Here is the list of NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2022
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav (Ex-CM Of Uttar Pradesh) – Died on 10th October 2022 due to illness. (Aged 83 Years).
The Samajwadi Party was established by Mulayam Singh Yadav, an Indian politician, socialist, and activist. He was India’s defence minister in addition to holding the office of chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for three separate terms. The seasoned politician was a well-known figure in Indian politics during his time. He served as the Lok Sabha representative for the Mainpuri seat as the Member of Parliament. He has previously served as a representative for the seats of Azamgarh, Sambhal, and Kannauj. He was widely referred to as Netaji by party officials and members, which is Hindi for “respected leader.” On October 10, 2022, he passed away.
Dr Jamshed J Irani
Dr Jamshed J Irani (Famous Industrialist of India) – Died on 31st October 2023 due to an old age-related illness. (Aged 86 Years)
Dr Irani was the earliest leader of the quality movement in India. He enabled Tata Steel to reinvent itself with a focus on quality and customer satisfaction while becoming the lowest-cost steel producer in the world with quality that could compete in the international market.
Dr Irani was associated with Tata Steel for over four decades. He retired from the board of Tata Steel in June 2011, leaving behind a legacy of 43 years, which won him and the Company international acclaim in various fields.
Born on June 2, 1936, in Nagpur to Jiji Irani and Khorshed Irani, Dr Irani completed his Bachelor of Science degree from Science College, Nagpur in 1956 and his Master of Science degree in Geology from Nagpur University in 1958. He then went to the University of Sheffield in the UK as a J N Tata scholar where he secured a Masters’s in Metallurgy in 1960 and a PhD in Metallurgy in 1963.
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry
Mr Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (Indian Business Tycoon) – Died on 27th June 2022 due to old age (Ages 93 Years)
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (1 June 1929 – 28 June 2022) was an Indian-born Irish billionaire construction tycoon. He was chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a major shareholder of India’s largest private conglomerate, Tata Group. He was one of the world’s wealthiest people.
Pallonji Mistry was born to Shapoorji Mistry in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 1 June 1929. He was a member of the Parsi community in Bombay.
The Mistrys own a substantial construction company, Shapoorji Pallonji. Shapoorji, the group patriarch and Pallonji’s father, built some of Mumbai’s landmarks around the Fort area – the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, the Grindlays Bank, the Standard Chartered Bank, the State Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of India buildings.
Cyrus Mistry
Mr. Cyrus Mistry (Renowned Business Tycoon of India) – Died on 04th September 2022 due to a car accident. (Aged 54 Years)
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (4 July 1968 – 4 September 2022) was an Indian businessman. He was the chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second (after Nowroji Saklatwala) not to bear the surname Tata. In mid-2012, he was chosen by a selection panel to head the Tata Group and took charge in December that year.
He owned an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons, through his company, Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Mistry had a net worth of nearly $29 billion at the time of his death, making him one of the richest men in India. He was a member of the National Integration Council. He died in a road crash on 4 September 2022 on the Ahmedabad – Mumbai highway. NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2022
Tulsi Tanti
Mr Tulsi Tanti (Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Suzlon Group) – Died on 02nd October 2022 Due to a heart attack. (Aged 64 Years)
Tulsi Tanti (2 February 1958 – 1 October 2022) was an Indian businessman best known for being the founder and chairman-cum-managing director of Suzlon. He was known as the Wind man of India (or India’s ‘Wind Man’) and was the president of the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association apart from being the chairman of ZF Wind Power Antwerpen, the Belgium-based manufacturer of wind turbine gearboxes since May 2006.
In 2006, Suzlon was the biggest wind power firm in the world by market valuation, and Tanti was one of the two richest energy entrepreneurs in the world. He appeared on the Forbes list of Billionaire Blowups of 2008 and was ranked eighth on India’s Global Wealth Club List.
Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati
Shankaracharya Swami Swarupanand Sarswati (Indian Hindu Saint) – Died on 11th September 2022 due to old age (Aged 99 Years)
Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati (2 September 1924 – 11 September 2022) was an Indian religious leader. In 1982, he became the Shankaracharya of Dwarka Sharada Peetham in Dwaraka, Gujarat and also the caretaker of the Jyotir Math in Badrinath.
Swaroopanand Saraswati was born Pothiram Upadhyay on 2 September, 1924 at Dighori village of Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh. A direct disciple of Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswati of Jyotir Math (1941–1953) and of Shankaracharya (disputed) Krishnabodha Ashrama of Jyotir Math (1953–1973), in 1950 his Guru Brahmananda made him a Dandi Sannyasi. Swami Swaroopanand became president of the Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad, established by Swami Karpatri.
At 19 years old he became a freedom fighter in the Quit India movement in 1942, and was known as “Revolutionary Sadhu”. He was jailed for this, serving a prison sentence of nine months and another of 6 months.
Abhijit Sen
Mr. Abhijit Sen (a Famous Economist of India) – Died on 29th August 2022 due to a heart attack (Aged 72 Years)
Abhijit Sen (26 November 1950 – 29 August 2022) was an Indian economist who focused on studying rural development. Sen was appointed to the Planning Commission of India between 2004 and 2014 and held a number of policy-making positions in India. Amongst his works included recommendations toward the establishment of minimum support prices for farm produce and a universal public distribution system.
Abhijit Sen was a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour, in 2010.
