MILITARY PERSONNEL

Bipin Rawat

1958 - 2021

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General Bipin Rawat (16 March 1958 – 8 December 2021) was an Indian military officer who was a four-star general of the Indian Army. He served as the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Indian Armed Forces from January 2020 until his death in a helicopter crash in December 2021. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bipin Rawat has received more than 7,367,841 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Bipin Rawat is the 1,924th most popular military personnel (down from 1,411th in 2019), the 782nd most popular biography from India (down from 460th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Bipin Rawat ranks 1,924 out of 2,058. Before him are Joseph Dunford, James Wilkinson, Hemedti, Suheil al-Hassan, Albert Agarunov, and William Hood Simpson. After him are John Schofield, Gail Halvorsen, Arnold Jackson, Thomas C. Hart, George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, and Oleg Mityaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Bipin Rawat ranks 394. Before him are Korado Korlević, Michael Flynn, Dmitry Kozak, Habib Koité, Dietmar Bartsch, and Kazuaki Nagasawa. After him are Eric Douglas, Mark Lester, Maurice LaMarche, Lex Luger, John Metgod, and Julio Alberto Moreno. Among people deceased in 2021, Bipin Rawat ranks 531. Before him are Bonfoh Abass, Wahiduddin Khan, Roy A. Tucker, Leslie Bricusse, Carl von Essen, and Gabriel Núñez. After him are Millie Hughes-Fulford, Shawn Rhoden, Vladimir Kiselyov, Virgil Abloh, Dorothy Manley, and Julie Strain.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bipin Rawat ranks 782 out of 1,861. Before him are Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), Shriram Lagoo (1927), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Kashibai (1703), Yashwant Sinha (1937), and Manohar Joshi (1937). After him are Bano Qudsia (1928), Raj Babbar (1952), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896), Mira Nair (1957), and Persis Khambatta (1948).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Bipin Rawat ranks 13. Before him are Sam Manekshaw (1914), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), John Frost (1912), Somnath Sharma (1923), William Birdwood (1865), and Bakht Khan (1797). After him are John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), Kenneth Anderson (1891), Vikram Batra (1974), Padma Bandopadhyay (1944), Sanjay Kumar (1976), and Abhinandan Varthaman (1983).

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