Nand Lal dies at 72
Nand Lal, an Indian politician and Himachal Pradesh MLA, died in Shimla on November 3, 2026, aged 72. Born on April 16, 1954, in Deothi, in the Rampur Bushahr area…
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Over 4,000 obituaries for famous people from India who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Ashok Kumar Mahapatra passed away at age 74
Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, an Indian neurosurgeon and academic known for craniopagus surgery and academic leadership, died November 2, 2026, aged 74. Born in Odisha, he built a career spanning complex…
Jagdish Raj Sapolia dies at 80
Jagdish Raj Sapolia, an Indian politician and former member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, died November 2, 2026, aged 80. A member of the Indian National Congress, he…
M. Ramachandran has died at age 80
M. Ramachandran, an Indian politician and former Tamil Nadu MLA, died of cardiac arrest on November 2, 2026, aged 80. His legislative career included three assembly terms, following election victories…
Ved Rahi dies at age 93
Ved Rahi, the Indian screenwriter and director, died on November 1, 2026, aged 93. Born in Jammu on May 22, 1933, he became an author whose work was predominantly in…
Death of Jack Preger at age 96
Jack Preger, a British physician known for providing medical care to poor communities in India, died on October 31, 2026, aged 96. Born on July 25, 1930, he studied at…
Domanlal Korsewada passes away at age 78
Domanlal Korsewada, an Indian politician and Chhattisgarh MLA, died on October 30, 2026, aged 78, while receiving treatment for a prolonged lung infection at Yashoda Hospital in Hyderabad. He represented…
Ravindra Kishore Sinha, died aged 75
Ravindra Kishore Sinha, an Indian security-firm executive and politician who founded Security and Intelligence Services (SIS) and served in the Rajya Sabha, died October 30, 2026, aged 75. Born in…
Vatsala Rajagopal has died at age 92
Vatsala Rajagopal, an Indian television and film actor, died on October 30, 2026, aged 92. Born on December 25, 1933, she began her acting career in 1979 as a stage…
Sanjay Gupta, died aged 59
Sanjay Gupta, the Indian film director whose work included Kaabil, Shootout at Lokhandwala and Jazbaa, died in a fall on October 30, 2026, aged 59. Born in Mumbai on April…
Shirish Hiremath dies at age 75
Shirish Hiremath, an Indian interventional cardiologist, died of brain cancer on October 29, 2026, aged 75. Born on July 17, 1951, he studied at B.J. Medical College in Pune and…
Neeraj Yadav dies at 42
Neeraj Yadav, an Indian Paralympian and track-and-field athlete who competed in throwing events, died by suicide on October 28, 2026, aged 42. Born on February 10, 1984, he came from…
B. P. Singh has died at age 77
B. P. Singh, the Indian television producer and director known for C.I.D., Aahat and SuperCops Vs Super Villains, died of a heart attack on October 27, 2026, aged 77. Born…
Jogen Chowdhury passes away at age 87
Jogen Chowdhury, the Indian painter and former member of Parliament, died of blood cancer on October 25, 2026, aged 87, in Kolkata. After a 15-month illness, he had been hospitalized…
Obituary: Chef Damu, dead at age 72
Damodharan Kothandaraman, professionally known as Chef Damu, an Indian celebrity chef and television personality, died October 25, 2026, aged 72. Born in Chennai, he became a familiar presence on Tamil-language…
Krishnaraj dies at 75
Krishnaraj, an Indian playback singer, died on October 22, 2026, aged 75. Born in Tamil Nadu on December 25, 1951, he was the son of Varadammal and A. Ramasamy, whose…
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, died aged 71
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, the founding vice-chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), died October 18, 2026, aged 71. An Indian fisheries researcher and academic administrator, he led…
Deva, died aged 75
Devanesan Chokkalingam, the Indian film composer and singer known as Deva, died October 17, 2026, aged 75. A prominent contributor to Tamil cinema, he also composed songs and background scores…
Cheruvayal Raman passed away at age 74
Cheruvayal Raman, an Indian tribal farmer from Wayanad district in Kerala, died October 14, 2026, aged 74. Known as the guardian of rare seeds, he conserved more than 55 varieties…
Obituary: AVS Raju, dead at age 89
AVS Raju, an Indian industrialist and construction-sector businessman, died October 13, 2026, aged 89. Born Alluri Venkata Sathyanarayana Raju on April 18, 1937, he was also known as Alluri Venkata…
A. V. S. Raju obituary: died at age 89
Alluri Venkata Sathyanarayana Raju, the Indian industrialist and construction businessman known as A. V. S. Raju, died on October 13, 2026, aged 89. Born on April 18, 1937, he was…
Madhu Kambikar dead at age 73
