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Gone
but not forgotten There
is no death! the stars go down To
rise upon some other shore, And
bright in Heaven's jewelled crown, They
shine for ever more. John
L McCreery Death
is a fact that no mortal can deny. While celebrating fifteen years of The
News, we would also like to commemorate all those people who are no longer
physically around us but continue to live on as they have left indelible
marks on our memories. All these people have in some way or another
contributed towards making the world what it is today. 1991 Mar
12: General (Retd) Mohammad Musa. May
21: Rajiv Ghandhi dies in suicide bomb attack. Aug
8: Former Iranian Prime Minister, Shahpur Bakhtiar. Dec
21: A. R Cornelius, former Chief Justice of Pakistan passes away at the
age of 88. 1992 Jan
25: Mir Khalilur Rehman, veteran journalist and founder of the Jang Group. Feb
10: Alex Hailey, author of the famous novel 'Roots'. Apr
23: Satyajit Ray, renowned Indian film director. June
2: Dr. Akhtar Hussain Raipuri, reputed columnist, writer and literary
critic. Aug
9: Ayatullah Khomeini, Shia spiritual leader. Oct
27: Nayyar Sultana, Pakistani film actress Dec
18: Zain Noorani, former Foreign Minister. 1993 Jan
6: Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer of the century. Jan
7: General Asif Nawaz, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff. Jan
11: Makhdoom Mohammad Zaman, chief of the Sarwani Jamaat. Jan
20: Audrey Hepburn, ultimate Hollywood nymph. Jan
21: Mazhar Ali Khan, journalist and editor. Feb
4: Iqbal Burney, journalist. Mar
13: Habib Jalib, radical awami poet. Apr
17: Mohammad Khan Junejo, former Prime Minister. Apr
24: Oliver Tambo, Chairman of the African National Congress. May
1: Azeem Ahmed Tariq, MQM Chairman. May
11: Mir Sher Mohammad Marri, (General Sheroff), Baloch nationalist leader. Oct
13: Federico Fellini, legendry Italian film director. Nov
29: JRD Tata, founder of India's largest corporate empire. 1994 Jan:
Nazrul Islam, film director. Jan
13: Prof. Ahmed Ali, writer. Jan
19: Telly Savalas, better known as Kojak. Feb
18: Amir Hamza Khan Shirwari, Phusto poet. Mar
19: Maulana Kausar Niazi, politician and religious scholar. Apr
4: Ghulam Farid Sabri, one of Pakistan's finest qawwals. Apr
14: Dr. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, scientist and all round renaissance man. Apr
21: Anna Molka, country's pioneer expressional artist. Apr
22: Richard Nixon, former US president. May
19: Jacqueline Kennedy, America's most glamorous First Lady. May
29: Erich Honecher, the architect of the Berlin Wall. 1995 Jan
19: Mehdi Bazargan, former Iranian Prime Minister. Jan
29: James Grant, pioneer of low cost health care for children. Feb
10: Moraji Desai, former Indian Prime Minister. Apr
24: G. M Syed, nationalist leader. Aug
5: Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI founder. Sep
22: Rudolph Peieris, atom bomb pioneer. Oct
5: Masood Rana, musician and an amazing singer. Oct
27: Mumtaz Mufti, fiction writer. Nov
5: Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister. 1996 Jan
5: Shafiqa Zia, widow of late General Ziaul Haq. Jan
9: Sultan Rahi, macho man and super star of Punjabi films. Feb
11: Dr. Majid Sindhi, prominent Sindhi scholar. Feb
19: Sehba Akhtar Ali, eminent poet. Mar
12: Razia Bhatti, editor of Newsline. Mar
19: Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate. Apr
21: Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer, politician and diplomat. May
25: Alexander Langdorf, atom bomb physicist. May
29: Zille Subhani, television artist. July
3: Raj Kumar, Indian movie star. Aug
10: Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine. Aug
26: Khalida Riyasat, actress par excellence. Sep
20: Mir Murtaza Bhutto, politician and brother of Benazir Bhutto. Oct
5: Seymour Cray, father of super computer. Oct
30: Qurban Jilani, television artist. Nov
21: Dr. Abdus Salam, Pakistan scientist and Nobel Prize winner. Dec
5: Babrak Karmal, pro- Soviet Afghan leader. Dec
19: Yuliy Khariton, father of Russian atom bomb. 1997 Jan
19: Lala Sudhir, film actor. Jan
