Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.

9 June 1949

Born on the same birth day (9 June): Aaron Sorkin • Anne Thackeray Ritchie • Christina Stürmer • Francine Raymond • Gerald Götting • Jaan Mölder • Jackie Mason • Nicholas Lloyd • Olin Kreutz • Rubén Maza • Samoth • The Sheik (wrestler) • Uzi Hitman

Born in the same month (June 1949): Alexander Scrymgeour, 12th Earl of Dundee • Ann Druyan • Don Baylor • Dusty Baker • Emanuel Ax • Hildegard Falck • Jim Lea (musician) • Jim Varney • Lech Kaczyński • Lindsay Wagner • Lionel Richie • Luís Filipe Vieira • Mary Styles Harris • Richard Clarke (bishop) • Russell Hitchcock • Yoon Joo-sang