Complete List of Obituaries 2022
Obituaries
May 2022
1. Andrew
Symonds: Former
Australia Cricketer
2. Bhagirath
Prasad Tripathi: Sanskrit
Scholar
3. Bob
Lanier: American
Former Professional Basketball player & NBA Basket Ball hall of Fame
4. Bujar
Nishani: Former
Albania President
5. Dr.Ramakant
Shuklar: Eminent
Sanskrit & Hindi Scholar
6. Leonid
Kravchuk: First
President of Independent Ukraine
7. Pandit
Shiv Kr Sharma: Indian
Music Composer and Santoor Player
8. Pandit
Sukh Ram: Member
of Parliament from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh Lok Sabha Constituency &
Ex-Telecom minister from 1993 to 1996
9. Rajat
Kumar Kar: Padma
Shri Odia Writer
10. Sheikh
Khalifa bin Zayed: UAE
President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi
11. Shireen
Abu Akleh: Veteran
Al Jazeera Journalist
12. Shivaji
Patnaik: Veteran
Communist Leader
13. Sidhu
Moose Wala: Punjabi
Singer
14. Stanislav
Sushkevich: First
President of Belarus
15. Sultana
Begum: Renowned
Punjabi Writer
16. Tony
Brooks: Formula
One Grand Prix in the 1950s
17. Yuri
Averbakh: World’s
Oldest Chess Grandmaster
Obituaries
April 2022
1. Binapani
Mohanty: Padma
Shri Writer
2. Elvera
Britto: Former
Indian women’s hockey team captain
3. J
D Rymbai: Former
CM of Meghalaya
4. Kenneth
Tsang: Veteran
HongKong Actor
5. M.
Vijayan: Padma
Shri Structural biologist
6. Manju
Singh: Veteran
Actor and Producer
7. Mwai
Kibaki: Former
President of Kenya
8. Prafulla
Kar: Famous
Odia Singer
9. Richard
Howard: Pulitzer
Prize winning American poet
10. Salim
Ghouse: Film
and TV actor
11. Shiv
Kumar Subramaniam: Actor-screenwriter
12. Vishwa
Deendalayan: National
Table Tennis champion
Obituaries March 2022
1. Sonny
Ramadhin: West
Indian Cricketer
2. Alan
Walbridge Ladd Jr.: American
Film Industry Executive and Producer
3. Shane
Warne: Legendary
Australia Spinner
4. General
S F Rodrigues: Chief
of the Indian Army from 1990 to 1993 and Governor of Punjab from 2004 to 2010
5. Rodney
William Marsh: Former
Australia Cricketer (wicketkeeper)
6. Shri
RC Lahoti: Former
Chief Justice of India
7. Jaiprakash
Chouksey: Noted
Film Critic and Writer
8. Rafiq
Tarar: Former
Supreme Court Judge and President of Pakistan
9. Rupiah
Banda: Former
President of Zambia
10. Scott
Hall: WWE
Hall of Famer
11. Kumudben
Manishankar Joshi: Former
Governor of Andhra Pradesh
12. Eugene
Newman Parker: American
Astrophysicist
13. Soumeylou
Boubèye Maïga: Former
Prime Minister of Mali
14. Shahabuddin
Ahmed: Former
President of Bangladesh
15. Ramesh
