Biography of Rishi Kapoor, Legendary actor of Hindi cinema - Facts you must know about Rishi Kapoor Death. Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor died within a day of each other. We all rationalise death but we don’t try to rationalise birth And that seems to be the greatest tragedy of humankind. One linked their age and year of birth and another talked about the similarity in their numerology number.