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The Blessed Souls

A line, a tune, a picture. Memories, it’s all we are left with.

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The Blessed Souls
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Music

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  • Manna Dey 94, Singer
  • M.S. Gopalakrishnan 81, Violinist
  • Sripada Pinakapani 99, Carnatic vocalist
  • Shamshad Begum 94, Playback singer
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  • 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
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  • Peter O’Toole 81, British-Irish actor

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

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

Sports

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

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Media

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

Arts

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

Others

  • Sarabjit Singh 49, Indian prisoner in Pakistan
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  • 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
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