Persons Who Recently Died This year

 Recently Died Persons

Rajesh Khanna

Bollywood's first superstar, Rajesh Khanna passed away on July 18, 2012 in Mumbai. He was fondly called as 'Kaka" and he became the first actor to deliver 15 consecutive solo super hits movies between 1969-1972. He received the maximum number of Bengal film Journalists Awards of Best Actor

Dara Singh

veteran actor-wrestler Dara Singh passed away on 12 july, 2012 in Mumbai he had earned the honor 'Rustam-e-Hind' . He also won the wrestling world championship in 1968. He is best remembered for his character of Hanuman in TV serial Ramayan .

Hiren Bhattacharya

Popular Assamese  poet and winner of the sahity akademi award and several honours, Hiren Bhattacharya passed away on 4 July 2012 in Guwahati . He was populary known as Hiruda. he also won Assam valley Literary Award in 2000.

Sally Ride

The first women astronaut of USA sally Ride was died on July 24, 2012 she was 61. Ride broke new ground for American women in 1983, When at the age of 32 she and four male crewmates blasted off aboard space shuttle challenger. She left NASA in 1987 and joined a Stanford University security research institute. In 1989, she joined the physics department at the university of California-SanDiego and directed and California Space Institute.

BK Roy Burman

Prof. BK Roy Burman, the former Chairperson of Intercultural Resources passed away on 26 June 2012 in New Delhi. BK Roy Burman, was a renowned anthropologist and social scientist. Prof. Burman served as the first Chairperson of Intercultural Resources of r 2005 to 2009.

Alimuddin

former Pakistani batsman Alimuddin Passed away on July 12, 2012 in London he was the youngest cricketer to make a first-class debut when he was only 12 years old when he played for Rajesthan in the pre-partition Ranji Trophy. He made his first test debut at Lord's in 1945 during Pakistan's first tour to England.

Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron, the essayist , author and film maker , who was among rare woman to write, direct and produce Hollywood movies, passed away on June 26, 2012 in New York.  She wrote and directed favorites such as "when Harry met Sally", "Julie and Julia" and "sleepless in Seattle".

Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir, former Prime Minister of Israel passed away on June 30, 2012 in Herzhija. He was Israel's seventh Prime Minister served form 1983-84 and 1986-92.

General Daoud Rajha

Syrian Defence Minister General Daoud Rajha died in a suicide attack in Damascus on July 18, 2012 as raging battle across the capital intensified.

  John Atta Mills

Ghana's President John Atta Mills died on 24, July 2012 at a military Hospital in Accra. The 2008 election was the third time that Atta Mills had run for President. He spent much of his career traching at the university of Ghana. He earned a doctorate from London's School of Oriental and African Studies before becoming a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

PM Rungta

PM Rungta, former President of board of control for Cricket in India passed away on July 12, 2012 in Mumbai he was populary known as 'Bhaiji to cricketers and administrators.