2022 Deaths: 1

2022 Deaths

January

1^st: Sir Victor Garland, 87, Australian politician and diplomat, MP (1969–1981) and high commissioner to the United Kingdom (1981–1983).

1^st: Ramiz Abutalibov, 84, Azerbaijani diplomat and historian.

1^st: Jim Toy, 91, American LGBTQ activist.

2^nd: Maharram Mammadyarov, 97, Azerbaijani chemist, member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

3^rd: Beatrice Mintz, 100, American embryologist.

3^rd: Vladan Živković, 80, Serbian actor (England Made Me, Cross of Iron, A Tight Spot)

5^th: Lawrence Brooks, 112, American supercentenarian, nation's oldest living man and oldest WWII veteran.

5^th: Sir Allan Ramsay, 84, British diplomat, ambassador to Lebanon (1988–1990), Sudan (1990–1991) and Morocco (1992–1996).

6^th: Peter Bogdanovich, 82, American film director (The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon), actor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.

6^th: Vladimir Gudev, 81, Russian diplomat, Soviet ambassador to Iran (1987–1993), Egypt (1995–2000) and Georgia (2000–2002).

6^th: Sidney Poitier, 94, Bahamian-American actor (In the Heat of the Night, Lilies of the Field, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), Oscar winner (1963), Ambassador to Japan (1997-2007), heart failure.

7^th: Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside, 90, British politician, MP (1970–1997) and chair of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (1976–1995).

8^th: Truus Dekker, 99, Dutch actress (Turkish Delight, Soldier of Orange).

8^th: Michael Lang, 77, American concert producer, co-creator of Woodstock, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

9^th: Richard Dorman, 96, British diplomat, high commissioner to Vanuatu (1982–1985).

9^th: Dwayne Hickman, 87, American actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Cummings Show, Cat Ballou) and television director, complications from Parkinson's disease.

9^th: Bob Saget, 65, American comedian, television presenter (America's Funniest Home Videos) and actor (Full House, How I Met Your Mother), blunt head trauma.

10^th: Aura Herzog, 97, Israeli social activist, first lady (1983–1993) and founder of the Council for a Beautiful Israel.

10^th: Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este, 91, Italian aristocrat.

12^th: Sun Bigan, 80, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1990–1994), Iraq (1994–1998), Iran (1999–2002).

13^th: Mario Cámpora, 91, Argentine diplomat, ambassador to the United Kingdom (1990–1994) and Belgium (1995–1999).

13^th: Israel S. Dresner, 92, American Reform rabbi and civil rights activist, colon cancer.

16^th: Carmela Corren, 83, Israeli singer ("Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder") and actress (His Best Friend, Don't Fool with Me).

16^th: John Rice Irwin, 91, American cultural historian, founder of the Museum of Appalachia.

16^th: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, 76, Malian politician, president (2013–2020), prime minister (1994–2000) and president of the National Assembly (2002–2007).

16^th: Charles McGee, 102, American fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).

17^th: Yvette Mimieux, 80, American actress (The Time Machine, The Black Hole, Jackson County Jail).

17^th: Patricia Kenworthy Nuckols, 100, American Hall of Fame field hockey player (national team) and WASP pilot.

17^th: Michel Subor, 86, French actor (Le petit soldat, Topaz, Beau Travail), traffic collision.

20^th: Sir Martin Berthoud, 90, British diplomat, high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago (1985–1991).

20^th: Ron Grey, 91, Australian senior army officer and Commissioner of the Federal Police (1983–1988).

20^th: Meat Loaf, 74, American singer ("Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "I'd Do Anything for Love") and actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), complications from COVID-19.

21^st: Louie Anderson, 68, American comedian, actor (Life with Louie, Baskets), and game show host (Family Feud), Emmy winner (1997, 1998, 2016), large B-cell lymphoma.

21^st: Francesco Paolo Fulci, 90, Italian diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations (1993–1999).

21^st: Petro Sardachuk, 83, Ukrainian diplomat, ambassador to Slovakia (1993–1994), Poland (1994–1998) and Finland (2001–2003).

