Complete List of Obituaries 2024 - PDF

Published on Thursday, December 05, 2024

November 2024
Name of the
Field
Person
Chairman of the
Prime Minister's
Bibek Debroy
Economic
Advisory Council
Renowned
Rohit Bal
fashion designer
"Bihar's
Sharda Sinha
Nightingale"
Harinder Singh Polo player and
Sodhi Arjuna Awardee
Pandit Ram Legendary
Narayan Sarangi Player
Mahendra Singh Former Member
Mewar of Parliament
Veteran Tamil
Ganesh
Actor
Freedom fighter
Madan Mohan and member of
Somtiya the Mewar Praja
Mandal
Varadarao Mridangam
Kamalakara Rao Scholar
Japan's oldest
Princess Mikasa royal family
member
John Prescott Former Deputy
 Prime Minister of
the UK
Justice Harjit Former Supreme
Singh Bedi Court Judge
World's oldest
John Tinniswood
man
Renowned
Amiya Kumar
Economic
Bagchi
Historian
Chairman and co-
Shashi Ruia founder of Essar
Group
Renowned South
African poet,
Breyten
writer, and anti-
Breytenbach
apartheid
activist

October 2024
Name of the
Field
Person
Veteran
Mohan Raj
Malayalam actor
Former chairman
Ratan Tata
of Tata Sons
Former Director
Dr. P. Venugopal
of AIIMS
Radio presenter
Indranand Singh
from Akashvani
Jha
Darbhanga
Veteran Marathi
Atul Parchure
Actor
Vasant Anant
Sanskrit Scholar
Gadgil
Former First
Alex Salmond Minister of
Scotland
Veteran tribal
leader and
Dhaneswar Majhi
former Rajya
Sabha MP
Renowned
physicist and
Rohini Godbole advocate for
women in
science
Former judge of
Justice KS
the Karnataka
Puttaswamy
High Court
Padma Shri
awardee and
Kanaka Raju
Gussadi dance
Master

September 2024
Name of the
Field
Person
Lawyer and
A.G. Noorani
Scholar
Legendary
Luis Ayala Chilean Tennis
Player
Professor K. English Scholar
Chellappan and Sahitya
Akademi
 Awardee
Pioneering Film
Aruna Vasudev
Scholar
Prominent Indian
Politician and
Sitaram Yechury leader of the
Communist Party
of India
Alberto Fujimori President of Peru
Dronacharya
Award-winning
Jayanta Pushilal
table Tennis
Coach
Renowned poet
Keki N.
and former IPS
Daruwalla
officer
Iconic Actress
known for her
Dame Maggie
roles in Harry
Smith
Potter and
Downton Abbey
Salvatore ‘Toto’
Italian Striker
Schillaci

August 2024
Name of Person Field of work
Anshuman Former Indian
Gaekwad cricketer
Distinguished
A.G. Noorani lawyer and
scholar
Buddhadeb Former Chief
Bhattacharjee Minister of West
 Bengal
Nobel Prize-
winning physicist
Tsung-Dao Lee known for his
discovery of
parity
Legendary
Yamini Bharatanatyam
Krishnamurthy and Kuchipudi
dancer
Social worker
Shobhana and Padma
Ranade Bhushan
awardee
Former Vice-
Chairman of the
H. Devaraj
University Grants
Commission
Distinguished
C. G. Rajagopal scholar and
writer
Former Indian
K. Natwar Singh
Foreign Minister
Former CEO of
Susan Wojcicki
YouTube
Former President
of the
Issa Hayatou
Confederation of
African Football
Dr. Ram Narain “Father of Agni
Agarwal Missiles,”
General Rakesh Indian Coast
Pal Guard Director
Maria Branyas World’s oldest
Morera person
General Former Chief of
Sundararajan Army Staff
Padmanabhan (COAS) of India
General Girish Former CSIR
Sahni Director
Former
Salseng C.
Meghalaya Chief
Marak
Minister
Former Swedish
tennis player and
Peter Lundgren
coach of Roger
Federer
National Award-
Utpalendu
winning
Chakraborty
filmmaker
Salim Ahmad al- Former Lebanese
Huss Prime Minister
Film producer
and owner of
Nari Hira
Magna
Publishing
New Zealand’s
Kiingi Tuheitia
Māori King