Chandra Lahoti: Former
Chief Justice of India
16. Stephen
Wilhite: Creator
of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
17. Miguel
Van Damme: Veteran
Belgian Footballer
18. Bhim
Bahadur Gurung: 3rd
Chief Minister of Sikkim
Obituaries February 2022
1. Amitabh
Dayal: Actor
and Filmmaker
2. Bappi
Lahiri: Veteran
singer and music composer
3. Chandupatla
Janga Reddy: Veteran
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a former MLA in Andhra Pradesh
4. Channaveera
Kanavi: Poet
and writer in the Kannada language
5. Iqbal
Singh Kingra: Indian
socio-spiritual leader of the Sikh community and an educationalist
6. Lata
Mangeshkar: Legendary
singer
7. Luc
Montagnier: French
virologist
8. Maheshwari
Amma: Malayalam
Actress awarded with National Award and was well known as KPAC Lalitha
9. Praveen
Kumar Sobti: Actor
and an athlete
10. Rahul
Bajaj: Noted
industrialist and former chairman of Bajaj Auto
11. Ramesh
Deo: Indian
film and television actor
12. Ravish
Tiwari: Senior
journalist and national bureau chief of Indian Express
13. Rupinder
Singh Suri: Senior
advocate and Additional Solicitor General (ASG)
14. Sandhya
Mukherjee: Legendary
Bengali singer
15. Shakuntala
Choudhary: Freedom
Fighter and Gandhian Social Worker
16. Surajit
Sengupta: Former
Football player in India
1. Anil
Awachat: Marathi
author and social activist
2. Chandrashekhar
Patil: Kannada
writer
3. Charanjit
Singh: India’s
Hockey player
4. Deon
Lendore: Olympic
athlete
5. Milena
Salvini: Veteran
Kathakali Artist
6. Narayan
Debnath: Legendary
Bengali comics artist, writer, and illustrator
7. Pandit
Birju Maharaj: Legendary
Kathak dancer
8. Prof
M K Prasad: Noted
environmentalist & ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner
9. Ramachandran
Nagaswamy: Noted
Indian historian, archaeologist, and epigraphist from Tamil Nadu
10. Richard
Leakey: Kenyan
politician, conservationist, and fossil hunter
11. Shanti
Devi: Odisha’s
social worker and Padma Shri awardee
12. Subhas
Bhowmick: Indian
Footballer and coach by profession
13. Szilveszter
Csollany: Gymnast
from Hungary
14. Vijay
Galani: Bollywood
Film Producer
1. Shiva
Shankar Master: Indian
dance choreographer
2. ‘Sirivennela’
Chembolu Seetharama Sastry: Telugu film lyricist and Padma Shri awardee
3. Konijeti
Rosaiah: Former
Governor of Tamil Nadu and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
4. Vinod
Dua: Veteran
Journalist
5. Dr.
Mamballaikalathil Sarada Menon: India’s 1st woman Psychiatrist
6. General
Bipin Rawat: Chief
of Defence Staff (CDS)