19: Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto. Jan
25: Richard Berry, American rock musician. Feb
13: Ata Shad, poet, writer and columnist. Feb
20: Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader. Feb
22: Ted Strever, world's first aircraft hijacker. Mar
15: Dorab Patel, justice and civil liberties activist. Apr
2: Lyman Spitzer, US astrophysicist and father of the Hubble Space
Telescope. June
25: Brian Keith, American film actor. July
15: Gianni Versace, Italian designer. July
19: Sir James Goldsmith, billionaire and Imran Khan's father-in-law. Aug
16: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, legendry musician and singer. Aug
31: Princess Diana Sep
5: Mother Teresa, a humanitarian who won Nobel Prize for her efforts. Oct
15: Harold Robbins, US novelist. 1998 Jan
7: Abdul Ghafool Hoti, former governor. Jan
21: Dilawar Figar, poet, noted humorist and satirist. Jan
23: Makhdom Sajjid Hussain Qureshi, former governor of Punjab. Feb
7: Enoch Powell, British politician. Feb
19: Agha Talish, film icon. Apr
15: Pol Pot, Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge leader, infamous for his reign
of terror and genocide. May
9: Talat Mehmood, renowned Indian singer. May
15: Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor. May
18: Ubaidullah Aleem, Urdu poet. June
8: Sani Abacha, Nigerian military ruler. July
2: Alam Channa, world's tallest man. July
8: Mashood Abiola, detained Nigerian opposition leader. July
15: Richard McDonald, fast food pioneer. July
16: Dr. Mahbubul Haq, internationally acclaimed financial expert and
former Finance Minister of Pakistan. Aug
19: Shaukat Rizvi, film director. Aug
23: Mohsin Rizvi, senior television artist. Sep
8: Arshe Munir, radio, television and film artist. Oct
17: Hakim Muhammad Said, former Sindh Governor and Chancellor of Hamdard
University. Nov
9: John Hunt, first man to climb Mt. Everest. 1999 Feb
5: King Hussain of Jordan died at the age of 63. Apr
21: Z. A. Suleri, veteran journalist. Apr
22: Munir Ahmed Khan, scientist. May
12: Zamir Jafri, poet and humorist. May
31: Inayat Hussain Bhatti, film actor and singer. June
8: Lt. General Ghulam Jilani, former governor of Punjab. July
17: John F. Kennedy Jr and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. July
24: King Hassan of Morocco died at the age of 71. Aug
1: Mirza Adeeb, literary scholar. Aug
4: Akhlaq Ahmed, singer. Sep
4: Shams Zubairi, poet. Oct
9: General Gul Hassan, former army chief. Nov
7: Prof. Karrar Hussain, educationist. 2000 Jan
5: Bashir Mirza, leading artist and painter. Feb
3: Ustad Allah Rakha, internationally acclaimed tabla maestro. Feb
10: Kajjan Begum, noted classical singer and mother of singer Mehnaz. She
was 75. Feb
13: Charles M. Schultz, creator of Peanuts cartoon. Mar
9: Pathanay Khan, folk singer. Mar
16: Thomas Wilson Ferebee, US pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima. Mar
29: Anthony Powell, British novelist. Afr
6: Habib Bourguiba, former Tunisian President. May
7: Douglas Fainbanks Jr, Hollywood film legend. May
21: Barbara Cartland, bestseller queen. May
24: Majrooh Sulatanpuri, poet and film lyricist. May
25: Hamid Dawood Habib, prominent industrialist and banker. June
7: Aziz Siddiqui, journalist, columnist and joint director of Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan. June
10: Hafez Al Assad, Syrian President. July
4: Allan Faqir, folk singer. Aug
1: Ali Sardar Jafri, Indian literary figure. Aug
5: Lala Amarnath, first cricket captain of independent India. Aug
13: Nazia Hassan, pop star. Aug
25: Carl Barks, Donald Duck cartoonist. Oct
10: Sirimavo Bandaranaike, former Sri Lankan Prime Minister. Nov
14: Altaf Gauhar, bureaucrat and journalist. Dec
6: Aziz Mian, Pakistani qawwal. Dec
11: Begum Shaista Ikramullah, Pakistan Movement worker. Dec
23: Madame Noor Jehan, Pakistan's Melody Queen. 2001 Jan
3: Ahmad Ali Jivajee, a committed journalist of pre- independence days and
the editor of the reformist magazine, Aage Kadam. Jan
7: Prof. Zafar Hasnain Zaidi, pioneer in the field of protein chemistry in
Pakistan. Feb
