Remembered

Heath Ledger

1979 – 2008

Television actor, Film director, Film actor, Character actor, Actor

Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. Known for his versatility across independent and major studio films, his work cons…

Bobby Fischer

1943 – 2008

Chess player, Writer, Inventor, Animator, Grandmaster

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his fi…

Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali

1913 – 2008

Writer, Theologian

Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (Bengali: আব্দুল লতিফ চৌধুরী ফুলতলী; 25 May 1913 – 16 January 2008), reverentially known as Saheb Qiblah, was a late-twentieth-cen…

Saheb Qibla Fultali

— – 2008

Imam

Bangladesh-associated historical figure. Imported from the user-provided death-anniversary catalogue; biographical enrichment can be added after verification.

Selim Al Deen

1949 – 2008

Writer

Muhamed Mianudin Ahmed (18 August 1949 – 14 January 2008) was a Bangladeshi playwright and theatre artist. He was the founder chairperson of the Department of D…

Edmund Hillary

1919 – 2008

Explorer, Philanthropist, Beekeeper, Diplomat, Autobiographer, Mountaineer

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, he and Tenzing Norgay…

Anil Bhowmick

1932 – 2008

Writer

অনিল ভৌমিক (১৯৩২ — ২০০৮) একজন প্রখ্যাত শিশুসাহিত্যিক। তিনি মূলত তার সৃষ্ট কাল্পনিক চরিত্র ফ্রান্সিস এবং তার বন্ধুদের অ্যাডভেঞ্চার কাহিনীর জন্য বিখ্যাত। Source:…

Mohammad Alam

— – 2008

Writer

Mohammad Alam was a Bangladeshi photo journalist. He is a recipient of Ekushey Padak. Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Alam_(photojou…

Benazir Bhutto

1953 – 2007

Politician

Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from…

Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury

1927 – 2007

Poet

Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (7 November 1927 – 23 December 2007) was a Bangladeshi poet, journalist, and activist in the Bengali language movement. He wrote the fi…

Mahbubul Alam Choudhury

1927 – 2007

Poet, Language activist

Mahbubul Alam Choudhury was a Bangladeshi poet and language activist. His poem Kandte Ashini, Phanshir Dabi Niye Eshechi, written in 1952, is associated with th…

Mohammad Nurul Islam

— – 2007

Economist

Mohammad Nurul Islam (c. 1924 – 22 December 2007) was a Bangladeshi economist who served as the third Governor of Bangladesh Bank, country's central bank, from…

Nabendu Ghosh

1917 – 2007

Film director, Autobiographer, Writer, Screenwriter

Nabendu Ghosh (27 March 1917 – 15 December 2007) was an Indian author in Bengali literature, and screenwriter. He has written screenplays of classic Bollywood m…

Sanjeeb Choudhury

1962 – 2007

Journalist, Author, Singer

Sanjeeb Choudhury (25 December 1964 – 19 November 2007) was a Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, writer, journalist and political activist. He was one of the two le…

Norman Mailer

1923 – 2007

Journalist, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Novelist, Essayist

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In…

Zohra Begum Kazi

1912 – 2007

Physician

Zohra Begum Kazi (15 October 1912 – 7 November 2007) was the first Bengali Muslim female physician. She was awarded the Tamgha-e-Pakistan in 1964, Begum Rokeya…

Gahanananda

— – 2007

Imported from BornGlorious death-anniversary data. Source: BornGlorious.com; Freebase (CC BY); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Deborah Kerr

1921 – 2007

Film actor, Actor, Ballet dancer, Stage actor

Deborah Jane Trimmer (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (), was a British actress. Kerr rose to fame for her portrayals…

Obaidul Huq

1911 – 2007

Film director, Journalist, Writer

Obaidul Huq (31 October 1911 – 13 October 2007) was a Bangladeshi journalist, cinematographer, playwright and writer. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1981 by t…

Sri Chinmoy

1931 – 2007

Poet, Writer, Philosopher, Painter, Musician, Weightlifter

Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (27 August 1931 – 11 October 2007), better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States a…