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In Current Affairs / General Awareness Category, Obituary is the major topic. We can expect a couple of questions from this topic. The D2G Team has come up with the Complete List of Obituary 2017. PDF Option is also available. You can download the PDF at the bottom of this post.
COMPLETE LIST OF OBITUARY 2017
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NAME OF THE PERSON |
FIELD |
OBITUARY JANUARY 2017
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| Sir John Hurt | Hollywood actor |
| Mary Tyler Moore | US Emmy award-winning actress |
| Alexander Kadakin | Russian Envoy Diplomat |
| Dileep Padgaonkar | Journalist |
| John Berger | Booker prize-winning novelist |
| Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan | Sitar Maestro |
| Gangmumei Kamei | Historian , litterateur and scholar |
| Om Puri | Actor |
| Peter Sarstedt | British singer-songwriter |
| Clare Hollingworth | Journalist |
| Roman Herzog | Former German president |
| Dick Gautier | Actor |
| Gita Sen | Actor |
| Eugene Cernan | US Astronaut |
OBITUARY FEBRUARY 2017 |
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| E. Ahamed | Lok Sabha MP from Kerala |
| Joginder Singh | Former CBI director |
| Asim Basu | Veteran theatre personality |
| ‘Colonel’ Nizamuddin(116) | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s driver and INA veteran |
| Racharla Samrajyam | veteran freedom fighter |
| Sir Peter Mansfield | MRI pioneer and Nobel laureate |
| Jiro Taniguchi | Japan’s comic artist |
| Al Jarreau | Jazz singer |
| T V Parasuram | Journalist |
| Altamas Kabir | Former Chief Justice of India |
| Firebrand Vidarbha
(Lion of Vidarbha) |
Politician, Former Nagpur MP |
| Ved Prakash Sharma | Hindi Novelist |
| Vitaly Churkin | Russia’s U.N. Ambassador |
| Kenneth J. Arrow | Winner of a Nobel prize for economics |
| P Shiv Shankar | Politician |
OBITUARY MARCH 2017 |
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| Taarak Mehta | Gujarati writer |
| Haji Abdul Salam | Politician |
| Syed Shahabuddin | Madhya Pradesh Politician |
| Raymond Kopa | French football legend |
| Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya | Bengali folk music singer |
| Rabi Ray | Lok Sabha Speaker |
| George Olah | Chemistry Nobel winner |
| Sir Howard Hodgkin | Veteran British artist |
| Arvind Padmanabhan | Veteran journalist |
| M Chandrakasu | Politician, Puthucherry |
| Chuck Berry | Rock and roll legend of America |
| Ashwin Sundar | Former racing champion |
| Pyari Mohan Mohapatra | Chanakya of Odisha Politics; politician |
| Dev Raj Sikka | Meteorologist |
| Ashokamitran | Prominent Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi winner |
OBITUARY APRIL 2017 |
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| Kishori Amonkar | Renowned Hindustani classical vocalist |
| Carmen Chacon | Spain’s first female defense minister |
| Akhilesh Das Gupta | Former Union Minister |
| Emma Morano(117) | World’s oldest person |
| Girish Saxena | Former J&K Governor |
| Amilcar Henriquez | International football playe |
| Carmen Chacon | Spain’s first female defense minister |
| Akhilesh Das Gupta | Former Union Minister |
| Emma Morano(117) | World’s oldest person |
| Girish Saxena | Former J&K Governor |
| Amilcar Henriquez | International football player |
| Robert Taylor | Internet pioneer |
| Ali Mohammad Naik | Senior National Conference (NC) leader (J&K) |
| Devineni Rajashekhar | Andra Pradesh Politician |
| Allan Holdsworth | British rock and jazz fusion guitar pioneer |
| Robert Taylor | Internet pioneer |
| Ali Mohammad Naik | Senior National Conference (NC) leader (J&K) |
| Devineni Rajashekhar | Andra Pradesh Politician |
| Allan Holdsworth | British rock and jazz fusion guitar pioneer |
| Vinod Khanna | Veteran Bollywood actor |
| Jonathan Demme | Oscar-winning director |
| Vinu Chakravarthy | Well-known Tamil actor and writer |
OBITUARY MAY 2017
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| Ueli Steck | Swiss Mountain climber |
| Justice Leila Seth | India’s first woman chief judge of a High Court |
| Adolph Kiefer | American Swimmer |
| Ustad Raees Khan | Pakistani sitarist |
| Subrahmanyan Ramaswamy | Politician; Former Puducherry CM |
| Anil Madhav Dave | Environment Minister |
| Reema Lagoo | Veteran film and TV actor |
| Roger Ailes | Fox News co-founder |
| Subrahmanyan Ramaswamy | Politician; Former Puducherry CM |
| Anil Madhav Dave | Environment Minister |
| Reema Lagoo | Veteran film and TV actor |
| Roger Ailes | Fox News co-founder |
| Roger Moore | British Actor |
| Kunwar Pal Singh Gill | Former Punjab DGP |
| Gregg Allman | Musician; keyboard player |
| Dasari Narayana Rao | Telugu Filmmaker and former minister |
