Biography/Wiki Muhammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar was born on 11 December (age 98 years; at the time of death) in a Muslim family in Peshawar, (Now in Pakistan) British India. His father was a fruit merchant, who owned an orchard in Peshawar. For his primary education, Muhammad Yusuf Khan was sent to Nasik, Maharashtra where he became a close friend of another would-be Bollywood star.