Served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him India's longest-serving Chief Minister as of 2010 of any Indian state. He was a member of the CPI(M) Politburo from the time of the party's founding in 1964 until 2008.
DEATHS IN 2009
December 30 - Vishnuvardhan, 59, Kannada film actor and singer
December 29 - C. Aswath, 72, Kannada music director and singer
December 7 - Bina Rai, 73, film actress
November 10 - Dimple Kapadia, 51, film costume designer and actress
October 25 - Adoor Bhavani, 82, film actress
September 2 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy,14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
August 9 - Murali, 55, film and theatre actor, author
August 9 - Gulshan Bawra, 72, songwriter
July 29 - Gayatri Devi, 90, Rajmata of Jaipur
July 29 - Rajan P. Dev, 56, film actor in South Indian films
July 28 - Leela Naidu, 69, film actress
July 21 - Gangubai Hangal, 96, Hindustani classical singer
July 16 - D. K. Pattammal, 90, Carnatic musician, one of the "female trinity of Carnatic Music"
June 28 - A. K. Lohithadas, 54, filmmaker in Malayalam cinema
June 8 - Habib Tanvir, 85, dramatist and actor
31 May - Kamala Das, 75, writer and poetess
17 May - Prakash Mehra, 69, film director and producer
27 April - Feroz Khan, 69, film actor and producer
9 April - Shakti Samanta, 83, film director and producer
31 January - Nagesh, actor
27 January - R. Venkataraman, 98, the 8th President of
15 January - Tapan Sinha, 84, film director
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