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See also: 1940 in India, other events of 1941, 1942 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Births

• 1 January - Govardhan Asrani, actor.
• 10 April - Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
• 5 July - Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993-2003
• 15 July - Nikhil Kumar, politician.
• 17 July - Bharathiraja, filmmaker.
• 31 July - Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician and Chief Minister of Gujarat (d.2004).
• 4 September - Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

Full date unknown

• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist.
• T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner.

Deaths

• 28 March - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (b.1877).
• 7 August - Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (b.1861).
• 9 November - Ganganath Jha, scholar of Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Philosophy (b.1872).

Full date unknown

• Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (b.1862).