Important Obituary Of 2017 in Current Affairs For WBCS Exam
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Obituary 2017(Jan – Dec)
| January | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| C. G. Weeramantry | Jurists | Sri Lanka |
| Mario Soares | Former prime minister and president | Portugal |
| Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Former president | Iran |
| Roman Herzog | Former president | German |
| Zygmunt Bauman | Sociologists | UK |
| John Berger | Novelist and visionary writer | France |
| Clare Hollingworth | Veteran British war correspondent & Journalist | UK |
| Zhou Youguang | Father of Pinyin | China |
| Alexander M Kadakin | Russian Ambassador to India | Russia |
| John Hurt | British actor &Harry Porter actor | Britain |
| Masaya Nakamura | Father of Pac-Man | Japan |
| Eugene Cernan | Astronaut | USA |
| William Christopher | Actor | USA |
| Jean Vuarnet | Former French skier | USA |
| Buddy Greco | Jazz and pop singer and pianist | USA |
| Oliver Smithies | Eneticist and physical biochemist. | USA |
| William Peter Blatty | Author and Director | USA |
| Mary Tyler Moore | Actress | USA |
| KM Philip | Former MRF director | India |
| Om Puri | Actor | India |
| K V Pusa | Politician, Nagaland | India |
| Saral Deb | Politician, West Bengal | India |
| H S Mahadeva Prasad | Politician, Karnataka | India |
| Tarun Prasad | Politician, Chhattisgarh | India |
| MangalNegi | Political And Social Activist, Chhattisgarh | India |
| Abdul HalimJaffer Khan | Sitar maestro, Maharashtra | India |
| C.V. Vishveshwara | Scientist and black hole physicist. | India |
| GangmumeiKabui | Historian& Politician, Manipur | India |
| Gita Sen | Actress | India |
| Deepak Roy | Film director | India |
| Surjit Singh Barnala | Former Chief Minister of Punjab&governor of Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. |
India |
| ChandrakantChhajed | Politician, Maharashtra | India |
| Naqsh Lyallpuri | Urdu poet and lyricist | India |
| Devdutt | Journalist | India |
| February | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Kaci Kullmann | Chair-woman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee | Norway |
| Kenneth J Arrow | Nobel-winning economist, mathematician | USA |
| Dick Bruna | Author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer | Netherland |
| Al Jarreau | Legendary jazz singer | USA |
| Jiro Taniguchi | Writer | Japan |
| Vitaly Churkin | Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations | Russia |
| Piet Keizer | Former professional football player | Netherland |
| Sir Peter Mansfield | Physicist and Nobel laureate | UK |
| Alan Simpson | Screenwriter | UK |
| Bano Qudsia | Urdu novelist and playwriter | Pakistan |
| Suranjit Sengupta Das | Awami League Leader | Bangladesh |
| Ved Prakash | Hindi novelist, Uttar Pradesh | India |
| E Ahamed | Former Union minister and Indian Union Muslim League leader | India |
| Asim Basu | Theatre personality, actor, director, artist, painter and
writer from Odisha |
India |
| Joginder Singh | Former CBI Director | India |
| Pathani Patnaik | Educationist and litterateur, Odisha | India |
| Racharla Samrajyam | Freedom Fighter, Andhra Pradesh | India |
| Nizamuddin | Indian National Army veteran | India |
| Pandit Dharmsheel Chaturvedi | Writer and journalist, UP | India |
| T V Parasuram | Journalist | India |
| Yudhisthir Joshi | Marathi journalist , Maharashtra | India |
| Jambuwantrao Dhote | Former Nagpur MP and firebrand leader | India |
| Gangadayal Awasthi | Social worker and RSS activist, Maharashtra | India |
| Altamas Kabir | Former Chief Justice of India(39th CJI) | India |
| Banasree Sengupta | Bengali singer , West Bengal | India |
| Shibaji Banerjee | Former Mohun Bagan goalkeeper , West Bengal | India |
| V. K. Srinivasan | Noted bureaucrat, columnist , Telangana | India |
