Deaths
- 3 January - Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande, physicist (born 1940).
- 3 February - Nadira, actress (born 1932).
- 25 March - Chandrakant Bakshi, author (born 1932).
- 28 March - Bansi Lal, Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975 - 77) (born 1927)
- 12 April - Rajkumar, actor and singer (born 1929).
- 3 May - Pramod Mahajan, politician (born 1949).
- 5 May - Naushad, musician and composer (born 1919).
- 8 July - Raja Rao, novelist and short story writer (born 1908).
- 21 August - Bismillah Khan, shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner (born 1916).
- 27 August - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, film director (born 1922).
- 24 September - Padmini, actress and dancer (born 1932).
- 9 October - Kanshi Ram, politician and founder of Bahujan Samaj Party (born 1934).
- 19 October- Srividya, South Indian actress (born 1953).
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The many deaths one must have died
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