6: Agha Hilaly, former ambassador of Pakistan and a noted civilian
servant. He was 90. Feb
18: Balthus, French artist, considered one of the world's greatest realist
painters. Feb
19: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood filmmaker. Feb
20: Irina Bugrimova, Russian circus legend. Feb
25: Sir Donald Bradman, one of the greatest English cricketers. Mar
21: Chung Ju-yung, founder of South Korea's Hyundai industrial empire and
symbol of the country's post-war economic power. Mar
22: William Hanna, cartoonist; The Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, The
Jetsons, Top Cat were all born out of his and partner's imagination. Mar
23: David Mactaggart, founder of Greenpeace. He was 68 at the time of
death. Apr
18: Khurshid, old time singer and actress. Apr
20: Yusuf Raza, an unassuming veteran journalist. Apr 28: Farooq Mazhar,
Pakistan's most prominent sports journalist, television commentator and
former editor of The News. May
2: Maulana Sattar Niazi, an active worker of the Pakistan Freedom Movement
in Jamiat Ullema Pakistan. May
11: Douglas Adams, British author of 'The Hitchhiker's guide to the
Galaxy'. May
13: RK Narayan, one of India's most eminent novelists. May
17: Sardar Inayatur Rehman Abbasi, veteran Muslim Leaguer and former
parliamentary secretary. May
31: Faisal Husseini, the senior official of the Palestine Liberation
Organisation (PLO). June
1: King Birendra of Nepal. He was 56. July
3: Imtiaz Sipra, one of the most renowned sports writers of Pakistan and
sports editor of The News, Lahore. June
13: Anthony Quinn, Hollywood actor. June
27: John Lemmon was one of Hollywood's most loved actors and a man who
distinguished himself in both serious and comic roles. July:
Salamat Ali Khan, an eminent vocalist of the sub-continent, to whose
credit is the founding of the tradition of two brothers making a pair in
classical singing. July
25: Phoolan Devi, India's Bandit Queen. Aug
21: Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer who coined the term 'Big Bang' to
describe an academic theory on the creation of the cosmos. Sep
2: Christian Barnard, made medical history in 1967 with the world's first
heart transplant on a human patient at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape
Town. Oct:
Prof. Shohrat Bokhari, renowned poet and intellectual. Nov
11: Aleemuddin Pathan, a very seasoned journalist. Nov
21: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, King of Malaysia. Nov
29: George Harrison, former Beatle. Dec
15: Farid Nawaz Baluch, television and film artist, he had more than 100
TV plays to his credit. Dec:
Qateel Shafai, a poet whose lines have been sung by Jagjit Singh, Pankhaj
Udhas, Talat Aziz, Ashok Khosla and Mehdi Hassan. Dec
10: Ashok Kumar, one of the all time greats of Indian cinema and elder
brother of Kishore Kumar. 2002 Jan
18: Yasmin Ismail, a prominent television artist, director and stage
actress. Jan
27: Ustad Allah Rakha, one of the last virtuosos of Sarangi. Feb
9: HRH Princess Margaret of England. Feb
15: General (Retd) Fazal Muqeem Khan, belonging to the Frontier Force
Regiment, Guides Infantry and the 2FF. Feb
15: Dr. Hassan Rizvi, columnist, poet and head of the Urdu department of
FC College, Lahore. Feb
22: Chuck Jones, Oscar winning cartoon animator, who brought to life a
host of cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Feb
23: Nasrullah Khan, the luminous star of the Indo- Pak humour journalism. Mar
13: Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher, one of the most important
thinkers of the 20th century. Mar
28: Dudley Moore, legendry British comedian, movie star and pianist. Mar
29: Latif Kapadia, well known television and stage actor and winner of
Pride of Performance. Mar
30: Queen Mother of England. May
11: Princess Abida Sultan, popularly known as Bia Hazur. May
23: Ali Imam, noted artist and remembered as the renaissance man of art of
Pakistan June
1: Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer. July
10: Zafar Rizvi, a senior journalist and Assistant editor of foreign desk
of Daily Jang, Karachi. July
