[1][2] Pranab Kumar Sen was born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, India on 7 November 1937,[3] as the second of seven siblings.
His father, a railway officer, died of leukemia when Sen was ten, and he was raised by his mother, the daughter of a physician.
[3] Sen died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on 31 December 2023, at the age of 86.
[3] He was the Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bowling Green State University in 1996–1997.
[14] In 2002, he won the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award of the ASA,[15] and he was the 2010 winner of its Wilks Memorial Award "for outstanding contributions to statistical research, especially in nonparametric statistics and biostatistics; and for exceptional service in mentoring doctoral students.