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Events
- 31 January - The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of CPM-led government of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal. Hundreds killed but government officially accepts 36 deaths.
- 1 June - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh.
Births
January to June
- 7 January - Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
- 24 March - Emraan Hashmi, actor.
- 31 March - Amey Date, singer.
- 12 June - Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.
July to December
- 11 September - Tulip Joshi, model and actress.
- 14 September - Kamya Panjabi, actress.
- 7 October - Narain, actor.
- 4 November - Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
- 14 December - Samit Basu, novelist.
Full date unknown
- Divya Palat, actress.
Deaths
- 3 December - Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (b.1905).
Full date unknown
- Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b.1899).
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar (b.1907).
