Deaths
- 15 January - Tapan Sinha, 84, film director (born 1924)
- 27 January - R. Venkataraman, 98, the 8th President of India (born 1910)
- 31 January - Nagesh, actor (born 1933)
- 9 April - Shakti Samanta, 83, film director and producer (born 1926)
- 27 April - Feroz Khan, 69, film actor and producer (born 1939)
- 17 May - Prakash Mehra, 69, film director and producer (born 1939)
- 31 May - Kamala Das, 75, writer and poetess (born 1934)
- June 8 - Habib Tanvir, 85, dramatist and actor (born 1923)
- June 28 - A. K. Lohithadas, 54, filmmaker in Malayalam cinema (born 1955)
- July 16 - D. K. Pattammal, 90, Carnatic musician, one of the "female trinity of Carnatic Music" (born 1919)
- July 21 - Gangubai Hangal, 96, Hindustani classical singer (born 1913)
- July 28 - Leela Naidu, 69, film actress (born 1940)
- July 29 - Rajan P. Dev, 56, film actor in South Indian films (born 1953)
- July 29 - Gayatri Devi, 90, Rajmata of Jaipur (born 1919)
- August 9 - Gulshan Bawra, 72, songwriter (born 1937)
- August 9 - Murali, 55, film and theatre actor, author (born 1954)
- September 2 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1949)
- October 25 - Adoor Bhavani, 82, film actress (born 1927)
- November 10 - Simple Kapadia, 51, film costume designer and actress (born 1958)
- December 7 - Bina Rai, 73, film actress (born 1936)
- December 29 - C. Aswath, 72, Kannada music director and singer (born 1938)
- December 30 - Vishnuvardhan, 59, Kannada film actor and singer (born 1950)
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