Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India

L. K. Advani

Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva organisation. He was the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving for 6 years and 64 days from 1998 to 2004, until his protége Amit Shah overtook him in 2025. He is also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, as well as the longest serving President of the BJP, the current ruling party of India.

Born

1927

November 8

Died

Living

Era

1920s

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1927 Born

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960 Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
1278 Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.
1291 The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano".
1519 Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.

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The world in 1927

When L. arrived

april 12 Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.[citation needed]
april 12 Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople, and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
april 19 Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
april 23 Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.

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Christiaan Barnard 1922–2001 South African surgeon and academic (died 2001) Des Corcoran 1928–2004 Australian politician, 37th Premier of South Australia (born 1928) Gordon Ramsay 1966– British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality Gottlob Frege 1848–1925 German mathematician and philosopher (born 1848) Joseph James DeAngelo 1945– American serial killer Margaret Mitchell 1900–1949 American journalist and author (born 1900) Matthew Rhys 1974– Welsh actor Mika Kallio 1982– Finnish motorcycle racer Nerva 30–98 Roman emperor (born 35)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Althea Gibson 1927–2003 American tennis player and golfer (died 2003) Antônio Carlos Jobim 1927–1994 Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1927) Barbara Rush 1927–2024 American actress (died 2024) Bud Grant 1927– American football player and coach (died 2023) Carmen Basilio 1927–2012 American boxer and soldier (died 2012) Clive Churchill 1927–1985 Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1927) Eugene Parker 1927– American astrophysicist and academic (died 2022) Ferenc Puskás 1927–2006 Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2006) Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014 Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

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