Kolkata in the Space Age
The atlas holds 8 people and 10 moments here, from 1974 to 2018. The most recorded lives are Satyajit Ray, Satyendra Nath Bose and Mother Teresa.
Notable people
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
in 1999
1 moment here
Indian aerospace engineer, science administrator, author, and the eleventh president of India.…
Asha Bhosle
in 2018
1 moment here
Indian playback singer and actress whose career in Indian film and popular music spanned more than eight decades.…
Corazon Aquino
in 1997
1 moment here
María Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was a Filipino political leader and president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.…
Diana, Princess of Wales
in 1992
1 moment here
Diana Frances Spencer (1961–1997) was Princess of Wales from 1981 until her divorce in 1996.…
Diego Maradona
in 2008
1 moment here
Argentine football player and manager Diego Armando Maradona (1960–2020) was a central figure in world football.…
Mother Teresa
in 1997
1 moment here
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Satyajit Ray
from 1977 to 1992
2 moments here
Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1974
2 moments here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Moments
- 1974 Golden-jubilee address at Bose Institute Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1974 Death in Calcutta Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1977 Shatranj Ke Khilari studio work Satyajit Ray
- 1992 Visit to Mother Teresa's hospice Diana, Princess of Wales
- 1992 Death at Calcutta clinic Satyajit Ray
- 1997 Attendance at Mother Teresa's funeral Corazon Aquino
- 1997 Death in Calcutta Mother Teresa
- 1999 Missile-programme travel to Calcutta A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- 2008 Football-academy foundation ceremony Diego Maradona
- 2018 Banga Bibhushan ceremony Asha Bhosle