R. B. Choudary passed away at age 77
R. B. Choudary, an Indian film producer, died on May 5, 2026, in a traffic collision. He was the founder of the production company Super Good Films and worked in…
Famous Dead People from India
Over 4,000 obituaries for famous people from India who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Obituary: Babulal Bairwa, dead at age 72
Babulal Bairwa, an Indian politician and former Rajasthan MLA, died on May 3, 2026, from complications of diabetes. He was 72. Bairwa served in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Kathumar…
Sudesh Kumar dies at 95
Sudesh Kumar died on May 1, 2026. He was an Indian actor known for Saranga, Bharosa and Gopi, and also worked as a film producer. His death was reported at…
Death of Depinder Singh at age 96
Depinder Singh, the Indian army lieutenant general who served as commander of the IPKF, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 96. Lieutenant general Singh, who held the…
Bharat Kapoor passed away at age 80
Bharat Kapoor, an Indian actor, died on April 27, 2026, at the age of 80. He had been active in film and television since 1972 and appeared in productions including…
Raghu Rai died at age 83
Raghu Rai, an Indian photographer and photojournalist, died on April 26, 2026, in Delhi, India, at the age of 83, from cancer. He became a photographer in the mid-1960s and…
Luis Isaac has died at age 79
Luis Isaac, a Puerto Rican baseball player and coach for the Cleveland Indians, died on April 26, 2026, at age 79. A catcher in the minor leagues from 1962 through…
Muni Narayana Prasad passes away at age 87
Muni Narayana Prasad, an Indian spiritual teacher and author, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 87. He was the head of the Narayana Gurukula Foundation, a philosophical…
Death of Biplab Dasgupta at age 75
Biplab Dasgupta died on April 24, 2026. He was an Indian actor known for his work in Baishe Srabon, Gumnaami and Zulfiqar. Dasgupta’s death was announced on that date. His…
Gurbux Singh dies at 84
Gurbux Singh, the Indian field hockey player and 1964 Olympic champion, died on April 24, 2026, at the age of 84, according to reports of a heart attack. Born in…
Suresh Harilal Soni death at age 81
Suresh Harilal Soni, an Indian social worker and Padma Shri winner (2025), died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 81. He worked for the welfare and rehabilitation of…
N. Bhaskara Rao obituary: died at age 90
N. Bhaskara Rao, Indian politician and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, died on April 22, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as the 11th chief minister of…
Death of Acharya Chandana at age 89
Acharya Chandana, an Indian Jain nun, died on April 22, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Shakuntala on January 26, 1937, in Chaskaman, Maharashtra, she entered Jain monastic life…
Obituary: Gopalrao Patil, dead at age 94
Gopalrao Patil, an Indian politician and former Rajya Sabha member, died on April 21, 2026. He was 94. Patil was a Bharatiya Janata Party member and served as a member…
Phunchok Stobdan death at age 67
Phunchok Stobdan, an Indian diplomat and former ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, died on April 19, 2026. He was 67. Stobdan served as India’s ambassador to Kyrgyzstan from 2010 to 2012. He…
Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, died aged 86
Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, an Indian-born British academic and political activist, died on April 18, 2026, at the age of 86. He was a leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain,…
Balbir Punj dies at age 76
Balbir Punj, an Indian journalist and politician who served as a member of Parliament from 2000 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2014, died on April 18, 2026, aged…
Narayana Ramachandran dies at 77
Narayana Ramachandran, an Indian sports administrator and president of the Indian Olympic Association from 2014 to 2017, died on April 16, 2026, aged 77. He was also an Indian squash…
Asha Bhosle passes away at age 92
Asha Bhosle, Indian playback singer, died on April 12, 2026, after cardiac arrest. She was 92. Bhosle was known for songs including "Chura Liya Hai Tumne Jo Dil Ko" and…
Death of Vija Vētra at age 103
Vija Vētra, Latvian dancer and choreographer, died on April 11, 2026, at the age of 103. She was a dance studio owner and tutor whose career spanned from the 1940s…
S. R. Ramaswamy obituary: died at age 88
S. R. Ramaswamy, an Indian writer and journalist, died on April 10, 2026, at age 88. Born in Bangalore on October 29, 1937, he also worked as a biographer, social…
Sonam Wangchuk dead at age 61
Sonam Wangchuk, an Indian army colonel, died on April 10, 2026, of a heart attack. Sonam Wangchuk, 61, Indian army colonel, heart attack. Tags Other, 10 April 2026, India, Sonam,…
C. D. Gopinath has died at age 96
C. D. Gopinath, the Indian test cricketer who represented Madras and the national team, died on April 9, 2026, at the age of 96. Born in Madras on March 1,…
Mohsina Kidwai dies at age 94
Mohsina Kidwai, an Indian politician and twice-elected member of Parliament who served as minister of health from 1984 to 1986 and minister of urban development from 1986 to 1989, died…