July 2024
Name of Person Field of work
Former Lok
Pahalwan Subba Sabha MP from
Sikkim
Bhupinder Singh Former Indian
Rawat midfielder
 Albanian novelist
Ismail Kadare
and poet
Oscar-winning
Robert Towne
screenwriter
Smriti Biswas veteran actor
The Oscar-
Jon Landau
winning producer
Gajinder Singh founder of Dal
Khalsa Khalsa
Prominent Indian
Ram Buxani
businessman
Aparna Vastarey Kannada actress
Subhash Iconic stationery
Dandekar brand Camlin
Nguyen Phu Vietnam’s long-
Trong serving leader
Cardiac surgeon
Dr. M. S.
and founder of
Valiathan
the (SCTIMST)
Padma Shri
Kamala Pujari
awardee
Economist and
former professor
C.T. Kurien
at Madras
Christian College
Father Francis Vasai-based
D’Britto Catholic priest
Former
Hamzah Haz Indonesian Vice
President
Political leader of
Ismail Haniyeh
Hamas
June 2024
Name of Person Field of work
Renowned
Maguni Charan puppeteer and
Kuanr Padma Shri
Awardee
Asir Jawahar Renowned Indian
Thomas conservation
Johnsingh biologist
Founder of
Ramoji Film City
Ramoji Rao
and a media
baron
Honorary
President of the
Amol Kale
Mumbai Cricket
Association
Harpal Singh Renowned sports
Bedi journalist
Pandit Rajeev Renowned Sarod
Taranath player
Murlidhar
Former Odisha
Chandrakant
Governor
Bhandare
Mission director
Srinivas Hegde of Chandrayaan-
1
Donald The Canadian
Sutherland actor
C. V. Bharatanatyam
Chandrasekhar dancer
Former Indian
David Johnson
cricketer
 Duckworth-
Frank Duckworth
Lewis-Stern
Former Lok
Pahalwan Subba Sabha MP from
Sikkim

May 2024
Name of Person Field of work
Renowned Tamil
Uma Ramanan
Playback Singer
Renowned actor
in Titanic and
Bernard Hill
The Lord of the
Rings
Former CEO of
Frank Anderson Boeing and part-
Shrontz owner of the
Seattle Mariners
Renowned
filmmaker in
Sangeeth Sivan
Malayalam and
Hindi cinema
Renowned Urdu
Salam Bin Razzaq litterateur and
Academician
Former
bureaucrat and
Moosa Raza
Padma Bhushan
Awardee
Renowned
Punjabi poet and
Dr. Surjit Patar
Padma Shri
awardee
 Supervisor for
the State
Richard Slayman
Transportation
Department
Former Deputy
Sushil Kumar Chief Minister of
Modi Bihar and senior
BJP leader
Legendary
Hollywood
Roger Corman
Producer and
Director
Kerala’s first
International
Varugeese Koshy Master and a
Renowned chess
trainer
Tireless activism
Birubala Rabha against witch-
hunting in India
Nobel Prize-
winning
Canadian
Alice Munro
Author known as
‘The Master Of
Short Stories’
Veteran
Congress leader
Kamla Beniwal and former
governor of
Gujarat
Renowned Hindi
writer and
Malti Joshi
Padma Shri
Recipient
Colonel Waibhav Retired Indian
Anil Kale Army Officer
Former Chairman
of ICICI Bank and
Narayanan
a Padma
Vaghul
Bhushan
Awardee
Iran’s President
Ebrahim Raisi
Ebrahim Raisi
and Hossein
and Foreign
Amirabdollahian
Minister
Oscar-winning
Fred Roos American film
Producer
Jan A.P. Oscar-winning
Kaczmarek Polish Composer
Oscar-winning
American
Richard M.
songwriter
Sherman,
known for
Disney classics
Oscar-winning
producer known
for iconic films
Albert S. Ruddy such as “The
Godfather” and
“Million Dollar
Baby”

April 2024
Name of Person Field of work
Barbara Rush known for roles
in ‘It Came from
 Outer Space’ and
‘Peyton Place’
World’s
Juan Vicente
oldest verified
Pérez Mora
living man
Visheshwara Rao Tamil actor
Veteran
Gangu Ramsay
cinematographer
Former Irish
footballer and
Joe Kinnear coach of the
Indian national
team
Tamil Nadu
R.M. Veerappan
politics
Peter Higgs The physicist
O.J. Simpson Former NFL star
Former New
Jack Alabaster Zealand
legspinner
Former chairman
Jack Clarke of Cricket
Australia
Derek Legendary
Underwood English cricketer
Bernd Former German
Hölzenbein footballer
Raman Subba Former England
Row Test batsman
National Award-
Durai winning Tamil
director
 Indian
psychoanalyst,
Sudhir Kakar
author, and
cultural critic
Yakshagana, a
Subrahmanya traditional
Dhareshwar theatre form of
Karnataka