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Sanjeev Kumar aka Harihar Jariwala, an Indian Bollywood actor, died of a heart attack in 1985 at the age of 47.
Sanjeev Kumar, a talented Bollywood actor, was born in 1938 as Harihar Jariwala in a Gujrati family. He was definitely a multitalented actor, since he played a var...
Steve McQueen, the American actor known as "The King of Cool" during the 1960s, dies of a heart attack following surgery at the age of 50 in 1980.
Steve McQueen was a renowned and successful film actor during the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in films such as 'The Great Escape,' 'Bullitt,' and ...
John Milton, the English poet and puritan best known for Paradise Lost, dies at the age of 65 in 1674.
John Milton is most known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, which is often recognized as the finest epic poem ever written in English. It established his status as ...
K. R. Narayanan, India's 10th President, died in 2005 at the age of 85.
Kocheril Raman Narayanan was appointed vice president of India in 1992 and elected president in 1997. Narayanan was born on February 4, 1921, to a destitute Dalit ...
Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, the ninth Nanak and the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikhs, was executed at the age of 54 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1675.
Guru Teg Bahadur was the ninth Sikh Guru, and the Sikhs revered him as the "Protector of Humanity." Guru Tegh Bahadur was a wonderful teacher as wel...
Stan Lee [Stanley Martin Lieber], an American comic-book artist, writer, and the creative boss of the Marvel multimedia conglomerate, died in 2018 at the age of 95.
Stan Lee, the man credited with ushering in a new renaissance in comic books with his many flawed, relatable superheroes such as Spider-Man and Iron Man, died on N...
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian teacher and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, dies at the age of 81 in 1977.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta, also known as Swami Prabhupda, was an Indian religious leader and author who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, also...
Saeed Jaffrey, an Indian actor (The Chess Players, Gandhi), died in 2015 at the age of 86.
On November 15, 86-year-old Bollywood actor Saeed Jaffrey, who appeared in films such as A Passage to India and Gandhi, died. Jaffrey appeared in over 150 films, i...
Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian actor, playwright, and poet, dies of COVID complications at the age of 85 in 2020.
Soumitra Chatterjee, a legendary Indian actor best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, died on November 15 from Covid complicati...
Omprakash Valmiki, an Indian Dalit writer and poet (Joothan), died of stomach cancer in 2013 at the age of 63.
Omprakash Valmiki was a Dalit writer and poet from India. Joothan is well-known for his autobiography, which is regarded as a watershed moment in Dalit literature....
Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist who expanded quantum physics, died in 1962 at the age of 77.
Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 7, 1885, to mother Ellen Adler, a prosperous Jewish banking family, and father Christian Bohr, a noted physi...
Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian author, dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in 1910.
Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, —died on November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), was a renowned Russian author, a ma...
Lee Harvey Oswald killed US President John F. Kennedy in 1963 while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a pres...
In 1718, Blackbeard, a famed English pirate, is killed in combat at the age of 38.
In his own time, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680-1718) was a legend. He was born in England and robbed ships moving to and from the American colonies, as...
Bikram Singh, the Indian Lt-General in Kashmir, died in 1963.
Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, PVSM, who died on November 22, 1963, was an Indian Army General Officer. When he died in the Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter cr...
In the year 1937, Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian scientist, mathematician, and writer, died at the age of 78.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a pioneering Indian scientist who demonstrated through experimentation that animals and plants have many similarities. He showed that...
Roald Dahl, a British novelist and Spy, died in 1990 at the age of 74.
Roald Dahl was a British writer who died on November 23, 1990, in Oxford, England. He was a popular author of inventive, irreverent children's books. C.S. Fore...
In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, the American murderer of JFK two days previously, was shot dead two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby live on television at 24.
Oswald was shot and murdered by Jack Ruby, the proprietor of a nightclub, on November 24, while being carried from the police station to the county prison through ...
1991 Freddie Mercury, originally Farrokh Bulsara, is a British singer-songwriter and member of the band Queen who died of AIDS at the age of 45.
Freddie's battle with AIDS ended on November 24th, 1991, when he died little over 24 hours after publicly announcing his diagnosis. The passing of rock's m...
Gaston Chevrolet, a French-born American racing car racer and automobile pioneer, was born in 1920. Diego Maradona, an Argentine soccer striker, died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Gaston Chevrolet, a race driver from Los Angeles, is died in a track collision. He is the first of three renowned brothers to die in a sad accident. Gaston was Lou...
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the seventh Prime Minister of India, died in 2008 at the age of 77.
The 77-year-old statesman, who had been suffering blood cancer and renal failure for more than 17 years, died in the city's Apollo Hospital, where he was being...
Eugene O'Neill, an American writer, died of cerebellar cortical atrophy at the age of 65 in 1953.
