SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Udham Singh

1899 - 1940

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Udham Singh (born Sher Singh; 26 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was an Indian revolutionary belonging to Ghadar Party and HSRA, best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of the Punjab in India, on 13 March 1940. The assassination was done in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, for which O'Dwyer was responsible and of which Singh himself was a survivor. Singh was subsequently tried and convicted of murder and hanged in July 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Udham Singh has received more than 5,844,130 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Udham Singh is the 369th most popular social activist (up from 376th in 2019), the 429th most popular biography from India (up from 436th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Udham Singh ranks 369 out of 840. Before him are Karl Ludwig Sand, Vasily Ignatenko, Petro Grigorenko, Pattimura, Clara Barton, and Hannie Schaft. After him are Frank País, Ram Manohar Lohia, Lucretia Mott, Gulnara Karimova, Katarina Taikon, and Maria Nikiforova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Udham Singh ranks 157. Before him are Joseph Guillemot, Richard Hartshorne, Li Lisan, C. S. Forester, Harold Abrahams, and Robert Casadesus. After him are Gerhard von Schwerin, Josep Tarradellas, Carlo Rosselli, Jeralean Talley, Aleksander Klumberg, and Rudolf Svensson. Among people deceased in 1940, Udham Singh ranks 101. Before him are Wehib Pasha, Marcel Granet, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Janusz Kusociński, Alfred Fowler, and Mikhail Koshkin. After him are Maciej Rataj, Mikhail Koltsov, Karimeh Abbud, Karl Muck, Silvestre Revueltas, and Georgios Tsitas.

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In India

Among people born in India, Udham Singh ranks 429 out of 1,861. Before him are Satya Nadella (1967), Hemu (1501), Guru Har Rai (1630), Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), and M. F. Husain (1915). After him are Jacques Lauriston (1768), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), B. V. Doshi (1927), and Phoolan Devi (1963).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Udham Singh ranks 25. Before him are Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Baba Amte (1914), M. N. Roy (1887), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), and Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858). After him are Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Kamala Nehru (1899), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), and Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928).

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