9 October in Hindu history
9 October 1877
Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das born at Suando
The Odia reformer, poet and freedom fighter is born near Puri. He opens the open-air school at Satyabadi and founds the newspaper Samaja.
9 October 2015
Ravindra Jain passes away
The composer, blind from birth, who set the songs of Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan, dies in Mumbai.