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See also: 1978 in India, other events of 1979, 1980 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Events

• 31 January - The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of Communist Party of India (Marxist)-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.
• February 28- Srikanth
• 24 March - Emraan Hashmi, actor.
• 31 March - Amey Date, singer.
• 12 June - Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.

July to December

• 17 August - Daulat Kadam, Aeronautical Engineer.
• 31 August - Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer and singer.
• 11 September - Tulip Joshi, model and actress.
• 14 September - Kamya Panjabi, actress.
• 28 September - Shrivatsa Joshi, Mesher.
• 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).