Aditya Biria, India's first worldwide industrialist, dies of cancer at the age of 51 in 1995.

Aditya Birla was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993, shifting the group's responsibilities to his wife and son. He was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, for treatment and died on October 1, 1995, at the age of 51, leaving the whole Birla Empire in the hands of his young son Kumar Mangalam.
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