DECEMBER - JANUARY PERSON PASSED AWAY IN 2025/26

DECEMBER 2025 - 

* Oscar Winning UK Playwright Tom Stoppard Passed Away.

* A Four Time Roland GARROS champion Nicola Pietrangeli Passed Away.

*  Former English Cricketer Robin Smith Passed Away

*  Veteran Tamil Cinema Producer And Owner Of AVM Studio in Chennai M Saravaran Passed Away.

*  Swaraj KAUSHAL, Former External affairs Minister Sushama Swaraj Husband Passed Away.( FORMER GOVERNOR OF MZORAM) 

*  D- Day Veteran Charles Shay Who Saved Live On Omaha Beach Passed Away.

*  CHINESE Actor Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa Passed Away.

* Ratan Tata's Step Mother Simone Tata Passed Away.

*  Frank Gehry, The Noted Architecture Passed Away.

* Casto Abundo, Former Executive Director Of Asian Chess Federation Passed Away.

* Veteran Actor Kalyan Chattopadhyaya Passed Away.

* Veteran Socialist Leader Dr Baba Adhav Passed Away.

* A Grammy Nominated Rhode Island Musician Killed.

* * LAIN DOUGLAS HAMILTON 

BORN IN - 16TH AUGUST 1942 

DIED ON - 08TH DECEMBER 2025 

* HE WAS A SCOTTISH ZOOLOGIST, FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY, 

* IN 1993 HE FOUNDED SAVE THE ELEPHANT 

* HIS FIRST' SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON ELEPHANT AT THE AGE OF 23 IN TANZANIA, LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK, 

AWARD - 

* 1988 - THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN ARK ( For ELEPHANT CONSERVATION) 

* 1992 - THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2015 - COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2010 - INDIANPOLIS PRIZE 

* 2006 - DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND AWARD 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY SAN DIEGO 

* HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF ALFRED DOUGLAS HAMILTON (13th DUKE OF HAMILTON) 

BOOKS - 

* HE & HIS WIFE ORIA HAMILTON CO AUTHOR 

- AMONG THE ELEPHANTS (1975) 

- BATTLE OF THE ELEPHANTS (1992) 

- THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN 

* HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TO CITES FOR MONITORING THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF ELEPHANT (MIKE) IN AFRICA 

* 1982 - IUCN MEMBER FOR AFRICANS ELEPHANT SPECIALIST GROUPS 

* * FORMER UNION MINISTER SHIVRAJ VISWANATH PATIL CHAKURKAR PASSED AWAY ON 12TH DECEMBER 2025 

* BORN IN - 12TH OCTOBER 1935 ( HYDERABAD) 

OATH AS - 

* 27TH GOVERNOR OF PUNJAB (2010-2015) 

* 14TH ADMINISTRATOR OF CHANDIGARH 

* 27TH UNION MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS (2004-2008) 

* 10TH SPEAKER OF LOK SABHA ( 1991-1996) 

* MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, LOK SABHA ( 1980-2004) 

* MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, RAJYA SABHA ( 2004-2010) 

* 9TH DEPUTY SPEAKER OF LOK SABHA ( 1990-1991) 

* 8TH SPEAKER OF MAHARSHTRA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (1978-1979) 

* MEMBERS OF MAHARSHTRA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY+ ( 1972-1980) 

* 5TH DEPUTY SPEAKER OF MAHARSHTRA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ( 1977-1978) 

* 1983-84 ( TOOK CHARGE OF SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY, ATOMIC ENERGY, ELECTRONIC, SPACE DEVELOPMENT) 

* VICE PRESIDENT OF CSIR INDIA' 

*Chinese Actress He Qing Passed Away.

* Karnataka Congress MLA Shamanuru Shivashankarappa Passed Away.

* Shri P G Baruah, Owner, Editor And Managing Director Of The Assam Tribune Passed Away.

* ) FORMER MP Dr Ram Vilas Das Vedanti, Has Passed Away.

* Former Srilankan Cricketer D S Desilva Passed Away 

* VETERAN Odia Film Producer Rabindra Sahu Passed Away.

*  PULITZER Prize Winning Reporter Peter Arnett Passed Away 

* Australian Para Athlete ( Long Jumps) Nicholas Hum Passed Away.

* * EMINENT ARTIST RAM VANJI SUTAR PASSED AWAY ON 18TH DECEMBER 2025 

* BORN IN - 19TH FEBRUARY 1925 

* WHO DESIGNED THE STATUE OF UNITY, GUJARAT 

* NOTABLE WORK - 

- STATUE OF UNITY 

- STATUE OF PROSPERITY 

- STATUE OF MAHATMA GANDHI, PARLIAMENT 

AWARDS - 

- MAHARSHTRA BHUSHAN (2024)

- PADMA BHUSHAN (2016) 

- TAGORE AWARD (2016) 

- PADMA SHRI ( 1999) 

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* Eminent Adi Folk Singer And Cultural Omak Komut Passed Away.

