In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II, Jean-Luc Godard, Shinzo Abe and Mikhail Gorbachev disappeared. Here is a summary of the great missing in the world.
January
American actor Sidney Poitier at the Oscars ceremony, March 2, 2014 in Hollywood / AFP/Archives
– 6: Sidney POITIER, 94, the first black American actor to win an Oscar in 1964 for “Le Lys des champs”.
– 14: Ricardo BOFILL, 82 years old, Spanish architect.
– 15: Nino CERRUTI, 91, Italian fashion designer.
– 20: Elza SOARES, 91, black diva of Brazilian song.
– 20: “MEAT LOAF” (Marvin Lee ADAY), 74, American rocker performer of “Bat Out of Hell”.
– 22: Thich Nhat HANH, 95 years old, a major figure in committed Buddhism, pacifist and Vietnamese Zen master.
– 23: Thierry MUGLER, 73, French designer.
FEBRUARY
A portrait of Italian actress Monica Vitti in front of her coffin, during her funeral, on February 4, 2022 in Rome / AFP/Archives
– 2: Monica VITTI, 90, Italian star and muse of director Michelangelo Antonioni.
– 6: Lata MANGESHKAR, 92, the “Nightingale of India”, Bollywood singer and producer.
– 10: Luc MONTAGNIER, 89, Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the AIDS virus, whose positions were then contested by the scientific community.
MARCH
American actor William Hurt in February 2010 in Los Angeles / AFP/Archives
– 13: William HURT, 71, Oscar-winning American actor for “The Spider Woman’s Kiss”.
– 23: Madeleine ALBRIGHT, 84, first female US Secretary of State (1997-2001).
– 25: Taylor HAWKINS, 50, drummer of the Foo Fighters, American alternative rock band.
APRIL
– 6: Vladimir JIRINOVSKI, 75 years old, an ultra-nationalist figure in Russian political life.
A portrait of actor Michel Bouquet, who died at the age of 96 on April 13, during a national tribute at the Hôtel des Invalides, on April 27, 2022 in Paris / AFP/Archives
– 13: Michel BOUQUET, 96 years old, actor, monument of French theatre.
– 23: ARNO (Arnold Hintjens), 72 years old, Belgian singer and actor.
– 30: Marthe GAUTIER, 96 years old, French co-discoverer of the supernumerary chromosome responsible for trisomy 21.
– 30: Mino RAIOLA, 54, famous Italian-Dutch agent of footballers like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba.
MAY
– 11: Shireen ABU AKLEH, Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera killed during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.
The Greek musician and composer Vangelis, on October 20, 1992 at the French Ministry of Culture in Paris / AFP/Archives
– 19: VANGELIS (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79 years old, great Greek composer of film scores like “Chariots of Fire”.
– 26: Ray LIOTTA, 67, American actor star of Martin Scorsese’s “Freedmen”.
– 26: Andy FLETCHER, alias “Fletch”, 60 years old, founder of the British group Depeche Mode.
– 30: Boris PAHOR, 108 years old, Slovene-speaking Italian writer, survivor of Italian fascists and Nazi camps, defender of minorities and of Europe.
JUNE
– 14: Avraham YEHOSHUA, 85, Israeli writer, winner of the Israel Prize and the Medici Foreign Prize (2012), figure of the anti-occupation left.
– 17: Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT, 91 years old, essential actor in French cinema and theatre.
Paleontologist Yves Coppens next to a sculpture representing Lucy, in July 2004 in Carnac, Morbihan / AFP/Archives
– 22: Yves COPPENS, 87, French paleontologist who discovered Australopithecus Lucy in Ethiopia in 1974.
– 27: Leonardo DEL VECCHIO, 87, Italy’s second-richest man at the head of the global optical giant EssilorLuxottica.
JULY
– 2: Peter BROOK, 97 years old, British director who revolutionized the theater.
– 8: Eduardo DOS SANTOS, 79, former Marxist rebel, president of Angola for 38 years (1979-2017) having diverted the oil windfall for his benefit.
A portrait of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, assassinated in July during a meeting, during his state funeral on September 27, 2022 in Tokyo / POOL/AFP/Archives
– 8: Shinzo ABE, 67, conservative Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007 and 2012-2020) assassinated during a meeting.
– 31: Bill RUSSELL, 88, legendary NBA basketball player and civil rights activist in the United States.
AUGUST
– 5: Issey MIYAKE, 84, Japanese haute couture designer, inventor of seamless clothes.
– 8: Olivia NEWTON-JOHN, 73, British-Australian singer and actress, star of “Grease” with John Travolta.
The grave of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August, at the Novodevichy cemetery, on September 6, 2022 in Moscow / AFP / Archives
– 11: Hanae MORI, 96, Japanese haute couture designer.
– 11: Jean-Jacques SEMPE, 89 years old, great French designer, creator of “Little Nicolas”.
– 30: Mikhail GORBATCHEV, 91, political figure of the 20th century who precipitated, despite himself, the fall of the USSR in 1991.
Great missing in 2022 / AFP
SEPTEMBER
– 8: Elizabeth II, 96, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.
– 10: William KLEIN, 96 years old, great American photographer who transposed the codes of reportage to fashion photography.
– 11: Javier MARIAS, 70 years old, Spanish writer translated into more than 40 languages, author notably of “The Oxford novel” (1989), “A heart so white” (1993).
Franco-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in February 1971 in Paris / AFP/Archives
– 13: Jean-Luc GODARD, 91, Franco-Swiss filmmaker, illustrious representative of the New Wave with “A bout de souffle”, “Pierrot le fou”, “Le Mépris”.
– 14: Irène PAPAS, 93, Greek star of “Zorba the Greek” and “Canons de Navarone”.
– 22: Hilary MANTEL, 70, British novelist twice Booker Prize for “The Advisor”, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, minister of Henry VIII.
– 24: Farrell “Pharoah” SANDERS, 81, American saxophonist and world jazz figure.
– 26: Youssef AL-QARADAOUI, 96, Egyptian preacher naturalized in Qatar, éminence grise of the Muslim Brotherhood.
– 28: Artis Leon IVEY Jr, “COOLIO”, 59, American rapper known for his hit “Gangsta’s Paradise”.
OCTOBER
– 04: Loretta LYNN, 90, American country music legend.
– 09: Bruno LATOUR, 75 years old, great French intellectual with international influence, figure of contemporary ecological thought.
American-British actress Angela Lansbury, May 9, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California / AFP/Archives
– 11: Angela LANSBURY, 96, American-British actress, petulant detective grandmother of the television series “Arabesque”.
– 22: Dietrich MATESCHITZ, 78, Austrian billionaire, founder of the energy drink company Red Bull.
– 25: Pierre SOULAGES, 102 years old, French painter, black specialist.
– 28: Jerry Lee LEWIS, 87, pioneer of American rock and roll.
NOVEMBER
– 9: Gal COSTA, 77, legend of Brazilian music and muse of tropicalism.
A portrait of Hebe de Bonafini, standard bearer of the “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”, during a tribute a few days after her death, on November 24, 2022 in Buenos Aires / AFP/Archives
– 20: Hebe de BONAFINI, 93 years old, standard bearer of the “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo” who marched tirelessly against the Argentine dictatorship to claim their “disappeared”.
– 30: JIANG Zemin, 96, President of China (1993-2003) and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989-2002), he accompanied China’s transformation into a world economic power.
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