DEAD FAMOUS: THOSE WE LOST IN 2022
JANUARY
– 6: SIDNEY POITIER, 94, US 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
– 20: MEAT LOAF, 74, US rocker of Bat out of Hell fame
FEBRUARY
– 2: MONICA VITTI, 90, Italian leading lady and muse of director Michelangelo Antonioni
– 10: LUC MONTAGNIER, 89, French scientist who won Nobel medicine prize for his co-discovery of the HIV virus
– 17: IVAN REITMAN, 75, filmmaker and director of Ghostbusters
MARCH
– 4: SHANE WARNE, 52, Australian cricketer who was one of the game’s best-ever players
– 13: WILLIAM HURT, 71, US 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
MAY
– 19: VANGELIS (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79, Greek composer of scores for Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner
– 26: RAY LIOTTA, 67, star of Martin Scorsese’s gangster classic Goodfellas
– 30: BORIS PAHOR, 108, Slovenian author who chronicled the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and Italian fascism
JUNE
– 22: YVES COPPENS, 87, French palaeontology who co-discovered the famous fossil “Lucy” in Ethiopia
– 27: LEONARDO DEL VECCHIO, 87, Italy’s second-richest man and eyewear magnate
JULY
– 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 and Nobel laureate, who won for helping to broker 1998 peace deal in Northern Ireland
– 27: JAMES LOVELOCK, 103, famed UK scientist behind Gaia theory, who predicted climate change
AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
– 8: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, 73, singer, actress and star of hit musical Grease
– 12: ANNE HECHE, 53, US actress of Donnie Brasco
– 30: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, 91, last Soviet leader, whose reforms and outreach to the West set in motion the collapse of the USSR
– 8: QUEEN ELIZABETH II, 96, Britain’s longest-serving monarch who reigned for 70 years
– 10: WILLIAM KLEIN, 96, US fashion and street life photographer
– 13: JEAN-LUC GODARD, 91, by assisted suicide. Director who pioneered the French New Wave
– 22: HILARY MANTEL, 70, British novelist, twice winner of the Booker Prize for her historical fiction best-sellers
– 23: FARREL “PHAROAH” SANDERS: 81, US jazz saxophonist – 26: YUSUF AL-QARADAWI, 96, prominent Sunni scholar and spiritual leader of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement
– 28: COOLIO, 59, US ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’’ rapper
– 4: LORETTA LYNN: 90, American country music titan
– 11: ANGELA LANSBURY, 96, cinema and television star
– 14: ROBBIE COLTRANE, 72, Scottish actor who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films
– 22: DIETRICH MATESCHITZ, 78, Austrian billionaire who founded energy drinks company Red Bull
– 25: PIERRE SOULAGES, 102, French abstract artist who painted almost exclusively in black
– 28: JERRY LEE LEWIS, 87, US 1950s rock and roll star
– 9: GAL COSTA, 77, Brazilian singer, a key figure in the 1960s Tropicalia scene
– 20: HEBE DE BONAFINI, 93, one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo anti-dictatorship protest group
– 30: JIANG ZEMIN, 96, Chinese leader who took power after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests – 30: CHRISTINE MCVIE, 79, singer-songwriter and keyboard player with 1970s band Fleetwood Mac
– 11: ANGELO BADALAMENTI, who wrote the haunting theme music for David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks, aged 85.
– 18: TERRY HALL, frontman of British ska band The Specials, at the age of 63.
– 29: PELÉ: Legendary Brazilian footballer dies at 82.