Deaths in 2022
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- Joseph Ratzinger, 95, theologian ("The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse") and Pope between 2005 and 2013.
- Anita Pointer, 74, American singer (The Pointer Sisters).
- Pelé, 82, Brazilian footballer.
- Vivienne Westwood, 81, British fashion designer.
- Eduard Artemyev, 85, Russian composer (Solaris, Stalker).
- Ruggero Deodato, 83, Italian film director (Cannibal Holocaust), screenwriter and actor.
- Arata Isozaki, 91, Japanese architect.
- Black Stalin, 81, Trinidadian calypso musician.
- Dorothy Iannone, 89, American visual artist.
- Azuquita, 76, Panamanian singer and composer.
- Thom Bell, 79, Jamaican-born American songwriter ("People Make the World Go Round"), arranger and record producer.
- Franz Gertsch, 92, Swiss painter.
- Maxi Jazz, 65, English musician (Faithless) and songwriter ("Insomnia").
- Terry Hall, 63, English singer (The Specials, Fun Boy Three) and songwriter ("The Tunnel of Love").
- Mike Hodges, 90, British screenwriter and director (Get Carter).
- Daniela Giordano, 76, Italian actress (Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key).
- Martin Duffy, 55, English keyboardist (Primal Scream).
- Lando Buzzanca, 87, Italian actor (Il merlo maschio).
- Philip Pearlstein, 98, American painter.
- Wolf Erlbruch, 74, German illustrator and writer (The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business).
- Angelo Badalamenti, 85, American composer ("Falling", "Laura Palmer's Theme", "Audrey's Dance").
- Manuel Göttsching, 70, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel, Ashra) and composer (E2-E4).
- Jet Black, 84, English drummer (The Stranglers).
- Dominique Lapierre, 91, French writer (Is Paris Burning?).
- Mylène Demongeot, 87, French actress (Fantômas, Fantômas Unleashed, Fantômas Against Scotland Yard ).
- Tom Phillips, 85, English artist (A Humument).
- Ashley Bickerton, 63, Barbadian-born American visual artist.
- Christine McVie, 79, English musician (Fleetwood Mac) and songwriter ("Don't Stop", "Everywhere").
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb, 74, American underground comics artist (Twisted Sisters, Wimmen's Comix, Weirdo).
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, 93, German author and poet ("The Aporias of the Avant-Garde").
- Irene Cara, 63, American singer ("Flashdance... What a Feeling") and actress (Fame).
- Ned Rorem, 99, American composer (Air Music).
- Azio Corghi, 85, Italian composer and musicologist.
- Jean-Marie Straub, 89, French film director (Sicilia!).
- Hebe de Bonafini, 93, Argentine civil rights activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo).
- Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, Iranian-born stateless refugee, inspiration for The Terminal.
- Keith Levene, 65, English guitarist and songwriter (The Clash, Public Image Ltd).
- Ali Birra, 72, Ethiopian singer.
- Gal Costa, 77, Brazilian singer.
- Hervé Télémaque, 85, Haitian-born French painter.
- Lee Bontecou, 91, American sculptor.
- Kevin O'Neill, 69, British comic book illustrator (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen).
- Tyrone Downie, 66, Jamaican keyboardist (Bob Marley and the Wailers).
- Mimi Parker, 55, American singer and drummer (Low).
- Gerd Dudek, 84, German saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.
- Carmelo La Bionda, 73, Italian musician (La Bionda) and songwriter (“One for You, One for Me").
- Douglas McGrath, 64, American film director and screenwriter (Emma, Bullets Over Broadway).
- Joseph Tarsia, 88, American recording engineer and studio owner (Sigma Sound Studios).
- Terence Parsons, c. 83, American philosopher (Nonexistent Objects) .
- Geraldine Hunt, 77, American R&B singer ("Can't Fake the Feeling").
- Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, American singer ("Great Balls of Fire", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On") and pianist.
- Rodney Graham, 73, Canadian visual artist and musician.
- Pierre Soulages, 102, French visual artist.
- Jean Teulé, 69, French novelist (The Suicide Shop), cartoonist, and screenwriter.
