Obituaries & Notable Profiles (2025-2026)
High-yield Obituaries & Notable Profiles (2025-2026) current-affairs and static-GK facts for 2025-2026, curated for RRB, SSC, Railway and banking exam preparation. Revise the key positions, names and details below, then test your recall with the timed active-recall quiz in our interactive dashboard.
39. Obituaries & Profiles (Group A)
| Topic / Position | Name / Detail | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Raghu Rai | Renowned Photojournalist | |
| Shiv Ratan Agarwal | Chairman, Bikaji | |
| Nandendla Bhaskara Rao | Former CM, Andhra Pradesh | |
| Desmond Morris | Renowned Zoologist | |
| Oscar Schmidt | Basketball Legend | |
| Asha Bhosle | Singer (Padma Vibhushan -2008) | |
| Colonel Sonam Wangchuk | Brave Soldier of the Kargil War | |
| C.D. Gopinath | Oldest Living Test Cricketer | |
| Mohsina Kidwai | Former Union Minister (Congress) | |
| Chandrikapersad Santokhi | Former President, Suriname | |
| Rahul Arunoday Banerjee | Bengali Actor | |
| Chuck Norris | Martial Arts Master | |
| Madhu Malhotra | Actress | |
| Thakkali Srinivasan | Tamil Filmmaker | |
| H.K. Dua | Senior Journalist | |
| Mukul Roy | Politician from West Bengal | |
| Shankar | Renowned Bengali writer | |
| Pravina Deshpande | Renowned Actress | |
| Michael Nobbs | Former coach of Indian hockey team | |
| Ajit Pawar | Deputy CM of Maharashtra | |
| Mark Tully | Famous Journalist | |
| Kirtida Mekani | Famous as 'Tree Lady' of Singapore | |
| Madhav Gadgil | Renowned environmentalist | |
| Khaleda Zia | First female PM of Bangladesh | |
| Vinod Kumar Shukla | Famous writer | |
| Shivraj Patil | Former Union Home Minister | |
| Swaraj Kaushal | Former Governor of Mizoram | |
| Kumari Kamala | Famous Bharatanatyam dancer | |
| Dharmendra | Actor | |
| Kumari Kamala | Bharatanatyam dancer | |
| Kamini Kaushal | Actress | |
| Sulakshana Pandit | Singer | |
| James Watson | Discoverer of DNA | |
| Manuel Frederick | Former Indian hockey player | |
| Ramdarath Mishra | Writer | |
| Satish Shah | Actor | |
| Queen Sirikit | Queen Mother of Thailand | |
| Piyush Pandey | Padma Shri winner & legendary adman | |
| Govardhan Asrani | Actor |
40. Obituaries & Profiles (Group B)
| Topic / Position | Name / Detail | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Pankaj Dheer | Actor | |
| Ravi Sitaram Naik | Former Chief Minister of Goa | |
| Diane Keaton | Oscar-winning Actress | |
| Pandit Chhannulal Mishra | Legendary Classical Singer | |
| Dr. S. L. Bhyrappa | Kannada novelist | |
| Zubin Garg | Assamese singer | |
| Giorgio Armani | Fashion designer | |
| La Ganesan | Governor, Nagaland | |
| Ramdas Soren | Education Minister, Jharkhand | |
| Satyapal Malik | Former Governor, J & K | |
| Shibu Soren | Former Chief Minister, Jharkhand | |
| Vasanti Devi | Educationist and social reformer | |
| Meghanad Desai | Economist and writer | |
| Hulk Hogan | WWE superstar | |
| VS Achuthanandan | Former Chief Minister of Kerala | |
| Alan Bergman | Oscar winning lyricist | |
| Muhammadu Buhari | Former President of Nigeria | |
| Vatsala | Asia's oldest elephant | |
| Peter Rufai | Nigerian football player | |
| Shefali Jariwala | Indian actress and model | |
| Ustad Ghulam Nabi Shah | Famous Kashmiri singer | |
| Salim Akhtar | Senior Urdu newsreader | |
| Daji Panshikar | Scholar, author and literary critic | |
| Vijay Rupani | Former Gujarat CM | |
| M R Srinivasan | Famous nuclear scientist | |
| Jayant Narlikar | Astrophysicist | |
| Vishnu Prasad | Malayalam actor | |
| K Kasturirangan | Former Chairman of ISRO | |
| Manoj Kumar | Actor-Director | |
| Manoj Bharathiraja | Actor-Director | |
| George Foreman | American boxer | |
| Bindu Ghosh | Tamil actress | |
| Ramakant Rath | Odia poet | |
| Syed Abid Ali | Former Indian all-rounder (cricket) | |
| Fred Stolle | Australian tennis player | |
| Mayadhar Raut | Odissi dancer | |
| Sukari Bombagoura | Kannada folk singer | |
| Satendra Das | Priest Ram Janmabhoomi temple | |
| Naveen Chawla | Former Chief Election Commissioner |
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