Kerala PSC GK | List of Obituaries 2021

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August 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
Sardarni Man Kaur	Indian track-and-field athlete
Padma Sachdev	Noted author and first modern woman poet of the Dogri language
Shankar Subramaniam, “Babu” Nayaran	Olympian Footballer
P.S. Banarji	Kerala Cartoonist, sculptor and folk singer
Anupam Shyam	Indian film and television actor
Commodore Kasargod Patnashetti Gopal Rao	War hero and was honoured with Mahavir Chakra and Veer Seva Medal
Saranya Sasi	Malayalam film and television actor
Dr Balaji Tambe	Ayurveda doctor, spiritual leader and proponent of Yoga
Gerd Muller	German professional footballer
Chinmoy Chatterjee	Former Indian footballer
Maki Kaji	Creator of a puzzle named ‘Sudoku’
Anandha Kannan	Tamil star and a TV host
Kalyan Singh	Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Syed Shahid Hakim	Indian Footballer
Sean Lock	British Comedian
Ted Dexter	England international cricketer
Buddhadeb Guha	Eminent Bengali writer

July 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
K V Sampath Kumar	Editor of ‘Sudharma’ Sanskrit Daily
Sivan	Mooywood’s Veteran Cinematographer and Director
Prasannan	Former Indian Footballer
Dilip Kumar	Legendary Bollywood Actor
Richard Donner	Filmmaker
Keshav Datt	2 time Olympics Gold Medal Winning Indian Hockey Team member
Virbhadra Singh	Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister
Dr PK Warrier	Renowned Ayurvedic physician and managing trustee of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala (AVS)
Yashpal Sharma	Former Indian Cricketer
Paul Orndorff	Renowned American Professional Wrestler
Surekha Sikri	Three-Time National Award-Winning Actress
Mamnoon Hussain	Former President of Pakistan
Gautam Benegal	Animation Filmmaker and Cartoonist
Urmil Kumar Thapliyal	Theatre Personality and Litterateur
‘Kalaimaamani’ Sikkil Shri R Bhaskaran	Carnatic Classical Violinist
Gira Sarabhai	Co-founder of the National Institute of Design
Satish Kalsekar	Marathi literature and a Sahitya Akademi, Award Winner
Jayanthi	Actress
Nandu Natekar	Legendary Indian Badminton Player
Mike Hendrick	English Cricketer

June 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
Poul Schlueter	Former PM of Denmark
T M Kaliannan Gounder	Former Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly
Sir Anerood Jugnauth	Former PM and President of Mauritius
Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora	Assamese Litterateur
Dingko Singh	Asian games Gold Winning Boxing Player
Buddhadeb Dasgupta	National Award Winning Bengali Film Director
Surat Singh Mathur	Olympian
Ukhnaa Khurelsukh	Former Mongolian Prime Minister
Siddalingaiah	Noted Kannada poet, playwright and Dalit activist
Prof Radhamohan Ji	Economist and Environmentalist
Sanchari Vijay	Kannada Film Actor
Nirmal Milkha Kaur	Former Indian Volleyball Captain
Gottfried Bohm	First German Architect and the winner of the Pritzker Prize
Milkha Singh	Indian track and Field Sprinter
Kenneth Kunda	First President of Zambia
Guruprasad Mohapatra	Secretary in DPIIT (Department of Industry and Internal Trade)
John McAfee	Founder of McAfee Antivirus Software
Parassala B Ponnammal	Legendary Carnatic Singer
Sivasankaran Nair	Malayalam Cinematographer and Director

May 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
Michael Collins	American Astronaut-Pilot
Rohit Sardana	TV Journalist and News Anchor
Pandit Devabrata Chaudhuri	Sitar Maestro
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal	Film and TV Actor
Kanupriya	Doordarshan Channel Anchor
Manas Bihari Verma	Indian Aeronautical Scientist
Chandro Tomar	Shooter and was famously known as ‘Shooter Dadi’
Parul Dabi Das	Assam’s first female IAS officer
Jagmohan Malhotra	Former Governor of J&K
Chaudhary Ajit Singh	Former Union Minister and Chief of Rashtriya Lok Dal
V Kalyanam	Personal Secretary to Mahatma Gandhi
Abhilasha Patil	Actress by profession
Shesh Narayan Singh	Senior Journalist
Vanraj Bhatia	Veteran Music Composer
Raghunath Mohapatra	Eminent Sculptor, Architect, and Member of the Rajya Sabha
Ravinder Pal Singh	Olympic Medalist Hockey Player
Venugopal Chandrasekhar	Arjuna Awardee former Table Tennis Player
Homan Borgohain	Assamese literature and Journalist
Indu Jain	Philanthropist and Chairperson of Times Group
Anup Bhattacharya	Freedom Fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra Musician
MS Narasimhan	Famous Mathematician
K Ragothaman	Former CBI Officer
Rajeev Satav	Senior Congress MP
Rajendrasinh Jadeja	Former Saurashtra pacer and BCCI referee
Chaman Lal Gupta	Former Union Minister and Senior BJP Leader
Ki. Rajanarayanan	Tamil Folklorist and Writer
Dr KK Aggarwal	Renowned Cardiologist and former national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA)
Jagannath Pahadia	Former CM of Rajasthan and Former Governor of Haryana and Bihar
Laxman	Music director and famous for the duo composers ‘Raam-Laxman’
Sunderlal Bahuguna	Environmentalist and Gandhian
Dr Srikumar Banerjee	Former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India
O P Bhardwaj	India’s Boxing 1st Dronacharya Awardee Coach
Max Mosley	Former head of Formula One’s governing body
Yuan Longping	Chinese Scientist and was known for developing hybrid rice strain
BabagoudaPatil	Ex Union Minister and the Former Leader
HS Doreswamy	Freedom Fighter
Colonel Panjab Singh	Hero of the Battle of Poonch which took place in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
Alka Raghuvanshi	Author and Art Curator

