kamleshwar 27 january – kamleshwar, writer, screenwriter, critic , essayist (b. 1932). 28 january – o. p. nayyar, film music director , composer (b. 1926). 2 february – vijay arora, actor (b. 1946). 4 march – sunil kumar mahato, politician, assassinated (b. 1966). 5 april – leela majumdar, writer (b. 1908). 5 april – poornachandra tejaswi, writer , novelist (b. 1938). 13 april – dhulipala seetharama sastry, actor (b. 1921). 27 may – ibrahim saeed, journalist, editor , scholar (b. 1945). 27 may – g. srinivasan, film producer (b. 1958). 13 june – ramchandra gandhi, philosopher, grandson of mahatma gandhi (b. 1937). 15 june – dr. mohamad abdul tayyab, agricultural scientist (b. 1932). 2 july – dilip sardesai, cricketer (b. 1940). 8 july – chandra shekhar, politician, 11th prime minister of india (b. 1927). 21 august – qurratulain hyder, novelist , short story writer, academic , journalist (b. 1926). 10 october – s. r. bommai, politician , chief minister of karnataka (b. 1924). 11 october ...