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January 2023 In Memory of the Departed Many personalities who played important role in arts, culture and society of India left us this year. We pay our homage to these and many other lesser known or unknown people who are no more with us (with their dates of passing away): Kamal Khan, Journalist with NDTV, 14 January, 2022 Pandit Birju Maharaj, Kathak dancer, composer, and singer, 16 January 2022 Lata Mangeshkar, Playback vocalist and songwriter, 6 February 2022 Rahul Bajaj, Chairman Bajaj Group, 12 February, 2022 Bappi Lahiri, Singer, composer and record producer, 15 February 2022 Sandhya Mukherjee, Bengali playback vocalist and guitarist, 15 February 2022 T Rama Rao, Filmmaker, 20 April 2022 Salim Ghouse, Film and TV actor, 28 April 2022 Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Santoor maestro, 10 May 2022 Sidhu Moosewala, Rapper from Punjab, 29 May 2022 KK or Krishnakumar Kunnath, Indian playback singer, 31 May 2022 Tarun Majumdar, Film Director, 4 July 2022 Bhupinder Singh, Bollywood Playback Singer, 18 July 2022 Mithilesh Chaturvedi, Bollywood Actor, 4 August 2022 Sawan Kumar Tak, Bollywood film director, 25 August 2022 Abhijit Sen, Economist, Padma Bhushan awardee, 29 August 2022 Cyrus Mistry, Businessman, Chairman of Tata group, 4 September 2022 Braj Basi Lal (B. B. Lal), Writer and archaeologist, 10 September 2022 Raju Srivastav, Comedian, actor, 21 September 2022 Arun Bali, Actor, 7 October 2022 Mulayam Singh Yadav, Politician, 10 October 2022 Esmayeel Shroff, Bollywood film director, 27 October 2022 Ela Bhatt, Social Worker, 2 November 2022 Siddhaant Vir Surryavanshi, TV actor, 11 November 2022 Tabassum Govil, Bollywood and TV Actress, 18 November 2022 Vikram Gokhale, Stage and film actor, 26 November 2022 Jharana Das, Oriya actress and journalist, 2 December 2022 Ahmad Ali Barqi Azmi, Urdu poet, 5 December 2022 Yoginder K Alagh, Economist and ex-Minister, 6 December 2022 Manohar Devadoss, Tamil writer and artist, Padma Shri awardee, 7 December 2022 Sulochana Chavan, Singer, 10 December 2022 Tunisha Sharma, Hindi TV serial actress, 24 December 2022 K.P.Sasi, Filmmaker, 25 December, 2022 Jaishankar Menon, Indian-American computer scientist, December 28, 2022 Sribhashyam Vijayasarathi, Author and Sanskrit scholar, 28 December 2022 Besides the above, some international figures also passed away this year, such as England's Queen Elizabeth II, Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev, Japan's Shinzo Abe, French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and Brazilian footballer Pelé, among others. You may also see a list of important persons who left us in the year 2020 and 2021. |