January 2024
In Memory of the Departed
Artists, scholars and other important Indians who passed away in 2023
Although the passing away of every person is important, and we lost thousands of innocent victims of war, violence, accidents and natural calamities, here are some Indian (as well as some international) writers, artists, scholars and media personalities who we lost in 2023.
Abdur Rehman Rahi, Kashmiri poet and critic, 9 January
Gautam Hemmady, art collector and architect, 14 January
Shanti Bhushan, politician and lawyer, 31 January
Vani Jairam, singer, 4 February
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former military officer and president, 5 February
Amjad Islam Amjad, Urdu writer and critic, 10 February
B.K.S. Verma, popular artist, 10 February
Javed Khan Amrohi, film actor, 14 February
Lalitha Lajmi, painter, 15 February
Aziz M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, 2 March
Satish Kaushik, film actor, 9 March
Pradeep Sarkar, film director and screenwriter, 24 March
Salim Durrani, Indian cricketer, 2 April
Jalabala Vaidya, actress, 9 April
Uttara Baokar, theatre artist, 12 April
Maulana Rabe Hasani Nadvi, Islamic scholar, 13 April
Tarek Fatah, Canadian journalist, 24 April
Prakash Singh Badal, former CM of Punjab, 25 April
Madan Bala Sindhu, Punjabi folk singer, 27 April
Arun Manilal Gandhi, social activist and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, 2 May
Ranajit Guha, historian, 7 May
S.P.Hinduja, Indian businessman, 17 May
Tina Turner, rock singer, 27 May
Gufi Paintal, actor, Mumbai, 5 June
Pandit Yashpal, Hindustani vocalist, Chandigarh, 5 July
Milan Kundera, Czech novelist, 12 July
Mangala Narlikar, mathematician, 17 July
Oommen Chandy, former CM of Kerala, 18 July
Kavita Singh, art historian and professor, 30 July
Gitanjali Aiyer, TV news anchor, 8 June
Amir Raza Husain, theatre artist, 7 June
Gaddar, Telangana folk singer, 7 August
Zaheer Ali Khan, Editor Siasat newspaper, Hyderabad, 7 August
Mohammad Habib, Indian football player, 15 August
Begum Anees Khan, Educationist, Hyderabad, 19 August
Seema Deo, Marathi actress, 26 August
Jayanta Mahapatra, Indian poet, 29 August
Ajith Ninan, cartoonist, 12 September
Malini Rajurkar, Hindustani vocalist, 6 September
Saroja Vaidyanathan, Bharatnatyam dancer, 21 September
K.G. George, Malayalam filmmaker, 24 September
M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, 28 September
M.S. Gill, former Chief Election Commissioner, 17 October
Sharib Rudaulvi, Urdu poet, 19 October
Bishan Singh Bedi, Cricketer, 23 October
Matthew Perry, actor in Friends TV series, 30 October
Gieve Patel, Indian poet, 6 November
Subrata Roy Sahara, businessman, 14 November
P.R.S. Oberoi, businessman, 14 November
B.N. Goswami, art historian, 18 November
A.S. Byatt, novelist, 18 November
Sanjay Gadhvi, film director, 20 November
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, historian, 22 November
Fathima Beevi, India's first woman SC judge, 24 November
Ustad Badruzzaman, Classical vocalist, Lahore, 1 December
Leelavathi, a renowned Kannada actor, 8 December
Junior Mehmood, actor, Mumbai, 8 December
Ahmad Saleem, Pakistani writer, 11 December
Sahebzada Shaukat Ali Khan, Urdu scholar, Tonk, 12 December
V. Mohini Giri, women's rights activist, 19 December
Tasneem Suhrawardy, historian, Delhi, 26 December
Also see a list of international literary figures who died in 2023
https://lithub.com/notable-literary-deaths-in-2023/
See a list of important persons who left us in the year 2020 and 2021.
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