deaths
August 15, 1942
Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (born 1892)
Mahadev Desai
Mahadev Haribhai Desai was an Indian independence activist, scholar and writer best remembered as Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary. He has variously been described as "Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ānanda to Gandhi's Buddha".
August 15
August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 138 days remain until the end of the year.