Born on December 14, 1918, and died on August 20, 2014, at the age of 95.

Referred to as "the Michelangelo of Yoga" and "the king of yogis" and named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. BKS Iyengar is universally recognized as one of the most important yoga teachers in the world. In the 1970s, he brought yoga to the West with his groundbreaking teaching and was thus an important part of the beginning of yoga's explosive growth in the West. 

His groundbreaking book Light on Yoga, called "The Bible of Yoga,” has been continually in print since 1966 and is the source for generations of yoga students. 
By bridging hatha yoga, which is often considered merely a physical form, and other types of yoga that focus on intellect, devotion, and meditation, BKS Iyengar has emphasized the spiritual nature of yoga to the delight of hundreds of thousands of yoga practitioners around the world.