Milestones-6: November 3

1. AMARTYA SEN
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Nobel-prize winning Indian economist, Amartya Sen, was born on this day in 1933. He is an Economics Professor at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Trinity College, Cambridge. He has received more than 80 honorary doctorates. His books have been translated into 30 languages. He was awarded 'Bharat Ratna' (the highest civilian award in India) in 1999.

His famous books include 'The Argumentative Indian' and 'The Idea of Justice'.

Professor Sen, who is now 76, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and spends the winter in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, his birthplace. (He was named 'Amartya' by Rabindranath Tagore, which means 'immortal'. )

For more details, his autobiography in Nobel.org:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1998/sen-autobio.html

For a detailed article from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen

2. ANDRE MALRAUX
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French writer, adventurer and statesman was born on this day in 1901 and he died at the age of 75 on November 23, 1976.

For a detailed article from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Malraux

For another detailed article:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/malraux.htm

3. BENVENUTO CELLINI
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Italian sculptor, painter and musician, Benvenuto Cellini, was born on this day in 1500 and he passed away at the age of 70 on February 13, 1571.

I have a copy of his famous autobiography, which I am sorry to say, I am yet to read. The full-text of his famous autobiography is available at Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7clln10h.htm

For a detailed article on Cellini from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini

Grateful thanks to Project Gutenberg, Nobel.org, www.kirjasto.sci.fi and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.