Eugene O'Neill was a major American theatrical dramatist. Four of his plays received the Pulitzer Prize. His major concern was the grief and pain that sensitiv...
JRD Tata, an Indian businessman, died in 1993 at the age of 89.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (July 29, 1904 – November 29, 1993) was an Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur, and Tata Group chairman. His mother wa...
Rajiv Dixit, an Indian physicist and Swadeshi movement pioneer, died in 2010. (b. 1967)
Rajiv Dixit was an activist who lived from November 30, 1967, until November 30, 2010. He was the national secretary of the Bharat Swabhiman Trust and an outspoken...
George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States and the 43rd Vice President of the United States, died in 2018 at the age of 94.
George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died at his Houston home on November 30, 2018, after a struggle with vascular Parkinson's disease. ...
Paul Walker, an American actor, died in an automobile accident in 2013 at the age of 40.
Paul William Walker IV was an American actor who lived from September 12, 1973 to November 30, 2013. He is most recognised for his part in the Fast & Furious f...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, an Indian diplomat and politician, died in 1990 at the age of 90.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to be selected as the sixth Governor of Maharashtra and the eighth President of the United Nations General Assembly. Her ...
Ip Man, a Chinese martial artist and master instructor of Wing Chun, died in 1972 at the age of 79.
Ip Man, also known as Yip Man died on 2nd December 1972. He was a Chinese martial artist who was a grandmaster of the Wing Chun martial art. He taught a numbe...
Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug kingpin, was shot dead by Colombian police in 1993, at the age of 44.
The Medelln Cartel was founded and led by Pablo Emilio Escobar, a Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist. Escobar, dubbed "The King of Cocaine," is the ...
2017 Shashi Kapoor [Balbir Raj Kapoor], a well-known Indian Bollywood actor, dies at the age of 79 from a chest illness.
Shashi Kapoor (born Balbir Raj Kapoor; 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017) was a Hindi cinema actor and producer. He was nominated for four National Film Awards...
Shri Aurobindo, an Indian guru and patriot, dies at the age of 78 in 1950.
Aurobindo Ghose, also known as Sri Aurobindo, is revered around the world as a brilliant scholar, national leader, and spiritual teacher. He received both his prim...
Jayaram Jayalalitha, an Indian actress and politician who served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 1996 to 2016, died of a heart attack at the age of 68.
Jayalalithaa was taken to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on September 22, 2016, suffering from an infection and serious dehydration. On October 12, 2016, her formal d...
Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, political prisoner, and South African President, died of a lung illness in 2013 at the age of 95.
Mandela died on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95, at about 20:50 local time, at his home in Houghton, accompanied by his family, after suffering from a lengthy res...
B.R. Ambedkar, an Indian politician, lawyer, and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist Movement, dies of diabetes at the age of 65 in 1956.
Ambedkar has been suffering with diabetes since 1948. Due to medicine side effects and bad eyesight, he remained bedridden from June to October 1954. During 1955, ...
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish scientist who created dynamite and organised the Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, died at the age of 63 in 1896.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. Alfred Nobel is well-known for the yearly prizes he bestows in research, literature, and ...
Ashok Kumar, an Indian actor, died from persistent asthma at the age of 90 in 2001.
Ashok Kumar died on December 10, 2001, at the age of 90, at his home in Chembur, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He died as a result of heart failure. Kumudlal Ganguly...
M.S. (Madurai Shanmukhavadivu) Subbulakshmi, the first Indian vocalist to be given the Bharat Ratna, died in 2004 at the age of 88.
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi is a name that has become synonymous with Carnatic music. This immaculate vocalist, whose voice had almost heavenly power, is ...
Ravi Shankar, a Bengali Brahmin sitar maestro and Indian classical music composer, died in 2012 at the age of 92.
Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian composer and musician best known for popularising the Indian classical instrument Sitar around the world. Shankar grew up learnin...
In 1799, George Washington, an American Founding Father, military leader who commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and the first President of the United States, died at the age of 66.
George Washington died between ten and eleven o'clock at night on December 14, 1799. His wife, who sat at the foot of the bed, his friends Dr. Craik and Tobias...
Vallabhbhai Patel, an Indian freedom warrior and politician, died in 1952 at the age of 75.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a leader of the Indian National Congress till his death. Many historians, like Ramchandra Guha, find it hilarious that Patel is being ...
Walt Disney, an American animator and producer, dies of lung cancer at the age of 65 in 1966.
Disney's involvement in Disney World came to an end in late 1966, when he was diagnosed with lung cancer in his left lung, the result of a lifetime practise of...
Colonel Harland Sanders, the American inventor of Kentucky Fried Chicken, died in 1980 at the age of 90.
Colonel Harland David Sanders is an American businessman best known for inventing the fast food chicken restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (commonly known as KFC) a...
