2019 in India

• 2 January – Government approves merger of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank with Bank of Baroda.[1]
• 3 January – Rajya Sabha Passes National Council for Teacher Education (Amendment) Bill.[2]
• 4 January – Arunima Sinha becomes world's first woman amputee to scale Mount Vinson.[3]
• 7 January – Centre clears 10 per cent quota for economically weak in general category.[4]

• 14 February – Pulwama attack: A convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a suicide bomber near Pulwama District, Jammu and Kashmir.
• 21 – 25 February – 2019 Assam alcohol poisonings: At least 168 people died after consuming poisonous liquor and more than 300 admitted in hospitals in Jorhat and Golaghat districts.
• 26 February – 2019 Balakot airstrike was carried out by the Indian Air Force crossing the Line of Control directed against a terrorist training camp.

• 27 March – India becomes 4th nation to have Anti-satellite missile this year.[5]

• 11 April - Voting for the 2019 Indian general election began

• 3 May - Cyclone Fani arrives on the coast of Odisha
• 23 May - Counting and declaration of results for the 2019 Indian general election. Narendra Modi secures landslide victory.
• 24 May - Surat Fire Tragedy; 22 Deaths and 17 Non-fatal injuries.
• 30 May - Narendra Modi takes oath as 14th Prime Minister of India.

Nothing happened

• July 19 - Vidisha Baliyan becomes the first Indian to be crowned as Miss Deaf World after winning the Miss Deaf World 2019.[6][7]
• July 23 - ISRO launches India's second mission to moon chandrayaan 2
• July 30 - India bans triple talaq.

• August 5
  • Article 370 and Article 35A revoked from Constitution of India that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Government also bifurcates Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh into separate Union Territories.
• Schools and Colleges are shut down in Pune, Mumbai, Nashik in Maharashtra due to floods.
• August 7 - Over 1.32 lakh peoples are evacuated in Sangli and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra state due to heavy rains.
• August 16 - Millions of residents in Jammu and Kashmir still have no communication with the outside world, eleven days after the Government of India imposed restrictions on August 5.[8] Meanwhile, 11 deaths (3 Pakistani soldiers, 6 Indian soldiers, 2 Pakistani civilians) have been reported in the Kashmir region.[9]
• August 17 - Fire broke out in Emergency Ward of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. No casulties reported.
• August 22 - Former Finance minister P Chidambaram is arrested by CBI under INX media scam charges after 27 hours long drama.

• September 5 - Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother after giving birth to twins.[10]
• September 6 – Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar partially successful. Vikram, the lander, crashes into the surface of the moon.
• September 16 — Jammu & Kashmir National Conference president Farooq Abdullah is arrested under the Public Safety Act (PSA), a law that allows detention without trial for two years.[11]
• September 22 — U.S. president Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi address 50,000 Indian Americans at the Howdy, Modi: Shared Dreams Bright Futures rally in NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.[12]
• Fama Fest 2020 - By Black Cloth Events Organizers Harshad Sapkal & Vinod More (Event Place _ Pune)

• October 24 - India and Pakistan sign a memorandum of understanding opening the Kartarpur Corridor for visa-free border crossings, allowing Indian citizens to visit the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Sikh shrine.
• October 31 - Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh (union territory) will come in effect.

• November 9 - India's Supreme Court rules in favor of Hindus over Ram Janmabhoomi temple.[13][14][15]

• December 8 - 43 killed in Delhi's Anaj Mandi fire, 150 officials
• December 11 - The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 passed by the Parliament of India.

