Dheeran Chinnamalai

Dheeran Chinnamalai was a Palayakkarar and chieftain who ruled the Kongu Nadu region of the present day western Tamil Nadu. He fought against the British East India Company, was later captured and hanged by the British.

17 April 1756

Born on the same birth day (17 April): Afrika Bambaataa • Boomer Esiason • Curtis Woodhouse • Edouard Wyss-Dunant • Heinz Putzl • John Robertson (Glasgow MP) • Michael IX Palaiologos • Muttiah Muralitharan • Richard Field (judge) • Travis Roy