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…
Famous Dead People from India
Over 4,000 obituaries for famous people from India who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Yogesh Patel dead at age 79
Yogesh Patel, an Indian politician and Gujarat MLA since 2012, died on June 2, 2026, at the age of 79. Known in the assembly as Yogeshbhai Narayandas Patel, he represented…
Suman Kalyanpur passed away at age 89
Suman Kalyanpur, the Indian playback singer known for songs in Bidesiya, Laagi Nahi Chhute Ram and Vidhana Naach Nachawe, died on May 31, 2026. She was 89. Born Suman Hemmadi…
BS Dhaliwal death at age 78
BS Dhaliwal, an Indian Army general, died on May 31, 2026, following a heart attack. He served as Engineer-in-Chief at Army Headquarters from 2006 to 2007 and had a military…
B. S. Dhaliwal dead at age 78
B. S. Dhaliwal, an Indian Army general, died on May 31, 2026, after a heart attack was announced as the cause. Lieutenant General Dhaliwal served as Engineer-in-Chief at Army Headquarters…
Probal Dasgupta passed away at age 72
Probal Dasgupta, an Indian linguist, Esperantist and former president of the Universal Esperanto Association, died on May 31, 2026. He was 72. Born in Kolkata on September 19, 1953, Dasgupta…
K. P. Dhanapalan obituary: died at age 76
K. P. Dhanapalan, an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from 2009 to 2014, died on May 30, 2026, at the age of 76. Born on April 4, 1950, in…
T. U. Kuruvilla death at age 89
T. U. Kuruvilla, an Indian politician who served as a Kerala MLA from 2006 to 2016, died on May 29, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on September 13,…
Hemendra Singh Panwar obituary: died at age 89
Hemendra Singh Panwar, an Indian environmentalist and conservationist, died on May 29, 2026, at the age of 89. He was known for his work in wildlife protection and conservation, and…
Gade Venkata Reddy dead at age 89
Gade Venkata Reddy, an Indian politician and former Andhra Pradesh MLA, died on May 29, 2026. Born on July 10, 1945, in Bapatla, he was elected to the state assembly…
Obituary: Bashir Badr, dead at age 91
Bashir Badr, an Indian poet, died on May 28, 2026, at the age of 91. He was an Urdu poet who taught at Aligarh Muslim University and wrote primarily in…
S. Sathyendra death at age 64
S. Sathyendra, an Indian actor and film director, died on May 28, 2026. He was 64. Known also as an actor in Tamil and Kannada cinema, he began his screen…
Death of Randhir Singh at age 79
Randhir Singh, the Indian five-time Olympic shooter and sports administrator who served as secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association from 1987 to 2012 and president of the Olympic Council…
Death of Anik Dutta at age 66
Anik Dutta, the Indian film director behind Bhooter Bhabishyat, Ashchorjyo Prodeep and Meghnad Badh Rahasya, died on May 27, 2026, after a fall. He was a Bengali filmmaker whose directorial…
Shereen Ratnagar dead at age 82
Shereen Ratnagar, an Indian archaeologist, died on May 25, 2026. She was 82. Ratnagar’s work focused on the Indus Valley civilization, and she wrote several books and academic textbooks. She…
S. L. Akshay dies at 39
S. L. Akshay, an Indian first-class cricketer who played for Karnataka, died on May 24, 2026, of a heart attack. Born on April 30, 1987, in Shimoga, Karnataka, he made…
Shyam Lal Meena passes away at age 61
Shyam Lal Meena died on May 24, 2026. He was an Indian Olympic archer who represented India at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Meena was 61. Tags Athletes, 24 May 2026,…
B. C. Khanduri, died aged 91
B. C. Khanduri, an Indian politician and former chief minister of Uttarakhand, died on May 19, 2026. He served as chief minister from 2007 to 2009 and again from 2011…
B.C. Khanduri, died aged 91
B.C. Khanduri, the Indian politician who served as chief minister of Uttarakhand and as minister of road transport and highways, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 91.…
K. Rajan dies at 85
K. Rajan, an Indian film producer and director, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 85 after suicide by jumping. He worked on Tamil films and began his…
Jennifer Paes obituary: died at age 72
Jennifer Paes, an Indian former basketball player who participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics, died on May 17, 2026, aged 72, of cancer. She captained the Indian national basketball team…
Fred Negrit died at age 76
Fred Negrit, a French educator and cultural promoter, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 76. He was known for his work promoting Indian languages and culture in…
Obituary: Nelson Wang, dead at age 75
Nelson Wang, an Indian restaurateur and founder of China Garden in Mumbai’s Kemps Corner neighborhood, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 75 or 76. Born in Kolkata…
Bengt Berger has died at age 83
Bengt Berger, a Swedish jazz drummer, composer and producer, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Stockholm on August 31, 1942, Berger studied north and…
Anand Nadkarni died at age 68
Anand Nadkarni died on May 15, 2026. He was an Indian psychopathologist, writer and playwright. His death was reported without further details. Tags Writers, 15 May 2026, Anand, India, Nadkarni,…
Jorge Urquía dies at age 79
Jorge Urquía, a Honduran footballer who played for Mallorca, Alavés and the national team, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 79. Jorge Alberto Urquía Elvir, nicknamed Indio,…
Sudhangshu Seal death at age 81
Sudhangshu Seal, an Indian politician and former MP and West Bengal MLA, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 81. He represented the Kolkata North West constituency in…
Dileep Raj has died at age 47
Dileep Raj, an Indian actor, died on May 13, 2026, of a heart attack. He was 47. Known for his work in Kannada cinema and television, he appeared in films…
Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi dies at age 91
Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi, an Indian classical dancer, died on May 12, 2026. She was associated with the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy, where she served as Principal and taught…
Swapan Sadhan Bose, died aged 78
Swapan Sadhan Bose, an Indian politician and sports administrator who was president of Mohun Bagan AC, died on May 12, 2026, at the age of 78. Also known as Tutu…
Bagi Kumar Verma died at age 77
Bagi Kumar Verma, an Indian politician and Bihar legislator, died on May 11, 2026, at age 77. He served in the Bihar Legislative Assembly for three terms, representing Makhdumpur twice…
D. Sudhakar passed away at age 66
D. Sudhakar, an Indian politician and Karnataka MLA, died on May 10, 2026, from complications following knee surgery. He was 66. Sudhakar served as a member of the Karnataka Legislative…
Patrick Dourado has died at age 86
Patrick Dourado died on May 8, 2026. He was an Indian playwright. Tags Writers, 08 May 2026, Cancer, Dourado, India, Patrick, May 2026, May 8
Ravi Pandit dead at age 75
Ravi Pandit, Indian technology executive and co-founder of KPIT Technologies, died on May 8, 2026. He was 75. Pandit was the co-founder and chairman of KPIT Technologies and served as…
Rick Kreuger dies at 76
Rick Kreuger, the American baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, died on May 7, 2026. Born Richard Allen Kreuger on November 3, 1948, he appeared in Major…
Santhosh K. Nayar, died aged 68
Santhosh K. Nayar, an Indian actor, died on May 5, 2026, in a traffic collision. He appeared in Malayalam cinema and acted in more than 100 films between 1982 and…