From Queen Elizabeth II to the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, here are some of 2022's most notable deaths.. - January -
- 6: SIDNEY POITIER, 94, American movie star, the first black man to win an Oscar in 1964
- 13: JEAN-JACQUES BEINEIX, 75, French director of iconic 1980s film "Betty Blue"
- 15: NINO CERRUTI, 91, Italian fashion designer
- 20: MARVIN LEE ADAY aka MEAT LOAF, 74, US rocker of "Bat out of Hell" fame
- 22: THICH NHAT HANH, 95, Vietnamese Buddhist monk who introduced the West to mindfulness
- 23: THIERRY MUGLER, 73, French fashion designer
- February -
- 2: MONICA VITTI, 90, Italian leading lady and muse of director Michelangelo Antonioni
- 6: LATA MANGESHKAR, 92: legendary Bollywood singer
- 10: LUC MONTAGNIER, 89, French scientist who won Nobel medicine prize for his co-discovery of the HIV virus
- 17: IVAN REITMAN, 75, director of "Ghostbusters"
- March -
- 4: SHANE WARNE, 52, Australian cricketer who was one of the game's best-ever players
- 13: WILLIAM HURT, 71, American actor who won an Oscar for "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
- 23: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, 84, first female US secretary of state (1997-2001)
- 25: TAYLOR HAWKINS, 50, drummer of the alternative US rock group Foo Fighters
- April -
- 6: VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, 75, Russian ultra-nationalist politician
- 13: MICHEL BOUQUET, 96, Celebrated French stage and screen actor
- May -
- 11: SHIREEN ABU AKLEH, 51, American-Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist killed during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank
- 19: VANGELIS (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79, Greek composer of award-winning scores for "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner"
- 26: RAY LIOTTA, 67, star of Martin Scorsese's gangster classic "Goodfellas"
- 26: ANDY FLETCHER, 60, founding member of British electronic band Depeche Mode
- 30: BORIS PAHOR, 108, Slovenian author who chronicled the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and Italian fascism
- June -
- 14: AVRAHAM YEHOSHUA, 85, revered Israeli novelist who championed Palestinian rights
- 17: JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT, 91, French star of New Wave films including "A Man and a Woman"
- 22: YVES COPPENS, 87, French palaeontologist who co-discovered the famous fossil "Lucy" in Ethiopia
- 27: LEONARDO DEL VECCHIO, 87, Italy's second-richest man and eyewear magnate
- July -
- 3: PETER BROOK, 97, influential British theatre director famed for his radical stagings of Shakespeare
- 6: JAMES CAAN, 82, Hollywood star of "The Godfather" and "Misery"
- 8: SHINZO ABE, 67, Japan former premier, shot dead by a gunman at a campaign rally
- 8: JOSE EDUARDO DOS SANTOS, 79, Angola's long-time ruler
- 25: DAVID TRIMBLE, 77, politician and Nobel laureate, who won for helping to broker 1998 peace deal in Northern Ireland
- 27: JAMES LOVELOCK, 103, famed UK scientist behind Gaia theory, who predicted climate change
- 30: NICHELLE NICHOLS, 89, groundbreaking black actress who starred in cult sci-fi series "Star Trek"
- 31: BILL RUSSELL, 88, American NBA basketball player and civil rights activist
- August -
- 5: ISSEY MIYAKE, 84, Japanese fashion designer who pioneered high-tech, comfortable fashion
- 8: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, 73, star of hit musical "Grease" alongside John Travolta
- 12: JEAN-JACQUES SEMPE, 89, French cartoonist, illustrator of "Le petit Nicolas"
- 12: ANNE HECHE, 53, US actress of "Donnie Brasco"
- 30: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, 91, last Soviet leader, whose reforms and outreach to the West set in motion the collapse of the USSR
- September -
- 8: QUEEN ELIZABETH II, 96, Britain's longest-serving monarch who reigned for 70 years
- 10: WILLIAM KLEIN, 96, American fashion and street life photographer
- 13: JEAN-LUC GODARD, 91, by assisted suicide.
Mon, Dec 26, 2022
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