Death
Tendulkar died in Pune on 19 May 2008, battling the effects of myasthenia gravis.
Tendulkar's son Raja and wife Nirmala had died earlier in 2001, his daughter Priya Tendulkar having died the next year (2002) of a heart attack following a long battle with breast cancer.
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