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Bal Thackeray

1926 - 2012

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Bal Keshav Thackeray (Marathi pronunciation: [baːɭ̆ keːʃəʋ ʈʰaːk(ə)ɾeː]; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012), also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian cartoonist and politician who founded the original Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra. Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English-language daily, The Free Press Journal in Bombay, but he left the paper in 1960 to form his own political weekly, Marmik. His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra (United Maharashtra) movement, which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state for Marathi speakers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bal Thackeray has received more than 7,469,184 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Bal Thackeray is the 7,644th most popular politician (up from 11,078th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from India (up from 388th in 2019) and the 85th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bal Thackeray ranks 7,644 out of 19,576. Before him are André Kolingba, Xin Zhui, Zhong Yao, Fan Ye, Ebrahim Afshar, and Edmund Heines. After him are Infanta Maria of Guimarães, Adib Shishakli, Ilija Garašanin, Luis Somoza Debayle, Marcus Antonius Creticus, and Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Bal Thackeray ranks 135. Before him are Nina Kulagina, Per Wahlöö, Thorbjörn Fälldin, Gordon Scott, Amadeo Carrizo, and Erich Juskowiak. After him are Sergio Pininfarina, Karel Reisz, Jérôme Lejeune, Choi Eun-hee, Ed McBain, and Jürgen Moltmann. Among people deceased in 2012, Bal Thackeray ranks 108. Before him are Carlo Maria Martini, Scott McKenzie, Gitta Sereny, Charles Durning, Félix Miélli Venerando, and Svetozar Gligorić. After him are Sergio Pininfarina, Kaneto Shindo, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Dorothea Tanning, and Wilhelm Brasse.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bal Thackeray ranks 252 out of 1,861. Before him are Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Tansen (1493), Motilal Nehru (1861), Jayalalithaa (1948), and Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913). After him are Chandrakirti (600), Sanghamitta (-281), Farrukhsiyar (1685), Eknath (1533), Velu Nachiyar (1730), and Kalpana Chawla (1961).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Bal Thackeray ranks 85. Before him are Shantanu (null), Mir Jafar (1691), Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), Motilal Nehru (1861), Jayalalithaa (1948), and Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913). After him are Sanghamitta (-281), Farrukhsiyar (1685), Velu Nachiyar (1730), Akbar II (1760), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), and C. N. Annadurai (1909).

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