7. Nanda
Kishore Prusty (Nanda Sir): Well-known teacher from Odisha
8. Dr.
Suresh Jadhav: Serum
Institute of India’s Executive Director
9. RL
Jalappa: Former
Union Minister of Textiles
10. Richard
Rogers: Pritzker
Prize-Winning British-Italian Architect
11. KS
Sethumadhavan: Legendary
Malayalam filmmaker
12. Mahendra
Prasad: Rajya
Sabha MP
13. Ray
Illingworth: Former
England Captain
14. Archbishop
Desmond Tutu: South
African Anglican bishop, theologian, and human rights, activist
15. Mark
Taylor: Artist
and toy designer for the He-Man
16. E.O.
Wilson: Former
Harvard University biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner
Obituaries
November 2021
1. Anand
Shankar Pandya: Former
Vice President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and author
2. Chun
Doo-hwan: Former
President of South Korea
3. FW
(Frederik Willem) de Klerk: South Africa’s former President
4. Gurmeet
Bawa: Punjabi
folk singer
5. Koneru
Ramakrishna Rao: Educationist,
teacher, and philosopher
6. Mannu
Bhandari: Renowned
author
7. Novy
Kapadia: Veteran
author, football journalist, and sports commentator
8. Padma
Vibhushan Babasaheb Purandare: Historian, Author, and Theatre Personality
9. Prabhakar
Jog: Prominent
violinist and musician
10. Sananta
Tanty: Eminent
Assamese Poet
11. Stephen
Joshua Sondheim: Veteran
composer and lyricist
12. Tarak
Sinha: Eminent
Cricket Coach and Dronacharya Awardee
13. Wilbur
Smith: Zambian-born
South African novelist
1. Roger
Hunt: England’s
Football Team
2. Ghanashyam
Nayak: Veteran
Television and Film Actor
3. Arvind
Trivedi: Veteran
television actor and was best known for his iconic role of Raavan in Ramanand
Sagar’s TV serial Ramayan
4. Dr.
Abdul Qadeer Khan: ‘Father
of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb’
5. Abolhassan
Banisadr: Iran’s
First President
6. Nedumudi
Venu: National
Award-winning Actor
7. Balvinder
Singh Nakai: IFFCO’s
Chairman
8. Yogendra
Mohan Gupta: Chairman
of Jagran Group of Publications
9. Bandula
Warnapura: Sri
Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team
10. Saranjeet
Singh: Former
hockey international Player from India
11. Puneeth
Rajkumar: Indian
actor, playback singer, television presenter, and producer
12. Dr.
Madhavan Krishnan Nair: Eminent Oncologist and the founding director of the
Regional Cancer Centre (RCC)
1. Bhabani
Roy: Former
Indian footballer and Mohun Bagan captain
2. Casimir
Oye Mba: Former
Prime Minister of Gabon
3. Chandan
Mitra: Senior
journalist and Former Rajya Sabha MP
4. Dr.
Abdul Aziz Parrey: Eminent
Kashmiri writer, poet, and Sahitya Akademi, winner
5. Jacques
Rogge: Former
President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
6. Jean-Pierre
Adams: Former
France footballer
7. Jimmy
Greaves: Former
England, Football player
8. Kamla
Bhasin: Women’s
rights Activist and an Author
9. Keshav
Desiraju: Former
Union health secretary
10. Mahant
Narendra Giri: President
of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad
11. Manorama
Mohapatra: Odia
litterateur, social worker, and journalist
12. Oscar
Fernandes: Former
Union Minister and Congress Leader
13. Rajni
Kaul: First
News Broadcaster for BBC Hindi
14. Sidharth
Shukla: Indian
Actor, Host
15. Syed
Ali Shah Geelani: Veteran
Kashmiri separatist leader and former chief of the All Parties Hurriyat
Conference (APHC)
