K. Achuthan has died at age 76
K. Achuthan, an Indian politician and Kerala MLA, died on September 7, 2026, aged 76. He represented the Chittur constituency and was a member of the Indian National Congress. Achuthan…
Famous Dead People from India
Over 4,000 obituaries for famous people from India who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
R. Sarath dies at 65
R. Sarath, an Indian film director and screenwriter known for Sayahnam, The Desire and Buddhanum Chaplinum Chirikkunnu, died on September 7, 2026, aged 65. Based in Kerala’s Malayalam film industry,…
Sudivya Kumar passed away at age 56
Sudivya Kumar, an Indian politician and member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, died on September 6, 2026, aged 56, after a heart attack. A member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,…
Joe Morgan died at age 95
Joe Morgan, an American baseball player and manager, died on September 5, 2026, at age 95. A native of Walpole, Massachusetts, Morgan was a graduate of Walpole High School and…
S. R. Janakiraman death at age 98
S. R. Janakiraman, an Indian Carnatic vocalist and musicologist, died on September 4, 2026, aged 98. Born S. Rangasamy Janakiraman on July 12, 1928, he was known for a career…
Harish Chandra Mishra death at age 67
Harish Chandra Mishra, the Indian judge and Lokayukta of Delhi, died on September 3, 2026, aged 67. He served as Lokayukta of Delhi from 2022 and was a former judge…
Anil Sharma has died at age 63
Anil Sharma, an Indian politician and Uttar Pradesh MLA, died on September 2, 2026, at the age of 63. He represented the Shikarpur विधानसभा constituency in Bulandshahr district and served…
Mamtaz Sanghamita dead at age 80
Mamtaz Sanghamita, an Indian politician and gynaecologist who served as a member of parliament from Bardhaman-Durgapur in the 16th Lok Sabha, died on August 27, 2026, aged 80. She entered…
Death of T. K. D. Muzhappilangad at age 80
T. K. D. Muzhappilangad, an Indian writer, died on August 27, 2026, aged 80, after injuries sustained in a traffic collision. Born T.K. Damodaran in Muzhappilangad, a coastal village in…
G. V. Narayana Rao dies at age 72
G. V. Narayana Rao, the Indian actor and film producer known for Anthuleni Katha, Oka Oori Katha and Devanthakudu, died on August 26, 2026, aged 72. A Telugu performer whose…
Kuku Kohli died at age 77
Kuku Kohli, the Indian film director behind Phool Aur Kaante, Suhaag and Kohraam, died on August 25, 2026, at age 77 after a heart attack. Born Avtar Kohli on June…
Jose Rod dead at age 63
Jose Rod, the Indian tiatr singer known professionally as a singer and composer in khell tiatr and tiatr productions, died on August 25, 2026, aged 63. Born Joseph Constancio Rodrigues…
Yasmin Shaikh dies at age 101
Yasmin Shaikh, an Indian writer and Marathi language grammarian, died on August 24, 2026, aged 101. She wrote on Marathi language issues in magazines and newspapers and was known for…
Giri Dandasena, died aged 76
Giri Dandasena, an Indian writer in the Odia language, died on August 24, 2026, aged 76. A writer, columnist and historian from Odisha, he produced fiction and works on the…
Pranab Patnaik death at age 88
Pranab Patnaik, an Indian playback singer and one of the pioneering voices of Odia cinema, died on August 21, 2026, aged 88. Born on January 20, 1938, in Buxi Bazaar,…
Death of Sowcar Janaki at age 94
Sowcar Janaki, the Indian actress known for films including Iru Kodugal, Puthiya Paravai and Kaviya Thalaivi, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. Born Sankaramanchi Janaki on December 12, 1931,…
Death of Sajjan Kumar at age 79
Sajjan Kumar, an Indian politician convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in inciting and abetting mobs during the 1984 anti-Sikh genocide, died on August 20, 2026, aged…
Bishnu S. Atal passes away at age 93
Bishnu S. Atal, an Indian physicist and engineer whose work helped shape modern speech coding, died on August 19, 2026, aged 93. Born in India in 1933, he studied at…
B. C. Nagesh dies at 67
B. C. Nagesh, an Indian politician and Karnataka MLA, died on August 18, 2026, aged 67. Also known as Bellur Chandrashekharaiah Nagesh and B C Nagesh, he represented Tiptur in…
Asish Banerjee passes away at age 74
