Notable Personalities who passed away this year
Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable domestic opponent, passed away in an Arctic Circle jail while serving a 19-year sentence at the IK-3 Arctic prison colony.
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Renowned singer Pankaj Udhas, cherished for his soulful melodies, passed away at 72 after battling a prolonged illness.
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Renowned physicist and Nobel laureate Peter Higgs, known for his groundbreaking work on the Higgs boson, passed away at his home in Edinburgh. He was 95 and suffered from a blood disorder.
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Dwarakish, a celebrated name in Kannada cinema as an actor, producer, and director, died at his Electronics City residence in Bengaluru. The 81-year-old succumbed to a heart attack while asleep, his family revealed.
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Ramoji Rao, the legendary media baron, died in a Hyderabad hospital. He was 87 and had been hospitalized with health issues linked to age.
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Renowned Kannada actress Aparna, known for her iconic voice in Namma Metro announcements, has died at the age of 57 following a two-year battle with advanced lung cancer.
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Aunshuman Gaekwad, who represented India as a player and later coached the team in the late 1990s, passed away on July 31 due to prolonged illness. He succumbed to blood cancer at Vadodara's Bhailal Amin General Hospital.
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CPI(M) general secretary and former Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury passed away after battling a respiratory infection. He was undergoing treatment for pneumonia at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
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Ratan Tata, the former chairman of the Tata group, passed away due to age-related illnesses.
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Kannada film director and actor Guruprasad was found dead in a suspected suicide in Bengaluru.
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SM Krishna, the former chief minister of Karnataka and Union minister, passed away at his residence in Bengaluru due to age-related issues.
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World-renowned tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passed away in the US due to complications from an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, died after suffering from a chronic kidney disease.
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One of the most respected figures in Malayalam literature and cinema, Madath Thekkepat Vasudevan Nair, or M T Vasudevan Nair, passed away at a hospital in Kozhikode, Kerala. He was admitted to the hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for heart failure.
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Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh breathed his last at 92 on December 26. He was admitted to the emergency department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi and was being treated for age-related medical conditions.
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