Question: In which year was the author who wrote Geet Ramayan born?
Context: Gajānan Digambar Mādgulkar (1 October 1919 – 14 December 1977) was a Marāthi poet, lyricist, writer and actor from India.  He is popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma (गदिमा).  He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969.  He has written 157 screen play and over 2000 songs in his career.  He was called Ādhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki) of current era due to his composition of Geet Rāmāyan (lit.  Ramayana in Songs)as the most notable work. Aimee Friedman (born 1979) is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc. , Point and S&S.  Her novels South Beach (2004) (a "New York Times" bestseller), "French Kiss" (2005), and "Hollywood Hills" (2007)and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky (2008) focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St. Laurent.  She released "Sea Change" on June 1, 2009.  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Neelakantha, the 16th century author of Tajika Neelakanthi and Prasna Tantra, and the son of Anantadeva, hailed from Kashmir; his brother, Ramchandra, wrote "Muhurta Chintamani", the famous treatise on Electional Astrology.  Neelakantha was the court astrologer of the Moghul Emperor, Jalaluddin Akbar.  According to Deepak Kapoor, Neelakantha was born in the year 1556 The Tajika system of prognostication depends on the Varshaphala, Neelakantha wrote his famous book on Varshaphala, Tajika Neelakanthi, in the year 1587.  However, B V Raman in the introduction to Prasna Tantra states that in the last part of his Varshatantra (of Tajika Neelakanthi), Neelakantha records that he composed this book on the eighth day of the bright half of Aswija of Saka year 1509 which means 1567 AD.  There is also evidence that he hailed from Vidarbha and that he was 43 or 44 years old when he wrote this book. Harry Winkler was an American sitcom writer who wrote for such shows as "The Addams Family", "The George Gobel Show", and others.  He shared an Emmy award in 1955 for "The George Gobel Show" and was nominated the following year for the same show.  In that same year, 1956, one of his television scripts was featured in "The Prize Plays of Television and Radio 1956" published by Random House.  Mr. Winkler also wrote the ground breaking series "Julia" starring Dianne Carroll, the first commercial television series to star an African-American female in the lead role of a single, professional woman with a family to support.  He also wrote the original treatment "The Flagstones" for what ultimately became known as "The Flintstones".  Additional credits include having been the ghost writer for the internationally featured Blondie comic strip series for over 25 years, 1955 through 1980.  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Geet Ramayan (Marathi: गीत रामायण , English: "The Ramayana in Songs" ) is a collection of 56 Marathi language songs chronologically describing events from the Indian Hindu epic, the "Ramayana".  It was broadcast by All India Radio, Pune in 1955–1956, four years before television was introduced in India.  Written by G. D. Madgulkar and the songs being composed by Sudhir Phadke, "Geet Ramayan" was acclaimed for its lyrics, music and singing.  It is considered a "milestone of Marathi light music" and the "most popular" Marathi version of "Ramayana". Geet Chaturvedi (born 27 November 1977, Mumbai, Maharashtra) is a Hindi poet, short story author and novelist.  Often regarded as an avant-garde, he was awarded the Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award for poetry in 2007 and Krishna Pratap Award for Fiction in 2014.  He lives in Bhopal, India.  He is active both as a fiction writer and critic.  He has been named one of the 'Ten Best Writers' of India by esteemed English daily The Indian Express.  He is one of the most widely read contemporary Hindi poet.  His poems have been translated into seventeen languages worldwide.
Answer: 1919