| P. Shiv Shankar | Former Union Minister , Telangana | India |
| March | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Dr. Thomas Starzl | Father of modern transplantation | USA |
| George Olah | Chemistry Nobel laureate | USA |
| Amy Krouse Rosenthal | Filmmaker and Children’s Author | USA |
| Chuck Berry | Guitarist, singer and songwriter | USA |
| David Rockefeller | Philanthropis | USA |
| Raymond Kopa | Former Football player | France |
| Rene Preval | Former President | Haiti |
| Ronald Drever | Physicist | UK |
| John Surtees | F1 Legend | UK |
| Ronnie Moran | Former Football player | UK |
| Derek Walcott | Poet and playwrighter | Saint Lucia |
| Ahmed Kathrada | South African anti-apartheid activist | South Africa |
| Dr N M Namboodiri | Historian and writer | India |
| Rabi Ray | Politician, Puri parliamentary constituency, Odisha | India |
| Syed Shahabuddin | Former Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer | India |
| Taarak Mehta | Gujarati Writer | India |
| Haji Abdul Salam | Politician(Wabagai assembly constituency
), Manipur |
India |
| Yumnam Yaima Singh | Politician(Oinam Constituency), Manipur | India |
| Kalikaprasad Bhattarcharya | Bengali folk music singer | India |
| Arvind Padmanabhan | Journalist | India |
| M Chandrakasu | Former Puducherry Minister | India |
| Umesh Sood | Former football player | India |
| Diphan | Malayalam film director | India |
| Ashwin Sundar | Former Car Racer | India |
| Dev Raj Sikka | Meteorologist | India |
| Pyarimohan Mohapatra | Politician, Odisha | India |
| Chinu Modi | Gujarati poet, novelist, story-writer | India |
| Asokamitran | Tamil Writer | India |
| TR Andhyarujina | Eminent Jurist and Senior Advocate | India |
| Arun Sarma | Playwrighter | India |
| Gurdev Singh Badal | Politician, Panjgrain constituency | India |
| April | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| James Rosenquist | Pop art pioneer | USA |
| Gilbert Baker | LGBT rainbow flag creator | USA |
| Don Rickles | Comedian | USA |
| Robert W. Taylor | Computer pioneer | USA |
| Allan Holdsworth | Guitar Pioneer | USA |
| Jonathan Demme | Oscar-winning director | USA |
| Ikutaro Kakehashi | Roland founder and music pioneer | Japan |
| Carme Chacon | Former Defence Minister | Spain |
| Mark Wainberg | HIV/AIDS researcher | Canada |
| Emma Morano | Last known survivor of 19th Century dies | Italy |
| Germaine Mason | Olympic silver medallist | Britain |
| Rasa Popov | Legendary writer for children | Serbia |
| Narayan Sanyal | Top Maoist Leader | India |
| Ajey Jhankar | Author and filmmaker | India |
| Kishori Amonkar | Hindustani classical vocalis | India |
| Akhilesh Das Gupta | Ex-Union minister and Badminton Association of India chief, UP | India |
| Munshi Venu | Malayalam actor | India |
| Girish Chandra Saxena | Former J&K Governor | India |
| Narsingh Baitha | Former Bihar Minister | India |
| Devineni Rajashekhar | Former Andhra Pradesh minister | India |
| Ali Mohammad Naika | Former speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly | India |
| Vinod Khanna | Bollywood actor and politician | India |
| Nora Chopra | Journalist | India |
| Begum Yaman K. Khan | Sufi legend | India |
| Vinu Chakravarthy | Actor-director of Tamil Films | India |
| May | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| A.R. Penck | Artist | German |
| MaunoKoivisto | First leftist president | Finland |
| Ely Ould Mohamed Vall | Former junta Chief | Mauritania |
| Ueli Steck | Climber | Switzerland |
| Min Bahadur Sherchan | Mountaineer | Nepal |
| Stanley Weston | ACTV Founder & GI Joe Inventor | USA |
| Stanley Greene | Photojournalist | USA |
| Chris Cornel | Musician, singer and songwriter | USA |
| Sir Roger Moore | James Bond actor | UK |
| Manuel Noriega | Former Panamanian dictator | Panama |