Mr. Braj Basi Lal Alias B. B. Lal
Mr. Braj Basi Lal Alias B. B. Lal (Famous Indian writer and archaeologist, Ex- Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972) – Died on 10th September 2022 due to old age. (Aged 101 Years)-NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2022
Braj Basi Lal (2 May 1921 – 10 September 2022) was an Indian writer and archaeologist. He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972 and has served as Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Lal also served on various UNESCO committees.
His later publications have been noted and criticised for their historical revisionism, taking a controversial stance in the Ayodhya dispute, claiming to have found the remains of a columned Hindu temple beneath the subsequently destroyed Babri Masjid mosque.
He received the Padma Bhushan Award by the President of India in 2000 and was awarded India’s second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2021.
Ela Bhatt
Mrs Ela Bhatt (Famous Social Worker) – Died on 2nd November 2023 due to old age related illness. (Aged 89 Years)
Ela Bhatt, in full Ela Ramesh Bhatt, (born September 7, 1933, Ahmedabad, India—died November 2, 2022, Ahmedabad), founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union representing self-employed female textile workers in India. Her successful leadership of SEWA won her national and international recognition.
Women’s World Banking (WWB), a global network of microfinance institutions that support underprivileged women, was founded in 1979 with Bhatt as a cofounder. She presided over WWB as its chair from 1984 to 1988. Bhatt was chosen by the Indian president to the Rajya Sabha (Council of States), the country’s upper chamber of parliament, in 1986. She remained there until 1989. She served as the chair of the National Commission on Self-Employed Women in the parliament, which was established to look into the working circumstances of underprivileged women.
Vikram Kirloskar
Mr. Vikram Kirloskar (President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Chairman and Managing Director, Kirloskar Systems.) – Died on 29th November 2022 due to heart attack. (Aged 64 Years)
Industrialist and Toyota Kirloskar Motor vice-chairman Vikram Kirloskar died of cardiac arrest in Bengaluru on Tuesday, aged 64.Kirloskar is survived by his wife Geetanjali and daughter Manasi Neville Tata.
Vikram Kirloskar, a fourth-generation member of the 1888-founded Kirloskar Group, was crucial in introducing Toyota Motor from Japan to India and in the success of the manufacturer in this region since 1997. One of the biggest auto factories in India is the Toyota production facility in Bidadi, close to Bengaluru.-NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2022
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Mr. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Founder of Akasa Air) – Died on 14th August, 2022 due to heart attack. (Aged 62 Years)
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was an investor with a Midas touch. He died on August 14, 2022, in Mumbai at the age of 62. Jhunjhunwala was often referred to as India’s own Warren Buffet. He was a trader and also a chartered accountant. According to Forbes’ Rich List, Jhunjhunwala was ranked the 36th richest man in the country. He was the chairman of Hungama Media and Aptech and was on the board of directors of firms such as – Viceroy Hotels, Concord Biotech, Provogue India and Geojit Financial Services.
Vishwa Deenadayalan
Vishwa Deenadayalan (Table tennis Player) – Died on 17th April 2022 due to a road accident. (Aged 18 Years)
Vishwa, a promising player with several national ranking titles and international medals to his credit, was to represent India at the WTT Youth Contender at Linz, Austria, from April 27. Vishwa, a product of Krishnaswamy TT Club in Anna Nagar, was trained by Ramnath Prasad and Jai Prabhu Ram had come in for praise from none other than Sharath Kamal. The ace paddler rated him as a highly-talented boy with a lot of promise.
Hemananda Biswal
Hemananda Biswal (Former CM Of Odisha State) – Died on 25th February 2022 due to old age-related illness (Aged 82 Years)
Hemananda Biswal (1 December 1939 – 25 February 2022) was an Indian politician. Biswal served as Chief Minister of Odisha from 7 December 1989 to 5 March 1990, and again from 6 December 1999 to 5 March 2000.
He was also the MP of Sundergarh from 2009 to 2014. Biswal was the first Tribal chief Minister of Odisha.
Biswal was born in Thakurpada village of Odisha on 1 December 1939, to Basudev and Trimani Biswal. He completed intermediate education from Government College, Sundargarh, and by profession was an agriculturist.
Biswal was married to Urmila Biswal and together they had five daughters. He died at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar on 25 February 2022, at the age of 82. He suffered from pneumonia and COVID-19 prior to his death.-NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2022
Rahul Bajaj
Rahul Bajaj (10 June 1938 – 12 February 2022) was an Indian billionaire businessman. He was the chairman emeritus of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award in India, the Padma Bhushan, in 2001.
Bajaj took over the Bajaj Group in 1965. In a career spanning over five decades, he led the turnover of the group’s flagship company, Bajaj Auto, from ₹7.5 crore to ₹12,000 crore, with the company’s scooter Bajaj Chetak being the main growth driver.
Twice, in 1979–1980 and 1999–2000, Bajaj was chosen to lead the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). In 2017, the then-President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, gave him the CII President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the Indian industry.
Other positions held by Bajaj include chairman of Indian Airlines, head of the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, board chair of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, member of the Brookings Institution’s International Advisory Council, and member of the Harvard Business School’s South Asia advisory board. NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2022
Bajaj received the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian honour, in 2001.
On the Forbes, 2016 list of the world’s billionaires, he was ranked No. 722, with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
Kamal Khan
After suffering a heart attack on January 14, 2022, NDTV’s Kamal Khan, a senior and award-winning journalist noted for his great reporting on Uttar Pradesh politics and eloquent language, died at his home in Lucknow. For more than three decades, Kamal Khan worked for NDTV. He will be remembered as a legendary reporter whose work was noted for its perceptiveness and integrity, as well as the literary dexterity with which he communicated hard realities.
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