Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, an Indian diplomat and politician, died in 1990 at the age of 90.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to be selected as the sixth Governor of Maharashtra and the eighth President of the United Nations General Assembly. Her brother Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, her niece Indira Gandhi, the first female Prime Minister of India, and her grand-nephew Rajiv Gandhi, the sixth Prime Minister of India, all came from a notable political family. Mrs. Pandit died on December 1, 1990, in Dehra Dun, a Himalayan foothills town where she had lived for the previous 20 years.
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