Asish Banerjee, an Indian politician and former associate professor at Rampurhat College, died on August 16, 2026, aged 74. He represented the Trinamool Congress and served as the 13th deputy…
Raja Sen death at age 70
Raja Sen, the Indian film director known for Damu and Desh, died on August 16, 2026, aged 70. Born in Kolkata on November 10, 1955, he built a career as…
Obituary: Tommy John, dead at age 83
Tommy John, the American baseball player known for his long major league career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox, died on August 15, 2026,…
Sumit Sarkar has died at age 87
Sumit Sarkar, the Indian historian of modern India, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. A Marxist historian and writer, he was among the leading scholars of modern Indian history…
M. P. Parameswaran passes away at age 91
M. P. Parameswaran, the Indian physicist, nuclear engineer and educationist who played an important role in the Indian nuclear programme, died on August 11, 2026, aged 91. Born in Kiralur…
Krishneswara Rao dead, Krishneswara Rao, Indian actor and writer
Krishneswara Rao, an Indian actor and writer known for his work in Telugu films and stage theatre, died on August 11, 2026. Born in Guntur district, he was credited as…
Gurjeet Singh Toot dies at 45
Gurjeet Singh Toot, an Indian Punjabi kabaddi player who died on August 11, 2026, aged 45, died from complications related to drug addiction. An international circle kabaddi raider, he represented…
Death of Balendu Prakash at age 67
Balendu Prakash, an Indian Ayurveda practitioner and former physician to the President of India, died on August 7, 2026, aged 67. Known as Vaidya Balendu Prakash, he was born on…
Uma Shankar Singh dead at age 55
Uma Shankar Singh, an Indian politician and Uttar Pradesh MLA, died on August 5, 2026, aged 55. Known also as Thakur Umashankar Singh, he represented the Rasara constituency in Ballia…
Death of Pepe Habichuela at age 82
Pepe Habichuela, the Spanish flamenco guitarist known as José Antonio Carmona Carmona, died on August 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Granada, he came from a flamenco family whose line…
Pradeep Rawat dead at age 74
Pradeep Rawat, the Indian actor known for villainous roles in films such as Sye and Naayak, died on August 4, 2026, aged 74. Born in Jabalpur on January 21, 1952,…
D. Y. Patil dies at 90
D. Y. Patil, the Indian politician who served as governor of Tripura, Bihar and West Bengal, died on August 4, 2026, aged 90. Born Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil on October 22,…
Paras Chandra Jain dies at age 77
Paras Chandra Jain, an Indian politician and former Madhya Pradesh legislator, died on August 3, 2026, aged 77. A Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Ujjain, he represented the Ujjain North…
Manmohan Singh Liberhan passes away at age 88
Manmohan Singh Liberhan, an Indian judge and justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, died on August 2, 2026, aged 88. A retired chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High…
Death of Thottam Rajasekharan at age 95
Thottam Rajasekharan, an Indian writer, died on August 1, 2026, aged 95. Born in Thiruvananthapuram on September 24, 1930, he was known as a Malayalam writer and was active from…
Kailash Chandra Pant died at age 90
Kailash Chandra Pant, an Indian writer and journalist who promoted the Hindi language, died on July 31, 2026, aged 90. He served as general secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Rashtrabhasha…
Vishwa Nath Sharma, died aged 96
Vishwa Nath Sharma, the Indian military officer who served as chief of the army staff from 1988 to 1990, died on July 31, 2026, aged 96. Known as General V…
K. Jamuna Rani dies at age 88
K. Jamuna Rani, the Indian playback singer known for her work in films including Valayapathi, Gulebakavali and Seda Sulang, died on July 30, 2026, aged 88. Born on May 17,…
Suneil Anand passed away at age 70
Suneil Anand, an Indian actor and film director, died on July 28, 2026, at age 70. Best known for his work in films including Anand Aur Anand and Main Tere…
Pavala Syamala obituary: died at age 75
