RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Guru Gobind Singh

1666 - 1708

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Guru Gobind Singh (Punjabi pronunciation: [gʊɾuː goːbɪn̪d̪ᵊ sɪ́ŋgᵊ]; born Gobind Das; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708) was the tenth and last human Sikh Guru. He was a warrior, poet, and philosopher. In 1675, at the age of nine he was formally installed as the leader of the Sikhs after his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed by Emperor Aurangzeb. His father was the ninth Sikh Guru. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guru Gobind Singh is the 514th most popular religious figure (up from 567th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from India (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Guru Gobind Singh is most famous for founding the Sikh religion and being the last human guru.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 514 out of 3,187. Before him are Báb, Genevieve, Pope Marcellinus, Pope Boniface II, Pope Leo V, and Haggai. After him are Vincent Ferrer, Pope John XIII, Pope Anastasius II, Margaret Mary Alacoque, Kashyapa, and James, son of Alphaeus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1666, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 3. Before him are Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, and Ivan V of Russia. After him are Sophia Dorothea of Celle, Maria Sophia of Neuburg, Stephen Gray, Marie Anne de Bourbon, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, Antonio Maria Valsalva, and Marie Thérèse de Bourbon. Among people deceased in 1708, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 1. After him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Prince George of Denmark, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Seki Takakazu, Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, and Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 70 out of 1,861. Before him are Ram Narayan (1927), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Aurangzeb (1618), Ghalib (1797), Bhāskara II (1114), and Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542). After him are Akbar II (1760), Amartya Sen (1933), Jim Corbett (1875), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), and Gerald Durrell (1925).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Guru Gobind Singh ranks 5. Before him are Mahavira (-599), Ānanda (-600), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), and Sathya Sai Baba (1926). After him are Maudgalyayana (-568), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), and Radha (null).

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