August 21, 2016
MUMBAI, India — Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual leader who engineered the global expansion of a socially conservative Hindu sect that grew to be the largest in the United States, died on Aug. 13 in Sarangpur, a village in the state of Gujarat in western India. He was 94.
Source: Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Whose Hindu Sect Became Largest in U.S., Dies at 94 - The New York Times