* Senior IIS OFFICER Baqar Mirza Passed Away.

* * BOTANIST PALPU PUSHPAGADAN PASSED AWAY ON 19TH DECEMBER 2025, 

* BORN ON - 23RD JANUARY 1944 

* WAS DIRECTOR OF TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN & RESEARCH INSTITUTE ( TBGRI) KERALA. 

* WAS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ( NBRI) LUCKNOW 

* WAS DIRECTOR FOR REJIV GANDI CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY, THIRUVVANANTHPURAM, KERALA 

PROFICIENCY IN - 

* CYTOGENETICS 

* PLANT BREEDING 

* BIOPROSPECTING 

* ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 

* HE WAS KNOWN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEEVANI ( DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINAL PLANT AROGYAPACHA ( TRICHOPUS ZEYALNICUS) 

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AWARDS - 

* PADMASHRI ( 2010) 

* DINGRA MEMORIAL AWARD (1980, 1983) 

* BORLAUG AWARD (1998) 

* JOHN W HARSHBERGER MEDAL (2001) 

* UN EQUATOR INITIATIVE PRIZE (2002) 

* AYURVEDA GAURAV AWARD (2009) 

* DR A P J ABDUL KALAM MEMORIAL NABS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (2020) 

*  Actor, Script Writer Sreenivasan Passed Away.

* Senior Journalist Prabha Jagannathan Passed Away.

* Former Ranji Star Of Assam Naba Kamal Bhuyan Passed Away.

* Hollywood Actor James Ransone Passed Away.

* *NOTED AUTHOR VINOD KUMAR SHUKLA PASSED AWAY ON 23RD DECEMBER 2025 

* BORN ON - 1ST JANUARY 1937 (CHHATTISGARH) 

* HE BECAME THE FIRST INDIAN AUTHOR TO RECEIVED THE PEN/ NABOKOV AWARD IN INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE 2023.

* IN 2024 HE BECAME THE FIRST AUTHOR FROM CHHATTISGARH TO RECEIVED THE JANPATH AWARD.

* HIS FIRST COLLECTION OF POEM - LAG BHAG JAI HIND (PUBLISHED IN 1971) 

* HE BECAME DID MSc In Agriculture In JNKVV In Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

NOTABLE WORKS - 

* LAG BHAG JAI HIND (1971) (POEM COLLECTION) 

* VAH AADMI CHALA GAYA NAYA GARAM COAT PEHANKAR VICHAR KI TARAH (1981 - 2ND POEM COLLECTION) 

* NAUKAR KI KAMEEZ ( FIRST NOVEL 1979) 

* SAB KUCH HONA BACHA RAHEGA (1992 POEM COLLECTION)

* KHILEGE TO DEKHENGE (1992 NOVEL) 

* DEEWAR MEIN EK KHIRKEE RAHTI THI (1994) 

AWARDS - 

* 1999 - SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD 

* 2023 - PEN/NABOKOV AWARD 

* 2024 -JANPITH AWARD .

* Noted Actress And Dancer Ranjana Sharma Bordoloi Passed Away.

* Shri Biswa Bandhu Sen, Speaker Of Tripura Legislative assembly Passed Away.

* French Actress And Singer Brigitte Bardot Passed Away.

*  Television Maker And FOUNDER Of Krishnaswamy Associate S Krishnaswamy Passed Away.

* Former England Cricket Board Chief Executive Hugh Morris PASSED AWAY.

* * FORMER PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST WOMAN PRIME MINISTER OF KHALEDA ZIA PASSED AWAY ON 30TH DECEMBER 2025 

* BORN IN - 15th AUGUST 1945 

* SHE SERVED PRIME MINISTER OF BANGLADESH FROM 1991 -1996 

* SHE SERVES HER 2ND TENURE FROM 2001 TO 2006.

* SHE WAS THE WIFE FORMER PRESIDENT OF BANGLADESH - ZIAUR RAHMAN 

* SHE BECAME 3RD CHAIRPERSON OF THE BANGLADESH NATIONALIST PARTY FROM 1984 TO 2025 

AWARDS & HONOURS - 

* 2011 - FIGHTER FOR DEMOCRACY  ( New Jersey State Senate) 

* 2008- MOTHER OF DEMOCRACY AWARD ( By CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION CHRIO) 

BIOGRAPHY - 

* BEGUM KHALEDA ZIA: Her Life Her Story ( Book Author - Mahfuz Ullah) in 2018 

* Legendary Srilankan Singer Kalasuri Latha Walpola Passed Away.

