Year 2022: Eminent personalities whom we lost this year

• January 11 : Veteran Odia actor Mihir Das (63 yrs) 
• January 16 : Kathak legend Birju Maharaj (83 yrs) 
• January 16 : Renowned social worker and Padma Shri awardee Shanti Devi (88 yrs) 
• February 6 : Legendary singer and Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar (92 yrs) 
• February 7 : TV and film actor (Bhim in Mahabharat) Praveen Kumar Sobti (74 yrs) 
• February 15 : Veteran singer-music director Bappi Lahiri (69 yrs) 
• February 25 : Former Odisha Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader Hemananda Biswal (82 yrs) 
• April 18 : Odisha’s legendary musician Prafulla Kar (83 yrs) 
• April 24 : Eminent litterateur Padma Shri Binapani Mohanty (85 yrs) 
• May 8 : Eminent litterateur Padma Shri Rajat Kar (88 yrs) 
• May 10 : Legendary santoor maestro and internationally acclaimed music composer Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (84 yrs) 
• May 23 : Renowned CPI (M) leader and former Odisha parliamentarian Sivaji Patnaik (91 yrs) 
• May 31 : popular playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath (53 yrs) 
• July 18 : Veteran playback singer, ghazal maestro and musician Bhupinder Singh (82 yrs) 
• July 19 : Dr Ajay Kumar Parida, director of Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar (58 yrs) 
• July 31 : Eminent singer of Odia and Bengali film industries Nirmala Mishra (81 yrs) 
• August 29 : Well-known economist and former member of the Planning Commission, Abhijit Sen (72 yrs) 
• September 4 : Noted young industrialist Cyrus P Mistry (54 yrs)
• September 11 : Dwarka Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati (99 yrs) 
• September 21 : Comedian Raju Srivastava (59 yrs) 
• September 28 : Erstwhile Chief Minister Janaki Ballabh Patnaik’s wife and former parliamentarian Jayanti Patnaik  (90 yrs) 
• October 10 : Samajwadi Party founder and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav (82 yrs) 
• November 5 : India’s first voter Shyam Saran Negi (106 yrs) 
• November 15 : Former India basketball captain and Arjuna awardee, Gulam Abbas Moontasir (80 yrs) 
• December 1 : Eminent Odia actress Jharana Das  (77 yrs)