April 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
Beverly Cleary	Author
Didier Ratsiraka	Former President of Madagascar
Isamu Akasaki	Japan’s Physicist
Shashikala Om Prakash Saigal	Film and TV Actress
Digvijaysinh Zala	Former Union Minister and MLA from Gujarat
P. Balachandran	Malayalam Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Dramatist and Actor
Radheshyam Khemka	President of Gita Press
Chandra Naidu	India’s first female cricket commentator
Fatima Rafiq Zakaria	Padma Shri Awardee, Journalist, Academician and Chairman of Maulana Azad Educational Trust and Khairul Islam Trust Mumbai
Prince Philip	Husband of Queen Elizabeth II
Sanjay Chakravarty	Shooting Coach
Satish Kaul	Actor
Balbir Singh Junior	Hockey Player
Yogesh Praveen	Historian
Dr Kakala Subba Rao	Radiologist
Ranjit Sinha	Former CBI Chief
GVG Krishnamurthy	Former Election Commissioner
Charles Geschke	American Computer Scientist, Co-founder of Adobe and PDF Developer
Ahmed Hussain Lala	Football Player
Bachi Singh Rawat	Former Union Minister
Sumitra Bhave	National Award-winning Marathi filmmaker
Ganjam Venkatasubbiah	Kannada Writer
Maidavolu Narasimham	Former RBI Governor
Sankha Ghosh	Bengali Poet
Farid Sabri	Renowned Qawwali Singer
Kishore Nanadlaskar	Actor
Amit Mistry	Gujarati and Hindi Film and TV actor
Shravan Rathod	Music Composer
Justice MM Shantanagoudar	Supreme Court Judge
Pandit Rajan Mishra	Indian Classical Singer
Krishnamurthy Santhanam	Nuclear Scientist
Dadudan Pratapdan Gadhvi	Veteran Gujarati Poet and Folk Singer
Manzoor Ahthesham	Hindi Writer
Manoj Das	Odia Writer

March 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
Nandkumar Singh Chauhan	Lok Sabha MP
M G George Muthoot	Chairman of Muthoot Group
Anshuman Singh	Former Governor of Rajasthan and Gujarat
Ishar Singh Deol	Athlete
Lakshminarayana Bhatta	Kannada Poet, critic and translators
Shrikant Moghe	Marathi Actor
Hamed Bakayoko	Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
Laxman Pai	Padma Bhushan Awarded Painter and Artist
‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler	Boxing player
Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair	Kathakali dancer
Lou Ottens	Inventor of Audio Cassette tapes
Moudud Ahmed	Former PM of Bangladesh
Dilip Gandhi	Former Union Minister
John Magufuli	President of Tanzania
GV Ramakrishna	Former SEBI Chairman
Nawal Saadawi	Egyptian feminist, psychiatrist and novelist
Adam Zagajewski	Polish Poet
Laxmipriya Mohapatra	Odissi dancer
KC Chakrabarty	Former RBI Deputy Governor
Anil Dharker	Journalist and Author

February 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
Cicely Tyson	US Actress
Tony Trabert	American Tennis Player
Christopher Plummer	Canadian Actor
Akhtar Ali	India’s Tennis player
Rajiv Kapoor	Actor
Bansi Kaul	Founder of Rang Vidushak
Carlos Menem	Argentina’s Former President
Justice M Rama Jois	Former governor of Bihar and Jharkhand
Satish Sharma	Congress Leader and Member of Parliament
Rahul Khullar	Former Chairman of TRAI (Telecomm Regulatory Authority of India)
Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri	Malayalam Poet

January 2021

Name of the Personality	Field
Indira Joseph Venniyoor	Veteran Broadcaster, All India Radio veteran and first English news announcer of Travancore Radio
John Fulton Reid	New Zealand Cricket Player
Shantanu Mohapatra	Music Director by Profession
Buta Singh	Union Minister and Rajasthan’s Congress Leader
Colonel Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar	Mountaineer
Vilas Patil Undalkar	Former Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Congress MLA
Anil Panachooran	Malayalam Poet and Lyricist
Michael Kindo	Hockey Player
Chitra Ghosh	Academician by Profession
Satya Paul	Fashion Designer
Alan Burgess	Cricket Player
Madhavsinh Solanki	Former CM of Gujarat
Neil Sheehan	American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
Turlapati Kutumba Rao	Telugu Journalist
Prof. Shashikumar M Chitre	Astrophysicist and Mathematician
Ved Mehta	Indian-American Writer
D Prakash Rao	Social Activist
Kamal Morarka	Former Union Minister and Industrialist
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Indian Classical Musician
Dr V Shanta	Oncologist by Profession
Mata Prasad	Former Governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
Unnikrishnan Namboothiri	Malayalam Actor
Lary King	American Radio and Television host and a spokesperson
Narendra Chanchal	Indian Bhajan Singer
Narendra Luther	Historian, Author, Poet and Bureaucrat by Profession
Prasanta Dora	Former Indian National Football Team Goalkeeper
Cloris Leachman	American Actress
Paul Crutzen	Noble Prize Winner in Chemistry
Dr Shaibal Guptaa	Economist