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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

1924 - 2018

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian poet, writer and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. He was the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full term in the office. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a far-right Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the 2,618th most popular politician (down from 1,649th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from India (down from 57th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Indian Politician.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a prime minister of India for six years. He is most famous for his leadership in the Pokhran nuclear test in 1998, which was the first nuclear test conducted by a country outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

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Among politicians, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 2,618 out of 19,576. Before him are Jeroboam II, Louis, Prince of Condé, Phalaris, Yazid II, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, and Vasily I of Moscow. After him are Louise of Savoy, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Jean Sylvain Bailly, William IV, Prince of Orange, Emperor Nakamikado, and Alp-Tegin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 37. Before him are Mário Soares, Kōbō Abe, J. D. Tippit, Sidney Lumet, Ezer Weizman, and Benny Hill. After him are Amílcar Cabral, Lee Marvin, Willard Boyle, Antony Hewish, Luigi Nono, and Henry Mancini. Among people deceased in 2018, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 39. Before him are Billy Graham, Paul D. Boyer, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Roy J. Glauber, Hubert de Givenchy, and Arvid Carlsson. After him are Thomas A. Steitz, John Gavin, Aaron Klug, Burt Reynolds, Sondra Locke, and Arto Paasilinna.

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In India

Among people born in India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 105 out of 1,861. Before him are Ramana Maharshi (1879), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Harsha (590), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Premchand (1880), and Janaki Ammal (1897). After him are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Satyajit Ray (1921), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), C. R. Rao (1920), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 39. Before him are Jahanara Begum (1614), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), B. D. Jatti (1912), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), Jahangir (1569), and Harsha (590). After him are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Pervez Musharraf (1943), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), and Tipu Sultan (1750).

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