Born in 1929

Film & TV

Kishore Kumar

Playback singer and actor, one of the greatest voices of Hindi cinema

1929 – 1987

Music

Lata Mangeshkar

Playback singer whose voice defined Hindi film music for seven decades

1929 – 2022

Sports

Milkha Singh

Sprinter; India’s first Commonwealth Games gold medallist in athletics

1929 – 2021