Pavala Syamala, an actress from Andhra Pradesh, died on July 28, 2026, aged 75. An Indian performer, she built a career in Telugu cinema and was known for supporting roles…
Obituary: Susanta Singh, dead at age 53
Susanta Singh, an Indian politician and Odisha MLA since 2014, died on July 27, 2026, at the age of 53. Born on March 17, 1973, he was a politician from…
Hira Singh Bisht death at age 85
Hira Singh Bisht, an Indian politician and former Uttarakhand MLA, died on July 26, 2026, after a heart attack. Born on November 4, 1940, in Pauri Garhwal district, he served…
Ian McDonald has died at age 93
Ian McDonald, the Trinidadian-born Guyanese poet and writer whose only novel, The Humming-Bird Tree, became a Caribbean classic, died on July 24, 2026. Born in Saint Augustine, Trinidad, on April…
Ossie Blanco obituary: died at age 80
Ossie Blanco, a Venezuelan baseball player who appeared in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians, died on July 23, 2026, aged 80. Born Oswaldo Carlos…
K. Ali Kutty Musliyar passed away at age 81
K. Ali Kutty Musliyar, an Indian Islamic scholar, died on July 23, 2026. Born on February 23, 1945, in Thirurkad in what is now Kerala’s Malappuram district, he became a…
Alambadi obituary: died at age 90
Alambadi, an Indian politician and Samajwadi Party leader who served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, died on July 22, 2026, at the age of 90. Also…
Vibert Cornwall obituary: died at age 87
Vibert Cornwall, the Vincentian jazz singer known professionally as Ray King, died on July 20, 2026. Born Vibert Edmund Cornwall in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in October 1938, he…
Gregory Karotemprel obituary: died at age 93
Gregory Karotemprel, an Indian East Syriac Catholic bishop and bishop emeritus of Rajkot, died on July 19, 2026, at the age of 93. Known in church life as Mar Gregory…
Jennifer Monserrate has died at age 56
Jennifer Monserrate, an Indian politician and former Goa MLA, died on July 19, 2026. Born on March 24, 1970, she served as a three-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly,…
Chennamma Deve Gowda has died at age 89
Chennamma Deve Gowda, an Indian political figure and the spouse of former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda, died on July 18, 2026. She was 89. Widely known as the…
Obituary: Moozhikkal Pankajakshi, dead at age 90
Moozhikkal Pankajakshi, an Indian Nokkuvidya pavakali performer, died on July 15, 2026, at age 90. A noted artist of Nokkuvidya paava kali, a form of puppetry, she was born on…
Mudragada Padmanabham dead at age 73
Mudragada Padmanabham, an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament and Andhra Pradesh MLA, died on July 14, 2026, aged 73. He was known for representing Kakinada in Parliament and…
Mudragada Padmanabha Reddy dies at 73
Mudragada Padmanabha Reddy, an Indian politician, died on July 14, 2026. He was known as Mudragada Padmanabham and was a former Member of Parliament from Kakinada as well as a…
Sheikh Mustafa Kamal obituary: died at age 83
Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, an Indian politician and former Jammu and Kashmir MLA, died on July 14, 2026. He was a leader of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Party and…
Death of Ramachandra Gowda at age 87
Ramachandra Gowda, an Indian politician and long-serving Karnataka Legislative Council member, died on July 14, 2026. Born on December 13, 1938, in Thippur in Kunigal taluk of Tumkur district, he…
Death of Poomani at age 79
Poomani, the Indian novelist and short story writer best known for Agnaadi, died on July 12, 2026. Born in 1947 as Manickavasagamm in Andipatti, near Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu, he…
Obituary: Gita Upadhyay, dead at age 87
Gita Upadhyay, an Indian writer and translator from Assam, died on July 12, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on February 14, 1939, in Gangmouthan in what is now…
Kent E. Carpenter has died at age 73
Kent E. Carpenter, an American marine biologist and professor of biological sciences at Old Dominion University, died on July 12, 2026. He was a researcher in marine biology and ichthyology…
Syed Yasin, died aged 69
Syed Yasin died on July 12, 2026. He was an Indian politician and social worker who served as a Karnataka MLA from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2008 to…
