2022 Deaths: 2

                                                           2022 Deaths

June

1^st: Anthony Drake, 81, English teacher, designer of the flag of Saskatchewan.

2^nd: Carl Stiner, 85, American military officer, commander of USSOCOM (1990–1993).

3^rd: Ann Turner Cook, 95, American author and model (Gerber Baby).

7^th: Carl, Duke of Württemberg, 85, German royal, head of the House of Württemberg (since 1975).

9^th: James C. Hayes, 76, American politician, mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska (1992–2001), first African-American mayor in Alaska.

14^th: Vladimir Stepanov, 95, Russian politician and diplomat, ambassador to Finland (1973–1979), first secretary of the Karelian Regional Committee (1984–1989).

16^th: Yuri Fedotov, 74, Russian politician, deputy minister of foreign affairs (2002–2005), ambassador to the UK (2005–2010) and executive director of the UNODC (2010–2019).

19^th: Clela Rorex, 78, American civil servant, issued first same-sex marriage license, complications from surgery.

26^th: Thue Christiansen, 82, Greenlandic visual artist and politician, designer of the flag of Greenland and minister of education (1979–1983).

28^th: Dennis Wilson, 101, British war poet.

30^th: Muriel Phillips, 101, American World War II veteran and writer.

 

July

4^th: Kunihiko Saitō, 87, Japanese politician and diplomat, ambassador to the United States (1995–1999), prostate cancer.

6^th: Jacob Nena, 80, Micronesian politician, president (1997–1999) and vice president (1991–1996), governor of Kosrae (1979–1983).

8^th: Shinzo Abe, 67, Japanese politician, prime minister (2006–2007, 2012–2020) and MP (since 1993), shot.

8^th: José Eduardo dos Santos, 79, Angolan politician, president (1979–2017), complications from cardiac arrest and COVID-19.

9^th: Ted Hunt, 102, British waterman, Queen's Bargemaster (1978–1990).

11^th: José Guirao, 63, Spanish cultural manager and art expert, minister of culture (2018–2020), director of Reina Sofía Museum (1994–2001) and deputy (2019–2020), cancer.

13^th: Anna Jakubowska, 95, Polish World War II combatant and community activist.

14^th: Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, 100, Peruvian politician and general, president (1975–1980), prime minister (1975) and minister of economy (1968–1974).

18^th: Delia Giovanola, 96, Argentine human rights activist, co-founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

19^th: Joan F. López Casasnovas, 69, Spanish Catalan language philologist, teacher and politician, member of the Balearic parliament (1983–1992).

23^rd: Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, 92, Vietnamese aerospace engineer and military officer, commander of the South Vietnam Air Force (1958–1962).

25^th: Paul Sorvino, 83, American actor (Goodfellas, The Rocketeer, Law & Order).

26^th: Oleksandr Kukurba, 27, Ukrainian military officer.

27^th: Tony Dow, 77, American actor (Leave It to Beaver, Never Too Young) and television director (Coach), complications from liver cancer.

27^th: Sir Christopher Meyer, 78, British diplomat, Downing Street press secretary (1993–1996), ambassador to the United States (1997–2003) and Germany (1997), stroke.

29^th: Julian Nava, 95, American educator and diplomat, ambassador to Mexico (1980–1981).

30^th: Pat Carroll, 95, American actress (The Little Mermaid, The Danny Thomas Show, Caesar's Hour), Emmy winner (1957), complications from pneumonia.

30^th: Nichelle Nichols, 89, American actress (Star Trek, Truck Turner, Snow Dogs), heart failure.

31^st: Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, 74, Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder of Nibulon, shelling.

 

August:

1^st: Anastasiya Kobzarenko, 88, Ukrainian director, librarian, and writer.

1^st: Sir Michael Pike, 90, British diplomat, ambassador to Vietnam (1982–1985).

4^th: Atakhan Pashayev, 84, Azerbaijani civil servant, chairman of the National Archive Department (since 2002).

6^th: Archie Battersbee, 12, British child, removal of life support.

6^th: Marilyn Loden, 76, American writer, coined the phrase "glass ceiling", small-cell carcinoma.

8^th: Dame Olivia Newton-John, 73, British-Australian singer ("I Honestly Love You", "Physical") and actress (Grease), Grammy winner (1974, 1975, 1982), breast cancer.

10^th: Dean S. Laird, 101, American World War II flying ace.

11^th: Jonathan Danilowitz, 77, Israeli flight attendant and LGBT activist, pancreatic cancer.

11^th: Anne Heche, 53, American actress (Donnie Brasco, Psycho, Another World), Emmy winner (1991), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.

