Deaths
- 3 January – Jyotindra Nath Dixit, diplomat and politician (born 1936).
- 12 January – Amrish Puri, actor (born 1932).
- 20 January – Parveen Babi, actress (born 1949).
- 3 March – Raveendran also known as Raveendran master, Malayalam and South Indian music composer (born 1943).
- 22 March – Gemini Ganesan, actor (born 1920).
- 25 April – Swami Ranganathananda, President of Ramakrishna Math (born 1908).
- 3 May – Jagjit Singh Aurora, military commander (born 1916).
- 15 May – Mahipal, actor (born 1919).
- 21 May – Subodh Mukherjee, filmmaker (born 1921).
- 25 May – Ismail Merchant, film producer (born 1936).
- 25 May – Sunil Dutt, actor, producer, director and politician (born 1930).
- 23 July – C R Irani, journalist and editor.
- 19 August – O. Madhavan, director and actor (born 1922).
- 31 October – Amrita Pritam, poet, novelist and essayist (born 1919).
- 9 November – K. R. Narayanan, politician and 10th President of India (born 1920).
- 24 November – Jamuna Baruah, actress (born 1919).
- 12 December – Ramanand Sagar, film director (born 1917).
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