Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion, was born in 1621.
Guru Tegh Bahadur (April 1, 1621 – November 11, 1675) was the ninth of ten Gurus who created the Sikh religion and the Sikh leader from 1665 until his execution in 1675. He was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh guru, and was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621. He was a skilled spiritual scholar and poet whose 115 songs are included in Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the basic book of Sikhism. Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor, had Guru Tegh Bahadur killed in Delhi, India. Sikh sacred sites in Delhi, Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib and Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib, mark the locations of execution and cremation.
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