JANUARY 2026 - 

*  Gyan Ranjan Das, Former National Football PLAYER From Odisha Passed Away.

* Shri Skylance G Momin, The First GARO MPS Officer Of Nagaland Passed Away. 

* Two Times MLA From Nilgiri, Odisha Shri Akshay Acharya Passed Away.

* Siddhartha Bhaiya, Managing Director Of Aequitas Passed Away.

* Dr Shyam Bihari Lal, MLA From Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh PASSED AWAY.

* Professor Ashok Gajanan Modak, FORMER National President Of The Akhila BHARATIYA Vidyarthi Parishad Has Passed Away.

* Senior Journalist Punam Thakur Passed Away.

*  Senior DMK Leader L Ganesan Passed Away.

* Eminent Historian And King Of Khariar, Nuapada District, Odisha Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo Passed Away.

* Malayalam ACTOR Kannan Pattambi Passed Away.

* Tatiana Schlossberg, The Environmental Journalist And Grand Daughter Of Former US President John F Kennedy Passed Away.

* * FORMER UNION MINISTER SURESH KALMADI PASSED AWAY ON 6TH JANUARY 2026. 

* BORN ON - 1ST MAY 1944 ( MADRAS) 

WORKED AS - 

* 9TH PRESIDENT OF INDIAN OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION ( 1996-2011) 

* MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ( 1996-1998) PUNE CONSTITUENCY ( 11TH LOK SABHA) 

* MINISTER OF STATE FOR RAILWAY ( 1995-1996) 

* MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, RAJYA SABHA ( 1982-2004) 

* IN 1977 HE BECAME THE PPRESIDENT OF YOUTH CONGRESS, PUNE 

* 1989 - CHAIRMAN OF THE MAHARASHTRA TOURISM DEPARTMENT 

* 2000- 2013 - PRESIDENT OF ASIAN ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION 

* IN 2015 WAS NAMED ITS LIFE PRESIDENT 

* * Former World Billiards Champion Manoj Kothari Passed Away At The Age Of 67 in Tamilnadu.

* IN 1990 HE BECAME THE BILLIARD CHAMPION 

* 16 TIMES NATIONAL CHAMPION IN BILIARDS 

AWARDS - 

* 2005 - DHYAN CHAND AWARD 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER ASSOCIATION OF INDIA 

*  V K Ebrahim Kunju, Senior Leader Of Indian Union Muslim League ( IUML) & Former Kerala Minister For Public Works Passed Away. 

* Artist Syed Asif Ali Passed Away. 

* Michael Reagan, Son Of Former US President Ronald Reagan Passed Away.

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16) Former MP And Union Minister Shri Kabindra Purkayastha Passed Away.

* * INDIAN ECOLOGIST MADHAB DHANANJAY GADGIL PASSED AWAY ON 7TH JANUARY 2026 

* HE WAS AN ACADEMIC, ECOLOGIST, WRITER, COLUMNIST 

* HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF The CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES.

* BORN IN - 24TH MAY 1942 ( PUNE) 

* HE WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COUNCIL TO PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA (1986) 

* HE WAS HEAD OF THE WESTERN GHAT ECOLOGY EXPERT PANEL ( WGEEP) IN 2010

* A GODGIL COMMISSION (2010) 

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WORKED AS - 

* 1971 - SCIENTIFIC OFFICER AT AGARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

* 1973 - JOINED IISC BENGALURU 

* HE  ESTABLISHED TWO RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

- CENTRE OF THE THEORETICAL STUDIES 

- CENTRE OF ECOLOGICAL STUDIES 

* 1991 - WORKED AS VISITING PROFESSOR OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY 

* & UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY (1995) 

* DURING 1986 ( AS JOINED AS SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY OF PM) ESTABLISHED A BIOSPHERE ( FIRST) BIOSPHERE RESERVES IN NILGIRI in 1986 

* 1998 - APPOINTED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY PANEL OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY ( UNDER UN (

* MEMBER OF THE NCERT 

* MEMBER OF NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL 

* MEMBER OF NATIONAL TIGER CONSERVATION AUTHORITY 

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AWARDS & HONOURS - 

* 1984 - FELLOW OF NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY 

* HONORARY FELLOW OF ASSOCIATION FOR TROPICAL BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION ( ATBC) 

* NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FELLOWSHIP OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST ( FOR WESTERN GHATS) 

* 1981 - PADMA SHRI 

* 2006 - PADMA.   BHUSHAN 

* 1986 - SHANTI SWAROOP BHATNAGAR AWARD 

* 1983 - RAJYOSTOV PRASHASTHI ( KARNATAKA) 

