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List of National Obituary In August 2020 Sr. No PERSON NAME FILED BORN PLACE 1 Sonam Tshering Folk Musician, Kalimpong, West Lepcha Composer, Lyricist and Bengal padmashree Awardee 2 Anil Murali Malayalam Actor Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala 3 Sa. Kandasamy Famous Writer and Mayiladuthurai, Documentary Tamil Nadu Filmmaker 4 Amar Singh Former Samajwadi Aligarh in Uttar Party leader and Rajya Pradesh Sabha MP 5 Kamala Rani Varun Minister of Technical Lucknow, Uttar Education of Uttar Pradesh Pradesh 6 Pydikondala Former Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Manikyala Rao Minister 7 Ramachandra Former Arunachal Dattatraya Pradhan Pradesh Governor and Veteran Bureaucrat 8 Ebrahim Alkazi Father of Modern Pune, Maharashtra Indian theatre 9 Sadia Dehlvi Writer and Activist 10 Shivajirao Patil Senior Congressman Nilanga, Hyderabad Nilangekar and Former Maharashtra Chief Minister WWW.NAUKRIASPIRANT.COM 1 11 Shyamal Former Communist Chakraborty Party of India – Marxist and Former West Bengal Transports Minister 12 Mukund Lath Prominent Culture Kolkata Historian and Exponent of Mewati Gharana 13 Nandi Yellaiath Former Member of Hyderabad, parliament & Senior Telangana Congress Leader 14 Laishram Manitombi Former Indian Imphal, Manipur Singh Footballer and former Mohun Bagan club (Football Club) Caption 15 Penmatsa Sambasiva YSR Congress Party Raju Veteran leader 16 Rahat Indori Urdu Poet & Lyricist Indore 17 Gopal Krishna Veteran Sports Malabar District, Menon Journalist Madras presidency, British India 18 Chetan Chauhan Former Indian Cricketer Bareilly, UP 19 Pandit Jasraj Indian Classical Hisar, Haryana Vocalist 20 Nishikant kamat Filmmaker – Actor Mumbai, Maharashtra 21 Bhaskar Maity Former india Footballer (Goalkeeper) turned Coach 22 Gopalaswamy Former Cricketer, Chennai, Tamil Kasturirangan Administrator and Pitch Nadu Curator 23 Archana Mahanta Veteran Assamese Folk Guwahati Singer WWW.NAUKRIASPIRANT.COM 2 24 A.R. Lakshmanan Former Supreme Court Sivaganga District, Judge Tamil Nadu 25 H. Vasantha kumar Congress Member of Kanyakumari, Tamil Parliament Nadu (Kanyakumari Lok Sabha Constituency), Founder and Chairman of Vasanth & Co 26 Purushotham Rai Athletics Coach 27 Chunakkar Veteran Malayalam Alappuzha, Kerala Ramankutty poet, Lyricist and Drama Writer WWW.NAUKRIASPIRANT.COM 3 List of International Obituary In August 2020 Sr.No PERSON NAME FILED BORN PLACE 1 Mr. Lee Teng-hui President Sanzhi, Taiwan 2 Pascal Lissouba Former President Republic of Congo 3 John Hume Nobel Peace Prize Derry Winner & Prominent (Londonderry), Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Politician 4 Mr. William English Co-Creator of the Kentucky Mouse 5 Shirley Ann Grau Famous Fiction Louisiana, United Writers and Pulitzer States Prize – Winner 6 Angela Buxton Former British Tennis Liverpool Player and two-time Grand Slam Doubles Champion and Equal Rights Pioneer 7 Russel A. Kirsch Computer Scientist Manhattan United Credited With State of America Inventing pixel (USA) 8 Arnold Spielberg Pioneered Computer Cincinnati, Ohio Designer & an Innovative Engineer WWW.NAUKRIASPIRANT.COM 4 .

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