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
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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
- 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
- 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
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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