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From Queen Elizabeth II to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, here are some of the most famous people to die in 2022.
January
6: SIDNEY POITIER, 94, American film star, first black person 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, of American rock band ‘Bat out of Hell’ fame
22: THICH NHAT HANH, 95, Vietnamese Buddhist monk who introduced mindfulness to the West
23: THIERRY MUGLER, 73, French fashion designer
February
2: Monica Vitti, 90, Italian actress and muse directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
6: LATA MANGESHKAR, 92: Legendary Bollywood Singer
10: LUC MONTAGNIER, 89, French scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for co-discovering the HIV virus
17: IVAN REITMAN, 75, Ghostbusters director
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4: Sean Vaughan, 52, Australian cricketer who was one of the best players the game has ever seen
13: WILLIAM HURT, 71, American actor who won an Oscar for Kiss of the Spider Woman
23: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, 84, the first female U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001)
25: Taylor Hawkins, 50, drummer for alternative American rock band Foo Fighters
April
6: VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, 75, ultra-nationalist Russian politician
3: MICHEL BOUQUET, 96 years old, a famous French stage actor
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11: SHIREEN ABU AKLEH, 51, Palestinian-American reporter for Al Jazeera, killed in Israeli army raid on West Bank
19: VANGELIS (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79, Greek composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner
26: Ray Liotta, 67, star of Martin Scorsese’s classic gangster film Goodfellas
26: ANDY FLETCHER, 60, founding member of British electronic band Depeche Mode
30: BORIS PAHOR, 108, Slovenian author who documented the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and Italian fascism
June
14: AVRAHAM YEHOSHUA, 85, respected Israeli novelist who supports Palestinian rights
17: JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT, 91, star of French New Wave films including “Men and Women”
22: YVES COPPENS, 87, French paleontologist who co-discovered the famous fossil ‘Lucy’ in Ethiopia
27: LEONARDO DEL VECCHIO, 87, Italy’s second richest man and eyewear tycoon
July
3: Peter Brooke, 97, influential British theater director known for radical Shakespearean plays
6: JAMES CAAN, 82, Hollywood star of The Godfather and Misery
8: Shinzo Abe, 67, former prime minister of Japan, shot dead by gunmen at a campaign rally
8: Jose Eduardo dos Santos, 79, longtime ruler of Angola
25: David Trimble, 77, politician and Nobel laureate for helping broker the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement
27: JAMES LOVELOCK, 103, famous British scientist behind Gaia theory, who predicted climate change
30: NICHELLE NICHOLS, 89, groundbreaking black actress who starred in the 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, starred in hit musical ‘Grease’ with John Travolta
12: JEAN-JACQUES SEMPE, 89 years old, French cartoonist, “Le petit Nicolas” illustrator
12: ANNE HECHE, 53, American actress of “Donnie Brasco”
30: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, 91, the last Soviet leader whose reforms and influence on the West contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union
September
8: Queen Elizabeth II, 96, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch at 70 years
10: WILLIAM KLEIN, 96, American fashion and street life photographer
13: JEAN-LUC GODARD, 91, assisted suicide.Director of the French New Wave
14: IRENE PAPAS, 93, Greek star of Zorba Greek
22: Hilary Mantel, 70, British novelist and two-time Booker Prize winner for historical fiction bestseller
23: FARREL “PHAROAH” SANDERS: 81, American jazz saxophonist
26: YUSUF AL-QARADAWI, 96, prominent Sunni scholar and spiritual leader of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement
28: COOLIO (Artis Leon Ivey Jr.), 59, American “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper
October
4: LORETTA LYNN: Post-90s, American country music giant
11: Angela Lansbury, 96, movie star
14: Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films
22: DIETRICH MATESCHITZ, 78, Austrian billionaire who founded energy drink company Red Bull
25: PIERRE SOULAGES, 102, French abstract artist who paints almost exclusively in black
28: JERRY LEE LEWIS, 87, American rock star of the 1950s
November
9: GAL COSTA, 77, Brazilian singer, key figure in the tropical scene of the 1960s
20: HEBE DE BONAFINI, 93, one of the founders of the anti-authoritarian protest group Mothers in Plaza de Mayo, Argentina
30: Jiang Zemin, 96, Chinese leader who took power after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and saw a decade of rapid development
30: CHRISTINE MCVIE, 79, singer-songwriter and keyboardist for 1970s band Fleetwood Mac
December
11: ANGELO BADALAMENTI, who composed the haunting theme music for David Lynch’s TV series “Twin Peaks,” dies at 85.
18: TERRY HALL, lead singer of the British ska band The Specials, died at the age of 63.
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