importance to the structure and evolution of the stars

Padma Vibhushan  – 1958

Majaz

Born – 19 October 1911

Died – 5 December 1955

Majaz Lakhnawi

Indian Urdu poet – romantic and revolutionary poetry

composed ghazals in  Urdu

Matangini Hazra

Born – 19 October 1870

Died – 29 September 1942

Indian revolutionary who participated in the

Indian independence movement

she was shot dead by the British Indian police in front of the Tamluk Police Station

Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration

On October 19, 1956, Japan and the Soviet Union signed a Joint Declaration providing for the end of the state of war