Bandaranaike, Sirimavo b. April 17, 1916 d. October 10, 2000 Sri Lanka Prime Minister. The first woman to serve as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, she also was Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party which her husband Solomon Bandaranaike founded. In all Bandaranaike served three terms as Prime Minister, 1960 to 1965, 1970 to 1977, and from 1994 to 2000. Bandaranaike died from a heart attack in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in October 2000, at the age of 84. (Bio by: K) Bandaranaike Family Estate, Kandy, Central, Sri Lanka
Bandaranaike, Solomon b. January 8, 1899 d. September 26, 1959 Ceylon Prime Minister. He served as the Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), from 1956 to 1959. After studying to become a lawyer in England, he became involved in politics and helped to establish the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Sinhala Maha Sabha in 1937, a movement to promote Sinhalese culture and community interests. He was assassinated by a dissident buddhist monk in 1959. (Bio by: K) Bandaranaike Family Estate, Kandy, Central, Sri Lanka
Cameron, Julia Margaret b. June 11, 1815 d. January 26, 1879 Photographer, known for her portraits of eminent people of the day, and for her romantic pictures. She was born in Calcutta to a well-to-do British family. One of seven sisters renowned in Anglo-Indian society for their intelligence and beauty, she remained a bit of an eccentric throughout her life. In 1838 she married Charles Hay Cameron, some years her elder and a distinguished jurist and legal reformer. They lived for a time in Ceylon, where they purchased a number of coffee and rubber...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld) Glencairn Churchyard, Dikoya, Kandy, Central, Sri Lanka
Clarke, Sir. Arthur C. b. December 16, 1917 d. March 19, 2008 Author. One of the most prolific science-fiction writers of the 20th Century, he wrote over 100 books on science-fiction and space, and was a commentator during the Apollo moon flights with Walter Cronkite. He battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and was occasionally confined to a wheelchair. Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in 1956. He was lured there by his interest in marine diving which he said was as close as he could get to the weightless feeling of space. Clarke was also co-...[Read More] (Bio by: Armand Vaquer) Colombo Cemetery, Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka
b. April 17, 1916 d. October 10, 2000