State
Celebrities from West Bengal
3,314 Memorials
0 Funeral Homes
57 Cemeteries
176 Places
West Bengal: 23 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
PD
Memorial
Probal Dasgupta
09/19/1953 – 06/01/2026
72 years
former president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio
Kolkata
110
Family Tree
KZ
Memorial
Khaleda Zia
08/15/1946 – 12/30/2025
79 years
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996, 2001–2006)
Evercare Hospital Dhaka
2
SC
Memorial
Soumitra Chattopadhyay
01/19/1935 – 11/15/2020
85 years
Indian actor
Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata
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Family Tree
PM
Memorial
Pranab Mukherjee
12/11/1935 – 08/31/2020
84 years
President of India from 2012 to 2017
New Delhi
1
MH
Memorial
Mike Hoare
03/17/1919 – 02/02/2020
100 years
Irish-born soldier
Durban
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Family Tree
ND
Memorial
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
01/13/1938 – 11/07/2019
81 years
Indian poet
Kolkata
2
HM
Memorial
Hossain Mohammad Ershad
02/01/1930 – 07/14/2019
89 years
President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990 Former (6th) Army chief of Bangladesh
Dhaka
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MS
Memorial
Mrinal Sen
05/14/1923 – 12/30/2018
95 years
Indian film director
Kolkata
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Family Tree
SK
Memorial
Shashi Kapoor
03/18/1938 – 12/04/2017
79 years
Indian film actor and producer
Mumbai
17
GD
Memorial
Girija Devi
08/05/1929 – 10/24/2017
88 years
Indian classical singer
Kolkata
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BM
Memorial
Bharati Mukherjee
07/27/1940 – 01/28/2017
76 years
Indian-American writer
Manhattan
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Family Tree
MD
Memorial
Mahasweta Devi
01/14/1926 – 07/28/2016
90 years
Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist
Kolkata
3
Family Tree
AK
Memorial
Anna Kashfi
09/30/1934 – 08/21/2015
80 years
British actress
Cowlitz County
2
NJ
Memorial
Nirmala Joshi
07/23/1934 – 06/23/2015
80 years
The succesor to Mother Teresa
Kolkata
1
SS
Memorial
Suchitra Sen
04/06/1931 – 01/17/2014
82 years
Indian actress
Kolkata
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MD
Memorial
Manna Dey
05/01/1919 – 10/24/2013
94 years
Indian playback singer, music director, musician and vocalist
Bengaluru
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RG
Memorial
Rituparno Ghosh
08/31/1963 – 05/30/2013
49 years
Indian film director, actor, writer, and lyricist
Kolkata
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LC
Memorial
Leslie Claudius
03/25/1927 – 12/20/2012
85 years
Olympic field hockey player
Kolkata
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JB
Memorial
Jyoti Basu
07/08/1914 – 01/17/2010
95 years
Indian politician
Kolkata
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AC
Memorial
Asima Chatterjee
09/23/1917 – 11/22/2006
89 years
Indian chemist
Kolkata
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HM
Memorial
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
09/30/1922 – 08/27/2006
83 years
Indian film director
Mumbai
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Family Tree
SS
Memorial
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah
07/22/1915 – 12/11/2000
85 years
Pakistani diplomat
Karachi
4
MT
Memorial
Mutter Teresa
08/26/1910 – 09/05/1997
87 years
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary
Kolkata
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