| Constantine Mitsotakis | Former Prime Minister | Greece |
| Lura Biagiotti | Fashion designer | Italy |
| Matthunny Mathews | Indian Businessman | Kuwait |
| Ustad Raees Khan | Sitar player | Pakistan |
| Wajahat Attre | Music director | Pakistan |
| Leila Seth | First woman chief justice of a Delhi high court Justice (retd) | India |
| Pratap Singh Baghel | Former Madhya Pradesh minister – Dhar | India |
| Capt. Chand Roop | Dronacharya awardee and wrestler | India |
| R. Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha | Chairman of Ramco Group | India |
| Karan Singh | Himachal Pradesh Cabinet Minister | India |
| Subrahmanyan Ramaswamy | Former Puducherry Chief Minister | India |
| Arjun Tulshiram Pawar | Former Maharashtra Minister, Kalwan | India |
| Anil Madhav Dave | Union environment minister, Madhya Pradesh | India |
| Reema Lagoo | Actress | India |
| Rammohan Rao | Former Principal Information Officer (PIO) | India |
| Kanwar Pal Singh Gill | Former Punjab Director General of Police | India |
| Kiran Ashar | Former cricketer | India |
| Dasari Narayana Rao | Veteran Filmmaker | India |
| Paravathamma Rajkumar | Film producer | India |
| June | |||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country | |
| Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann | Former President of the UN General Assembly | USA | |
| Adam West | TV’s Batman actor | USA | |
| John Avildsen | Director | USA | |
| S S Khaplang | National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang, NSCN(K)leader | Myanmar | |
| Sam Beazley | Harry Potter’s actor | UK | |
| Helmut Kohl | Father of German reunification | German | |
| Carla Fendi | Fashion legend | Italy | |
| Baldwin Lonsdale | Former President | Vanuatu | |
| Michael Nyqvist | Actor | Sweden | |
| Juan Goytisolo | Writer | Spain | |
| Adnan Khashoggi | Arms dealer | Saudi Arabia | |
| T.S.V. Hari | Journalist | India | |
| ‘Kavikko’ Abdul Rahman | Tamil poet | India | |
| Shivraj | Character actor, Hindi | India | |
| Mehrunnisa Dalwai | Prominent Muslim activist | India | |
| Era Sezhiyan | Tamil politician | India | |
| C Narayana Reddy | Telugu poet and writer | India | |
| Ajmer Singh Aulakh | Punjabi playwrighter | India | |
| P N Bhagwati | Former Chief Justice of India | India | |
| Amrit Pal | Bollywood actor | India | |
| Atmasthanandaji Maharaj | President of Ramakrishna Mission | India | |
| Scientist P K Kaw | Plasma physicist | India | |
| Desh Bandhu Gupta | Founder and chairman of Lupin Limited | India | |
| K.R. Mohanan | Filmmaker | India | |
| O N Dhar | Former bureaucrat | India | |
| Sabita Chowdhury | Bengali and Hindi films Singer | India | |
| Former CPI legislator | N Gurusamy | ||
| Palvai Govardhan Reddy | Politician, Telangana | India | |
| Basudev Chatterji | Historian, former ICHR chairman | India | |
| July | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Simone Veil | Feminist politician | France |
| Minaketan Das | Actor | India |
| Ravinder Randev | Journalist | India |
| Madhukar Toradmal | Actor-writer | India |
| John Blackwell | Drummer | USA |
| Gour Ghosh | Former Bengal and Jharkhand First-Class cricketer | India |
| Nelsan Ellis | Actor | USA |
| Sumita Sanyal | Actress | India |
| Naresh Chandra | Former Indian Ambassador to U.S. | India |
| A. Mohanakrishnan | Water expert and former Cauvery Technical Cell Chairman | India |
| Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | IS supreme leader | Iraq |
| Elsa Martinelli | Actress | Italy |
| Mangesh Tendulkar | Cartoonist | India |
| P Chandra Sekharan | Forensic expert | India |
| Ray Phiri | Jazz musician | South Africa |
| Liu Xiaobo | Writer (Nobel laureate) | China |
| Maryam Mirzakhani | Mathematician | Iran |
| Nar Bahadur Bhandari | Politician(FormerSikkim CM) | India |
