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Guru Tegh Bahadur

1621 - 1675

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Guru Tegh Bahadur (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਤੇਗ਼ ਬਹਾਦਰ (Gurmukhi); Punjabi pronunciation: [gʊɾuː t̯eːɣ bəɦaːd̯ʊɾᵊ]; 1 April 1621 – 11 November 1675) was the ninth of ten gurus who founded the Sikh religion and was the leader of Sikhs from 1665 until his beheading in 1675. He was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621 and was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh guru. Considered a principled and fearless warrior, he was a learned spiritual scholar and a poet whose 115 hymns are included in the Guru Granth Sahib, which is the main text of Sikhism. Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed on the orders of Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor, in Delhi, India. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guru Tegh Bahadur is the 7,944th most popular politician (down from 5,810th in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from India (down from 194th in 2019) and the 96th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 7,944 out of 19,576. Before him are Karl Gützlaff, Barsbay, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Ivan Šubašić, Emperor Go-Sanjō, and William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Hugo Haase, Nebojša Radmanović, Frederick, Duke of Bavaria, Alexander of Tralles, Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, and Arduin of Ivrea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 7. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine, Louis, Grand Condé, George II Rákóczi, Amakusa Shirō, Thomas Willis, and Petar Zrinski. After him are Allaert van Everdingen, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Isaac van Ostade, and Shi Lang. Among people deceased in 1675, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 11. Before him are James Gregory, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Thomas Willis, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, and Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts. After him are Leopoldo de' Medici, Allaert van Everdingen, Gilles de Roberval, Gaspard Dughet, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, and Michael van Langren.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 286 out of 1,861. Before him are R. D. Burman (1939), Birsa Munda (1875), Suniel Shetty (1961), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), Joseph Coutts (1945), and Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901). After him are John Abraham (1972), Vallabha (1479), Morarji Desai (1896), The Great Gama (1878), Meher Baba (1894), and Chand Bibi (1550).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Guru Tegh Bahadur ranks 96. Before him are Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734), Shahu I (1682), Birsa Munda (1875), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), and Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901). After him are Morarji Desai (1896), Chand Bibi (1550), Afzal-ud-Daulah (1827), Tarabai (1675), Jaswant Singh (1938), and Charan Singh (1902).

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