Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861, in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the Jorasanko Thakurbari mansion. He lived most of his life in Calcutta and founded Visva-Bharati University in nearby Santiniketan. Dhaka was part of undivided Bengal but not Tagore's birthplace. Midnapur and Siliguri are Bengal cities but not associated with his birth.