| Constantine Mitsotakis | Former Greek Prime Minister |
| Manuel Noriega | Former Panama dictator |
OBITUARY JUNE 2017
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| ‘Kavikko’ Abdul Rahman | Tamil Poet |
| Parvathamma Rajkumar | Kannada film producer |
| Juan Goytisolo | Spanish writer |
| Era Sezhiyan | Veteran Indian Parliamentarian |
| T.S.V Hari | Veteran journalist |
| Basudev Chatterji | Eminent historian |
| Mehrunnisa Dalwai | Eminent Activist |
| T S John | Former Kerala assembly speaker |
| C Narayana Reddy | Eminent Poet |
| N. Bhagwati | Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) |
| John Avildsen | Oscar-winning director |
| Sam Beazley | Harry Potter Actor |
| Amrit Pal | Actor |
| Baldwin Lonsdale | Vanuatu’s Former President |
| Prof. Predhiman Krishan Kaw | Pioneered India’s nuclear fusion reactor research programme |
| Sabita Chowdhury | Bengali Singer |
| KR Mohanan | Malayalam filmmaker |
| Desh Bandhu Gupta | Pharma firm Lupin’s Founder |
OBITUARY JULY 2017 |
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| Ravinder Randev | Journalist |
| Ray Phiri | South African jazz musician |
| Liu Xiaobo | Chinese Nobel Peace laureate |
| Maryam Mirzakhani | First woman to win a Fields Medal in maths |
| Martin Landau | Oscar Winning Actor |
| Barbara Weldens | French singer |
| Udupi Ramachandra Rao | Eminent space scientist and former ISRO Chairman |
| Yash Pal | Eminent Indian scientist |
| Dharam Singh | Former Chief Minister of Karnataka |
| Inder Kumar | Bollywood actor |
| k E Mammen | Freedom fighter |
| Eunice de Souza | Educator, poet, novelist and newspaper columnist |
OBITUARY AUGUST 2017 |
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| Ustad Hussain Sayeeduddin Dagar | Maestro of Hindustani classical music |
| Sam Shepard | Actor and Pulitzer-Winning Playwright |
| Robert Hardy | Harry Potter actor |
| Yisrael Kristal | Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest man |
| Vijay nambisan | poet and write |
| Ruth Pfau | German nun Pakistan’s ‘Mother Teresa’ |
| S Paul | Veteran photographer |
| MK Damodaran | Former Advocate General of Kerala |
| Jerry Lewis | Comedy icon and telethon host |
| Rishang Keishing | Former Manipur Chief Minister |
| Brian Aldiss | Famed British scientific writer |
| Tony De Brum | Former Marshall Islands foreign minister
Champion of Paris Climate Agreement |
| Ramana Da Sengupta | India’s Oldest Cinematographer |
OBITUARY SEPTEMBER 2017 |
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| John Ashbery | Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet |
| Sultan Ahmed | Kolkata Politician; TMC MP & former Central Minister |
| Jomde Kena | Himachal Pradesh Politician; Health and Family Welfare Minister |
| Arjan Singh | India’s only 5-star IAF officer |
| Violet Mosse Brown (117) | Oldest person in the world |
| Shakila | Bollywood actor |
| Liliane Bettencourt | World’s richest woman |
| Tom Alter | Veteran actor |
OBITUARY OCTOBER 2017 |
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| Jalal Talabani | Iraq’s first non-Arab President |
| Kundan Shah | Veteran director |
| Purushottam Lal Kaushik | Former Union minister and socialist leader |
| Baba Bajrang Das | Rajasthan’s “mountain man” |
| Shamsher Khan | India’s first Olympic swimmer |
| Roy Dotrice | British Actor |
| Richard Wilbur | Poet Laureate |
| William Lombardy | Chess grandmaster |
| Gaur Kishore Ganguli | Freedom fighter |
| Girija Devi | Eminent classical singer |
| Punathil Kunjabdulla | Malayalam Writer |
| Dr Digamber Singh | Former BJP minister |
| MV Sridhar | Former BCCI general manager |
| Kim Joo-hyuk | South Korean veteran actor |
| Khadri Achyuthan | Writer and journalist |
OBITUARY NOVEMBER 2017 |
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| Vettoor Purushan | Veteran Malayalam Actor |
| Richard Gordon | Astronaut |
| Manu Sharma | Noted Author |
| Virendra Sanghi | Journalist |
| AG Milkha Singh | India cricketer |
| Kirti Nidhi Bista | Former Nepal Prime Minister |
| Ashok Khale | Cyclist |
| Abdul Mannan Hossain | Politician; Trinamool Congress leader |
| Shyama | Actress |
| Kunwar Narayan | Poet |
| V Khalid | Former SC judge Justice |
| Malcolm Young | AC/DC guitarist |
| Naim Suleymanoglu | Former Olympic and world weightlifting champion |
| Rita Koiral | Actress |
| Jana Novotna dies | Former Wimbledon champion |
| Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | Former All India Football Federation (AIFF) President Politician |
| K V L Narayan Rao | CEO of NDTV |
| Biju Phukan | Assamese Actor |
| Peter Baldwin | Emmy Award-winning director |
| Chandrasekharan Nair | Kerala Politician |
| Shadia | Egyptian actress and singer |
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