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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 politician who founded the 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 7,139,457 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Bal Thackeray is the 11,109th most popular politician (down from 10,319th in 2019), the 391st most popular biography from India (down from 344th in 2019) and the 130th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bal Thackeray ranks 11,109 out of 15,577. Before him are Vadim Krasnoselsky, Haakon the Young, Ramon Magsaysay, Miroslav of Croatia, Margaret Bondfield, and Catherine Carey. After him are Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Aeropus I of Macedon, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Sergei Stanishev, and Pōmare II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Bal Thackeray ranks 216. Before him are Dennis W. Sciama, Rudi Gutendorf, André Delvaux, Fernando J. Corbató, Johanna Quandt, and Julie Adams. After him are Julio Pérez, Richard Yates, Bhupen Hazarika, Carl Adam Petri, William Porter, and Christine Jorgensen. Among people deceased in 2012, Bal Thackeray ranks 185. Before him are John Hick, Harry Carey Jr., Sage Stallone, Dawoud Rajiha, Jon Finch, and Michel Duchaussoy. After him are Mustafa Ould Salek, Pierre Mondy, Claude Miller, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Txillardegi, and Dom Mintoff.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bal Thackeray ranks 391 out of 1,493. Before him are Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Rishi Kapoor (1952), Hemu (1501), M. F. Husain (1915), Kalyan Singh (1932), and Durgabai Deshmukh (1909). After him are Malik Kafur (1250), Shibli Nomani (1857), Ivan Dias (1936), Orde Wingate (1903), Man Singh I (1550), and Anish Kapoor (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Bal Thackeray ranks 130. Before him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), Hemu (1501), Kalyan Singh (1932), and Durgabai Deshmukh (1909). After him are Malik Kafur (1250), Man Singh I (1550), B. D. Jatti (1912), Balaji Vishwanath (1662), Jaswant Singh (1938), and Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884).

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