JRD Tata, an Indian businessman, died in 1993 at the age of 89.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (July 29, 1904 – November 29, 1993) was an Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur, and Tata Group chairman. His mother was India's first woman to drive a vehicle, and he became the country's first certified pilot in 1929. Tata died of a renal illness on November 29, 1993, in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 89. "Comme c'est doux de mourir," he stated a few days before his death. The Indian Parliament was adjourned in his honour after his death, an honour seldom bestowed on non-members of parliament. He was laid to rest in Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery. In a survey conducted by Outlook magazine in 2012, Tata was named the si
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