- * October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat (India) as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી)
- † January 30, 1948 in New Delhi, Delhi (shot dead by an extremist of his own religious group).
- Achieved fame as a campaigner for India's independence from the British Empire.
- I studied his concept of Satyagraha, inadequately translated into English as “non-violent resistance”, in Melbourne in 2003.
Mahathma Gandhi Road with a Gandhi statue in Mumbai (own picture, 2008)