IN MEMORIAM 2022
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Joan Copeland, American actress, TV's Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live | |
Sidney Poitier, American Oscar-winning actor, Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night | |
Marilyn Bergman, American songwriter, "The Windmills of Your Mind", collaborator with spouse Alan Bergman | |
Everett Lee, American conductor and violinist | |
Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer | |
Charles McGee, American WWII fighter pilot, member of the Tuskegee Airmen | |
Hardy Kruger, German actor, Sundays and Cybèle, The Flight of the Phoenix | |
Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk and peace activist | |
René de Obaldia, French poet, novelist, and playwright | |
Carleton Carpenter, American actor, Three Little Words, Summer Stock | |
Monica Vitti, Italian actress, L'Avventura, Modesty Blaise | |
Ashley Bryan, American children's writer and illustrator, Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum | |
George Crumb, American composer, Echoes of Time and the River, Black Angels | |
Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, nicknamed "The Nightingale of India" | |
Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born American painter | |
Gail Halvorsen, American Air Force pilot, nicknamed the Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" | |
Joni James, American singer, "Why Don't You Believe Me?" | |
Shirley Hughes, English children's writer and illustrator, Dogger, the Alfie series | |
Conrad Janis, American actor, TV's Mork & Mindy, and jazz trombonist | |
Thomas Hayward, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (1978–1982) | |
Yuriko Kikuchi, American dancer and choreographer | |
Jimmy Lydon, American actor, the Henry Aldrich film series, and television producer, 77 Sunset Strip | |
Bobbie Nelson, American pianist and singer | |
Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist | |
Lauro Cavazos, American government official, Secretary of Education (1988–1990) | |
Scoey Mitchell, American actor, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, and game show panelist | |
Richard Howard, American poet, Untitled Subjects, literary critic, and translator | |
C. W. McCall, American country singer and songwriter, "Convoy" | |
Estelle Harris, American actress, the Toy Story film series, TV's Seinfeld | |
June Brown, English actress, TV's EastEnders | |
Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazilian writer, The Girl in the Photograph | |
Nehemiah Persoff, Palestinian-born American actor, Some Like It Hot, Yentl | |
Jack Higgins, English writer, The Eagle Has Landed, A Prayer for the Dying | |
Ann Hutchinson Guest, American dance researcher and notator | |
Michel Bouquet, French actor, Toto the Hero, Renoir | |
Liz Sheridan, American actress, TV's ALF, Seinfeld | |
James Olson, American actor, Rachel, Rachel, The Andromeda Strain | |
Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at the time of her death | |
Robert Morse, American actor, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, TV's Mad Men | |
Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan president (2002–2013) | |
Ron Galella, American paparazzo | |
Norman Mineta, American politician, California representative (1975–1993), and Secretary of Transportation (2001–2006) | |
Ben Roy Mottelson, American/Danish Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist | |
Roger Angell, American sportswriter and editor, The New Yorker | |
Dervla Murphy, Irish travel writer, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle | |
George Shapiro, American talent agent and television producer, Seinfeld | |
Boris Pahor, Italian Slovenian-language poet and novelist, Nekropolis | |
George Lamming, Barbadian novelist, In the Castle of My Skin, and poet | |
Philip Baker Hall, American actor, Boogie Nights, Argo | |
Hugh McElhenny, American football player | |
Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, A Man and a Woman, Z, Amour | |
James Rado, American actor, playwright, and lyricist, Hair | |
Margaret Keane, American painter | |
Raffaele La Capria, Italian novelist, The Mortal Wound, and screenwriter, Christ Stopped at Eboli | |
Joe Turkel, American actor, The Shining, Blade Runner | |
Hershel W. Williams, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient | |
Peter Brook, English theater and motion picture director, Marat/Sade | |
Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mexican president (1970–1976) | |
Larry Storch, American comedian and actor, TV's F Troop | |
L. Q. Jones, American actor, The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue | |
Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian president (1975–1980) | |
Eugenio Scalfari, Italian politician and journalist, co-founder and editor of La Repubblica | |
Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor | |
Diana Kennedy, English-born Mexican culinary writer | |
James Lovelock, English atmospheric chemist, originated the Gaia theory | |
Bernard Cribbins, English actor, The Mouse on the Moon, The Railway Children | |
Pat Carroll, American actress, The Little Mermaid, TV's Make Room for Daddy | |
Fidel Ramos, Filipino president (1992–1998) | |
Robert Simanek, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient | |
Vin Scully, American sportscaster | |
Clu Gulager, American actor, The Killers, TV's The Virginian | |
Frederick Buechner, American theologian and writer, The Book of Bebb, Godric | |
Virginia Patton, American actress, It's a Wonderful Life | |
Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian politician, President of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient | |
Don Lind, American astronaut | |
Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist | |
Tina Ramirez, Venezuelan-born American dancer and choreographer, founder of Ballet Hispanico | |
Marsha Hunt, American actress, Pride and Prejudice, and political and social activist | |
Elizabeth II, British monarch, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952–2022) | |
Mark Miller, American actor, A Walk in the Clouds, TV's Please Don't Eat the Daisies | |
William Klein, American-born French photographer and filmmaker | |
Alain Tanner, Swiss motion picture director, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 | |
Jean-Luc Godard, French/Swiss motion picture director, Breathless, Hail Mary | |
Irene Papas, Greek actress, Z, The Trojan Women | |
Henry Silva, American actor, Ocean's Eleven, The Manchurian Candidate | |
Maarten Schmidt, Dutch-born American astronomer | |
Nick Holonyak, American engineer, created the first visible light-emitting diode (LED) | |
Robert Brown, American actor, TV’s Here Come the Brides | |
Héctor López, Panamanian-born baseball player, coach, and manager | |
Loretta Lynn, American country singer and songwriter, Coal Miner's Daughter | |
Art Laboe, American disc jockey | |
Angela Lansbury, English-born American actress, Gaslight, Broadway's Mame, TV's Murder, She Wrote | |
James McDivitt, American astronaut | |
Lodewijk van den Berg, Dutch-born American chemical engineer and astronaut | |
Charles Duncan, Jr., American government official, Secretary of Energy (1979–1981) | |
Charley Trippi, American football player | |
Pierre Soulages, French painter | |
Gerald Stern, American poet, Leaving Another Kingdom | |
Vince Dooley, American football coach and athletic director | |
George Booth, American cartoonist, regular contributor to The New Yorker | |
Doris Grumbach, American writer, Chamber Music | |
Leslie Phillips, English actor, Venus, the Harry Potter film series | |
Robert Clary, French-born American actor, TV's Hogan's Heroes | |
Fred Brooks, American computer scientist | |
Ned Rorem, American composer, Air Music, and diarist | |
Mickey Kuhn, American actor, Gone with the Wind, Red River | |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German essayist and poet | |
Louise Tobin, American singer, "There'll Be Some Changes Made" | |
Hiroshi H. Miyamura, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient | |
Jiang Zemin, Chinese president (1993–2003) | |
Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach | |
Bob McGrath, American singer and actor, TV's Sesame Street | |
Joseph Kittinger, American Air Force colonel, first person to conduct stratospheric space diving | |
Mike Hodges, English motion picture director, Get Carter | |
Philip Pearlstein, American painter | |
Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect | |
Tony Vaccaro, American photographer | |
Barbara Walters, American journalist, The Today Show, and television interviewer | |
Benedict XVI, German pope (2005–2013) |