1984
Baba Thara Singh
Fell in the defence of the Harmandir Sahib and the Akal Takht, Amritsar, June 1984.
Born in 1924 in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, he took amrit as a young man and joined the Damdami Taksal, managing sewa and administration at its headquarters at Chowk Mehta.
During the attack he commanded the positions at the Langar Hall and the Ramgarhia Bunga. Around midday on 6 June, aged about sixty, he came out of his bunker with other elder Singhs and was shot near the Dukh Bhanjani Beri.
Biography summarised from 1984tribute.com, based on information from families.
In the first week of June 1984 the Indian Army surrounded and attacked the Harmandir Sahib complex in Amritsar while it was full of pilgrims gathered for the martyrdom day of Guru Arjan. A few hundred Singhs under Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Bhai Amrik Singh and General Shabeg Singh held the Akal Takht and the buildings around the sarovar against infantry, commandos and finally tanks.
The fighting ended on the morning of 6–7 June. The Akal Takht was left in ruins and the Sikh Reference Library burned. The Panth remembers those who fell in its defence as shaheeds, and their names are read at the Akal Takht each June.