22^nd: Hartmut Becker, 83, German actor (Escape from Sobibor, o.k., He Who Loves in a Glass House).

22^nd: Raphaël Esrail, 96, Turkish-born French resistance member, Holocaust Survivor and engineer, cancer.

22^nd: Emerich Roth, 97, Czechoslovakian-born Swedish Holocaust survivor and writer.

26^th: Janet Mead, 84, Australian Roman Catholic nun and singer ("The Lord's Prayer"), cancer.

28^th: Mel Mermelstein, 95, Czechoslovakian-born American Holocaust survivor, complications from COVID-19.

28^th: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, 85, Australian actress (Jedda) and Aboriginal activist.

29^th: Howard Hesseman, 81, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, This Is Spinal Tap, Head of the Class), complications from colon surgery.

29^th: Jo Kendall, 81, British actress (Emmerdale), comedian (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again) and writer.

30^th: Art Cooley, 87, American naturalist and environmental activist, co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund.

30^th: Leonid Kuravlyov, 85, Russian actor (The Little Golden Calf, Seventeen Moments of Spring, The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed), pneumonia.

31^st: C. R. Rajagopalan, 64, Indian folklore researcher, COVID-19.

 

February

1^st: Paolo Graziosi, 82, Italian actor (China Is Near, Italian Race, Pinocchio), COVID-19.

1^st: Wolfgang Schwanitz, 91, German intelligence official, head of the Stasi (1989–1990).

3^rd: Dieter Mann, 80, German actor (Der letzte Zeuge, Downfall, 13 Semester), complications from Parkinson's disease.

3^rd: Mike Moore, 80, American baseball executive, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1991–2007).

3^rd: Christos Sartzetakis, 92, Greek judge and politician, president (1985–1990), acute respiratory failure.

3^rd: Evelyn Wawryshyn, 97, Canadian baseball player (Muskegon Lassies, Fort Wayne Daisies).

4^th: Ashley Bryan, 98, American children's author and illustrator (Freedom Over Me).

4^th: Dóra Ólafsdóttir, 109, Icelandic centenarian, oldest living Icelander (since 2019).

4^th: Üner Tan, 84, Turkish neuroscientist and evolutionary biologist.

5^th: Abdizhamil Karimuly Nurpeisov, 97, Kazakh writer and translator.

6^th: Zdzisław Jan Ryn, 83, Polish psychiatrist and diplomat, ambassador to Chile (1991–1997) and Argentina (2007–2008).

7^th: Jerzy Bartmiński, 82, Polish linguist and ethnologist.

7^th: Gustav Ortner, 86, Austrian diplomat, ambassador to the Holy See (1997–2001).

9^th: Abune Antonios, 94, Eritrean Orthodox prelate, patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2004–2006).

9^th: Paul A. Yost Jr., 93, American admiral, commandant of the Coast Guard (1986–1990).

10^th: Evgeniya Brik, 40, Russian actress (Stilyagi, Yolki 1914, Friday), cancer.

10^th: Sir Manuel Esquivel, 81, Belizean politician, prime minister (1984–1989, 1993–1998) and MP (1984–1998).

11^th: Addai II Giwargis, 74, Iraqi Orthodox prelate, catholicos-patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East (since 1972).

11^th: Tall Oak Weeden, 85, American indigenous rights activist.

12^th: Zurab Chumburidze, 95, Georgian linguist.

12^th: Javier Gómara, 95, Spanish politician, deputy (1982–1986) and president of the Navarrese parliament (1987–1991).

12^th: Ivan Reitman, 75, Czechoslovak-born Canadian film director (Ghostbusters, Meatballs, Kindergarten Cop) and producer, founder of The Montecito Picture Company.

13^th: Peter Earnest, 88, American intelligence officer and museum director (International Spy Museum), heart failure.

15^th: Marie Chamming's, 98, French Resistance member and writer.

16^th: Gail Halvorsen, 101, American pilot ("Operation Little Vittles"), the "Berlin Candy Bomber" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.  respiratory failure.