- Peter Schjeldahl, 79, American art critic.
- Josef Somr, 88, Czech actor (The Joke).
- Joyce Sims, 63, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Come Into My Life").
- Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor (Harry Potter) and comedian.
- Angela Lansbury, 96, British-American-Irish actress (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Gaslight).
- Bruno Latour, 75, French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern).
- Ivy Jo Hunter, 82, American songwriter ("Behind a Painted Smile", "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever", "Dancing in the Street").
- Loretta Lynn, 90, American singer-songwriter ("Coal Miner's Daughter").
- Coolio, 59, American rapper ("Gangsta's Paradise").
- Louise Fletcher, 88, American actress (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Brainstorm).
- Pharoah Sanders, 81, American jazz saxophonist ("The Creator Has a Master Plan").
- Anton Fier, 66, American drummer (The Feelies, The Golden Palominos, Bob Mould), composer and producer.
- Hilary Mantel, 70, British author (Wolf Hall).
- Saul Kripke, 81, American philosopher and logician (Naming and Necessity).
- Marva Hicks, 47, American singer (Turned on to You) and actress.
- Vlado Milunić, 81, Yugoslav-born Czech architect (Dancing House).
- Irene Papas, 93 or 96, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek, The Guns of Navarone, Z) and singer.
- William Klein, 96, American-born French photographer, film director, and screenwriter (Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, The Model Couple).
- Jean-Luc Godard, 91, French-Swiss film director (Breathless, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou).
- Ramsey Lewis, 87, American jazz pianist ("The 'In' Crowd").
- Diane Noomin, 75, American cartoonist and editor (Wimmen's Comix, Twisted Sisters)
- Queen Elizabeth II, 96, British monarch.
- Just Jaeckin, 82, French film director (Emmanuelle, Story of O, Lady Chatterley's Lover).
- Peter Straub, 79, American novelist (Julia, Ghost Story).
- Mark Shreeve, 65, British songwriter ("Touch Me (I Want Your Body)").
- Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, Russian politician.
- Creed Taylor, 93, American jazz trumpeter and record producer, founder of Impulse! Records and CTI Records.
- Helen Grayco, 97, American singer ("Lilly's Lament") and actress (A Night at the Opera).
- Wolfgang Petersen, 81, German film director (The NeverEnding Story ).
- Dmitri Vrubel, 62, Russian painter (My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love).
- Anne Heche, 53, American actress (Wild Side).
- Lamont Dozier, 81, American songwriter (Going Back to My Roots"), singer and record producer.
- Olivia Newton-John, 73, British-Australian singer ("Love Song" and "Physical") and actress (Grease).
- John Steiner, 81, English actor (Caligula, Salon Kitty, Marat/Sade).
- Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, Islamic militant, al-Qaeda.
- Nichelle Nichols, 89, American actress (Star Trek).
- James Lovelock, 103, English environmentalist (Gaia hypothesis).
- Irina Ionesco, 91, French photographer.
- Carla Cassola, 74, Italian actress (The Howl) and composer.
- David Warner, 80, English actor (Time After Time).
- Bob Rafelson, 89, American film director (Five Easy Pieces, Head).
- Alan Grant, 73, Scottish comic book writer (Judge Dredd).
- Michael Henderson, 71, American bass guitarist (Miles Davis) and vocalist ("You Are My Starship").
- William Richert, 79, American filmmaker (Winter Kills).
- Claes Oldenburg, 93, Swedish-born American sculptor (Giant Soft Drum Set).
- Hans-Joachim Hespos, 84, German composer.
- Dani, 77, French actress (Day for Night, Love on the Run, Guy) and singer.
- Paul Ryder, 58, English bassist (Happy Mondays).
- Lourdes Grobet, 81, Mexican photographer.
- Lisetta Carmi, 98, Italian photographer.
- Lenny Von Dohlen, 63, American actor (Twin Peaks, Electric Dreams).
- Ann Shulgin, 91, American writer (PiHKAL, TiHKAL).