| Martin Landau | Actor | USA |
| Red West | Actor-song writer | USA |
| Shivajirao Patil | Politician | India |
| Uzhavoor Vijayan | Politician | India |
| Chester Bennington | Singer | USA |
| UR Rao | Space scientist ( Former ISRO Chief) | India |
| Sudripta Roy | IAS(Former Himachal Pradesh chief secretary) | India |
| Yash Pal | Scientist | India |
| Mervyn Rose | Tennis Player (Former Grand Slam champion) | Australia |
| Kubersingh Saklecha | Freedom fighter & Social worker | India |
| K.E. Mammen | Freedom fighter | India |
| Dharam Singh | Politician(Former Karnataka CM) | India |
| Inder Kumar | Actor | India |
| August | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Ustad Hussain Sayeeduddin
Dagar |
Eminent Dhrupad singer | Rajasthan,Indi
a |
| Santosh Mohan Dev | Senior Congress leader and former Union minister | Assam,India |
| Sam Shepard | Actor and Pulitzer-Winning Playwright | U.S |
| Pushpa Mittra Bhargava | Veteran Molecular biologist | India |
| Jyoti Gupta | Woman hockey player | India |
| Robert Hardy | Harry Potter actor | UK |
| Vishvjit P Singh | Rajya Sabha Ex-MP | India |
| Ajmer Sanwar Lal Jat | Former Union minister and BJP MP | India |
| Gyan Singh Sohanpal | Former West Bengal minister | India |
| Sitaram Panchal | Acclaimed Bollywood actor | India |
| Vijay Nambisan | Poet, Writer | India |
| Ted Corbett | Veteran sports journalist | UK |
| SifisoThabete | Bodybuilder | South Africa |
| Yisrael Kristal | World’s oldest man | Israel |
| Joe Bologna | Actor-screenwriter | Newyork |
| Shanmuga sundaram | Actor | India |
| MK Damodaran | Former Advocate General of Kerala | India |
| S Paul | Veteran photographer | India |
| Dick Gregory | Comedian, civil rights activist | USA |
| Jerry Lewis | US comedian | USA |
| Rishang Keishing | Former Manipur CM | India |
| Tom Pritchard | New Zealand’s oldest cricketer | NZ |
| Brian Aldiss | Science fiction author | UK |
| Ramananda Sengupta | India’s oldest cinematographer | India |
| Jay Thomas | ‘Murphy Brown’ and ‘Cheers’ Actor | US |
| Tony de Brum | Politician | Marshal Lands |
| Ahmed Khan | Legendary footballer and Olympian | India |
| September | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Sumiteru Taniguchi | Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe | Japan |
| John Ashbery | Poet | USA |
| ShirishPai | Marathi poet | India |
| Sultan Ahmed | Politician | India |
| JomdeKena | Politician (Arunachal Pradesh Health Minister ) | India |
| R.N. Sudarshan | Kannada Actor | India |
| Syed Mustafiz Ahmed | Politician | India |
| Edith Windsor | LGBT rights activist | USA |
| PP Rao | Constitutional law expert and Advocate | India |
| Frank Vincent | Actor | USA |
| Violet Mosse Brown | World’s Oldest Person | Jamaica |
| Arjan Singh | Marshal of the IAF | India |
| MahantChandnath | Politician | Rajasthan , India |
| Dr.K.S.Chugh, | Doctor(Father of nephrology in India) | India |
| Mohammed Taslimuddin | Politician (RJD leader ) | India |
| Qamarul Islam | Politician (Ex-Karnataka minister) | India |
| StanislavPetrov, | Former Soviet military officer | Russia |
| Liliane Bettencourt | world’s richest woman | France |
| Jake LaMotta | Boxing | USA |
| Arun Sadhu | Marathi writer, journalist | India |
| Charles Bradley | Charles Bradley | USA |
| Eman Ahmed | Former world’s heaviest woman | Egypt |
| DwijenBandyopadhyay | Bengali actor | India |
| KiyaniliePeseyie | Nagaland Politician | India |
| Suryamani Panda | Freedom fighter | India |
| Hugh Hefner | Playboy magazine founder | USA |
| MakhanLalFotedar | Politician | India |
| Tom Alter | Actor | India |
| RM Bhagawati | Journalist | India |
| October | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Hanumant Moreshwar Marathe | Marathi writer | India |
| Purushottam Lal Kaushik | Politician | India |
| Kundan Shah | Cinema | India |