H. Hanumanthappa death at age 94
H. Hanumanthappa, an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, died on July 12, 2026. He represented Karnataka in India’s upper house of Parliament as a…
Death of S. Janaki at age 88
S. Janaki, the Indian playback singer whose career began in 1957, died on July 11, 2026, at the age of 88. Born Sistla Sreeramamurthy Janaki on April 23, 1938, in…
Chezhiyan dead at age 57
Chezhiyan died on July 10, 2026. He was an Indian cinematographer. Tags Other, 10 July 2026, Cancer, Chezhiyan, India, July 10, July 2026
Kommidi Narasimha Reddy has died at age 82
Kommidi Narasimha Reddy died on July 7, 2026. He was an Indian politician. Tags Politicians, 07 July 2026, India, Kommidi, Reddy, Virgo, July 2026, July 7
Mohansinh Chhotubhai Rathava has died at age 82
Mohansinh Chhotubhai Rathava died on July 4, 2026. He was an Indian politician. Tags Politicians, 04 July 2026, Aries, India, Mohansinh, Rathava, July 2026, July 4
Yasmin has died at age 90
Yasmin, an Indian-born Pakistani actress, died on July 1, 2026. Tags Actors, 01 July 2026, India, Pakistan, Taurus, Yasmin, July 1, July 2026
P. A. Madhavan, died aged 80
P. A. Madhavan, an Indian politician and Kerala MLA from 2011 to 2016, died on June 30, 2026, of complications from a traffic collision. He served in the Kerala Legislative…
Vijaya Mehta, died aged 91
Vijaya Mehta died on June 30, 2026. She was an Indian actress and director whose work also included film, television and stage acting, as well as screenwriting. Born in Vadodara…
Puviarasu dead at age 96
Puviarasu, an Indian poet and translator, died on June 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Born in 1930 in a village near Udumalpet, he was born S. Jagannathan and…
Obituary: Madan Mohan Lakhera, dead at age 88
Madan Mohan Lakhera, an Indian army lieutenant general and former governor of Mizoram, died on June 29, 2026, at the age of 88. Known also as M. M. Lakhera, he…
Salman Nadwi died at age 72
Salman Nadwi, an Indian Islamic scholar and professor, died on June 29, 2026. He was 72. Born in 1954 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, he served as dean of the Faculty…
Shoaib Ahmed dies at age 62
Shoaib Ahmed died on June 28, 2026. He was an Indian software engineer. Tags Other, 28 June 2026, Ahmed, India, Shoaib, Taurus, June 2026, June 28
K. Bhagyaraj has died at age 73
K. Bhagyaraj, the Indian film director and actor known for Andha 7 Naatkal and Mundhanai Mudichu, died on June 27, 2026. He was 73. Bhagyaraj, born Krishnaswamy Bhagyaraj on January…
Charlie Davis passed away at age 82
Charlie Davis, the West Indian cricketer known also as Charles Allan Davis, died on June 25, 2026, aged 82. Born on January 1, 1944, in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad…
Om Malik death at age 59
Om Malik, an Indian-American writer and founder of the technology news site Gigaom, died on June 24, 2026. He was 59. Born Om Prakash Malik in New Delhi on September…
P. Narayana Kurup, died aged 91
P. Narayana Kurup, an Indian poet and literary critic, died on June 20, 2026. He was 91. Born on September 5, 1934, he was a Malayalam-language poet and critic from…
Nirajoy Tripura death at age 86
Nirajoy Tripura, an Indian politician and former Tripura Legislative Assembly member, died on June 20, 2026. Born on January 1, 1939, he entered the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in…
Death of Brasão at age 44
Brasão, a Brazilian footballer, died on June 19, 2026, at the age of 44. Born Ivan Fiel da Silva in São Paulo on January 1, 1982, he was best known…
Farogh Siddique dead
Farogh Siddique died on June 19, 2026. He was a film director, writer and assistant director. Tags Actors, Writers, 19 June 2026, Farogh, India, Siddique, June 19, June 2026
Obituary: Thomas R. Metcalf, dead at age 92
Thomas R. Metcalf, an American historian and academic whose scholarship focused on South Asia, especially colonial India, and the British Empire, died on June 18, 2026. He was 92. Metcalf…
Prasad Sawkar passed away at age 97
Prasad Sawkar, an Indian classical vocalist, died on June 17, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Sambaprasad Raghuvir Sawkar on December 14, 1928, in Baroda, Gujarat, he was known…
