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Sinhalese New Year, generally known as Aluth Avurudda (Sinhala: අලුත් අවුරුද්ද) in Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan holiday that celebrates the traditional New Year of the Sinhalese people and Tamil population of Sri Lanka.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
National List: 29 July 1999: 55 Assassinated [34] Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed: UNP: Kandy: 3 September 1999 [35] 72 Savumiamoorthy Thondaman: PA: National List: 30 October 1999: 86 Heart failure [36] Nadarajah Atputharajah: EPDP: Jaffna: 2 November 1999: 36 Assassinated [37] C. V. Gunaratne: PA: Colombo: 7 June 2000: Assassinated [38] M ...
Sunil Santha was born on 14 April 1915 on the Sinhalese New Year's Day in Dehiyagatha, Ja-Ela, Sri Lanka. Both his parents died before he was two years old, and Santha was raised by his grandmother. At an early age he came to the limelight when he played King Dutugamunu in a village play.
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He captained the Sinhala Debating team at Royal College and won the Weerasooriya medal for oratory. [11] He entered the University of Ceylon in 1963 and graduated in mathematics in 1967. De Silva entered University of Sussex in January 1969, where he obtained his doctorate in theoretical physics – cosmology – in 1970.
5 June – A 45-year-old man and two women are arrested for brutally assaulting a four-year-old child in a viral social media video. [ 74 ] 11 June – The Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka says it has received assurances from Russia that it would stop recruiting Sri Lankan citizens to fight in Ukraine .
Most of the victims were families visiting their relatives for the new year. Aluth oya, Habarana, Anuradhapura District: 127--127 [3] [11] 20 April: Jayanthipura Massacre: The majority Sinhalese village of Jayanthipura was raided by a group of armed LTTE who murdered 15 civilians including women and children. Jayanthipura, Polonnaruwa District ...