16. Thanu
Padmanabhan: Indian
theoretical physicist and cosmologist
17. Vasoo
Paranjape: Former
Indian cricketer and coach
Obituaries August 2021
1. Sardarni
Man Kaur: Indian
track-and-field athlete
2. Padma
Sachdev: Noted
author and first modern woman poet of the Dogri language
3. Shankar
Subramaniam, “Babu” Nayaran: Olympian Footballer
4. P.S.
Banarji: Kerala
Cartoonist, sculptor and folk singer
5. Anupam
Shyam: Indian
film and television actor
6. Commodore
Kasargod Patnashetti Gopal Rao: War hero and was honoured with Mahavir Chakra
and Veer Seva Medal
7. Saranya
Sasi: Malayalam
film and television actor
8. Dr
Balaji Tambe: Ayurveda
doctor, spiritual leader and proponent of Yoga
9. Gerd
Muller: German
professional footballer
10. Chinmoy
Chatterjee: Former
Indian footballer
11. Maki
Kaji: Creator
of a puzzle named ‘Sudoku’
12. Anandha
Kannan: Tamil
star and a TV host
13. Kalyan
Singh: Former
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
14. Syed
Shahid Hakim: Indian
Footballer
15. Sean
Lock: British
Comedian
16. Ted
Dexter: England
international cricketer
17. Buddhadeb
Guha: Eminent
Bengali writer
1. ‘Kalaimaamani’
Sikkil Shri R Bhaskaran: Carnatic Classical Violinist
2. Dilip
Kumar: Legendary
Bollywood Actor
3. Dr
PK Warrier: Renowned
Ayurvedic physician and managing trustee of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala (AVS)
4. Gautam
Benegal: Animation
Filmmaker and Cartoonist
5. Gira
Sarabhai: Co-founder
of the National Institute of Design
6. Jayanthi:
Actress
7. K
V Sampath Kumar: Editor
of ‘Sudharma’ Sanskrit Daily
8. Keshav
Datt: 2
time Olympics Gold Medal Winning Indian Hockey Team member
9. Mamnoon
Hussain: Former
President of Pakistan
10. Mike
Hendrick: English
Cricketer
11. Nandu
Natekar: Legendary
Indian Badminton Player
12. Paul
Orndorff: Renowned
American Professional Wrestler
13. Prasannan:
Former
Indian Footballer
14. Richard
Donner: Filmmaker
15. Satish
Kalsekar: Marathi
literature and a Sahitya Akademi, Award Winner
16. Sivan:
Mooywood’s
Veteran Cinematographer and Director
17. Surekha
Sikri: Three-Time
National Award-Winning Actress
18. Urmil
Kumar Thapliyal: Theatre
Personality and Litterateur
19. Virbhadra
Singh: Former
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister
20. Yashpal
Sharma: Former
Indian Cricketer
1. Buddhadeb
Dasgupta: National
Award Winning Bengali Film Director
2. Dingko
Singh: Asian
games Gold Winning Boxing Player
3. Dr
Lakshmi Nandan Bora: Assamese
Litterateur
4. Gottfried
Bohm: First
German Architect and the winner of the Pritzker Prize
5. Guruprasad
Mohapatra: Secretary
in DPIIT (Department of Industry and Internal Trade)
6. John
McAfee: Founder
of McAfee Antivirus Software
7. Kenneth
Kunda: First
President of Zambia
8. Milkha
Singh: Indian
track and Field Sprinter
9. Nirmal
Milkha Kaur: Former
Indian Volleyball Captain
10. Parassala
B Ponnammal: Legendary
Carnatic Singer
11. Poul
Schlueter: Former
PM of Denmark
12. Prof
Radhamohan Ji: Economist
and Environmentalist
13. Sanchari
Vijay: Kannada
Film Actor
14. Siddalingaiah:
Noted
Kannada poet, playwright and Dalit activist
15. Sir
Anerood Jugnauth: Former
PM and President of Mauritius
16. Sivasankaran
Nair: Malayalam
Cinematographer and Director
17. Surat
Singh Mathur: Olympian
18. T
M Kaliannan Gounder: Former
Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly
19. Ukhnaa
Khurelsukh: Former
Mongolian Prime Minister
1. Abhilasha
Patil: Actress
by profession
2. Alka
Raghuvanshi: Author
and Art Curator
3. Anup
Bhattacharya: Freedom
Fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra Musician
4. BabagoudaPatil:
Ex
Union Minister and the Former Leader
5. Bikramjeet
Kanwarpal: Film
and TV Actor
6. Chaman
Lal Gupta: Former
Union Minister and Senior BJP Leader
7. Chandro
Tomar: Shooter
and was famously known as ‘Shooter Dadi’
8. Chaudhary
Ajit Singh: Former
Union Minister and Chief of Rashtriya Lok Dal
9. Colonel
Panjab Singh: Hero
of the Battle of Poonch which took place in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
10. Dr
KK Aggarwal: Renowned
Cardiologist and former national president of the Indian Medical Association
(IMA)
