The longest lived prime minister was Morarji Desai, who lived to the age of 99 years, 41 days. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the second longest-lived prime minister, who lived to the age of 93 years, 234 days, 5 years and 172 days short of Desai. The oldest living prime minister Manmohan Singh will tie Vajpayee if he lives to 1 June 2026, and tie Desai if he lives to 6 November 2031. The shortest lived prime minister was Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated at the age of 46 years, 274 days. Lal Bahadur Shastri is the only prime minister to die abroad, when he died in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbek SSR in 1966.