Madhu Kambikar, an Indian actress and folk performer, died on October 12, 2026, aged 73. Born on July 28, 1953, in Ahilyanagar, she came from Maharashtra’s Kolhati community and worked…
Rachna Shroff dies at 47
Rachna Shroff, an American oncologist, died October 11, 2026, aged 47. Born Rachna Trivedi, she grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where her father worked as a biochemist and her mother…
Death of Nasima Khan at age 82
Nasima Khan, a Bangladeshi film actress, died October 11, 2026, aged 82. Born on August 6, 1944, in Lalbagh, Old Dhaka, she entered Bengali cinema in 1959 with Jago Hua…
Guruvayur Dorai dies at age 91
Guruvayur Dorai, an Indian percussionist and senior mridangam exponent, died in Mylapore on October 10, 2026, aged 91. Born Vaidynathan in Guruvayur, Kerala, on July 2, 1935, he became known…
Stephen Dow Beckham has died at age 85
Stephen Dow Beckham, an American historian, died October 10, 2026, aged 85. His scholarship focused on Native Americans and the American West, with particular attention to the Pacific Northwest and…
Nana Patekar dead at age 75
Nana Patekar, the Indian actor and filmmaker, died of cardiac arrest on October 8, 2026, aged 75. Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud on January 1, 1951, he studied at Sir…
Saeed-ur-Rahman Azmi Nadvi dead at age 92
Saeed-ur-Rahman Azmi Nadvi, an Indian Islamic scholar who served as principal of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama from 2000, died in Lucknow on October 7, 2026, aged 92. Born in Mau…
Virjibhai Thummar died at age 64
Virjibhai Thummar, an Indian politician who served as a member of Parliament and a Gujarat MLA, died on October 7, 2026, aged 64. Born in Amreli, Gujarat, on May 31,…
Ramesh Babaji Maharaj dead at age 87
Ramesh Babaji Maharaj, an Indian spiritual teacher, social worker and cow-welfare advocate, died October 6, 2026, aged 87. Also known as Shri Ramesh Baba Ji Maharaj, Babashri and Baba Maharaj,…
Sam McDowell dead at age 84
Sam McDowell, the American former professional baseball player and starting pitcher known as “Sudden Sam,” died October 5, 2026, aged 84. Born in Pittsburgh on September 21, 1942, McDowell pitched…
Devprasad John Ganawa has died at age 74
Devprasad John Ganawa, an Indian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Jhabua from 2009 to 2012 and of Udaipur from 2012, died on October 4, 2026, aged 74.…
Palle Rama Rao passes away at age 89
Palle Rama Rao, an Indian scientist and metallurgist, died on October 3, 2026, aged 89. He was known for his work in physical and mechanical metallurgy and held academic and…
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao passed away at age 95
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, an Indian film director and screenwriter who was regarded as one of the most versatile and innovative filmmakers in South Indian cinema, died on October 3, 2026,…
Mad Sandhu death at age 29
Mad Sandhu, an Indian LGBTQ social media influencer and make-up artist, died in Amritsar on October 3, 2026, aged 29. Born Madhusudan Sandhu, he also worked as a stylist and…
Dave Rosello passed away at age 76
Dave Rosello, a Puerto Rican baseball player who spent nine seasons in Major League Baseball with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians, died on September 30, 2026, at age 76.…
Kalki Bhagawan, died aged 77
Kalki Bhagawan, a spiritual teacher from India, died on September 29, 2026, aged 77. Born Vijay Kumar Naidu on March 7, 1949, in Natham, Tamil Nadu, he was also known…
Vijai Singh Mankotia passes away at age 87
Vijai Singh Mankotia, an Indian politician and former Himachal MLA, died on September 29, 2026, aged 87. A member of the Indian National Congress, he represented the Shahpur constituency in…
Death of Ram Govind Chaudhary at age 74
Ram Govind Chaudhary, an Indian politician and Uttar Pradesh MLA across multiple terms from 1977 to 1992, 2002 to 2007 and 2012 to 2022, died on September 25, 2026, aged…
Chotelal Verma dies at age 73
Chotelal Verma, an Indian politician and businessman who served as a three-time Uttar Pradesh MLA, died on September 24, 2026, aged 73. He represented the Fatehabad constituency and was a…
Mushtaq Khan, died aged 56
Mushtaq Khan, an Indian actor known for roles in Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, Jodi No.1 and Welcome, died on September 24, 2026, aged 56. Born in Baihar, he worked…
Death of L. Krishnan at age 103
L. Krishnan, the Indian-born film director and screenwriter, died on September 24, 2026, aged 103. Born Lakshmanan Krishnan on October 21, 1922, in Chennai, he was raised in Penang before…
Obituary: Soorya Krishnamoorthy, dead at age 78
Soorya Krishnamoorthy, the Indian artist and philanthropist who founded the Soorya Festival, died on September 23, 2026, aged 78. Also known as Nataraja Krishnamoorthy, he was associated with the Soorya…
Death of Savithri Sreedharan at age 85