Pinaki Thakur

Krishna Sobti

George Fernandes

• January 2
  • Ramakant Achrekar, Indian cricket coach (b. 1931)[16]
  • Samuel Rayan, Indian theologian (b. 1920)[17]
• January 3
  • Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari, Indian judge and independence activist (b. 1927)[18]
  • Dibyendu Palit, Indian writer (b. 1939)[19]
  • Pinaki Thakur, Indian poet (b. 1959)[20]
• January 8 – Jayantilal Bhanusali, Indian politician (b. 1964)[21]
• January 9 – Mahendra Mewati, Indian actor (b. 1969)[22]
• January 11
  • Kishore Pradhan, Indian actor (b. 1932)[23]
  • Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (b. 1961)[24]
  • Charles Soreng, Indian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1934)[25]
• January 14
  • Shivajirao Deshmukh, Indian politician (b. 1934)[26]
  • Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director (b. 1951)[27]
  • Devendra Swarup, Indian journalist (b. 1925)[28]
• January 15 - Biraj Kumar Sarma, Indian politician (b. 1948)[29]
• January 16 - Vishnu Hari Dalmia, Indian industrialist, (b. 1924)
• January 17 - S. Balakrishnan, Indian film score composer and music director (b. 1949)[30]
• January 19
  • Jagjit Singh Chopra, Indian neurologist (b. 1934)[31]
  • Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Indian politician (b. 1955)[32]
• January 21
  • Raghbir Singh Bhola, Indian field hockey player (b. 1927)[33]
  • Shivakumara Swami, Indian Lingayat spiritual leader and educationist (b. 1907)[34]
• January 23 – Sitaram Rao Valluri, Indian-born American engineer (b. 1924)[35]
• January 25 – Krishna Sobti, Indian author (b. 1925)[36]
• January 29 – George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)[37]
• January 30 – Dara Dotiwalla, Indian cricket umpire (b. 1933)[38]

Thuppettan

Chavara Parukutty Amma

Vishnu Wagh

• February 1 – Thuppettan, Indian Malayalam playwright (b. 1929)[39]
• February 2 – Arunendu Das, Indian musician (b. 1937)[40]
• February 3
  • Jeetendra Singh Bundela, Indian politician (b. 1958)[41]
  • Tapan Mitra, Indian-born economist (b. 1948)[42]
• February 4 – Ramesh Bhatkar, Indian actor (b. 1948)[43]
• February 5 – Ladu Kishore Swain, Indian politician (b. 1947)[44]
• February 6 – Chakradhar Sahu, Indian film director (b. 1963)[45]
• February 7 – Chavara Parukutty Amma, Indian dancer and teacher (b. 1943)
• February 8
  • Mahesh Anand, Indian actor (b. 1961)[46]
  • Anilkumar Patel, Indian politician (b. 1945)[47]
  • Vishnu Wagh, Indian poet, writer, dramatist, journalist, politician and management consultant/ trainer (b. 1964)[48]
• February 9 – Satyajit Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1983)
• February 11 – Vijaya Bapineedu, Indian film director (b. 1936)[49]
• February 12
  • Afsir Karim, Indian army general and author (b. 1933)[50]
  • Suresh Luthra, Indian cricketer (b. 1944)[51]
• February 14 – Francis D'Souza, Indian politician (b. 1954)
• February 18 – Ram Shankar Tripathi, Scholar of Buddhism, editor and author (b. 1929)[52]
• February 19 – Namvar Singh, Indian writer (b. 1926)[53]
• February 20 – Nandyala Srinivasa Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1918)[54]
• February 21 – Rajkumar Barjatya, Indian movie producer[55]
• February 22 – Kodi Ramakrishna, Indian film director (b. 1949)[56]
• February 23
  • Ko Channabasappa, Indian writer (b. 1922)[57]
  • S. Rajendran, Indian politician (b. 1956)[58]
• February 26 – Uday Bhanu Hans, Indian poet (b. 1926)[59]

Manohar Parrikar

• March 1 – Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury, Indian naturalist (b. 1931)[60]
• March 4 – V. Dhananjay Kumar, Indian politician (b. 1951)
• March 5 – Boro Maa, Indian religious leader (b. 1918)
• March 6 – Typist Gopu, Indian actor (b. 1933)
• March 11 – Sundar Lal Tiwari, Indian politician (b. 1957)
• March 14 – Rosamma Chacko, Indian politician (b. 1927)
• March 15 – Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1950)
• March 17
  • Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)[61]
  • Chinmoy Roy, Indian actor (b. 1940)
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• March 19 – S. B. Sinha, Indian judge (b. 1944)
• March 21 – Haku Shah, Indian artist (b. 1934)
• March 22 – C. S. Shivalli, Indian politician (b. 1962)
• March 23 – Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi, Indian singer and composer (b. 1920)
• March 27 – Ashitha, Indian writer (b. 1956)

