Ravi Shankar was born on 7 April 1920 in Varanasi. An Indian sitar player and composer, Shankar was the best-known interpreter of Indian classical music in the West. Trained under the guru Allauddin Khan, he performed across India and wrote music for films, including Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy. He introduced Indian music to wide audiences through collaborations with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and with George Harrison of the Beatles, who studied with him, and he played at the Monterey Pop Festival and the Concert for Bangladesh. He won several Grammy Awards, and India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna. His daughters Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar are also musicians.
Before and after
- 13 March 1920Kapp Putsch
- 17 March 1920Birth of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- 1 April 1920Birth of Toshirō Mifune
- from 4 April 1920 to 7 April 19201919-1920 Arab riots in Palestine
- 7 April 1920Birth of Ravi Shankar
- 15 April 1920Birth of Richard von Weizsäcker
- from 19 April 1920 to 26 April 1920San Remo conference
- 26 April 1920Great Debate
- from 28 April 1920 to 18 October 1991Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
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