11. Dr
Srikumar Banerjee: Former
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India
12. Homan
Borgohain: Assamese
literature and Journalist
13. HS
Doreswamy: Freedom
Fighter
14. Indu
Jain: Philanthropist
and Chairperson of Times Group
15. Jagannath
Pahadia: Former
CM of Rajasthan and Former Governor of Haryana and Bihar
16. Jagmohan
Malhotra: Former
Governor of J&K
17. K
Ragothaman: Former
CBI Officer
18. Kanupriya:
Doordarshan
Channel Anchor
19. Ki.
Rajanarayanan: Tamil
Folklorist and Writer
20. Laxman:
Music
director and famous for the duo composers ‘Raam-Laxman’
21. Manas
Bihari Verma: Indian
Aeronautical Scientist
22. Max
Mosley: Former
head of Formula One’s governing body
23. Michael
Collins: American
Astronaut-Pilot
24. MS Narasimhan: Famous Mathematician
25. Pandit Devabrata Chaudhuri: Sitar Maestro
26. Parul
Dabi Das: Assam’s
first female IAS officer
27. Raghunath
Mohapatra: Eminent
Sculptor, Architect, and Member of the Rajya Sabha
28. Rajeev
Satav: Senior
Congress MP
29. Rajendrasinh
Jadeja: Former
Saurashtra pacer and BCCI referee
30. Ravinder
Pal Singh: Olympic
Medalist Hockey Player
31. Rohit
Sardana: TV
Journalist and News Anchor
32. Shesh
Narayan Singh: Senior
Journalist
33. Sunderlal
Bahuguna: Environmentalist
and Gandhian
34. V
Kalyanam: Personal
Secretary to Mahatma Gandhi
35. Vanraj
Bhatia: Veteran
Music Composer
36. Venugopal
Chandrasekhar: Arjuna
Awardee former Table Tennis Player
37. Yuan
Longping: Chinese
Scientist and was known for developing hybrid rice strain
1. Ahmed
Hussain Lala: Football
Player
2. Amit
Mistry: Gujarati
and Hindi Film and TV actor
3. Bachi
Singh Rawat: Former
Union Minister
4. Balbir
Singh Junior: Hockey
Player
5. Beverly
Cleary: Author
6. Chandra
Naidu: India’s
first female cricket commentator
7. Charles
Geschke: American
Computer Scientist, Co-founder of Adobe and PDF Developer
8. Dadudan
Pratapdan Gadhvi: Veteran
Gujarati Poet and Folk Singer
9. Didier
Ratsiraka: Former
President of Madagascar
10. Digvijaysinh
Zala: Former
Union Minister and MLA from Gujarat
11. Dr
Kakala Subba Rao: Radiologist
12. Farid
Sabri: Renowned
Qawwali Singer
13. Fatima
Rafiq Zakaria: Padma
Shri Awardee, Journalist, Academician and Chairman of Maulana Azad Educational
Trust and Khairul Islam Trust Mumbai
14. Ganjam
Venkatasubbiah: Kannada
Writer
15. GVG
Krishnamurthy: Former
Election Commissioner
16. Isamu
Akasaki: Japan’s
Physicist
17. Justice
MM Shantanagoudar: Supreme
Court Judge
18. Kishore
Nanadlaskar: Actor
19. Krishnamurthy
Santhanam: Nuclear
Scientist
20. Maidavolu
Narasimham: Former
RBI Governor
21. Manoj
Das: Odia
Writer
22. Manzoor
Ahthesham: Hindi
Writer
23. P.
Balachandran: Malayalam
Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Dramatist and Actor
24. Pandit
Rajan Mishra: Indian
Classical Singer
25. Prince
Philip: Husband
of Queen Elizabeth II
26. Radheshyam
Khemka: President
of Gita Press
27. Ranjit
Sinha: Former
CBI Chief
28. Sanjay
Chakravarty: Shooting
Coach
29. Sankha
Ghosh: Bengali
Poet
30. Satish
Kaul: Actor
31. Shashikala
Om Prakash Saigal: Film
and TV Actress
32. Shravan
Rathod: Music
Composer
33. Sumitra
Bhave: National
