A.P.J .Abdul Kalam was an Indian Aerospace  scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.



    While delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong , Kalam collapsed and died from an  apparent cardiac arrest on 27 July 2015

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