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Bhagat Singh

1907 - 1931

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Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and, after his execution at age 23, a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bhagat Singh is the 45th most popular social activist (up from 69th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary who fought for India's independence from the British Empire. He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and is most famous for his involvement in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and the assassination of British police officer John Saunders.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bhagat Singh ranks 45 out of 840. Before him are Omar Mukhtar, Simon Wiesenthal, Sadako Sasaki, Lady Godiva, Simon bar Kokhba, and Olympe de Gouges. After him are Alfred Hermann Fried, Thomas Müntzer, Sophie Scholl, Emma Goldman, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Sakamoto Ryōma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Bhagat Singh ranks 21. Before him are Maria Branyas, Lee Miller, Baldur von Schirach, Rachel Carson, Laurence Olivier, and Frank Whittle. After him are Yakov Dzhugashvili, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Yang Shangkun, Hideki Yukawa, Daniel Bovet, and Robert A. Heinlein. Among people deceased in 1931, Bhagat Singh ranks 12. Before him are Anna Pavlova, Louise, Princess Royal, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, Arthur Schnitzler, and Lili Elbe. After him are Hermann Müller, Carl Nielsen, Joseph Joffre, Theo van Doesburg, Arnold Bennett, and Geli Raubal.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Bhagat Singh ranks 16 out of 217. Before him are Chanakya (-375), I. K. Gujral (1919), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Pran (1920), Bacha Khan (1890), and Shah Jahan (1592). After him are Arif Alvi (1949), Vasubandhu (400), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Asanga (300), and Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Pakistan

Among social activists born in Pakistan, Bhagat Singh ranks 2. Before him are Bacha Khan (1890). After him are Malala Yousafzai (1997), Guru Ram Das (1534), Asma Jahangir (1952), Iqbal Masih (1983), Mukhtar Mai (1972), and Jalila Haider (1988).

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