| Prabhakarpant Ojharkar | Politician | India |
| Bismoy Kumar Mohanty | Journalist | India |
| Satish Chandra | Historian of medieval India | India |
| Lekh Tandon | Cinema | India |
| Shamsher Khan | Swimmer | India |
| Punyaslok Dasgupta | Poet | India |
| Roy Dotrice | Actor | Britain |
| Richard Wilbur | Richard Wilbur | USA |
| Ram Singh Yadav | Politician | India |
| William James Joseph Lombardy | chess grandmaster | USA |
| Danielle Darrieux | French film legend | France |
| Amal Datta | Former Lok Sabha member | India |
| I.V.Sasi | Noted Malayalam filmmaker | India |
| Girija Devi | Classical singer | India |
| Sana Iqbal | Woman Biker | India |
| Gaur Kishore Ganguli | Freedom Fighter | India |
| Fats Domino | rock ‘n’ roll pioneer | USA |
| Rasiklal Dhariwal | Manikchand Group chairman | India |
| Punathil Kunjabdulla | Malayalam writer | India |
| Dr Digamber Singh | Former BJP minister | India |
| Dr. M.V. Sridhar | Former BCCI GM | India |
| Gautam Adhikari | Co-founder of SAB TV | India |
| Kim Joo-hyuk | South Korean veteran | South Korea |
| Khadri Achyuthan | Kannada writer and journalist | India |
| November | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Dina Wadia | Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Daughter | Pakistan |
| Vettoor Purushan | Malayalam Actor | India |
| Karin Dor | Actor | Germany |
| Manu Sharma | Author | India |
| Virendra Sanghi | Journalist | India |
| Milkha Singh | Cricketer | India |
| Ashok Khale | Cyclist | India |
| Kirti Nidhi Bista | Former Nepal PM | Nepal |
| Abdul Mannan Hossain | Politician | India |
| Jagdish Mohan | Hindustani vocalist of Kirana Gharan | India |
| Justice V Khalid | Former SC Judge | India |
| Kunwar Narayan | Hindi poet and Jnanpith awardee | India |
| Daniel Hegarty | British motorcycle racer | Britain |
| Naim Suleymanoglu | 3-time Olympic gold weightlifter | Turkey |
| Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | Politician | India |
| Bhagwati Prasad | Former chief justice of Jharkhand High Court | India |
| Jana Novotna | Former Wimbledon champion | Czech
Republic |
| Della Reese | TV actress | USA |
| Habibullah Basha | Jurist | India |
| Sudip Datta Bhowmik | journalist | India |
| Biju Phukan | Actor | India |
| December | ||
| Name of the person | Profession | Country |
| Abi | Malayalam actor and mimicry artist | India |
| Saraswati Tripathy | Freedom fighter | India |
| Sreerupa Mukherjee | Indian women’s cricket Player | India |
| Adarsh Sein Anand | 29th Chief Justice of India | India |
| Purabi Mukhopadhyay | Sangeet singer | India |
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | Yemeni president | Yemen |
| Shashi Kapoor | Bollywood actor | India |
| Ja Ra Sundaresan | Tamil journalist and humourist | India |
| Laloo Chiba | South African freedom fighter | South Africa |
| Johnny Hallyday | Rock star | France |
| Sukharanjan Sengupta | Journalist | India |
| Lalji Singh | Scientist | India |
| Batuk Gathani | Journalist and foreign correspondent | India |
| Chaudhary Prem Singh | Politician | India |
| Neeraj Vora | Actor-director | India |
| Rabisankar Bal | Journalist and Bengali author | India |
| Keely Smith | Pop and jazz singer | USA |
| Jatileswar Mukhopadhyay | Bengali singer | India |
| Bruce McCandless | NASA astronaut | USA |
| Banwari Lal Joshi | Former UP Governor | India |
| Partha Mukhopadhyay | Bengali actor | India |
| Robbie Malinga | South African musician | South Africa |
| Ashok Kumar Mattoo | Sports administrator | India |
| Alfie Curtis | Actor | Britain |
| Hoshang Dadiba Amroliwala | Cricket player | India |
| Dr Daljit Singh | Ophthalmologist | India |
| Sue Grafton | Author | USA |
| M V Pylee | Educationist | India |
| Adithyan | South Indian music director | India |
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