* 2002 - HARVARD CENTENNIAL MEDAL 

* 2003 - VOLVO ENVIRONMENT PRIZE 

* 2007 - H K FIRODIA AWARD 

* 2013 - DOCTORATE OF SCIENCE ( ODISHA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY )

* 2014 - GEORGESCU - ROGEN AWARD 

* 2015 - JOHN & ALICE TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 

* Vikram SARABHAI AWARD 

* ISHWAR CHANDRA VIDYA SAGAR AWARD 

* 2019 - FERGUSON GAURAV PURSAKAR 

* 2024 - CHAMPION OF EARTH AWARD 

* EPONYMY - 

* ELAEOCARPUS GADGILII, a Tree Species In Kerala named After Him.

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BOOKS - 

* THE FISSURED LAND (WITH RAMCHANDRA GUHA) 

* A WALK UP THE HILL 

* ECOLOGY & EQUITY 

* THE USE AND ABUSE OF NATURE 

* ECOLOGICAL JOURNEY 

* NURTURING BIODIVERSITY :

* BUTTERFLIES: OF PENINSULAR INDIA 

* DRAGONFLIES OF INDIA, A FIELD GUIDE 

* Former Indian Forward (Footballer) Sadatullah Khan Passed Away.

( He Debuted In Merdeka Cup in 1968) 

*  INDIAN Idol Winner And Actor Prasant Tamang Passed Away.

* Swiss Author Erich Von Daeniken Passed Away.

* Veteran Bangladeshi Singer & Awami League Leader Prolay Chaki Passed Away.

* Former Indian Hockey Star Davinder Singh Passed Away. 

*  Noted SINGER Samar Hazarika ( ASSAM) Passed Away. ( YOUNGER BROTHER OF BHUPEN HAZARIKA) 

*  Senior Kerala. Congress Leader Thomas Kuthiravattam Passed Away.

* Former ASSAM MLA And Retired IAS OFFICER Bir Bhadra Hagjer Passed Away.

* Civil Right Pioneer Claudette Colvin Of US Passed Away.

* World War 2 Veteran MWO Ganesh Chandra Roy Passed Away 

* Pradip Baruah, Veteran Editor Of PRANTIK, ( Assamese Literary Magazine) Passed Away.

* Eminent Literature Rajkumari Indira Devi Dhanrajgir Of Hyderabad PASSED AWAY.

*  Former Indian First Class Cricketer Ajay Verma PASSED AWAY.

* G Rajkumar, An Eminent ENVIRONMENTALIST Of Kerala Passed Away.

( KNOWN AS KURINJI RAJKUMAR) 

* WHO Led The Role In The Estsblishment Of Kurinjimala Sanctuary 2006) 

( to protect The Rare Neelakurinji Flower In Western Ghat) 

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*  Shri Mohan Lal Mittal An Industrialist Passed Away.

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* Assam's First Radio Jockey Fawzia Rahman Passed Away.

*  FREEDOM FIGHTER And Congress Leader Bheemanna Khandre Passed Away.

* Chief Secretary Of FINANCE Odisha Mr Suresh Tripathi Passed Away.

* Former Bjp Minister Of Maharashtra Raj Purohit Passed Away.

* * NOTED VIOLINIST OF ASSAM MINOTI KHAUND PASSED AWAY ON 19th JANUARY 2026 

* SHE HAS BEEN PART OF THIS INDUSTRY FOR 50 YEARS.

* BORN IN 1940.

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AWARDS - 

- SANGEET JYOTI AWARD 

- SILPI AWARD 

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* Noted Italian Fashion Designer Valentino Garvani Passed Away.

* Former DGP Of Meghalaya W R Marbaniang Passed Away.

* Malayalam Actor Kamal Roy Passed Away.

*  Veteran Journalist Dasu Krishnamoorthy Passed Away.

* Odia Music Composer, Singer Abhijit Mazumder Passed Away.

* Dr Gladys West, Mathematician ( Who Works IN GPS) Passed Away.

* Veteran Journalist Ravi Kanungo Of Odisha Passed Away.

* Former BCCI President Mr I S  Bindra Passed Away.

* Thiru D Gnanasundaram Passed Away 

* Samir Kumar Patra, Odisha Veteran Sound Recordist Passed Away.

* Veteran Journalist And Broadcaster Mark Tully Passed Away.

* Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar Killed In Air Crash Near Baramati, Maharashtra.

* Veteran Trade Union Leader Anantha Subbarao Passed Away.

*  Former Australian Hockey Player Michael Nobbs Passed Away ( Bronze Medal At 1981 FIH) 

* Eminent Literature Shri Arjun Charan Panda Of Odisha Passed Away 

* Thiru Srinivasan, Husband Of P T Usha Passed Away.