18^th: Gennadi Yukhtin, 89, Russian actor (The Rumyantsev Case, Spring on Zarechnaya Street, Ballad of a Soldier), COVID-19.

19^th: Monique Hanotte, 101, Belgian Resistance member.

20^th: Dawda Fadera, Gambian diplomat, ambassador to the United States (since 2018).

20^th: Francesca Tardioli, 56, Italian diplomat, ambassador to Australia (since 2018), fall.

22^nd” Christos Angourakis, 69, Greek athlete, Paralympic silver medallist (1992).

24^th: Sally Kellerman, 84, American actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School, Brewster McCloud), heart failure.

24^th: Deanie Parrish, 99, American WASP pilot during World War II.

24^th: Vitalii Skakun, 25, Ukrainian soldier, posthumously awarded the Order of the Gold Star. Sacrificed his life in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine while blowing up a bridge in Henichesk to slow the advance of Russian troops during the Kherson offensive, explosion.

25^th: Lorna Fejo, 91, Australian Warumungu woman, member of the stolen generations.

27^th: Ketil Børde, 87, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1985–1989) and Sweden (1994–2000).

28^th: Kirk Baily, 59, American actor (Salute Your Shorts, Bumblebee, Trigun), lung cancer.

28^th: Andrey Sukhovetsky, 47, Russian genera killed by Ukrainians during the Russian Invasion, shot

28^th: Sir Christopher Mallaby, 85, British diplomat, ambassador to Germany (1988–1993) and France (1993–1996).

 

March

2^nd: William Jolitz, 65, American software programmer, developer of the 386BSD operating system.

2^nd: Autherine Lucy, 92, American civil rights activist. first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956.

2^nd: Volodymyr Struk, 57, Ukrainian politician, deputy (2012–2014) and mayor of Kreminna (since 2020), shot by Russians.

3^rd: Valeriy Chybineyev, 34, Ukrainian army major, killed in Battle of Hostomel during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

3^rd: Tim Considine, 81, American actor (My Three Sons, The Mickey Mouse Club, Patton).

4^th: Anne Beaumanoir, 98, French neurophysiologist, Resistance member during World War II, Righteous Among the Nations (1996).

4^th: Mitchell Ryan, 88, American actor (Dark Shadows, Dharma & Greg, Lethal Weapon), heart failure.

5^th: Sally Schmitt, 90, American restaurateur, founder of The French Laundry.

6^th: Kenneth Ives, 87, British actor (Doctor Who) and director (Poldark, Secret Army).

6^th: Pavlo Lee, 33, Ukrainian actor and television presenter, Russian bombing in Irpin.

7^th: Yuriy Prylypko, 61, Ukrainian politician, mayor of Hostomel (since 2015), shot by Russians.

8^th: Kateryna Stupnytska, 25, Ukrainian military officer, Russian missile attack.

9^th: Inge Deutschkron, 99, German-Israeli journalist and author and Holocaust Survivor.

10^th: Emilio Delgado, 81, American actor (Sesame Street, I Will Fight No More Forever, A Case of You), multiple myeloma.

10^th: Mario Terán, 79, Bolivian military warrant officer, executioner of Che Guevara.

11^th: Rupiah Banda, 85, Zambian politician, president (2008–2011) and vice-president (2006–2008), colon cancer.

11^th: Frank De Coninck, 77, Belgian diplomat, ambassador to the Holy See (2006–2010).

11^th: Andrei Kolesnikov, 45, Russian major general, killed in action during Russia’s War in Ukraine.

12^th: Traci Braxton, 50, American R&B singer (The Braxtons) and television personality (Braxton Family Values), esophageal cancer.

12^th: Pete St. John, 90, Irish folk singer-songwriter ("The Fields of Athenry", "The Rare Ould Times").

13^th: William Hurt, 71, American actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Broadcast News, The Incredible Hulk), Oscar winner (1986), prostate cancer.

14^th: Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein, 65, Iraqi royal and politician.