- Barbara Thompson, 77, English jazz saxophonist (Colosseum, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Keef Hartley Band).
- L. Q. Jones, 94, American actor (The Wild Bunch, Hang 'Em High) and film director (A Boy and His Dog).
- Monty Norman, 94, English composer ("James Bond Theme").
- James Caan, 82, American actor (The Godfather, Dogville).
- Remco Campert, 92, Dutch writer.
- Peter Brook, 97, English theatre and film director (Marat/Sade).
- Bernard Belle, 57, American musician, music producer and songwriter ("Remember the Time").
- Margaret Keane, 94, American painter.
- Patrick Adams, 72, American record producer, music arranger and composer (The Universal Robot Band, Musique).
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91, French actor (A Man and a Woman, Z, Amour).
- Philip Baker Hall, 90, American actor (Boogie Nights, Magnolia).
- Henri Garcin, 93, Belgian actor (C'est pas moi, c'est lui , Abel).
- Julee Cruise, 65, American singer ("Falling").
- Paula Rego, 87, Portuguese-British visual artist (Dog Woman).
- Anna Maria Tatò, 82, Italian film director (The Night and the Moment).
- Jacques Villeglé, 96, French mixed-media artist.
- George Lamming, 94, Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet.
- Jim Seals, 80, American musician (Seals and Crofts, The Champs) and songwriter ("Summer Breeze").
- Ken Kelly, 76, American fantasy artist and album cover designer (Kiss, Rainbow, Manowar).
- Grachan Moncur III, 85, American jazz trombonist (Evolution).
- Walter Abish, 90, Austrian-born American author (Alphabetical Africa, How German Is It).
- Marino Masé, 83, Italian actor (Nightmare Castle, Tenebrae, The Belly of an Architect).
- Ray Liotta, 67, American actor (Goodfellas, Something Wild).
- Bo Hopkins, 84, American actor (The Wild Bunch, American Graffiti, Midnight Express).
- Peter Lamborn Wilson, 76–77, American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone).
- Jeffrey Escoffier, 79, American author and pornosopher.
- Bernard Wright, 58, American funk and jazz singer ("Who Do You Love").
- Bob Neuwirth, 82, American singer-songwriter ("Mercedes Benz").
- Vangelis, 79, Greek composer ("Chariots of Fire", "Let It Happen", "State of Independence", "I'll Find My Way Home" , Blade Runner).
- Fred Ward, 79, American actor (Miami Blues, The Right Stuff, Tremors).
- Jerzy Trela, 80, Polish actor (Danton).
- Shivkumar Sharma, 84, Indian musician (Call of the Valley).
- Jeroen Brouwers, 82, Dutch writer (Sunken Red).
- Enrique Metinides, 88, Mexican photojournalist ("Adela Legarreta Rivas is struck by a white Datsun").
- Lino Capolicchio, 78, Italian actor (Escalation) and director.
- Allen Blairman, 81, American jazz drummer.
- Klaus Schulze, 74, German electronic musician ("Tango-Saty", "Transfer Station Blue") and composer (Angst).
- Henny Vrienten, 73, Dutch singer-songwriter and composer ("Is dit alles").
- Andrew Woolfolk, 71, American saxophonist ( "September").
- Susan Jacks, 73, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Shadows on My Wall").
- Jacques Perrin, 80, French actor (Blanche) and filmmaker (Microcosmos).
- Arno, 72, Belgian singer ("Willie Willie").
- Cynthia Plaster Caster, 74, American visual artist.
- Hermann Nitsch, 83, Austrian artist (Viennese Actionism).
- Sir Harrison Birtwistle, 87, British composer (The Minotaur).
- Catherine Spaak, 77, Belgian-Italian actress (The Libertine ) and singer.
- Vlasta Pospíšilová, 87, Czech animator and director.
- Letizia Battaglia, 87, Italian photographer.
- Michel Bouquet, 96, French actor (The Toy).
- Charnett Moffett, 54, American jazz bassist (Ask the Ages ).
- Charles E. McCormick, 75, American singer (Bloodstone).
- Kathy Lamkin, 74, American actress (No Country for Old Men).
