Sukhdev Thapar, an Indian freedom warrior, was born in 1907.
Sukhdev Thapar (15 May 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary who worked with his best friends and partners Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru to free India from the British Raj. He was a senior member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and took part in several actions with Singh and Rajguru before being hanged by the British government on March 23, 1931, at the age of 23.
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