Remembered
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Jyoti Basu
1914 – 2010
Politician
Jyoti Basu was an Indian communist politician who served as chief minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, one of the longest tenures for a state chief minist…
Shibli Sadik
1941 – 2010
Film director, Screenwriter
Shibli Sadik (9 January 1941 – 7 January 2010) was a Bangladeshi film director. He won National Film Awards and Bachsas Awards. Source: Wikipedia — https://en.…
Akhter-ul Alam
— – 2010
Journalist, Diplomat
Akhter-ul Alam (died on 24 June 2010) was a Bangladeshi journalist and diplomat. He served as an ambassador of Bangladesh to Bahrain during 1992–1996. Source:…
Kumar Roy
1926 – 2010
Writer
Kumar Roy (1926–2010) was a Bengali theatre actor, director and playwright. In 1983 he won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. He was associated with the group Boh…
Abdurrahman Wahid
1940 – 2009
Politician, Journalist
Abdurrahman Wahid ( AHB-doo-RAHKH-mahn wah-HEED; Indonesian: [abduˌrahman ˈwahid]; né ad-Dakhil, 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), more colloquially known…
Vishnuvardhan
1950 – 2009
Actor
Vishnuvardhan was an Indian actor who worked in Kannada cinema and appeared in films in several other Indian languages. He rose to prominence with the film Naag…
Brittany Murphy
1977 – 2009
Actor, Singer, Voice actor, Musician, Dub actor
Brittany Anne Murphy-Monjack (née Bertolotti; November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009) was an American actress and singer, noted for her work in comedy and drama.…
Paul Samuelson
1915 – 2009
Economist, Writer, University teacher, Political economist
Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Scien…
Max Robertson
1915 – 2009
Writer, Broadcaster
William Maxwell Robertson (28 August 1915 – 20 November 2009) was a sports commentator, radio and television presenter and author. He is best remembered for his…
Vitaly Ginzburg
1916 – 2009
Physicist, Astrophysicist, Inventor, University teacher, Scientist, Theoretical physicist
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; 4 October [O.S. 21 September] 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who w…
Claude Lévi-Strauss
1908 – 2009
Philosopher, Politician, Anthropologist, Photographer, Pedagogue, Writer
Claude Lévi-Strauss ( klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnolo…
Probal Chowdhury
— – 2009
Singer
Probal Chowdhury (1947 – 17 October 2009) was a Bangladeshi freedom fighter, playback singer and composer. He rendered several songs from Swadhin Bangla Betar K…
Patrick Swayze
1952 – 2009
Television actor, Film actor, Singer-songwriter, Actor, Dancer, Singer
Patrick Wayne Swayze ( SWAY-zee; August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. Known for his romantic, tough, and c…
Norman Borlaug
1914 – 2009
University teacher, Geneticist, Agronomist, Engineer, Forestry engineer
Norman Ernest Borlaug (; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increas…
Shah Abdul Karim
1916 – 2009
Music director, Lyricist, Songwriter, Singer
Baul Shah Abdul Karim (Bengali: শাহ আবদুল করিম; 15 February 1916 – 12 September 2009) was a Bangladeshi Baul musician and philosopher. Widely regarded as one of…
Aage Bohr
1922 – 2009
Physicist, Pedagogue, Nuclear physicist
Aage Niels Bohr (Danish: [ˈɔːwə ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ] ; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 w…
Saifur Rahman
— – 2009
Politician
Bangladesh-associated historical figure. Imported from the user-provided death-anniversary catalogue; biographical enrichment can be added after verification.
Ted Kennedy
1932 – 2009
Politician, Lawyer, Autobiographer, Jurist
Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from…
Kim Dae-jung
1924 – 2009
Politician, Journalist
Kim Dae-jung (Korean: 김대중; 8 January 1924 – 18 August 2009) was a South Korean politician, statesman and activist who served as the eighth president of South Ko…
Shibdas Bandyopadhyay
1932 – 2009
Lyricist
শিবদাস বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় (২৭ ডিসেম্বর ১৯৩২ – ৮ আগস্ট ২০০৯) একজন বিশিষ্ট বাঙালি কবি ও কালজয়ী গীতিকার ছিলেন। বিংশ শতাব্দীর দ্বিতীয়ার্ধ জুড়ে বাংলা ছায়াছবি ও আধুন…