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Important Obituaries (Nov. 2022 to June 2023) by Dr. Gaurav Garg
1. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch and five-time former chief minister of Punjab Parkash
Singh Badal passed away.
● In 2015, the Government of India awarded Parkash Singh Badal the second-highest civilian award -
Padma Vibhushan.
2. Kaur Singh
● Boxer from Punjab
● Padma Shri and Arjuna awardee
● In 1980, Kaur Singh fought against American boxing legend Muhammad Ali in an exhibition match held
at the National Stadium in New Delhi, Delhi.
4. Dr Kanak Rele
● Indian Mohiniyattam dancer
5. Om Prakash Kohli
● He was an Indian BJP politician who was the Governor of Gujarat from 2014 to 2019.
8. Kerala’s first ‘Ashoka Chakra’ winner Havildar Alby D’Cruz passed away
10. Sanskrit scholar Ved Kumari Ghai passed away, She was from Jammu and Kashmir.
13. Renowned scientist Dr.N. Gopalakrishnan passed away, he was the creator of the Indian Institute of Scientific
Heritage (IISH) in Kerala.
14. Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, a renowned public health activist and veteran fighter of the Liberation War, passed
away in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was called “doctor of the poor”, recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, The
highest civilian award in Bangladesh, the Independence Award, was conferred upon Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury in
1977.
15. Renowned Marathi Lavani singer Sulochana Chavan passed away. She was known as ‘Lavani Samradnyi’
(Queen of Lavani) for her contribution to the traditional Maharashtrian musical genre of Lavani, associated with
the folk theatre of Tamasha.
16. H.R. Keshava Murthy, a senior gamaka exponent, who was honoured with Padma Shri earlier this year, passed
away. Gamaka, also known as kaavya vaachana, is a form of storytelling by singing that originated in Karnataka,
18. The former Pope Benedict XVI passed away, Pope Benedict was the first German to become pope in 1000 years.
He was born as Joseph Ratzinger in Germany.
19. Apollo 7’s last surviving astronaut, Walter Cunningham passed away.
20. Professor Rehman Rahi, renowned poet and Kashmir's first Jnanpith awardee passed away.
21. Constantine II, the former and last King of Greece who ruled Greece before the country became a republic in
1974 passed away in Athens, Greece.
22. A british linguist and educator specialised in Dravidian languages, Ronald E. Asher has passed away at the age of
96.
23. The last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mukarram Jah Bahadur, passed away, was buried in Mecca Masjid courtyard.
24. AD Damodaran, leading scientist and former director of the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science
and Technology (NIIST) in Thiruvananthapuram passed away.
25. Renowned Assamese poet and recipient of Jnapith Award, Nilamani Phookan passed away.
27. ‘Ironman of India’ Sabir Ali, who won the decathlon gold at the 1981 Asian Athletics Championships in Tokyo,
passed away.
29. Salim Durani, a former Indian cricketer, the only cricketer ever born in Afghanistan, passed away.
31. Popular artist B.K.S. Verma and Eminent Indian painter Lalitha Lajmi passed away.
32. Tulsidas Balaram, one of the country’s finest footballers passed away.
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