Obituary: Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, dead at age 77
Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, an Indian-American medical examiner who served as Los Angeles County chief medical examiner-coroner from 1992 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2017, died on April 8, 2026.…
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury passes away at age 88
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, an Indian politician who served as an MP from 2006 to 2024 and as minister of health and family welfare from 2012 to 2014, died on…
Obituary: Mani Kumar Chetri, dead at age 105
Mani Kumar Chetri died on April 5, 2026. Mani Kumar Chetri, 105, Indian cardiologist. (death announced on this date) Tags Doctors, 05 April 2026, Chetri, India, Mani, 2026-04-05, April 2026,…
Prashant Bose obituary: died at age 80
Prashant Bose, an Indian politician and senior Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), died on April 3, 2026. Known by the nom de guerre Kishan, or Kishan…
Gilbertson Sangma dead at age 70
Gilbertson Sangma, an Indian footballer who played as a forward, died on April 2, 2026. He received his early football lessons at the Assam Police Reserve in Dergaon. Sangma began…
Justin Panakkal passes away at age 90
Justin Panakkal, an Indian Catholic priest and composer, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 90. Also known as Fr. Justin, he was a priest of the Discalced…
Rahul Banerjee has died at age 42
Rahul Banerjee, an Indian actor and writer, died on March 29, 2026, after drowning. He worked primarily in Bengali films and television series and was known for roles in Chirodini…
Veer Pratap passed away at age 59
Veer Pratap Murmu Indian Santali writer and school principal, traffic collision · Died March 28, 2026 Veer Pratap Murmu, an Indian Santali writer and school principal, died on March 28,…
Death of Jeff Siemon at age 75
Jeff Siemon, an American football player who spent his entire 11-year NFL career as a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings, died on March 28, 2026. He was 75. Siemon played…
Lal Singh died at age 83
Lal Singh, an Indian politician and six-time Punjab MLA, died on March 28, 2026. He was 83. Singh served as Punjab’s finance minister from 2002 to 2007 during the Amarinder…
Vijaypat Singhania died at age 87
Vijaypat Singhania, an Indian textile industry executive and aviator, died on March 28, 2026. He was chairman and managing director of the Raymond Group from 1980 to 2000 and later…
Obituary: E. A. Rajendran, dead at age 71
E. A. Rajendran, an Indian actor and stage director, died on March 26, 2026. He was 71 and died in the early hours of that day in Kollam, Kerala. Rajendran…
Jaysinghrao Pawar death at age 84
Jaysinghrao Pawar, an Indian historian, died on March 25, 2026. He was an authority on Maratha and Kolhapur history and worked for more than three decades as a professor. Born…
Jerome Dhas Varuvel dead at age 74
Jerome Dhas Varuvel, Indian Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of Kuzhithurai from 2014 to 2020, died on March 24, 2026, from complications of dementia and Parkinson's disease. He was born…
Datta Meghe has died at age 89
Datta Meghe, an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament, died on March 22, 2026. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a former senior member of…
Madhumita Raut dead at age 59
Madhumita Raut, an Indian Odissi classical dancer, died on March 20, 2026, after cardiac arrest. She was the daughter of Mamta Khuntia and Mayadhar Raut, who contributed to the revival…
Death of Melli Irani at age 93
Melli Irani, an Indian cinematographer, died on March 19, 2026, in Chennai at the age of 93. He worked predominantly in the Malayalam film industry and was known for films…
Navnindra Behl, died aged 76
Navnindra Behl, an Indian theatre and television director, writer and actor, died on March 16, 2026, at age 76. Born in Delhi on October 30, 1949, she began stage acting…
Michel Hulin passes away at age 90
Michel Hulin, a French philosopher who specialized in Indian philosophy, died on March 16, 2026. Born on Jan. 31, 1936, he was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure and…
Death of Monroe Price at age 87
Monroe Price, an American academic and director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Global Communication Studies, died on March 15, 2026. He also served as director of the Stanhope…
Madhu Malhotra passed away at age 71
Madhu Malhotra, an Indian actress, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 72. She was best remembered for her appearance as a gypsy woman in the song "Lambi…
Death of H. H. Hamid at age 83
H. H. Hamid, an Indian footballer and Olympic player, died on March 14, 2026. He played as a forward and represented India at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he was…
H. J. Dora passes away at age 83
H. J. Dora, an Indian police officer and former Director General of Police, Andhra Pradesh, died on March 13, 2026, in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, at the age of 83. A…
Death of Hari Murali at age 27
