★ International Day of Sign Languages, ★ National Day of Saudi Arabia, ★ Kyrgyz Language Day, ★ 1917: Birth of Indian woman chemist Aseema Chatterjee, ★ 1973: Death of Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, ★ 1985: Birth of team India player Ambati Rayudu, ★ 1996: Death of film actress Silk Smitha and ★ 2010: Death of Indian economist and sociologist Bhavaraju Sarveswara Rao.