page_title: 2006 in India
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 in India / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Indian musician Naushad
context_page_description: Events in the year 2006 in the Republic of India.
context_section_description: 3 January – Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande, physicist (born 1940).
  3 February – Nadira, actress (born 1932).
  25 March – Chandrakant Bakshi, author (born 1932).
  28 March – Bansi Lal, Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975 – 77) (born 1927)
  12 April – Rajkumar, actor and singer (born 1929).
  3 May – Pramod Mahajan, politician (born 1949).
  5 May – Naushad Ali, musician and composer (born 1919).
  8 July – Raja Rao, novelist and short story writer (born 1908).
  21 August – Bismillah Khan, shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner (born 1916).
  27 August – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, film director (born 1922).
  24 September – Padmini, actress and dancer (born 1932).
  9 October – Kanshi Ram, politician and founder of Bahujan Samaj Party (born 1934).
  19 October- Srividya, South Indian actress (born 1953).
caption: Naushad Ali
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