Indian actor (Rasikan Died on Friday March 13th 2026
Harimurali passed away at age 27
Harimurali, an Indian Malayalam actor, died on March 12, 2026. Born in 1998 in Annoor, Payyannur, in Kerala’s Kannur district, he began acting as a child and appeared in Rasikan…
Kavuri Samba Siva Rao passes away at age 82
Kavuri Samba Siva Rao, an Indian politician, engineer and industrialist from Andhra Pradesh, died on March 11, 2026, in Hyderabad, India, at the age of 82. Born in Eluru, then…
Biren Sing Engti passes away at age 81
Biren Sing Engti, an Indian politician, died on March 10, 2026, at the age of 81. Born on March 2, 1945, in Barhoigaon, Karbi Anglong district, Assam Province, British India,…
Thakkali Srinivasan has died at age -1
Thakkali Srinivasan, an Indian film director, musician and producer known for Tamil films, died on March 10, 2026. He was 72. Born in 1953 or 1954, he worked on films…
K. N. Panikkar death at age 89
K. N. Panikkar, an Indian historian and professor, died on March 9, 2026, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, at the age of 89. He was an Indian Marxist historian associated with…
Tamal Roy Chowdhury dies at 80
Tamal Roy Chowdhury, an Indian actor from West Bengal, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 80 after cardiac arrest at his residence in South Kolkata while asleep.…
Death of H. H. Hamid at age 85
H. H. Hamid, an Indian footballer and forward, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 85. He played for India at the 1960 Summer Olympics and was a…
Moulana Abdullah Tari obituary: died at age 86
Moulana Abdullah Tari, an Indian Islamic scholar and political activist, died on March 8, 2026, following a prolonged illness. He was an official of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Democratic…
Mahendra Pal dies at 85
Mahendra Pal Singh, an Indian legal scholar and jurist, died on March 7, 2026. He was a scholar of constitutional law, administrative law and comparative law, and professor emeritus at…
Govind Parmar death at age 72
Govind Parmar, an Indian politician, died on March 6, 2026. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and served in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1990 to…
Narayan Bareth died at age 68
Narayan Bareth, an Indian journalist, died on March 6, 2026. He was 68. Bareth worked in journalism for around three decades and served as State Information Commissioner of Rajasthan. He…
V. R. Muthu passed away at age -1
V. R. Muthu, an Indian businessman and chief executive officer of Idhayam oil, died on March 5, 2026. He was born on October 6, 1953, and grew up in Virudhunagar,…
H. K. Dua obituary: died at age 88
H. K. Dua, an Indian journalist and diplomat who was editor of the Hindustan Times, died on March 4, 2026, aged 88. Born Hari Krishan Dua on July 1, 1937,…
Vijay Crishna passes away at age 81
Vijay Mohan Crishna, an Indian actor, died on March 4, 2026. Crishna, who was from Shimla, began his acting career on a Delhi stage in the 1960s and moved to…
Mahendra Bohra died at age -1
Mahendra Bohra, an Indian Bollywood producer, died on March 4, 2026. He was born in Jodhpur, then in Rajputana and now Rajasthan, on July 2, 1946, into a Marwari family.…
Sheik Mahaboob Subhani dies at 71
Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, an Indian classical nadaswaram artist, died on March 4, 2026. He was born in Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, in 1954 or 1955. Subhani performed with his wife,…
Obituary: K. P. Unnikrishnan, dead at age 89
K. P. Unnikrishnan, an Indian politician and writer who served as a Union minister and parliamentarian for the Vatakara constituency, died on March 3, 2026. He was 89. Born on…
Obituary: Janardan Waghmare, dead at age 91
Janardan Waghmare, an Indian educationist and politician, died on March 2, 2026. He was 91. Waghmare served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra and was…
Jeelani Bano death at age 89
Jeelani Bano, an Indian writer and novelist, died on March 1, 2026. Born on July 14, 1936, in Budaun, she wrote in Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati and Telugu. Bano began writing…
Utsav Charan Das, died aged 80
Utsav Charan Das, an Indian dancer, lyricist, music composer and playwright, died on February 26, 2026. He was born in 1945 or 1946 in Mania village, then in Orissa Province,…
T. K. Oommen, died aged 88
T. K. Oommen, an Indian sociologist, died on February 26, 2026. Also known as Tharailath Koshy Oommen, he was Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,…
Maroof Raza death at age 66
Maroof Raza, an Indian Army officer and commentator on national security and strategic affairs, died on February 26, 2026, aged 66. He served in the Indian Army from 1980 to…
R. Nallakannu passed away at age -1
R. Nallakannu, an Indian politician and senior leader of the Communist Party of India, died on February 25, 2026. He served as the State Secretary of the Communist Party of…
Mukul Roy has died at age 71
Mukul Roy, an Indian politician, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 71. A politician from West Bengal, he served as a Minister of State in the Shipping…
Sankar Books passes away at age 92
