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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

1924 - 2018

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician and poet who was Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. He was the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full term in the office. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Atal Bihari Vajpayee has received more than 17,007,936 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the 1,649th most popular politician (up from 2,866th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from India (up from 105th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Indian Politician.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a prime minister of India for six years. He is most famous for his leadership in the Pokhran nuclear test in 1998, which was the first nuclear test conducted by a country outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 1,649 out of 19,576. Before him are Robert, Count of Clermont, Charles II of Naples, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Cemal Gürsel, Publius Clodius Pulcher, and Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. After him are Euric, Francis, Duke of Guise, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Ananda Mahidol, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 19. Before him are Ezer Weizman, Jacques Le Goff, Benoit Mandelbrot, Lauren Bacall, Sergei Parajanov, and Paul Feyerabend. After him are Maurice Jarre, Benny Hill, Georges Charpak, Jovanka Broz, Ramiz Alia, and Willard Boyle. Among people deceased in 2018, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 19. Before him are Isao Takahata, John McCain, Philip Roth, Stephen Hillenburg, France Gall, and Paul Bocuse. After him are Peter Grünberg, Hubert de Givenchy, Billy Graham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Burt Reynolds, and Riccardo Giacconi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 57 out of 1,861. Before him are Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), C. V. Raman (1888), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Harsha (590), and Vyasa (-390). After him are Zubin Mehta (1936), Radha (null), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Premchand (1880), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), and Guru Gobind Singh (1666).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranks 19. Before him are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Tipu Sultan (1750), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), and Harsha (590). After him are Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Maharana Pratap (1540), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), and Rajendra Prasad (1884).

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