Obituaries India for the year 2014 Part I

Months from July To December

December 2014
1.P. J. Sarma, 70, actor and dubbing artist,died due to heart attack
2.Grahanandan Singh, 88, Olympic field hockey player.
3.V. R. Krishna Iyer, 100, judge, member of the Supreme Court.

V.R.Krishna Iyer

4.Deven Verma, 77, film actor.

November 2014
1.Sadashiv Amrapurkar, 64, actor (Ardh Satya, Sadak),died due to lung infection.
2.Mag Raj Jain, 84, social activist.
3.Dwivedula Visalakshi, 85, Telugu language writer.
4.Meesai Murugesan, 84, actor and musician.
5.M.V. Raghavan, 81, politician.
6.Ravi Chopra, 68, film producer and director, lung ailment.
7. Purussottam Nayak, 104, politician and independence activist.
8.C. Rudhraiya, 67, film director.
9. Mercy Williams, 67, politician, cancer.
10.Murli Deora, 77, politician, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
11. Sitara Devi, 94, Kathak dancer.
12. Tapan Raychaudhuri, 90, historian.
13. Jarbom Gamlin, 64, politician, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

October 2014
1. M.V. Kamath, 93,  journalist.
2.Abbas Ali, 94, politician and independence activist.
3. Kapil Krishna Thakur, 74, politician, MP for Bangaon.
4. R.C.Mehta, 96, musician and musicologist.
5. Rajam Krishnan, 89, writer.
6.Ashok Kumar, 72, cinematographer and film director.
7.S.S. Rajendran, 86, actor, lung infection.
8.Amin Kamil, 90, poet.


September 2014
1.Goolam Essaji Vahanvati, 65, lawyer, Attorney General (2009–2014), died due to heart attack.
2.A. P. Venkateswaran, 84, diplomat, Foreign Secretary (1986–1987).
3.Hemendra Chandra Singh, 46, politician.
4.Mahant Avaidyanath, 93, politician.
5.Kireet Joshi, 83, philosopher and educationist,died due to cancer.
6. U. Srinivas, 45, mandolin player.
7.Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar, 85,  linguist and writer.
8.Shankar Vaidya, 86, Marathi poet and writer.
9.Mohammad Ghouse, 83, cricket umpire.

August 2014
1.Arvind Apte, 79, cricketer, died due to prostate cancer.

Pran Sharma

2.Pran Kumar Sharma, 75, cartoonist (Chacha Chaudhary),died due to colon cancer.
3.Dharmesh Tiwari, 63, actor (Mahabharat),died due to cardiac arrest.
4.Odessa Sathyan, 56, documentary filmmaker, died due to pancreatic cancer.
5.B. K. S. Iyengar, 95, yogi, founder of Iyengar Yoga, heart attack and renal failure.
6. U. R. Ananthamurthy, 81, writer, cardiac arrest and renal failure.
7.Lekhraj Bachani, 85, politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2000–2006)
8.Nariman Mehta, 94, Indian-born American pharmacologist.
9.Bipan Chandra, 86, historian.
10.Bapu, 80, Indian film director and cartoonist, suffered cardiac arrest.

July 2014


1.Granville Austin, 87, American historian and academic, leading authority on the Constitution of India, recipient of Padma Shri (2011).
2.Zohra Sehgal, 102, actress (Bend It Like Beckham, The Mistress of Spices, Doctor Who) and choreographer, suffered heart failure.
3.Giriraj Kishore, 94, Hindu political activist.
4. Sulekha Hussain, 85, Urdu novelist.
5.J. Sasikumar, 85, filmmaker and director (Kudumbini, Thommante Makkal).
6.Madhukar Dighe, 94, politician, Governor of Meghalaya. (1990–1995) and Arunachal Pradesh (1993).