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Mohammad Hidayatullah

Mohammad Hidayatullah, 11th Chief Justice of India, and politician, sixth Vice President of India (died 1992)

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Born
December 17, 1905
Died
September 18, 1992
Zodiac sign
Sagittarius
Birth year
1905

About Mohammad Hidayatullah

Mohammad Hidayatullah, OBE (; 17 December 1905 – 18 September 1992) was an Indian jurist and statesman who served as interim President of India in 1969. He concurrently served as Chief Justice of India from 1968 to 1970 and then as Vice President of India from 1979 to 1984. His father was a poet of all-India repute who wrote poems in Urdu and it was probably from him that Justice Hidayatullah got his love for language and literature. Hidayatullah was Gold medallist of Aligarh Muslim University in 1897 - besting famous mathematician Sir Ziauddin Ahmad, a favourite of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.

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The world when Mohammad Hidayatullah was born

Mohammad Hidayatullah was born in 1905. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1905

  • Best-selling book"The Marriage of William Ashe" – Mrs. Humphry Ward

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentChristy Mathewson pitches 3 shutouts in the World Series
  • Top headlineEinstein publishes theory of special relativity
  • Technology milestoneEinstein's "miracle year" — E=mc²
  • World population~1.65B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population83.2M

1905 versus 2026

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Measure19052026
Population83.2M341 million

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