Award-winning Marathi filmmaker
34. Yogesh
Praveen: Historian
Obituaries March 2021
1. ‘Marvelous’
Marvin Hagler: Boxing
player
2. Adam
Zagajewski: Polish
Poet
3. Anil
Dharker: Journalist
and Author
4. Anshuman
Singh: Former
Governor of Rajasthan and Gujarat
5. Chemancheri
Kunhiraman Nair: Kathakali
dancer
6. Dilip
Gandhi: Former
Union Minister
7. GV
Ramakrishna: Former
SEBI Chairman
8. Hamed
Bakayoko: Prime
Minister of Ivory Coast
9. Ishar
Singh Deol: Athlete
10. John
Magufuli: President
of Tanzania
11. KC
Chakrabarty: Former
RBI Deputy Governor
12. Lakshminarayana
Bhatta: Kannada
Poet, critic and translators
13. Laxman
Pai: Padma
Bhushan Awarded Painter and Artist
14. Laxmipriya
Mohapatra: Odissi
dancer
15. Lou
Ottens: Inventor
of Audio Cassette tapes
16. M
G George Muthoot: Chairman
of Muthoot Group
17. Moudud
Ahmed: Former
PM of Bangladesh
18. Nandkumar
Singh Chauhan: Lok
Sabha MP
19. Nawal
Saadawi: Egyptian
feminist, psychiatrist and novelist
20. Shrikant
Moghe: Marathi
Actor
1. Akhtar
Ali: India’s
Tennis player
2. Bansi
Kaul: Founder
of Rang Vidushak
3. Carlos
Menem: Argentina’s
Former President
4. Christopher
Plummer: Canadian
Actor
5. Cicely
Tyson: US
Actress
6. Justice
M Rama Jois: Former
governor of Bihar and Jharkhand
7. Rahul
Khullar: Former
Chairman of TRAI (Telecomm Regulatory Authority of India)
8. Rajiv
Kapoor: Actor
9. Satish
Sharma: Congress
Leader and Member of Parliament
10. Tony
Trabert: American
Tennis Player
11. Vishnu
Narayanan Namboothiri: Malayalam Poet
Obituaries January 2021
1. Alan
Burgess: Cricket
Player
2. Anil
Panachooran: Malayalam
Poet and Lyricist
3. Buta
Singh: Union
Minister and Rajasthan’s Congress Leader
4. Chitra
Ghosh: Academician
by Profession
5. Cloris
Leachman: American
Actress
6. Colonel
Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar: Mountaineer
7. D
Prakash Rao: Social
Activist
8. Dr
Shaibal Guptaa: Economist
9. Dr
V Shanta: Oncologist
by Profession
10. Indira
Joseph Venniyoor: Veteran
Broadcaster, All India Radio veteran and first English news announcer of
Travancore Radio
11. John
Fulton Reid: New
Zealand Cricket Player
12. Kamal
Morarka: Former
Union Minister and Industrialist
13. Lary
King: American
Radio and Television host and a spokesperson
14. Madhavsinh
Solanki: Former
CM of Gujarat
15. Mata
Prasad: Former
Governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
16. Michael
Kindo: Hockey
Player
17. Narendra
Chanchal: Indian
Bhajan Singer
18. Narendra
Luther: Historian,
Author, Poet and Bureaucrat by Profession
19. Neil
Sheehan: American
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
20. Paul
Crutzen: Noble
Prize Winner in Chemistry
21. Prasanta
Dora: Former
Indian National Football Team Goalkeeper
22. Prof.
Shashikumar M Chitre: Astrophysicist and Mathematician
23. Satya
Paul: Fashion
Designer
24. Shantanu
Mohapatra: Music
Director by Profession
25. Turlapati
Kutumba Rao: Telugu
Journalist
26. Unnikrishnan
Namboothiri: Malayalam
Actor
27. Ustad
Ghulam Mustafa Khan: Indian
Classical Musician
28. Ved
Mehta: Indian-American
Writer
29. Vilas
Patil Undalkar: Former
Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Congress MLA