Savithri Sreedharan, an Indian actress known for her work in Sudani from Nigeria, Virus and Dakini, died on September 23, 2026, aged 85. She had been part of several Calicut-based…
Mithu Mukherjee death at age 71
Mithu Mukherjee, the Indian actress best known for Marjina Abdulla and Safed Jhooth, died on September 21, 2026, aged 71. Born in Kolkata on June 19, 1955, she began her…
Payal Mehta, died aged 46
Payal Mehta, an Indian journalist who covered Parliament of India, national politics and governance, died on September 20, 2026, aged 46. She worked for more than 15 years in broadcast…
G. Vijayaraghavan has died at age 84
G. Vijayaraghavan, an Indian cardiologist, died on September 20, 2026, aged 84. Also known as Govindan Vijayaraghavan, he was born in Perumpuzha on September 18, 1942, and became a prominent…
Abraham Julios, died aged 81
Abraham Julios, an Indian bishop, died on September 19, 2026, aged 81. Known as Dr. Abraham Mar Julios, he served as the Metropolitan Bishop of the Eparchy of Muvattupuzha of…
Obituary: Alfred Tyrone Cooke, dead at age 86
Alfred Tyrone Cooke, an Indian pilot and Vir Chakra recipient, died on September 18, 2026, aged 86. Known as Flight Lieutenant Alfred Tyrone Cooke, he was decorated for his role…
Death of E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan at age 78
E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan, a lawyer and politician who represented Tamil Nadu in Parliament, died on September 17, 2026, aged 78. A member of the Indian National Congress, he served…
Damodaran Nair has died at age 81
Damodaran Nair, a Fijian politician and former member of the House of Representatives, died on September 16, 2026, aged 81. He represented the Tavua Open Constituency for the Fiji Labour…
Alla Nani death at age 56
Alla Nani, the Indian politician who served as an Andhra Pradesh MLA and deputy chief minister, died on September 15, 2026, at age 56 after a heart attack. Born Alla…
Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat dies at age 97
Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat, an Indian sattriya artist, died on September 14, 2026, aged 97. He was from Majuli, Assam, and was recognized for his lifelong association with the Sattriya tradition.…
Siddique Ahmed dies at age 63
Siddique Ahmed, an Indian politician and former Assam MLA, died on September 13, 2026, aged 63. An Indian National Congress leader from Assam, he represented the Karimganj South constituency in…
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, died aged 86
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, the Indian-born British writer and scholar who worked as a poet, novelist, playwright, translator and critic, died on September 12, 2026, aged 86. Born Ketaki Kushari in…
Abdul Jalil Mastan has died at age 70
Abdul Jalil Mastan, an Indian politician and six-time Bihar MLA, died on September 12, 2026, aged 70. A senior Indian National Congress leader, he served as minister of Registration, Excise…
Varinder Singh Bajwa, died aged 82
Varinder Singh Bajwa, an Indian politician and former member of the Rajya Sabha, died on September 11, 2026, aged 82. A senior vice-president of the Shiromani Akali Dal, he began…
Anthony Page dead at age 90
Anthony Page, the Indian-born British film and stage director, died on September 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Bangalore, Karnataka, he went to Canada on a free passage with the…
Death of Tapas Dey at age 84
Tapas Dey, an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly, died on September 11, 2026, aged 84. He also served as ex-Vice President of the Tripura Pradesh Congress…
Solomon Pappaiah dies at age 90
Solomon Pappaiah, the Indian scholar and actor known for his work in Tamil television and film, died on September 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Madurai on February 22, 1936,…
Chuni Lal Bhagat passes away at age 93
Chuni Lal Bhagat, an Indian politician and former Punjab MLA, died on September 10, 2026, aged 93. He represented the Bharatiya Janata Party and served in the Punjab government as…
Eric Pearce passed away at age 94
Eric Pearce, the Australian field hockey player who won Olympic silver in 1968 and bronze in 1964, died on September 8, 2026, aged 94. Born Eric Robert Pearce in Jabalpur,…
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…
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…
Obituary: Jim Rittwage, dead at age 81
Jim Rittwage, an American baseball player who pitched for the Cleveland Indians, died on August 28, 2026, aged 81. Born James Michael Rittwage in Cleveland on October 23, 1944, he…
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…
Sengaku Mayeda obituary: died at age 95
Sengaku Mayeda, a Japanese writer and philosopher, died on August 22, 2026, aged 95. Born in Nagoya on April 1, 1931, he was known for his work on Indian philosophy…
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…