The Blessed Souls

Music

• Manna Dey 94, Singer
• M.S. Gopalakrishnan 81, Violinist
• Sripada Pinakapani 99, Carnatic vocalist
• Shamshad Begum 94, Playback singer

• Lalgudi Jayaraman 82, Violinist
• Zia Fariduddin Dagar 80 Dhrupad exponent
• V. Dakshinamoorthy 93, Music director
• Reshma 66, Pakistani folk singer
• Raghunath Panigrahi 79 Classical vocalist
• Lou Reed 71, Rock ’n roll singer

Cinema

• Haradhan Bandopadhyay 86, Bengali actor

• Peter O’Toole 81, British-Irish actor

• Rituparno Ghosh 49, Director/actor
• Pran 93, Actor
• Jagdish Raj 84, Actor
• Jiah Khan 25, Actress
• Paul Walker 39, Fast & Furious actor
• Sophiya Haque 41, VJ & Actress
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 85 Oscar-winning screenplay writer
• Dennis Farina 69, TV gangster actor
• James Gandolfini 51, Actor, The Sopranos

Business

• R.P. Goenka 83, Industrialist
• Douglas Engelbart 88, Father of the mouse
• Amar Gopal Bose 83, Inventor of Bose speakers
• Ray Dolby 80, Inventor of Dolby noise reduction

• K. Anji Reddy 73, Founder, Dr Reddy’s Labs
• Viren J. Shah 86, Businessman & former West Bengal governor
• Hari Shankar Singhania 79, Businessman

Politics

• Nelson Mandela 95, Former president of South Africa
• Arun Nehru 68, Former Union minister

• V.C. Shukla 83, Former Union Minister
• Romesh Bhandari 84, Politician
• Hugo Chavez 58, Venezuelan president

• Margaret Thatcher 87, Former British PM
• Sis Ram Ola 86, Former Union minister
• Nitish Sengupta 80, Former bureaucrat and MP
• Mohan Dharia 88, Former ‘Young Turk’, environmentalist
• Khurshid Alam Khan 94, Former Union minister
• Norman Schwarzkopf 78, US general who led Op Desert Storm

Royalty

• Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar 60, Last king of Mysore
• Marthanda Varma 91, Travancore royalty

Sports

• Jaywant Lele 75, Former BCCI secretary
• Desh Prem Azad 75 Celebrity cricket coach
• S.N. Hanumantha Rao 83, former Test umpire
• Ken Norton 70, Former heavyweight boxer

Authors

• Tom Clancy 66, US thriller writer
• Sushmita Banerjee 49 Indian author in Afghanistan
• Tarla Dalal 77, Food writer

• Shakuntala Devi 83, Author and mathematics wizard
• Asghar Ali Engineer 74, Islamic scholar

Media

• David Frost 73, British broadcaster
• Pran Chopra 92, First chief editor, The Statesman

Arts

• Ganesh Pyne 75, Reputed artist, Bengal school
• Mahasundari Devi 92, Madhubani artist

Others

• Sarabjit Singh 49, Indian prisoner in Pakistan

• J.S. Verma 80, Former Chief Justice of India
• Veer Bhadra Mishra 74, Save Ganga activist
• Ottavio Quattrocchi 75 Arms dealer
• Air Commodore Jasjit Singh 79, Defence analyst