Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian politician, philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967. He previously served as the first vice president of India from 1952 to 1962. He was the second ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the fourth vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1939 to 1948 and the second vice-chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. Radhakrishnan is considered one of the most influential and distinguished 20th century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he held the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta from 1921 to 1932 and Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford from 1936 to 1952.

5 September 1888

Born on the same birth day (5 September): Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy • Archie Jackson • Don Kulick • Emmy Raver-Lampman • Eugen Goldstein • Fons Rademakers • Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony • Jacopo Zabarella • John Wisden • Kyōko Saitō • Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland • Robin van der Laan • William Dampier • William Devane • Yuna Kim

Born in the same month (September 1888): Andrija Štampar • Antonio Ascari • Frans Eemil Sillanpää • Grey Owl • Hanna Ralph • Ida McNeil • Israel Abramofsky • J. Frank Dobie • James Waddell Alexander II • Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. • Maurice Chevalier • Oskar Schlemmer • Porter Hall • T. S. Eliot • Toni Wolff • W. O. Bentley