Was reading Trivia on Pancham over wikipedia, found out that his last days were spent in a lot of financial trouble.

This is actually sad that we realize what a legend he was pretty late. He gave some ultimate music, I guess he is one of the best Music Directors Bollywood has ever got. 

Trivia on Pancham, taken from wikipedia:

According to stories, Rahul Dev Burman was nicknamed PANCHAM because, as a child, whenever he cried, it sounded in the fifth note (Pa) of the Indian musical scale. The word Pancham means five (or fifth) in Bengali and Sanskrit. Another version is that when the veteran Indian actor Ashok Kumar saw a newborn Rahul Dev Burman uttering the syllable Pa repeatedly, he nicknamed the boy Pancham.

and he was such a versatile composer, he is the person ho composed the song from aandhi "tum aa gaye ho noor aa gaya hai" and he is the one who gave us "samundar main nahake"

and his specially his voice, his grunting bass singing styl... just love that in 

mehbooba mehbooba

Samundar main nahake

Dhanno ki aankhon main

...just to name a few of his materpieces. 

Trivia on Pancham:

He acted in the film Bhoot Bungla (1965) and Pyar ka Mausam (1967).

Trivia on RD Burman:

RDB was the first to introduce the Brazilian bossa nova rhythm in Hindi film music - the song was "Maar dalega dard-e-jigar", sung by Asha, in "Pati Patni". That rhythm has since been endlessly used for film music

oh nooooooooooooooooooooo!

i just cant believe this yaar.......how can it be true??he IS one of the best music directors