12^th: Wolfgang Petersen, 81, German film director (Das Boot, The NeverEnding Story, Troy), pancreatic cancer.

13^th: Peter S. Bridges, 90, American diplomat, ambassador to Somalia (1984–1986).

14^th: Dmitri Vrubel, 62, Russian painter (My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love), complications from COVID-19.

16^th: Eva-Maria Hagen, 87, German actress (Don't Forget My Little Traudel, Goods for Catalonia, Meine Freundin Sybille).

17^th: Mehdi Mujahid, 33–34, Afghan Hazara militia commander (Balkhab uprising), shot.

18^th: Mari Montegriffo, 72, Gibraltarian politician, MP (1984–2007) and mayor of Gibraltar (1988–1995).

18^th: Rita Ndzanga, 88, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1999–2004).

18^th: Felix Novikov, 95, Russian architect (Krasnopresnenskaya metro station).

18^th: Virginia Patton, 97, American actress (It's a Wonderful Life, Black Eagle, The Lucky Stiff).

20^th: Bram Peper, 82, Dutch politician, mayor of Rotterdam (1982–1998) and minister of the interior and kingdom relations (1998–2000).

24^th: Frieda Posey, 75, American Teacher at DoDDS in Darmstadt, Germany.

24^th: William Reynolds, 90, American actor (The F.B.I., The Gallant Men, The Islanders), pneumonia.

24^th: Joe E. Tata, 85, American actor (Beverly Hills, 90210, Unholy Rollers, The Rockford Files), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

26^th: Roland Mesnier, 78, French-born American chef and author, White House executive pastry chef (1980–2004), complications from cancer.

30^th: Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, Russian politician, final general secretary of the Communist Party (1985–1991) and president of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), Nobel Prize laureate (1990).

31^st: Allan Hawke, 74, Australian public servant, chief of staff to the prime minister (1993–1996), high commissioner to New Zealand (2003–2005) and chancellor of ANU (2006–2008), cancer.

 

September

1^st: Adam Kułach, 57, Polish diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2004–2010), European Union ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2012–2016) and Djibouti (2016–2020).

7^th: Marsha Hunt, 104, American actress (Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust, The Human Comedy).

7^th: Bernard Shaw, 82, American journalist (CNN), pneumonia.

8^th: Queen Elizabeth II, 96, British and Canadian Monarch and Head of the Commonwealth (since 1952).

9^th: Mark Miller, 97, American actor (Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Guestward, Ho!, Savannah Smiles).

12^th: Oleksandr Shapoval, 48, Ukrainian ballet dancer, shelling.

12^th: Rimantas Šidlauskas, 60, Lithuanian diplomat.

14^th: Mária Wittner, 85, Hungarian revolutionary and politician, MP (2006–2014).

15^th: Liam Holden, 68, Northern Irish victim of a miscarriage of justice.

16^th: Mahsa Amini, 22, Iranian woman, subject of the Mahsa Amini protests.

19^th: Marilyn P. Johnson, 100, American diplomat, ambassador to Togo (1978–1981).

19^th: Shabsa Mashkautsan, 98, Romanian-born soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

20^th: Sergei Puskepalis, 56, Russian actor (Metro, How I Ended This Summer, Simple Things) and theatre director, traffic collision.

20^th: Nika Shakarami, 16, Iranian protester (Mahsa Amini protests).

21^st: Dean Caswell, 100, American World War II flying ace.

21^st: Anatoly Gerashchenko, 72, Russian aviation scientist and academic, rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute (2007–2015), mysterious fall.

21^st: Edward Mosberg, 96, Polish-American Holocaust Survivor (Kraków Ghetto, Kraków-Płaszów Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Mauthausen Concentration Camp.)

22^nd: Donald M. Blinken, 96, American diplomat, ambassador to Hungary (1994–1997).

25^th: Nikolai Kirtok, 101, Ukrainian-born Russian Red Army pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

27^th: Prince Ferfried of Hohenzollern, 79, German aristocrat and racing driver.

27^th: Judah Samet, 84, Hungarian-American Holocaust Survivor (Bergen-Belsen), public speaker and businessman, stomach cancer.

October

2^nd: Vladimir Kuts, 94, Russian World War II Veteran (the only Soviet citizen to have served with both the Soviet Red Army and the United States Army during World War II.)

2^nd: Sacheen Littlefeather, 75, American civil rights activist and actress (Johnny Firecloud, Winterhawk, Counselor at Crime), breast cancer.

2^nd: Carl Walker, 88, British police inspector, George Cross recipient (1972).