13: Yousuf Karsh, photographer whose 1941 portrait of a glowering,
resolute Winston Churchill symbolized Britain's war effort. He
photographed some of the brightest luminaries of the 20th century such as
Fidel Castro, Ernest Hemingway, John F. Kennedy and Albert Einstein. Oct:
Dr. Fatima Shah, founder of the President of Pakistan Association of the
Blind (PATB). Nov:
S. Ashfaq Hussain, doctor who performed Pakistan's first open-heart
surgery in 1956. Nov
8: Jaun Elia, a prominent poet. Nov
18: James Coburn, Hollywood actor. 2003 Jan:
Syeda Fatima Fazlur Rahman, one of Karachi's most dynamic and outstanding
ladies of the early years of Independence. Jan
15: Maulana Azad, renowned religious scholar and former Imam of Badshahi
Masjid. Feb
1: Kalpana Chawla, the first female Indian-born NASA astronaut. Feb
16: Khalid bin Waleed, former MPA and central leader of Mutahida Qaumi
Movement. Mar
13: Alys Faiz, campaigner who fought for the anti-colonial cause in
pre-war London and later exercised considerable influence on the human
rights agenda in the newly- emerged sub-continent. Mar
13: Shahida Parveen, classical and folk singer. June11:
Meraj Khalid, politician. June
11: Abdul Razik Khan, former speaker Sindh Assembly and Coordinator
Pakistan Muslim League. June
12: Gregory Peck, Hollywood actor. June
26: Yahya Bakhtiar, former Attorney General and PPP leader. June
26: Prof. Dr. Laeeq Babri, a renowned scholar who translated the works of
Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Allama Iqbal into French. June
29: Katherine Hepburn, Hollywood actress. July
2: Mukhtar Zaman, one of the old-timers of Pakistani journalism. July
3: Haroon Rind, senior producer of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV). July
6: Hameed Kashmiri, noted fiction writer, columnist and playwright. July
27: Bob Hope, whose deft delivery of the one-liner made him the best-known
comedian since Charlie Chaplin. July
29: Johnny Walker, legendary Bollywood comedian. Aug
30: Charles Bronson, actor known for his roles in Westerns. Sep
11: Johnny Cash, American singer. Sep
11: John Ritter, famous comedian, starred in television shows such as
'Three's Company' and '8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter'. Sep
24: Edward Said, Palestinian scholar, author of the book 'Orientalism'. Sep
23: Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, senior political figure, Chairman of
Alliance for Restoration of Democracy. Nov
17: A B S Jaffri, a prolific writer and commentator who authored at least
10 books. Nov
30: A A Brohi, veteran activist and writer. Dec
10: Allama Ghulam Mustafa Qasmi, eminent religious scholar and had served
as Chairman of the Sindhi Adabi Board, Institute of Sindhology, and other
educational institutions of the province. Dec
11: Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, founder of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan. 2004 Jan
10: Askari Mian Irani, painter whose paintings with their Arabic script,
geometric designs and prominent texture became the most sought after
objects in the local market. Jan
11: Syed Abid Ali , bureaucrat and intellectual. Jan
24: Hamid Raza Gilani, renowned parliamentarian and Chief of the Gilani
family. Jan
31: Suraiyya, was one of the most popular pinup girls of India's film
industry in the 1940s. Feb
4: Malika Pukhraj, classical singer, prominent vocalist of the ageless
song 'Abhi to Mein Jawan Hoon'. Feb
13: Zelim Khan Yandurbiyev, ex-Chechen President. Feb
13: Abdul Sattar Lalika, Federal Minister for Labour, Manpower and
Overseas Pakistanis. Mar
11: Dullah Omar, one of South Africa's best known human rights lawyer
during the apartheid era. Mar
17: Prof. Sarwar Zuberi, Pakistan's eminent gastroenterologist. Mar
23: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas founder. Apr
15: Irfan Siddiqui, famous poet, journalist and chief editor of Urdu daily
Sahafat. Apr
16: Syed Mohammad Abbas, noted film story writer and director. Apr
24: Estee Lauder, Cosmetics Queen. May
29: Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, formerly the world's oldest person.