15^th: Cabo Anselmo, 80, Brazilian navy officer and informant, leader of 1964 Sailors' Revolt.

15^th: Oleg Mityaev, 48, Russian major general, killed in action by the Ukrainians during the Russian Invasion.

17^th: Artem Datsyshyn, 43, Ukrainian ballet dancer, Russian missile attack.

17^th: Oksana Shvets, 67, Ukrainian actress, Russian missile attack.

18^th: George Montague, 98, British LGBT rights activist.

18^th: Borys Romanchenko, 96, Ukrainian Holocaust Survivor, Russian bombing.

19^th: Shahabuddin Ahmed, 92, Bangladeshi jurist and politician, president (1990–1991, 1996–2001) and chief justice (1990–1995).

19^th: Winfield W. Scott Jr., 94, American military officer, superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy (1983–1987).

20^th: Marina Goldovskaya, 80, Russian-American documentary film director, academic, and cinematographer.

20^th: Andrei Paliy, 51, Russian military officer, killed in combat.

23^rd: Madeleine Albright, 84, Czechoslovakian-born American politician, secretary of state (1997–2001) and ambassador to the United Nations (1993–1997), cancer.

25^th: Yakov Rezantsev, 48, Russian general, Ukrainian air strike.

27^th: Ayaz Mutallibov, 83, Azerbaijani politician, prime minister (1989–1990) and president (1990–1992).

27^th: Oleksandr Rzhavskyy, 63, Ukrainian politician, killed by the Russians during the Bucha Massacre.

28^th: Doris Derby, 82, American civil rights activist and photographer, cancer.

28^th: Dame June Jackson, 82, New Zealand Māori activist and public servant, member of the Parole Board (since 1991).

29^th: June Shagaloff Alexander, 93, American civil rights activist.

31^st: Georgi Atanasov, 88, Bulgarian politician, prime minister (1986–1990).

 

April:

1^st: Ryszard Frąckiewicz, 90, Polish diplomat, ambassador to Australia (1978–1983) and Japan (1986–1991).

1^st: Maks Levin, 40, Ukrainian photojournalist (Reuters, BBC), shot by Russians (body discovered on this date)

2^nd: Olga Sukhenko, 51, Ukrainian politician, village head of Motyzhyn, shot by the Russians during the Bucha Massacre (death announced on this date).

3^rd: Gerda Weissmann Klein, 97, Polish-American writer and human rights activist, Holocaust Survivor.

4^th: Vanda Obiedkova, 91, Ukrainian Jewish Holocaust survivor, killed by the Russians during Siege of Mariupol.

5^th: Harry Billinge, 96, British World War II veteran and fundraiser.

5^th: Nehemiah Persoff, 102, American actor (Some Like It Hot, An American Tail, Yentl), heart failure.

5^th: Bobby Rydell, 79, American singer ("Wild One", "Wildwood Days") and actor (Bye Bye Birdie), pneumonia.

5^th: Bjarni Tryggvason, 76, Icelandic-born Canadian astronaut (STS-85).

5^th: Oleksiy Tsybko, 55, Ukrainian rugby player (national team) and politician, mayor of Smila (2015–2018), killed by the Russians (death announced on this date)

7^th: Dušan Čkrebić, 94, Serbian politician, prime minister (1974–1978) and president (1984–1986).

7^th: Mercè Durfort i Coll, 78, Spanish biologist and professor, member of Institute for Catalan Studies (since 1989).

9^th: Lellos Demetriades, 89, Cypriot politician, mayor of Nicosia Municipality (1971–2001) and deputy (1960–1970).

9^th: Michael Degen, 90, German-Israeli actor (Supermarket, Beyond Good and Evil, Dr. M), Holocaust Survivor.

9^th: Jack Higgins, 92, British author (The Eagle Has Landed, Thunder Point, Angel of Death).

10^th: Alexander Shkurko, 84, Russian historian, president of the State Historical Museum (2010–2022).

11^th: Aleksandr Kuzmin, 80, Russian diplomat, ambassador to Sudan (1992–1998).

