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S. No. Name of the Person Field
Famous Personalities Died in January 2025
1. Costas Simitis Former Greek Prime Minister (1996-2004)
2. Pritish Nandy Veteran Journalist, Filmmaker, Poet, And Former Rajya Sabha Member
3. Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram Veteran Nuclear Scientist
4. Kattungal Subrahmanyan Manilal Renowned Botanist & Padma Shri awardee
5. P. Jayachandran Playback Singer
6. H Lakshmanan Former Executive Director of Sundaram-Clayton (now TVS Holdings Ltd)
7. Jnanada Kakati Veteran Assamese Actress
8. Baldev Singh Veteran Soldier Havaldar
9. Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat Renowned Sanskrit Scholar

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List of Obituaries of Famous Personalities 2024 reflect the loss of prominent figures in various fields such as politics, entertainment, sports and more. Famous Personalities Died in 2024 provides updates on regional leaders, local celebrities and influential individuals who have passed away.

S. No. Name of the Person Field
Famous Personalities Died in December 2024
1. Brigadier Raj Manchanda “Old Fox” of Indian squash
2. Neale Fraser An iconic Australian tennis player and Davis Cup Legend
3. Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna Former Karnataka Chief Minister and External Affairs Minister
4. Nikki Giovanni Renowned poet and civil rights activist
5. Purushottam Upadhyay Legendary Gujarati singer
6. Zakir Hussain Legendary tabla maestro and four-time Grammy Award winner
7. Tulsi Gowda “Encyclopedia of Forests”
8. Pandit Sanjay Ram Marathe Classical singer and harmonium artist
9. Om Prakash Chautala Former Chief Minister of Haryana
10. Meena Ganesh Prolific Malayalam actress and theatre artist.
11. Rohan Mirchandani Co-founder of Epigamia
12. Jodhaiya Bai Baiga tribal artist and Padma Shri awardee
13. Shyam Benegal Renowned filmmaker
14. Terry Griffiths Former World Snooker Champion
15. Darshanam Mogilaiah Renowned folk artist and Padma Shri awardee
16. MT Vasudevan Nair Legendary Malayalam writer
17. Dr. Manmohan Singh Former Prime Minister of India
18. Osamu Suzuki Former chairman of Suzuki Motor Corporation
19. Jimmy Carter Former US President
20. Former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons
21. Dr. Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat French Indologist and Padma Shri awardee
Famous Personalities Died in November 2024
1. Bibek Debroy Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council
2. Rohit Bal Renowned fashion designer
3. Sharda Sinha “Bihar’s Nightingale”
4. Harinder Singh Sodhi Polo player and Arjuna Awardee
5. Pandit Ram Narayan Legendary Sarangi Player
6. Mahendra Singh Mewar Former Member of Parliament
7. Ganesh Veteran Tamil Actor
8. Madan Mohan Somtiya Freedom fighter and member of the Mewar Praja Mandal
9. Varadarao Kamalakara Rao Mridangam Scholar
10. Princess Mikasa Japan’s oldest royal family member
11. John Prescott Former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK
12. Justice Harjit Singh Bedi Former Supreme Court Judge
13. John Tinniswood World’s oldest man
14. Amiya Kumar Bagchi Renowned Economic Historian
15. Shashi Ruia Chairman and co-founder of Essar Group
16. Breyten Breytenbach Renowned South African poet, writer, and anti-apartheid activist
Famous Personalities Died in October 2024
1. Mohan Raj Veteran Malayalam actor
2. Ratan Tata Former chairman of Tata Sons
3. Dr. P. Venugopal Former Director of AIIMS
4. Indranand Singh Jha Radio presenter from Akashvani Darbhanga
5. Atul Parchure Veteran Marathi Actor
6. Vasant Anant Gadgil Sanskrit Scholar
7. Alex Salmond Former First Minister of Scotland
8. Dhaneswar Majhi Veteran tribal leader and former Rajya Sabha MP
9. Rohini Godbole Renowned physicist and advocate for women in science
10. Justice KS Puttaswamy Former judge of the Karnataka High Court
11. Kanaka Raju Padma Shri awardee and Gussadi dance Master
Famous Personalities Died in September 2024
1. A.G. Noorani Lawyer and Scholar
2. Luis Ayala Legendary Chilean Tennis Player
3. Professor K. Chellappan English Scholar and Sahitya Akademi Awardee
4. Aruna Vasudev Pioneering Film Scholar
5. Sitaram Yechury Prominent Indian Politician and leader of the Communist Party of India
6. Alberto Fujimori President of Peru
7. Jayanta Pushilal Dronacharya Award-winning table Tennis Coach
8. Keki N. Daruwalla Renowned poet and former IPS officer
9. Dame Maggie Smith Iconic Actress known for her roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey
10. Salvatore ‘Toto’ Schillaci Italian Striker
Famous Personalities Died in August 2024
1. Anshuman Gaekwad Former Indian cricketer
2. A.G. Noorani Distinguished lawyer and scholar
3. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
4. Tsung-Dao Lee Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his discovery of parity
5. Yamini Krishnamurthy Legendary Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer
6. Shobhana Ranade Social worker and Padma Bhushan awardee
7. H. Devaraj Former Vice-Chairman of the University Grants Commission
8. C. G. Rajagopal Distinguished scholar and writer
9. K. Natwar Singh Former Indian Foreign Minister
10. Susan Wojcicki Former CEO of YouTube
11. Issa Hayatou Former President of the Confederation of African Football
12. Dr. Ram Narain Agarwal “Father of Agni Missiles,”
13. General Rakesh Pal Indian Coast Guard Director
14. Maria Branyas Morera World’s oldest person
15. General Sundararajan Padmanabhan Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of India
16. General Girish Sahni Former CSIR Director
17. Salseng C. Marak Former Meghalaya Chief Minister
18. Peter Lundgren Former Swedish tennis player and coach of Roger Federer
19. Utpalendu Chakraborty National Award-winning filmmaker
20. Salim Ahmad al-Huss Former Lebanese Prime Minister
21. Nari Hira Film producer and owner of Magna Publishing
22. Kiingi Tuheitia New Zealand’s Māori King
Famous Personalities Died in July 2024
1. Pahalwan Subba Former Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim
2. Bhupinder Singh Rawat Former Indian midfielder
3. Ismail Kadare Albanian novelist and poet
4. Robert Towne Oscar-winning screenwriter
5. Smriti Biswas veteran actor
6. Jon Landau The Oscar-winning producer
7. Gajinder Singh Khalsa founder of Dal Khalsa
8. Ram Buxani Prominent Indian businessman
9. Aparna Vastarey Kannada actress
10. Subhash Dandekar Iconic stationery brand Camlin
11. Nguyen Phu Trong Vietnam’s long-serving leader
12. Dr. M. S. Valiathan Cardiac surgeon and founder of the (SCTIMST)
13. Kamala Pujari Padma Shri awardee
14. C.T. Kurien Economist and former professor at Madras Christian College
15. Father Francis D’Britto Vasai-based Catholic priest
16. Hamzah Haz Former Indonesian Vice President
17. Ismail Haniyeh Political leader of Hamas
Famous Personalities Died in June 2024
1. Maguni Charan Kuanr Renowned puppeteer and Padma Shri Awardee
2. Asir Jawahar Thomas Johnsingh Renowned Indian conservation biologist
3. Ramoji Rao Founder of Ramoji Film City and a media baron
4. Amol Kale Honorary President of the Mumbai Cricket Association
5. Harpal Singh Bedi Renowned sports journalist
6. Pandit Rajeev Taranath Renowned Sarod player
7. Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Former Odisha Governor
8. Srinivas Hegde Mission director of Chandrayaan-1
9. Donald Sutherland The Canadian actor
10. C. V. Chandrasekhar Bharatanatyam dancer
11. David Johnson Former Indian cricketer
12. Frank Duckworth Duckworth-Lewis-Stern
13. Pahalwan Subba Former Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim
Famous Personalities Died in May 2024
1. Uma Ramanan Renowned Tamil Playback Singer
2. Bernard Hill Renowned actor in Titanic and The Lord of the Rings
3. Frank Anderson Shrontz Former CEO of Boeing and part-owner of the Seattle Mariners
4. Sangeeth Sivan Renowned filmmaker in Malayalam and Hindi cinema
5. Salam Bin Razzaq Renowned Urdu litterateur and Academician
6. Moosa Raza Former bureaucrat and Padma Bhushan Awardee
7. Dr. Surjit Patar Renowned Punjabi poet and Padma Shri awardee
8. Richard Slayman Supervisor for the State  Transportation Department
9. Sushil Kumar Modi Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and senior BJP leader
10. Roger Corman Legendary Hollywood Producer and Director
11. Varugeese Koshy Kerala’s first International Master and a Renowned chess trainer
12. Birubala Rabha Tireless activism against witch-hunting in India
13. Alice Munro Nobel Prize-winning Canadian Author known as ‘The Master Of Short Stories’
14. Kamla Beniwal Veteran Congress leader and former governor of Gujarat
15. Malti Joshi Renowned Hindi writer and Padma Shri Recipient
16. Colonel Waibhav Anil Kale Retired Indian Army Officer
17. Narayanan Vaghul Former Chairman of ICICI Bank and a Padma Bhushan Awardee
18. Ebrahim Raisi and Hossein Amirabdollahian Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister
19. Fred Roos Oscar-winning American film Producer
20. Jan A.P. Kaczmarek Oscar-winning Polish Composer
21. Richard M. Sherman, Oscar-winning American songwriter known for  Disney classics
22. Albert S. Ruddy Oscar-winning producer known for  iconic films such as “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby”
Famous Personalities Died in April 2024
1. Barbara Rush known for roles in ‘It Came from Outer Space’ and ‘Peyton Place’
2. Juan Vicente Pérez Mora World’s oldest verified living man
3. Visheshwara Rao Tamil actor
4. Gangu Ramsay Veteran cinematographer
5. Joe Kinnear Former Irish footballer and coach of the Indian national team
6. R.M. Veerappan Tamil Nadu politics
7. Peter Higgs The physicist
8. O.J. Simpson Former NFL star
9. Jack Alabaster Former New Zealand legspinner
10. Jack Clarke Former chairman of Cricket Australia
11. Derek Underwood Legendary English cricketer
12. Bernd Hölzenbein Former German footballer
13. Raman Subba Row Former England Test batsman
14. Durai National Award-winning Tamil director
15. Sudhir Kakar Indian psychoanalyst, author, and cultural critic
16. Subrahmanya Dhareshwar Yakshagana, a traditional theatre form of Karnataka
Famous Personalities Died in March 2024
1. Brian Mulroney 18th Prime Minister of Canada
2. Aziz Qureshi leader of the Congress party and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Mizoram
3. Dr. Arun Kumar Sharma archaeologist
4. Akira Toriyama the creator of the influential manga Dragon Ball
5. Kapildev Prasad artisan and Padma Shri awardee
6. Paul Alexander man in the iron lung
7. Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas former Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy
8. Sadi Mohammad Renowned Rabindra Sangeet singer
9. Lama Lobzang prominent tribal leader and Buddhist monk from Ladakh
10. Frans de Waal Dutch-American primatologist and author
11. David Seidler Oscar-winning British screenwriter
12. Lakshmi Narayanan Seshu Tamil actor
13. Dr. Gurulinga Kapse Writer and former chairman of the Karnataka Sahithya Academy
14 Daniel Kahneman Nobel laureate and pioneer in behavioral economics
15. Louis Gossett Jr American actor
16. Tim McGovern Oscar-winning  known for  films like ‘Total Recall’ and ‘TRON’,
Famous Personalities Died in February 2024
1. Harmohan Dhawan Former Union Minister and AAP leader
2. Navarre Scott Momaday Kiowa author and poet
3. Sadhu Meher Veteran Odia actor and director
4. Carl Weathers Playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies
5. Farooq Nazki Kashmiri poet and broadcaster
6. Sebastián Piñera Former Chilean President
7. Baroness Shreela Flather Prominent British-Indian peer,
8. A. Ramachandran Renowned artist
9. Dr. Usha Kiran Khan Renowned Hindi and Maithili
10. Kelvin Kiptum World marathon record holder
11. Dattajirao Gaekwad India’s oldest living Test cricketer
12. Padma Shri Prof. I.C. Verma Renowned geneticist and advisor
13. Chef Imtiaz Qureshi Dum Pukht cooking technique
14. Kavita Chaudhary TV show in ‘Udaan’
15. Suhani Bhatnagar Role in ‘Dangal’
16. Vidyasagar Maharaj Jain monk Acharya
17. Alexey Navalny Russian opposition leader
18. Fali Sam Narima Constitutional lawyer and senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India
19. Ameen Sayani Iconic voice behind ‘Binaca Geetmala’
20. Manohar Joshi Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Lok Sabha Speaker
21. Germany’s Andreas Brehme 1990 World Cup Winning Goal Scorer
22. K Hoysala Former Karnataka cricketer
23. Kumar Shahani Renowned Indian filmmaker
24. Pankaj Udhas Legendary ghazal singer
25. Raja Venkatappa Naik Member of Congress MLA
26. Shafiqur Rahman Barq Senior Samajwadi Party leader and Member of Parliament
Famous Personalities Died in January 2024
1. Prabir Majumdar Former Indian defender
2. Professor Ved Prakash Nanda prominent Indian-American legal scholar
3. Franz Beckenbauer German footballer
4. Mario Zagallo Brazilian football
5. Ustad Rashid Khan Indian classical vocalist
6. Pandit Hariram ‘Hari Bhaiya’ Hindi and Bhojpuri poet, lyricist and litterateur
7. Christian Oliver German actor
8. Munawwar Rana Urdu poet
9. Dr. Prabha Atre Hindustani vocalist
10. Ajit Singh Gill Singapore’s oldest Olympian and a former national hockey player of Indian
11. Shawn Barber The Canadian pole vault record holder
12. Norman Jewison Prolific filmmaker and producer
13. Luigi ‘Gigi’ Riva Italy’s all-time top goalscorer
14. Rana Talwar first Indian and Asian to head a global bank
15. Sukhbir Singh Gill Chandigarh’s first hockey Olympian
16. Dr. Nitya Anand India’s first oral contraceptive pill ‘Saheli’
17. Historian R. Champakalakshmi president of the Indian History Congress and a professor in the Centre
18. Harmohan Dhawan Former Union Minister and AAP leader

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