She was 114 at the time of her death. May
30: Mufti Shamzai, religious scholar. June
2: Mujeeb Alam, singer. June
5: Ronald Reagan, Actor and ex-President of America. June
10: Ray Charles, a cultural icon, singer and pianist who was famous for
blending the gospel and blues. June
11: Zamir Niazi, well-known chronicler of the press, an author and
journalist. June
27: Maulana Manzoor Ahmed Chinioti, renowned scholar, leader of the
International Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Movement and former MPA. July
1: Marlon Brando, actor. July
3: Hassam Qazi, television actor. July
17: Albela, comic actor of film, TV and stage. July
23: Mehmood, legendry Indian film comedian. July
28: Francis Crick, helped discover the structure of DNA. Aug
3: Henri Cartier Bresson, the founding father of photojournalism. Sep
7: Ashfaq Ahmed, renowned writer, playwright, intellectual and broad
caster, well known for his literary work and awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz for
his outstanding services in the fields of literature and broadcasting. Sep
23: Tabish Dehlvi, renowned literary personality, former broadcaster and
famous Urdu poet. Oct
5: Begum Majid Malik, an educationist, philanthropist and founder of PECHS
School and College. Oct
10: Christopher Reeve, Hollywood actor, achieved fame from his Superman
movies. Oct
29: Mian Muhammad Sharif, industrialist and father of former PM Nawaz
Sharif and former Punjab Minister Shahbaz Sharif. Nov
1: Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, the first and only president of UAE. Nov
11: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader. 2005 Jan
23: Mirza Hasan Askari, writer, journalist and columnist. Jan
31: Ishrat Hashmi, veteran television actress. Feb
1: Ghulam Ali Khoja, senior journalist. Feb
10: Arthur Miller, America's foremost post-war playwright. Feb
14: Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Mar
8: Air Marshal Zulfiqar Ali Khan, former Chief of Air Staff. Mar
10: Shahla Zia, human rights activist. Mar
10: Muazzam Ali, journalist and founder of Pakistan Press International. Mar
14: Omar Kureishi, noted columnist and one of the most outstanding writers
on cricket. Apr
2: John Paul II, Pope. Apr
5: Prince Rainier III, ruler of Monaco and Grace Kelly's husband. Apr
16: Amjad Bobby, music director. Apr
21: Feroze khan, hockey legend. May
24: Saeed Khan, Rangeela, comedian,
singer, film director, producer, distributor, music composer and lyricist. May
30: Fazal Mahmood, first bowler to take 100 wickets for Pakistan in Test
cricket. June
7: Anne Bancroft, Hollywood actress best known for her role as Ms.
Robinson in the movie The Graduate. July
12: Almas Haroon, wife of former Sindh governor Mahmoud A. Haroon. July
19: James Doohan, actor best known for his role as Scotty Scott in the
series Star Trek. Aug
1: Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia. Aug
5: Robin Cook, former British Foreign Secretary. Aug
16: Gool Rustomji, former MNA, former editor of the Quetta Times and the
vice president of the All Pakistan Women's Association. Aug
24: Jamshed Ansari, comedian and actor. Sep
19: Simon Wiesenthal, credited with helping to bring more than 1100 Nazi
criminals to justice. Sep
25: Dr Ghulam Mustafa Khan, renowned research scholar, educationist and
religious leader. Sep
29: Umeed Fazli, noted poet. Oct
17: Milton Obote, one of the last founding fathers of African Independence
and twice Uganda's president. Oct
24: Rosa Parks, her refusal as a black woman to give up her bus seat to a
white man changed course of American history. Nov
8: K. R Narayanan, ex-President of India. Dec
15: Sister Bernice Vargas, senior social worker, educationist and the
founder of Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre. Dec
20: Azra Sherwani, popular television actress, she had gained fame in her
serial 'Uncle Urfi' and 'Tanhayian' after which she did more popular
serials, particularly in the black and white era. Dec
23: Saleem Aslam, father of Talat Aslam, Editor, The News and Imran Aslam,
President GEO TV. Aslam was a former secretary of the Pakistan Jute Mills
Association. 2006 Jan
1: Hanif Ramsay, former Punjab governor, chief minister, speaker of Punjab
Assembly and a founder member of PPP. Jan
4: Sheikh Makhtoum, the Emir of Dubai, Vice- President and Prime Minister
of UAE. Jan
5: Rafique Jabir, one of the founding members of the Karachi Press Club
and Ex editor of English
daily, Morning News. Jan
6: Roshan Khan, legendry squash player and father of Jahangir Khan. Jan
15: Emir Sheikh Jabir of Kuwait. Jan
18: Anton Rupert, South African tycoon and a regular feature of the Forbes
list of the world's wealthiest. Jan
18: Khan Abdul Wali Khan, veteran politician and one of the last freedom
fighters in the Indo- Pak sub-continent. Mar
11: Milosevic Slobodan, former Yugoslav President. |