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Born February 7, 1500 • Lisbon • Portugal
Died June 6, 1548 (aged 48) • Goa • India
Title / Office viceroy (1548-1548), India
Francisco de Almeida
viceroy of India
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Portuguese explorer
Louis Mountbatten.
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten
British statesman
Sanjay Gandhi
Indian politician
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian leader
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
prime minister of India
Amit Shah
Amit Shah
Indian politician
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon
British foreign secretary
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Pakistani governor-general
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi
prime minister of India
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
Parkash Singh Badal
Parkash Singh Badal
Indian politician
Statue of Udham Singh
Udham Singh
Indian revolutionary
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
prime minister of India
Vallabhbhai Patel
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian statesman
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
prime minister of United Kingdom