12^th: Gilbert Gottfried, 67, American comedian, television personality (Hollywood Squares), and actor (Aladdin, Cyberchase), ventricular tachycardia.

14^th: Tichomir Mirkovič, 93, Czech WWII partisan.

15^th: Liz Sheridan, 93, American actress (Seinfeld, ALF, Play the Game).

19^th: John McKay, 82, British-Canadian mathematician (McKay conjecture, McKay graph).

19^th: Norman Surplus, 59, Northern Irish adventurer, first person to circumnavigate the world in an autogyro, cancer.

21^st: Sir Geoffrey Howlett, 92, British army general, commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces Northern Europe (1986–1989).

23^rd: Orrin Hatch, 88, American politician, senator (1977–2019) and president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate (2015–2019).

23rd:  Johnnie Jones, 102, American soldier (first African American U.S. Army, warrant officer), civil rights lawyer and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1972–1976).

23^rd: Kenneth E. Stumpf, 77, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

27^th: David Birney, 83, American actor (St. Elsewhere, Bridget Loves Bernie, Oh, God! Book II) and stage director, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

28^th: Vira Hyrych, 54, Ukrainian journalist and radio producer (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), Russian missile strike.

30^th: Naomi Judd, 76, American Hall of Fame country singer (The Judds) and songwriter ("Change of Heart", "Love Can Build a Bridge"), suicide.

30^th: Lyubov Panchenko, 84, Ukrainian visual artist and fashion designer, belonged to the Sixtiers, a group of artists of the sixties who revived Ukrainian culture during the Khrushchev Thaw, starvation during Russian War in Ukraine.

 

May

1^st: Millie Bailey, 104, American World War II veteran in Women's Army Corps and served as a commander of the Women's Colored Detachment and civil servant.

3^rd: Lino Capolicchio, 78, Italian actor (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The House with Laughing Windows, The Bloodstained Shadow) and director.

3^rd: Norman Mineta, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1995), secretary of commerce (2000–2001) and transportation (2001–2006), heart disease.

5^th: Justin Constantine, 52, American military officer, prostate cancer.

5^th: Kenneth Welsh, 80, Canadian actor (Twin Peaks, The Aviator, The Day After Tomorrow), cancer.

7^TH: Yuri Averbakh, 100, Russian chess grandmaster and author.

7^th: Mickey Gilley, 86, American country singer ("Room Full of Roses", "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time", "Stand by Me").

7^th: Francis J. Meehan, 98, American diplomat, United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1979–1980), Poland (1980–1983) and East Germany (1985–1988).

9^th: John L. Canley, 84, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.

9^th: Denys Dubrov, 33, Ukrainian swimmer, four-time Paralympic champion (2016, 2020).

10^th: Davyd Zhvania, 54, Ukrainian politician, minister of emergency (2005) and deputy (2002–2014), shelling.

10: Leonid Kravchuk, 88, Ukrainian politician, president (1991–1994), two-time people's deputy, and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (1991).

12: Robert McFarlane, 84, American Marine Corps officer and politician, national security advisor (1983–1985), complications from lung disease.

13^th: Julie Beckett, 72, American teacher and disability rights activist, heart attack.

13^th: Ben Roy Mottelson, 95, American-Danish nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1975).

13^th: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 73, Emirati royal and politician, president (since 2004) and ruler of Abu Dhabi (since 2004).

14^th: Andrei Babushkin, 58, Russian human rights activist, politician and publicist, pancreatitis.

16^th: Epaminondas Stassinopoulos, 101, German-born American astrophysicist, writer, and World War II resistance member (EKKA).

22^nd: Eduard Hercigonja, 92, Croatian philologist, Croatist and literary historian.

26^th: Ray Liotta, 67, American actor (Goodfellas, Something Wild, Field of Dreams), Emmy winner (2005).

28^th: Bujar Nishani, 55, Albanian politician, president (2012–2017), minister of justice (2009–2011) and twice minister of the interior, complications from COVID-19.

29^th: Maria Mirecka-Loryś, 106, Polish World War II resistance member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022