Paris (AFP) – In 2022, many famous people died, such as Queen Elizabeth II, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and the legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.
These are the most famous personalities who died in 2022.
JANUARY
– 6: Sidney POITIER, 94 years old, the first black actor to win an Oscar in 1964 for “The lilies of the valley.”
– 14: Ricardo BOFILL, 82 years old, Spanish architect who wanted to transform cities.
– 15: Nino CERRUTI, 91 years old, Italian designer.
– 18: Paco GENTO, 88 years old, legendary Real Madrid footballer.
– 20: Elza SOARES, 91 years old, the diva of Brazilian music.
– 20: “Meat Loaf” (Marvin Lee ADAY), 74 years old, the American rocker interpreter of “Bat Out of Hell”.
– 22: Thich Nhat HANH, 95 years old, Buddhist monk and peace activist.
FEBRUARY
– 2: Monica VITTI, 90 years old, Italian star and muse of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni.
– 6: Lata MANGESHKAR, 92 years old, Bollywood singer and producer.
– 10: Luc MONTAGNIER, 89 years old, Nobel Prize in Medicine for having discovered the AIDS virus.
MARCH
– 13: William HURT, 71 years old, American actor who won an Oscar for “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”
– 23: Madeleine ALBRIGHT, 84 years old, first woman appointed US Secretary of State (1997-2001).
– 25: Taylor HAWKINS, 50, drummer for the American rock band Foo Fighters.
APRIL
– 6: Vladimir JIRINOVSKI, 75 years old, ultranationalist figure of Russian politics.
– 13: Michel BOUQUET, 96 years old, actor, figure of the French theater.
– 14, Freddy RINCÓN, 55 years old, Colombian soccer player.
– 23 : ARNO (Harnold Hintjens), 72 years old, Belgian singer and actor.
– 30: Marthe GAUTIER, 96 years old, French co-discoverer of the chromosome responsible for trisomy 21.
– 30: Mino RAIOLA, 54 years old, famous Italian-Dutch agent for footballers like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba.
MAY
– 1: Ricardo ALARCÓN, 84 years old, close collaborator of Fidel Castro.
– 11: Shireen ABU AKLEH, Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera killed in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.
– 13: Teresa BERGANZA, 89 years old, Spanish mezzo-soprano.
– 19: VANGELIS (Evangelos PAPATHANASSIOU), 79 years old, a great Greek composer of music for films like “Chariots of Fire”.
– 26: Ray LIOTTA, 67, American actor starring in “Goodfellas” by Martin Scorsese.
– 26: Andy FLETCHER, alias “Fletch”, 60 years old, founder of the British group Depeche Mode.
– 30: Boris PAHOR, 108 years old, Italian Slovene-language writer, survivor of the Italian fascists and Nazi camps, and defender of minorities and Europe.
JUNE
– 14: Avraham YEHOSHUA, 85 years old, Israeli writer and figure of the left anti-occupation.
– 17: Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT, 91 years old, French film and theater actor.
– 22: Yves COPPENS, 87 years old, French paleontologist who discovered the australopithecine Lucy in Ethiopia in 1974.
JULY
– 2: Peter BROOK, 97 years old, British playwright who revolutionized the theater.
– 8: Eduardo DOS SANTOS, 79 years old, former Marxist rebel, leader of the fight against Portuguese colonialism, president of Angola for 38 years (1979-2017).
– 8: Shinzo ABE, 67 years old, former conservative prime minister of Japan (2006-2007 and 2012-2020) assassinated during a rally.
– 31: Ayman AL-ZAWAHIRI, 71, successor to Bin Laden at the head of Al Qaida, killed in Kabul by an American drone.
– 31: Bill RUSSELL, 88 years old, legendary NBA basketball player and American civil rights activist.
AUGUST
– 5: Issey MIYAKE, 84 years old, Japanese haute couture stylist, inventor of garments with permanent creases that do not wrinkle and seamless garments.
– 8: Olivia NEWTON-JOHN, 73, Anglo-Australian singer and actress, star of the film “Grease” with John Travolta.
– 11: Hanae MORI, 96 years old, Japanese fashion designer and the first Asian to enter the elite of Paris haute couture.
– 11: Jean-Jacques SEMPÉ, 89 years old, great French cartoonist, creator of “Little Nicholas”.
– 30: Mikhail GORBACHOV, 91 years old, political figure of the 20th century, last president of the Soviet Union.
SEPTEMBER
– 8: Elizabeth II, 96 years old, Queen of the United Kingdom and sovereign of fourteen other independent States.
– 10: William KLEIN, 96 years old, American photographer who revolutionized fashion and street photography.
– 11: Javier MARÍAS, 70 years old, Spanish writer translated into more than 40 languages and author, among other books, of “El hombre sentimental”, “Todas las almas” (City of Barcelona Award) and “Berta Isla”.
– 13: Jean-Luc GODARD, 91 years old, Franco-Swiss filmmaker and one of the fathers of the Nouvelle Vague.
– 14: Irene PAPAS, 93 years old, Greek actress who shone in “Zorba the Greek” and “The Guns of Navarone”.
– 22: Hilary MANTEL, 70 years old, British novelist twice winner of the Booker Prize for “The Counsellor”, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, minister of Enrique VIII.
– 24: Farrel “Pharoah” SANDERS, 81 years old, American saxophonist and world jazz figure.
– 28: Artis Leon IVEY Jr, “COOLIO”, 59 years old, American rapper known for his hit “Gangsta’s Paradise”.
OCTOBER
– 4: Loretta LYNN, 90 years old, American legend of country music.
– 9: Bruno LATOUR, 75 years old, a great French intellectual and a figure of contemporary environmental thought.
– 11: Angela LANSBURY, 96, British-American actress famous for her role as a writer and detective on the television series “Murder.
– 22: Dietrich MATESCHITZ, 78 years old, Austrian billionaire, founder of the Red Bull energy drink company.
– 25: Pierre SOULAGES, 102 years old, French painter who illuminated the color black.
– 28: Jerry Lee LEWIS, 87 years old, pioneer of American rock and roll.
NOVEMBER
– 9: Gal COSTA, 77 years old, legend of Brazilian music and muse of tropicalism.
– 20: Hebe de BONAFINI, 93 years old, standard-bearer of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo who tirelessly marched against the Argentine dictatorship to claim for their “disappeared” relatives.
– 22: Pablo MILANÉS, 79 years old, Cuban singer-songwriter and founder of Nueva Trova.
– 22: Erasmo CARLOS, 81 years old, icon of Basilian rock.
– 30: JIANG Zemin, 96 years old, former Chinese president who was the architect of his country’s return to the international scene.
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