D. Babu Paul

S. K. Shivakumar

• April 1 – Dilip Sarkar, Indian politician (b. 1958)[62]
• April 2 – J. Mahendran, Indian film director and actor (b. 1939)[63]
• April 5 – Anandavally, Indian actress (b. 1952)[64]
• April 9
  • Bhima Mandavi, Indian politician, MLA (since 2019), bombing.[65]
  • K. M. Mani, 86, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly (since 1965).[66]
• April 10 – Drupad Borgohain, Indian politician (b. 1941)[67]
• April 11 – Vijay Dev, 78, Indian academic.[68]
• April 13
  • D. Babu Paul, 78, Indian civil servant, multiple organ failure.[69]
  • J. K. Rithesh, 46, Indian actor and politician, heart attack.[70]
  • S. K. Shivakumar, 66, Indian space scientist, complications from jaundice.[71]
• April 14 – Nand Lal, 74, Indian politician.[72]
• April 16 – Abraham D. Mattam, 96, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Satna (1968–1999).[73]
• April 20
  • Bed Prakash Agarwal, 83, Indian politician, Odisha MLA (1974–1980, 1990–1995, 2000–2004, since 2009).[74]
  • S. Muthiah, 89, Indian historian.[75]
  • Amar Pal, 96, Indian folk singer, heart attack.[76]
• April 22 – Simon Kaipuram, 65, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Balasore (since 2013).[77]
• April 25 – Vidya Sagar Chaudhary, 85, Indian politician.[78]
• April 27 – Vasanthi Stanley, 56, Indian politician, MP (2008–2014).[79]
• April 30 – S. P. Y. Reddy, 68, Indian politician, MP (since 2004), lung infection.[80]

Rallapalli

Vijaya Mulay

• May 1 – B. Subhashan Reddy, Indian judge, former Chief Justice of Madras High Court and Kerala High Court (b. 1943)
• May 2 – Master Hirannaiah, Indian actor (b. 1934)
• May 3 – V. Viswanatha Menon, Indian politician (b. 1927)
• May 8 – N. R. Madhava Menon, Indian legal educator (b. 1935)
• May 10
  • Thoppil Mohamed Meeran, Indian Tamil writer (b. 1945)
  • M. Ramanathan, Indian politician, former MLA (b. 1935)
• May 11 – Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, Indian businessman, former Chairman and CEO of ITC Limited (b. 1947)
• May 12 – Hiralal Yadav, Indian folk singer (b. 1926)
• May 15 – Neerav Patel, Indian poet (b. 1950)[81]
• May 17 – Rallapalli, 73, Indian actor (Bombay, Minsara Kanavu, Anveshana).[82]
• May 19 – Vijaya Mulay, 98, Indian film director, historian and educationist[83]
• May 20 – Adrish Bardhan, 86, Indian science fiction writer[84]
• May 21 – Tirong Aboh, Indian politician[85]
• May 22 – Surya Prakash, 79, Indian artist.[86]
• May 23
  • Zakir Rashid Bhat, 24, Indian militant, founder of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind [87]
  • Kalpana Dash, 52, Indian mountaineer.[88]
• May 27
  • Kamlesh Balmiki, 51, Indian politician [89]
  • Veeru Devgan, 77, Indian film choreographer, actor and director[90]
  • Hariom Singh Rathore, 61, Indian politician[91]
  • Moni Kumar Subba, 61, Indian politician[92]

Girish Karnad

• June 2 – P. K. Dharmalingam, Indian cricketer (b. 1936)[93]
• June 3 – Ruma Guha Thakurata, Indian actress and singer (b. 1934)[94]
• June 4 – Geevarghese Mar Timotheos, Indian Eastern Catholic prelate (b. 1928)[95]
• June 5 – Dinyar Contractor, Indian actor (b. 1940)[96]
• June 10
  • R. V. Janakiraman, Indian politician (b. 1940)[97]
  • Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1938)[98]
  • Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1952)[99]
• June 14 – S. Sivasubramanian, Indian politician (b. 1937)[100]
• June 19 – D. K. Chowta, Indian businessman, writer, artist, and theatre personality (b. 1938)[101]

