Oxford DNB's Life of the Day for today Thursday, January 02, 2014 Free online for a week. ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject, visit http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2014-01-02 Khan, Noor-un-Nisa Inayat (1914-1944), special operations officer, was born on 2 January 1914 in Moscow, the eldest of four children of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), a Sufi religious teacher and musician, and his wife, Ora Ray Baker (1890-1949). Her father was descended from the last Mughal emperor of southern India, and her mother was American, of British descent. (SNIP)