- Jack Higgins, 92, British author (The Eagle Has Landed).
- Bobby Rydell, 79, American singer ("Sway").
- Joe Messina, 93, American guitarist (played on "Dancing in the Street").
- Richard Howard, 92, American poet and translator (The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre).
- Marvin J. Chomsky, 92, American television director (Roots).
- Patrick Demarchelier, 78, French fashion photographer.
- Denise Coffey, 85, British actress (Do Not Adjust Your Set), comedian and writer.
- Lars Bloch, 83, Danish actor (A Stranger in Town).
- Mario Persico, 91–92, Italian painter.
- Mira Calix, 52, South African-born British visual artist and musician.
- Gianni Cavina, 81, Italian actor (The House with Laughing Windows, Traffic Jam ).
- Lawrence Dane, 84, Canadian actor (Scanners).
- Bobby Weinstein, 82, American songwriter ("Hurt So Bad").
- William Hurt, 71, American actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman, A History of Violence, Dark City).
- Timmy Thomas, 77, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Why Can't We Live Together") and musician.
- Richard Podolor, 86, American musician ("Teen Beat").
- Denroy Morgan, 75–76, Jamaican musician ("I'll Do Anything For You").
- Roger Graef, 85, American-born British documentary filmmaker (Why Save Florence? ).
- Richard Pratt, American singer (Blue Magic).
- Veronica Carlson, 77, British actress (Dracula Has Risen from the Grave).
- Nick Zedd, 63, American filmmaker (Police State), author and painter.
- Marcel Conche, 99, French philosopher.
- Mark Lanegan, 57, American musician ("The Gravedigger's Song").
- Gary Brooker, 76, English singer-songwriter ("A Whiter Shade of Pale").
- Dan Graham, 79, American visual artist.
- P. J. O'Rourke, 74, American humorist (National Lampoon).
- Sandy Nelson, 83, American drummer ("Teen Beat", "Let There Be Drums").
- Howard Grimes, 80, American drummer ("I Can't Stand the Rain").
- Ivan Reitman, 75, Czech-born Canadian film director and producer (Ghostbusters).
- Jacques Calonne, 91, Belgian artist.
- Ian McDonald, 75, English musician (King Crimson, Foreigner).
- John Wesley, 93, American painter.
- Betty Davis, 77, American funk and soul singer ("Anti Love Song ").
- Douglas Trumbull, 79, American film director (Silent Running).
- Syl Johnson, 85, American blues singer ("Is It Because I'm Black").
- George Crumb, 92, American composer (Black Angels).
- Margarita Lozano, 90, Spanish actress (Viridiana, A Fistful of Dollars).
- Todd Gitlin, 79, American sociologist and author (The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage).
- Monica Vitti, 90, Italian actress (L'Avventura).
- Pete Smith, 63, New Zealand actor (Once Were Warriors).
- Kohei Yoshiyuki, 76, Japanese photographer.
- Janet Mead, 83–84, Australian nun and singer ("The Lord's Prayer").
- Thierry Mugler, 73, French fashion designer.
- Thích Nhất Hạnh, 95, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk.
- Elza Soares, 91, Brazilian singer.
- Meat Loaf, 74, American singer ("Paradise by the Dashboard Light").
- Ronnie Spector, 78, American singer ("Be My Baby").
- Fred Van Hove, 84, Belgian jazz musician.
- Ricardo Bofill, 82, Spanish architect (Xanadu, Walden 7 and La Muralla Roja).
- Jean-Jacques Beineix, 75, French film director (Betty Blue).
- James Mtume, 76, American musician (Mtume) and songwriter ("Juicy Fruit").
- Calvin Simon, 79, American singer (Parliament-Funkadelic).
- Marilyn Bergman, 93, American songwriter ("The Windmills of Your Mind")
- Sidney Poitier, 94, Bahamian-American actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner).
- Mariano Laurenti, 92, Italian film director (Ubalda, All Naked and Warm) and actor.
- Peter Bogdanovich, 82, American film director (Paper Moon), actor and writer.
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