Sankar, the Indian writer known for his Bengali-language novels and essays, died on February 20, 2026, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, at the age of 92. Born Mani Sankar Mukherjee…
Vungzagin Valte, died aged 61
Vungzagin Valte, an Indian politician, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 61. He was a three-time member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly from the Thanlon constituency in…
Ricky A. J. Syngkon dies at 54
Ricky A. J. Syngkon, an Indian politician and member of the 18th Lok Sabha, died on February 19, 2026. He represented the Shillong constituency in Meghalaya as a member of…
Obituary: Pravina Deshpande, dead at age 60
Pravina Deshpande, an Indian actress, died on February 17, 2026, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, at the age of 60 from blood cancer. She worked mainly in Marathi and Hindi films…
Raseswari Panigrahi, died aged 79
Raseswari Panigrahi, an Indian politician, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 79. She was active in Odisha politics with the Biju Janata Dal and was elected to…
Qamar Ali Akhoon passed away at age 68
Qamar Ali Akhoon, an Indian politician and senior member of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 68. He was from Jammu…
Kahnu Charan Lenka dead at age 86
Kahnu Charan Lenka, an Indian politician and senior Odia political figure, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 86. He was a prominent figure in the Odisha Congress…
Death of Sarla Maheshwari at age 71
Sarla Maheshwari, an Indian journalist and news reader with DD National, died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 71. Born on 11 April 1954, she worked with Doordarshan…
Pat Collins dead at age 84
Pat Collins, an American football coach and the seventh head football coach for Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana, died on February 12, 2026. He was 84. Born on August…
Death of Sarla Maheshwari at age 71
Sarla Maheshwari, an Indian journalist and news reader on DD National from 1976 to 2005, died on February 12, 2026. The available information identifies her as an Indian journalist and…
Joe Simon passed away at age 78
S. M. Joe Simon, an Indian film director, actor, lyricist, and screenplay and story writer, died on February 12, 2026, of a heart attack. He was known for his work…
Shelly Desai obituary: died at age 90
Shelly Desai, an Indian-born American actor best known for his work in "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "Men of a Certain Age," died on February 10, 2026, in Los…
Seshagiri Mallampati passed away at age 85
Seshagiri Mallampati, an Indian anesthesiologist best known for proposing the Mallampati score, died on February 9, 2026. He was 85. Mallampati introduced the eponymous score in 1985 as a non-invasive…
Syed Mohammad Nizami died at age -1
Syed Mohammad Nizami, an Indian Muslim scholar and chief sajjadanasheen of the Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah Shrine, died on February 7, 2026. He had served as the head custodian of the…
Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri died at age 72
Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, an Indian politician and member of the AIMIM party, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 72 from kidney disease. He won the Charminar…
André Beteille has died at age 91
André Beteille, an Indian sociologist, writer and academician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 91. He was known for his studies of the caste system in South…
S. P. Venkatesh has died at age 70
S. P. Venkatesh, the Indian film score composer and music director known for his work in Malayalam cinema, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 70. Also credited…
Death of Hem Singh Bhadana at age 55
Hem Singh Bhadana, an Indian politician and former Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Thanagazi, died on February 2, 2026. He was born in 1966 in Kishangarh Bas, Alwar,…
Sushila Tiriya passed away at age 69
Sushila Tiriya, an Indian politician and social worker, died on February 1, 2026. She was a member of the Indian National Congress and represented Odisha in the Rajya Sabha in…
Raghunatha Reddy died at age 82
Raghunatha Reddy, an Indian actor known for his work in Telugu-language films as a character artist, died on January 31, 2026. He was 82. Active from 1991 to 2026, Reddy…
Thomas Kunnunkal obituary: died at age 99
Indian Jesuit priest and educationist Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Sadhvi Prem Baisa obituary: died at age 26
Sadhvi Prem Baisa, an Indian religious storyteller and sadhvi, died on January 28, 2026. She was from western Rajasthan and was known for her Bhagwat Katha programs and bhajan singing…
Obituary: Ajit Pawar, dead at age 66
Indian politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
J. S. passed away at age 98
Indian physician and cardiologist Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
N. Sundaram, died aged 72
Indian politician Died on Monday January 26th 2026
Dominic Kokkat passed away at age 93
Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic prelate Died on Sunday January 25th 2026