From Queen Elizabeth II to the Soviet Union’s last 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 winner 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 who predicted Ukraine war
– 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, Nobel laureate, 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…
