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Vikram Batra

1974 - 1999

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Captain Vikram Batra PVC (9 September 1974 – 7 July 1999) was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops at Point 4875 in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Vikram Batra is the 2,095th most popular military personnel (down from 2,029th in 2024), the 1,365th most popular biography from India (down from 1,060th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vikram Batra ranks 2,095 out of 2,058. Before him are John W. Raymond, Max Lemke, Princess Salma bint Abdullah, Murder of Gurgen Margaryan, Harry B. Liversedge, and Michael A. Monsoor. After him are Asim Munir, Alexey Milchakov, Valeriy Chybineyev, Vladlen Tatarsky, Igor Osipov, and Michael P. Murphy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Vikram Batra ranks 926. Before him are Valerie Niehaus, Oleg Saitov, Alberto Marcos Rey, Mohammed Al-Modiahki, Yoshika Matsubara, and Liao Fan. After him are Johnny Trí Nguyễn, Dennis Lawrence, Ricardo Rodríguez, Meredith Eaton, James Angulo, and Adam Wakeman. Among people deceased in 1999, Vikram Batra ranks 338. Before him are Gonzalo Rodríguez, John Chafee, Peggy Cass, Jill Dando, Greg Moore, and Menno Oosting. After him are Ibragim Gasanbekov, David Strickland, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Belli Lalitha, and Gian-Carlo Rota.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vikram Batra ranks 1,365 out of 1,861. Before him are Tinnu Anand (1945), Diana Hayden (1973), Ramachandra Guha (1958), Gauri Lankesh (1962), Abhinav Bindra (1982), and Mamta Chandrakar (1958). After him are Muzaffar Ali (1944), Shefali Jariwala (1982), Suniti Solomon (1938), Rahibai Soma Popere (1964), Emraan Hashmi (1979), and Rajesh Roshan (1955).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Vikram Batra ranks 17. Before him are Padma Bandopadhyay (1944), Somnath Sharma (1923), Sam Manekshaw (1914), Bakht Khan (1797), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), and Bipin Rawat (1958). After him are Avani Chaturvedi (1993), Manoj Kumar Pandey (1975), Sanjay Kumar (1976), Mohit Sharma (1978), Abhinandan Varthaman (1983), and Gunjan Saxena (null).

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