Bal Keshav Thackeray was born on January 23, 1926, he was commonly known as Bal Thackeray. He founded right-wing, Marathi ethnocentric party Shiv Sena in 1966, and passed away on November 17, 2012.

He started off as a cartoonist for the Mumbai-based Free Press Journal before becoming one of the most powerful and prominent politicians in the nation.