Former UN Chief Javier Perez de Cuellar passed away at the age of 100. He served as the president of the UN Security Council from 1973 to 1974. He also worked as United Nations Secretary General from 1981 to 1991. He was often called as a “pacifist by vocation and nature.” He was honored Prince of Asturias Prize for the promotion of Ibero-American cooperation in 1987.
The head of the Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero passed away in Dhaka. He was a revered figure among the Buddhists of Bangladesh. He is famous for running many social service activities particularly the orphanage at Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery which cares of more than 350 children. Government of Bangladesh honored the Ekushey Award to him in 2012.
Former India hockey player Balbir Singh Kullar passed away. He was in 1968 Olympics bronze-winning team. He was born at Sansarpur village of Jalandhar district in Punjab.
The world’s oldest man, Chitetsu Watanabe of Japan, has passed away at 112. He was born on March 5th, 1907. He was got his Guinness World Record certification on February 12, 2020.
Centenarian freedom fighter and Vedic scholar Sudhakar Krishna Rao, widely known as Sudhakar Chaturvedi passed away. He was born in a Madhva family and became a disciple of Swami Shraddhananda, the disciple of the founder of Arya Samaj Swami Dayananda.
Egypt’s former President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak passed away. He ruled the country for 30 years. After almost three decades in power, Mubarak was insisted to resign on February 11, 2011, following 18 days of protests around the country.
Great NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101. Johnson’s calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was under rated until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of three black women who served at NASA.
Former Lok Sabha MP Krishna Bose passed away. She was the wife of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s nephew Sisir Kumar Bose. She got in politics in the mid-1990s.
Former Indian footballer Ashok Chatterjee passed away. He made his international debut when he came on as a second-half substitute for PK Banerjee against Japan in the Merdeka Cup in 1965.
V L Dutt, the former Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) president has passed away. He led the federation in 1991-92 and also worked as the chairman of the India Vietnam Joint Business Council of FICCI.