People from India

107 people remembered here.

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  Alfred Tyrone Cooke

  1939 – 2026 · Indian Air Force fighter pilot

  In ten minutes over Kalaikunda he wrote a masterclass in courage.

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  Piyushbhai Desai

  † 2026 · Chairman

  Wagh Bakri chairman who built a tea empire on quality, integrity and Gandhian values.

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  Harish Chandra Mishra

  1959 – 2026 · Judge

  Indian judge who served as Lokayukta of Delhi and Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand.

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  Gaurang Vyas

  † 2026 · Music composer

  He carried his father's music forward and gave Gujarati cinema the songs of more than 100 films.

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  Pradeep Rawat

  1952 – 2026 · Actor

  Ashwatthama, Deva of Lagaan, and Ghajini Dharmatma across Indian screens.

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  Jogen Chowdhury

  1939 – 2026 · Painter

  A master of line who gave Indian modern art some of its most haunting figures.

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  Roshan Kumari

  † 2026 · Kathak dancer

  Jaipur gharana Kathak legend whose dance in Jalsaghar still dazzles. She danced for her father's rhythm.

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  Palle Rama Rao

  1937 – 2026 · Metallurgist and science administrator

  Physicist turned metallurgist who built India's materials science institutions and guided generations of scientists.

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  Singeetham Srinivasa Rao

  1931 – 2026 · Film director

  A restless South Indian filmmaker who treated every genre as one more story to try.

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  Mad Sandhu (Madhusudan Sandhu)

  † 2026 · Makeup artist

  Amritsar makeup artist who lived openly and taught others to accept themselves.

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  Tiruchi R. Thayumanavan

  1931 – 2026 · Carnatic percussionist (mridangam

  Pudukottai-school mridangam and kanjira vidwan whose konnakkol and guru bhakti shaped Tiruchi's laya tradition.

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  M.A. Krishnan

  † 2026 · RSS pracharak

  The RSS pracharak who guided Balagokulam and decades of Kerala's cultural organising.

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  Kandhari, Sachin

  † 2026 · Neurosurgeon

  Delhi neurosurgeon who brought epidural stimulation and robotic HAL rehab to India.

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  Chhotelal Verma

  1953 – 2026 · Politician

  Four-term Fatehabad MLA, called Babuji, who kept winning Agra's rural seat for three decades.

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  Mushtaq Khan

  1969 – 2026 · Actor and comedian (Hindi film and television)

  Bollywood supporting comic whose Ballu scene in Welcome became a lasting Hindi film classic.

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  Soorya Krishnamoorthy

  1951 – 2026 · Cultural organiser

  ISRO engineer who built Soorya into a year-round home for Indian art.

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  Shanthi Narayanasamy

  † 2026 · Film producer

  Eldest child of Sivaji Ganesan and producer behind Thangappathakkam.

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  Bhairav Dutt Kharkwal (B.D. Kharkwal)

  † 2026 · IPS officer

  Former Assam DGP remembered with military honours in Haldwani.

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  Bhagat Chunni Lal

  1932 – 2026 · Politician

  From Sialkot to Jalandhar West, a six decade servant of party and city.

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  Teejan Bai

  1956 – 2026 · Pandavani folk singer and Mahabharata storyteller

  The Kapalik voice of Pandavani who took Chhattisgarh's Mahabharata storytelling to the world.

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  Asha Bhosle

  1933 – 2026 · Playback singer

  Legendary Indian playback singer whose 12,000 songs shaped Bollywood for eight decades.

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  Ajit Pawar

  1959 – 2026 · Politician

  Ajit Dada of Baramati, Maharashtra's longest-serving Deputy Chief Minister, always at his desk by dawn.

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  Atar Singh Bhadana

  1957 – 2026 · Politician

  From village sarpanch in Pali to Bayana's MLA, a Gurjar farmer leader who never forgot where he came from.

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  Guruvayur Dorai

  1935 – 2026 · Mridangam player

  Master of the mridangam who kept time for the giants of Carnatic music for almost eighty years.

