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Vikram Batra

1974 - 1999

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Captain Vikram Batra PVC (9 September 1974 – 7 July 1999) was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops at Point 4875 in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vikram Batra is the 2,046th most popular military personnel (down from 2,029th in 2019), the 1,354th most popular biography from India (down from 1,060th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vikram Batra ranks 2,046 out of 2,058. Before him are Ricardo Sanchez, CC Sabathia, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Max Lemke, Princess Salma bint Abdullah, and Harry B. Liversedge. After him are Valeriy Chybineyev, Vladlen Tatarsky, Pat Tillman, Avani Chaturvedi, Vladimir Zhoga, and Matthew Pottinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Vikram Batra ranks 845. Before him are Toni Brunner, Oleg Saitov, Alberto Marcos Rey, Mohammed Al-Modiahki, Yoshika Matsubara, and Liao Fan. After him are Dennis Lawrence, Ricardo Rodríguez, James Angulo, Amy Fisher, Xiong Ni, and Lark Voorhies. Among people deceased in 1999, Vikram Batra ranks 334. Before him are Diane Foster, Gonzalo Rodríguez, John Chafee, Peggy Cass, Jill Dando, and Greg Moore. After him is Gian-Carlo Rota.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vikram Batra ranks 1,354 out of 1,861. Before him are Tinnu Anand (1945), Diana Hayden (1973), Ramachandra Guha (1958), Gauri Lankesh (1962), Abhinav Bindra (1982), and Mamta Chandrakar (1958). After him are Muzaffar Ali (1944), Suniti Solomon (1938), Emraan Hashmi (1979), Rajesh Roshan (1955), Nitu Chandra (1984), and Akshaye Khanna (1975).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Vikram Batra ranks 17. Before him are Padma Bandopadhyay (1944), Somnath Sharma (1923), Sam Manekshaw (1914), Bakht Khan (1797), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), and Bipin Rawat (1958). After him are Avani Chaturvedi (1993), Sanjay Kumar (1976), Abhinandan Varthaman (1983), and Noah Nirmal Tom (1994).

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