Obituary: Bharat Bhushan Tiwari, dead at age 0
Bharat Bhushan Tiwari, an Indian social activist and student from Bhojpur district, Bihar, died on June 17, 2026, after a controversial police encounter that drew national attention. Born around 1998…
Obituary: Jaspal Rana, dead at age 49
Jaspal Rana, the Indian Olympic sport shooter and shooting coach, died on June 12, 2026, at the age of 49. Born on June 28, 1976, in Uttarkashi, he represented India…
Ramamurthy Gamango has died at age 76
Ramamurthy Gamango died on June 12, 2026. He was an Indian politician and convicted murderer who served as a member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 1995 and…
Ramamurthy Gamango has died at age 76
Ramamurthy Gamango, an Indian politician who served in the Odisha Legislative Assembly, died on June 12, 2026. Born on March 1, 1951, he represented the Assembly from 1990 to 1995…
Titta Pretto death at age 93
Titta Pretto died on June 10, 2026. He was an Indian singer and comedian. Tags Actors, Musicians, 10 June 2026, Capricorn, India, Pretto, Titta, June 10, June 2026
Bharathiraja passed away at age 84
Bharathiraja, the Indian film director who shaped Tamil cinema with his realistic and sensitive depictions of rural life, died on June 10, 2026, at the age of 84. Born Chinnasaamy…
John Sanders death at age 83
John Sanders, an American sports broadcaster who spent more than 25 years calling Major League Baseball games, died June 10, 2026, at age 83. A Kansas native, Sanders worked at…
Death of Mallavarapu Prakash at age 77
Mallavarapu Prakash, the Indian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Cuddapah from 1998 to 2002, bishop of Vijayawada from 2002 to 2012 and archbishop of Visakhapatnam from 2012…
V. Vikramraju death at age 92
V. Vikramraju died on June 7, 2026. He was an Indian cricket umpire. Born on January 1, 1934, he was also listed as a cricketer. Tags Athletes, 07 June 2026,…
Prakash Mallavarapu, died aged 77
Prakash Mallavarapu, an Indian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Cuddapah from 1998 to 2002, bishop of Vijayawada from 2002 to 2012 and archbishop of Visakhapatnam from 2012…
Salim Kumar has died at age 56
Salim Kumar, an Indian actor and film director known for Karutha Joothan, Achanurangatha Veedu and Adaminte Makan Abu, died on June 6, 2026, at the age of 56 after a…
Sam Dastor dead at age 84
Sam Dastor, the Indian-born British actor known for his roles in Jinnah, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and I, Claudius, died on June 6, 2026, at the age…
A. C. Sreehari dies at 56
A. C. Sreehari, an Indian poet and writer, died on June 5, 2026, at the age of 56. A Malayalam-language poet and teacher, he was associated with Payyanur College in…
Pahlaj Nihalani, died aged 76
Pahlaj Nihalani, an Indian film producer known for Aankhen and Shola Aur Shabnam, died on June 4, 2026, at the age of 76. He built a long career in Hindi…
Rabilal Tudu passed away at age 76
Rabilal Tudu, an Indian Santali-language writer, playwright and banker, died on June 4, 2026, at the age of 76. Born in 1949 in Nowara village in Bardhaman district, West Bengal,…
Anantrao Thopate passed away at age 93
Anantrao Thopate died on June 4, 2026. He was an Indian politician who served as a six-term MLA and later as former education minister. His death was noted by local…
Subhash C. Kashyap has died at age 97
Subhash C. Kashyap, the Indian political scientist who served as secretary-general of Lok Sabha from 1984 to 1990, died on June 4, 2026, at the age of 97. Born on…
Bob Lacey passes away at age 72
Bob Lacey, an American baseball pitcher who played for the Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants and Cleveland Indians, died on June 4, 2026. He was 72. Born Robert Joseph Lacey,…
Lalith J. Rao obituary: died at age 83
Lalith J. Rao died on June 3, 2026. She was an Indian classical singer. Tags Musicians, 03 June 2026, India, Lalith, Rao, Scorpio, June 2026, June 3
Jagannath Prasad Das dies at age 90
Jagannath Prasad Das, the Indian writer and poet known for his work in Odia, died on June 3, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Puri on April 26,…