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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 2,056th 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 2,056 out of 2,058. Before him are Mubariz Ibrahimov, Max Lemke, Princess Salma bint Abdullah, Murder of Gurgen Margaryan, Harry B. Liversedge, and Michael A. Monsoor. After him are Alexey Milchakov, Valeriy Chybineyev, Vladlen Tatarsky, Michael P. Murphy, Pat Tillman, and Dmytro Kotsiubailo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Vikram Batra ranks 920. Before him are Valerie Niehaus, Oleg Saitov, Alberto Marcos Rey, Mohammed Al-Modiahki, Yoshika Matsubara, and Liao Fan. After him are Johnny Trí Nguyễn, Dennis Lawrence, Ricardo Rodríguez, Meredith Eaton, James Angulo, and Adam Wakeman. 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 are Manoj Kumar Pandey, and 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), Shefali Jariwala (1982), Suniti Solomon (1938), Emraan Hashmi (1979), Rajesh Roshan (1955), and Nitu Chandra (1984).

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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), Manoj Kumar Pandey (1975), Sanjay Kumar (1976), Mohit Sharma (1978), Abhinandan Varthaman (1983), and Gunjan Saxena (null).

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