Alain Daniélou

Alain Daniélou was a French historian, Indologist, intellectual, musicologist, translator, writer, and notable Western convert to and expert on the Shaivite branch of Hinduism.

4 October 1907

Born on the same birth day (4 October): Buster Keaton • Caner Erkin • Charlie Hurley • Clifton Davis • Dana Davis • Don Lenhardt • James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond • John Ellis (executioner) • Norman D. Wilson (actor) • Petri Kontiola • Sam Huff • Scotty Beckett • Tony La Russa • Will Puddy

Born in the same month (October 1907): Alexander R. Todd • Arlene Francis • Edgar Sampson • Edwige Feuillère • Günther Treptow • Helen MacInnes • Horst Wessel • Jacques Tati • Jimmie Foxx • John Hewitt (poet) • John Marley • Maurice Bardèche • Mrs. Miller • Patricia Griffin • Ragnar Nurkse • Richard Sharpe Shaver • Richard Titmuss • Roger Wolfe Kahn • Varian Fry • Víctor Paz Estenssoro • Ödön Pártos