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  Adinno Phizo

  † 2026 · President of the Naga National Council

  Eldest daughter of A Z Phizo, she led the Naga National Council for 36 years and never wavered on Naga sovereignty.

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  Saeed-ur-Rahman Azmi Nadvi

  1934 – 2026 · Islamic scholar

  Seven decades at Nadwa, he carried India's Islamic scholarship to the Arab world in his own Arabic pen.

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  E.T. Ezung

  † 2026 · Politician

  Former Nagaland Assembly Speaker who served Bhandari and the Lotha community for decades.

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  Fr John Noronha

  1944 – 2026 · Catholic priest

  Mangalore diocese priest who served coastal Karnataka parishes for over four decades.

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  Dr. Trinath Mishra

  † 2026 · Indian police officer

  A police officer who led the SPG, CBI and CRPF, remembered for integrity under pressure.

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  Major Vijai Singh Mankotia

  † 2026 · politician

  Soldier, five-time Shahpur MLA and fearless critic of power in Himachal Pradesh.

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  Dr Niharranjan Das

  † 2026 · paediatrician

  A gentle Tripura paediatrician remembered for kindness toward children and their families.

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  Shakuntala Nagarkar

  1960 – 2026 · Lavani dancer and Sangeet Bari artist

  Lavani empress of Sangeet Bari whose gaze, ghungroos and grit carried a folk form into new rooms.

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  Krishna Mukerji

  † 2026 · Playback singer

  Playback singer and Mukherjee family matriarch who quietly shaped Rani Mukerji's path.

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  Indudhar Nirody

  1935 – 2026 · Hindustani classical vocalist

  Agra gharana vocalist who recorded Bhatkhande's 1,896 bandishes in his eighties.

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  Payal Mehta

  † 2026 · Journalist

  A political journalist remembered for staying close to the ground and to the story.

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  G. Vijayaraghavan

  1942 – 2026 · Cardiologist

  Padma Shri cardiologist who brought 2-D echocardiography to India and founded KIMS Healthcare.

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  Rijohn Jose

  1997 – 2026 · Professional footballer

  Calicut FC defender remembered as The Interceptor, gone too soon at 29.

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  Abraham Mar Julios

  1945 – 2026 · Syro-Malankara Catholic metropolitan bishop

  Biblical scholar and Muvattupuzha metropolitan who built Pushpagiri and formed priests.

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  M. P. Parameswaran

  1935 – 2026 · Nuclear engineer and people's science activist

  A nuclear scientist who gave up the laboratory to bring science and literacy to ordinary people.

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  S. Janaki

  1938 – 2026 · Playback singer

  Janaki Amma, the Nightingale of South India, whose voice carried every emotion in more than 48,000 songs across 20 languages.

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  K. Bhagyaraj

  1953 – 2026 · Film director

  Tamil cinema's screenplay king who made ordinary lives unforgettable.

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  Chandrasekhar Mishra

  † 2026 · Politician

  A lifelong party worker who gave Jamshedpur's BJP and his neighbourhood decades of service.

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  B. P. Singh

  † 2026 · Television producer and director

  He created CID and kept India guessing for a quarter of a century.

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  Virjibhai Thummar

  1959 – 2026 · Politician

  A farmers' leader from Amreli who never let a day pass without raising his voice for the people.

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  Ramesh Babaji Maharaj

  1938 – 2026 · Hindu saint and spiritual teacher

  He came to Barsana as a boy and never left. For seventy years he sang Radha's name and guarded the cows, hills and waters of Braj.

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  Biva Sengupta

  1932 – 2026 · Rabindra Sangeet singer and music teacher

  She sang Tagore's songs as if telling them to you, and taught generations to do the same.

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  Devprasad John Ganawa

  1951 – 2026 · Roman Catholic bishop

  Bishop of Udaipur whose motto was The Joy of Hope; SVD shepherd to tribal communities.

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  Savithri Sreedharan

  1944 – 2026 · Malayalam theatre and film actress

  Kozhikode theatre's Umma, who brought Jameela to life in Sudani from Nigeria.

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