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Cripps reptd querying London on possible offer revisions; Sir T B Sapru and M R Jayakar warn on plan failure; hold effective Indian share in defense control essential; Cripps conf with Nehru and Azad; Sikhs and Hindu Mahasabha reject offer; Nehru and Wavell to conf on defense control; Maj Gen M Yoshizumi pledges Japan to aid Indian independence; Germany repts S C Bose plea to Indian pub to reject Brit offer and gain freedom through Axis powers
Sulu units raid Zamboanga
Int on birth aboard lifeboat
1942Leon Russell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2016)[†]
Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and the Tulsa sound. His recordings earned six gold records and he received two Grammy Awards from seven nominations. In 1973 Billboard named Russell the "Top Concert Attraction in the World". In 2011, he was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1942Roshan Seth, Indian-English actor[†]
Roshan Seth is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India. He began his acting career in the early 1960s in the UK, but left acting the following decade and moved to India to work as a journalist. In the 1980s, he rose to prominence for his comeback performance as Jawaharlal Nehru in Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning film Gandhi, which brought him a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and reignited his interest in acting.
1942Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (born 1862)[†]
Édouard Estaunié was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication" in his Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique. He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist.