2008 in India - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January - Pratap Chandra Chunder, Minister, educationalist and author (born 1919).
  • 29 January - Bharath Gopi, 71, actor, director and producer (born 1937).
  • 1 February - Russi Karanjia, journalist and editor (born 1912).
  • 5 February - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 90, spiritualist, founder of Transcendental Meditation (born 1917).
  • 9 February - Baba Amte, 93, social activist (born 1914).
  • 25 February - Hans Raj Khanna, 95, Supreme Court Judge (born 1912).
  • 27 February - Sujatha Rangarajan, 72, author, short story writer and playwright (born 1935).
  • 19 March - Raghuvaran, 49, actor (born 1948).
  • 25 March - K. T. Muhammed, playwright (born 1927).
  • 19 May - Vijay Tendulkar, 80, playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist and social commentator (born 1928).
  • 27 June - Sam Manekshaw, 94, first Field Marshal of the Indian Army (born 1914).
  • 29 July - Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, 18, winner Amul STAR Voice of India in 2007 (born 1989).
  • 1 August - Ashok Mankad, 61, Test cricketer (born 1946).
  • 1 August - Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (born 1916).
  • 29 August - Jayshree Gadkar, actress (born 1942).
  • 27 September - Mahendra Kapoor, 74, playback singer (born 1934).
  • 26 November - Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar, Ashok Kamte
  • 27 November - V. P. Singh, 77, tenth Prime Minister of India (born 1931)
  • 28 November - Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan,31, NSG commando
  • 1 December - H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer
  • 10 December - Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician.
  • 17 December - Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician.
  • 27 December - Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer.
  • 29 December - Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter.
  • 31 December - Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player.

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