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January 2024 In Memory of the Departed 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 See a list of important persons who left us in the year 2020 and 2021. |