H.N. Bahuguna, the sixth child, of his parents, was born on 25th April, 1919 in a small village called Bhugani in the district of Pauri Garhwal in Uttar Pradesh. His father Ravati Nandan Bahuguna was a village Patwari and his mother Dipa, a simple house wife.

Its is irony of fate that in 1989 when the nation was gearing to felicitate H.N Bahuguna on completing 50 years of his chequered and dedicated career in Indian politics, it had to mourn his death.