Muhammad Yunus born on 28 June 1940 . He was the third child born to a Muslim family in the village of Bathua near the Boxihrat Road in Hathazari , Bangladesh ( Bangladesh was called British India at that time ) . The third of nine children , Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a Muslim family in the village of Bathua , by the Boxirhat Road in Hathazari , Chittagong , then in Bengal Province of British India ( now in Bangladesh ) .