
Birthday: May 25, 1933
Death: January 01, 2004
Basdeo Panday was a Trinidadian statesman, lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, and actor, who served as the fifth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001. He was the first Indo-Trinidadian, along with being the first Hindu, to hold the office of prime minister.