M. J. Radhakrishnan

Sheila Dikshit

• July 2 – Rabin Mondal, Indian painter (b. 1929)[102]
• July 3
  • Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (b. 1931)[103]
  • Basant Kumar Birla, Indian businessman (b. 1921)[104]
• July 4 – H. Gopal Bhandary, Indian politician (b. 1952)[105]
• July 6 – K. L. Shivalinge Gowda, Indian politician (b. 1926)[106]
• July 7 – R. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician, industrialist, and philanthropist (b. 1946)[107]
• July 12 – M. J. Radhakrishnan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1957)[108]
• July 13 – Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, Indian writer and art curator (b. 1933)[109]
• July 14 – Rahul Desikan, Indian-American neuroscientist and neuroradiologist (b. 1978)[110]
• July 16 – Raja Dhale, Indian writer, artist and activist (b. 1940)[111]
• July 18 – P. Rajagopal, Indian businessman and convicted murderer (b. 1947)[112]
• July 20 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)[113]
• July 21
  • Mange Ram Garg, Indian politician (b. 1936)[114]
  • A. K. Roy, Indian politician (b. 1928)[115]
• July 23 – Charan Narzary, Indian politician (b. 1933)[116]
• July 26 – Attoor Ravi Varma, Indian poet and translator (b. 1930)[117]
• July 27 – Samprada Singh, Indian businessman (b. 1925)[118]

Sushma Swaraj

Arun Jaitley

• August 2 – Devadas Kanakala, Indian actor (b. 1945)[119]
• August 4 – Kanti Bhatt, Indian author, journalist and columnist (b. 1931)[120]
• August 6 – Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)[121]
• August 7 – J. Om Prakash, Indian film director and producer (b. 1926)[122]
• August 8
  • Era. Anbarasu, Indian politician (b. 1940)[123]
  • Shamnad Basheer, Indian legal scholar (b. 1976)[124]
• August 14 – V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer (b. 1961)[125]
• August 15
  • Lalbihari Bhattacharya, Indian politician (b. 1937)[126]
  • Vidya Sinha, Indian actress (b. 1947)[127]
• August 17
  • Damodar Ganesh Bapat, Indian social worker (b. 1935)[128]
  • Neelum Sharma, Indian anchorwoman (b. 1969)[129]
  • Tabu Taid, Indian educationist, linguist, author and administrator (b. 1942)[130]
• August 19
  • Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Indian music director and composer (b. 1927)[131]
  • Jagannath Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1937)[132]
• August 20 – Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Indian politician (b. 1959)[133]
• August 21 – Babulal Gaur, Indian politician (b. 1930)[134]
• August 24 – Arun Jaitley, Indian politician (b. 1952)[135]

Ram Jethmalani

• September 5 – Kiran Nagarkar, Indian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1942)[136]
• September 6 – Sukhdev Singh Libra, Indian politician (b. 1932)[137]
• September 8
  • Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)[138]
  • Yusuf Motala, Indian scholar (b. 1946)[139]
• September 16
  • B. J. Khatal-Patil, Indian politician (b. 1919)[140]
  • Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, Indian politician (b. 1947)[141]
• September 17
  • Khem Singh Gill, Indian geneticist and plant breeder (b. 1930)[142]
  • Sathaar, Indian actor (b. 1952)[143]
• September 18 – Shyam Ramsay, Indian film director (b. 1952)[144]
• September 19 – S. K. Padmadevi, Indian actress (b. 1924)[145]
• September 21 – Naramalli Sivaprasad, Indian actor (b. 1951)[146]
• September 23 – Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (b. 1932)[147]
• September 25 – Venu Madhav, Indian actor and comedian (b. 1968)[148]

• October 29 - Sujith Wilson[149]

• 14 November - Vashishtha Narayan Singh, Mathematician

Vishwesha Teertha.

• December 16 - Geeta Siddharth, Bollywood Actress
• December 17 - Shriram Lagoo, Marathi Actor
• December 26 - Kushal Punjabi,TV Actor
• December 29 - Vishwesha Teertha, Hindu Saint
• December 30 - Sonny Mehta, Editor