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World’s Most Notable Deaths from 2022

World’s Most Notable Deaths from 2022

World’s Most Notable Deaths from 2022

World’s Most Notable Deaths from 2022

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  • Some of the most important people to died in 2022.
  • Queen Elizabeth II and Mikhail Gorbachev. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.
  • Brazilian singer who was an important part of the Tropicalia scene.
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Some of the most important people to died in 2022 include Queen Elizabeth II and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union.

Here is the List

– January 2022-

6: SIDNEY POITIER, an American movie star, is 94 years old. In 1964, he was the first black person to win an Oscar.

13: JEAN-JACQUES BEINEIX, 75, is a French director who made “Betty Blue,” an iconic movie from the 1980s.

15: Italian fashion designer NINO CERRUTI is 91 years old.

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20: MARVIN LEE ADAY, also known as “Meat Loaf,” is 74 years old. He is an American rocker who is known for the song “Bat Out of Hell.”

22: THICH NHAT HANH is 95 years old. He is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who brought mindfulness to the West.

23: THIERRY MUGLER is a French designer who is 73 years old.

–Feb. 2022-

2: MONICA VITTI is 90 years old. She was an Italian actress and Michelangelo Antonioni’s muse.

LATA MANGESHKAR, who is 92 years old, is a famous Bollywood singer.

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10: LUC MONTAGNIER is a French scientist who is 89 years old. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for helping to find the HIV virus.

17: Ivan Reitman, who made “Ghostbusters,” is 75 years old.

-March 2022-

4: SHANE WARNE is 52 years old and was one of the best cricket players ever.

13: WILLIAM HURT is an Oscar-winning American actor who is 71 years old.

23: Madeleine Albright, 84, was the first woman to be US Secretary of State (1997-2001)

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25: TAYLOR HAWKINS, 50, is the drummer for Foo Fighters, an alternative rock band from the US.

April 2022-

6: VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, who is 75 years old, is a Russian ultra-nationalist politician who predicted the war in Ukraine.

13: French stage and screen actor MICHEL BOUQUET is 96 years old.

-May 2022-

11: American-Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist SHIREEN ABU AKLEH, 51, was killed during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank.

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19: VANGELIS (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79, is a Greek composer who has won awards for his work on “Blade Runner” and “Chariots of Fire.”

26: RAY LIOTTA, 67, starred in the gangster classic “Goodfellas” by Martin Scorsese.

26: ANDY FLETCHER, 60, is one of the people who started the British electronic band Depeche Mode.

30: BORIS PAHOR, a Slovenian writer who wrote about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and Italian fascism, died today at the age of 108.

June 2022-

14: AVRAHAM YEHOSHUA is an 85-year-old well-known Israeli author who fought for Palestinian rights.

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17: JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT, 91, is a French actor who starred in “A Man and a Woman” and other New Wave movies.

22: Yves Coppens, a French palaeontologist, is 87 years old. He was part of the team that found the famous fossil “Lucy” in Ethiopia.

27: LEONARDO DEL VECCHIO, 87, is Italy’s second-richest person and a magnate in the eyewear business.

-July 2022-

3: British theatre director Peter Brook, who is 97 years old, is known for putting Shakespeare plays in unconventional ways.

6: JAMES CAAN, who played roles in “The Godfather” and “Misery,” is 82 years old.

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8: SHINZO ABE, 67, was shot and killed by a gunman at a campaign rally. He was a former prime minister of Japan.

8: JOSE EDUARDO DOS SANTOS, 79, Angola’s long-time ruler

25: DAVID TRIMBLE, a politician who is 77 years old and won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to make a peace deal in Northern Ireland in 1998.

27: JAMES LOVELOCK, the famous UK scientist who came up with the Gaia theory and predicted climate change, is 103 years old.

30. NICHELLE NICHOLS, a pioneering black actress who starred in the cult sci-fi show “Star Trek,” died at the age of 89.

31: BILL RUSSELL, 88, was an NBA player and civil rights activist from the United States.

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-August 2022-

ISSEY MIYAKE, 84, is a Japanese fashion designer who was one of the first to make high-tech, comfortable clothes.

8: Olivia Newton-John is 73 years old. She and John Travolta were the stars of the hit musical “Grease.”

12: JEAN-JACQUES SEMPE, a French cartoonist and the artist who drew “Le petit Nicolas,” is 89 years old.

12: “Donnie Brasco” star ANNE HECHE is 53 years old.

30: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, 91, was the last leader of the Soviet Union. His reforms and attempts to reach out to the West led to the fall of the USSR.

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– September 2022-

8: QUEEN ELIZABETH II is 96 years old. She was Britain’s longest-ruling monarch, ruling for 70 years.

10: American fashion and street life photographer WILLIAM KLEIN is 96 years old.

13: JEAN-LUC GODARD, 91, died with help from a doctor. He was the first director of the French New Wave.

14: “Zorba the Greek” star IRENE PAPAS is 93 years old. She is Greek.

22: HILARY MANTEL is a British author who is 70 years old. She has won the Booker Prize twice for her best-selling historical fiction.

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23: FARREL “PHAROAH” SANDERS: 81, US jazz saxophonist

26: YUSUF AL-QARADAWI, who is 96 years old, is a well-known Sunni scholar and the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt.

28: “Gangsta Paradise” rapper COOLIO (Artis Leon Ivey Jr.), 59, is from the US.

– Oct. 2022 –

4: LORETTA LYNN, 90, a country music legend in the U.S.

11: ANGELA LANSBURY, a movie and TV star, is 96 years old.

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14: ROBBIE COLTRANE, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, is 72 years old and from Scotland.

22: DIETRICH MATESCHITZ is an Austrian billionaire who started the company Red Bull when he was 78 years old.

25: PIERRE SOULAGES, 102, was a French abstract painter who almost always used black in his work.

28: JERRY LEE LEWIS, 87, a rock and roll star in the US in the 1950s

– November 2022-

9: GAL COSTA, 77, is a Brazilian singer who was an important part of the Tropicalia scene in the 1960s.

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20: HEBE DE BONAFINI, 93, was one of the people who started the anti-dictatorship protest group Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.

30: JIANG ZEMIN died at the age of 96. He was the leader of China after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and oversaw a decade of rapid growth.

30: CHRISTINE MCVIE is 79 years old. She was a singer, songwriter, and keyboardist for the band Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s.

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