4^th: Günter Lamprecht, 92, German actor (Berlin Alexanderplatz, Das Boot, World on a Wire).

4^th: Loretta Lynn, 90, American Hall of Fame country singer-songwriter ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "The Pill"), Grammy winner (1972, 2004, 2010).

5^th: Lenny Lipton, 82, American poet and lyricist ("Puff, the Magic Dragon"), brain cancer.

10^th: Michael Callan, 86, American actor (West Side Story, Cat Ballou, Gidget Goes Hawaiian), pneumonia.

11^th: Dame Angela Lansbury, 96, British-American-Irish actress (The Manchurian Candidate, Sweeney Todd, Murder, She Wrote) and singer, five-time Tony winner.

13^th: John Spender, 86, Australian politician and diplomat, MP (1980–1990) and ambassador to France (1996–2000).

14^th: Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor (Harry Potter, Cracker, GoldenEye) and comedian, multiple organ failure.

14^th: Ralf Wolter, 95, German actor (One, Two, Three, Cabaret, What Is the Matter with Willi?).

16^th: Helen Michaluk, 92, Belarusian activist, chair of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain (1997–2013).

16^th: María Salud Ramírez Caballero, 109, Mexican centenarian, inspiration of Coco.

17^th: Sayed Yousuf Halim, 62, Afghan judge, chief justice of Afghanistan (2014–2021), heart failure.

23^rd: Marian Fuks, 108, Polish historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institute (1968–1969, 1971–1973).

23^rd: Jiří Kraus, 87, Czech linguist and translator, director of the Institute of the Czech Language (1994–2002).

24^th: Leslie Jordan, 67, American actor (Will & Grace, Hearts Afire, Call Me Kat), Emmy winner (2006).

25^th: Jules Bass, 87, American animator and television producer (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Last Unicorn), co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions.

26^th: Julie Powell, 49, American author, subject of Julie & Julia, cardiac arrest.

26^th: Christopher Yvon, 52, British diplomat, ambassador to North Macedonia (2010–2014).

28^th: Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, American Hall of Fame singer ("Great Balls of Fire", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On", "High School Confidential") and pianist.

28^th: Hannah Pick-Goslar, 93, German-born Israeli Holocaust Survivor (Berge-Belsen) and Childhood Friend of Anne Frank.

November

1^st: Moshe Ha-Elion, 97, Greek-born Israeli Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz) and writer.

2^nd: Andrey Titenko, 103, Ukrainian-born Russian World War II veteran, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

3^rd: Lois Curtis, 55, American artist and disability rights activist (Olmstead v. L.C.), pancreatic cancer.

3^rd: Yocheved Kashi, 93, Israeli Military Officer. The first Woman Paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces.

4^th: Nicole Josy, 76, Belgian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1973), fall.

5^th: Aaron Carter, 34, American singer ("Crush on You", "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)", "Leave It Up to Me").

5^th: Irène Kaufer, 72, Polish-born Belgian author,LGBTQ+ activist, and trade unionist.

5^th: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 89, Maltese politician, prime minister (1984–1987).

5^th: Shyam Saran Negi, 105, Indian school teacher, country's first voter.

6^th: Joel Sherzer, 80, American anthropological linguist, complications from Parkinson's disease.

7^th: Michael Butler, 95, American theater producer (Hair).

7^th: Leslie Phillips, 98, British actor (Carry On, The Navy Lark, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) and author.

8^th: Claes-Göran Hederström, 77, Swedish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1968)

8^th: Tenzin Pelsang, 56–57, Chinese Tibetan Buddhist monk and political prisoner.[599] (death announced on this date)

9^th: Mattis Hætta, 63, Norwegian singer ("Sámiid ædnan", Eurovision Song Contest 1980).

9^th: Kirill Stremousov, 45, Russian-Ukrainian politician and blogger, deputy head of the Kherson military-civilian administration (since 2022), traffic collision.

10^th: Kevin Conroy, 66, American actor (Batman: The Animated Series, Search for Tomorrow, Ohara), intestinal cancer.

10^th: Alan Park, 60, Canadian comedian and actor (Royal Canadian Air Farce), cancer.

11^th: John Aniston, 89, Greek-born American actor (Days of Our Lives, Love of Life, Search for Tomorrow)

12^th: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, Iranian-born stateless refugee, inspiration for The Terminal, heart attack.

15^th: Frida, 13, Mexican search and rescue dog (Mexican Navy).

16^th: Robert Clary, 96, French-American actor (Hogan's Heroes, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful) and Holocaust Survivor (Buchenwald.)

18^th: Bruce L. Christensen, 79, American television executive, president of PBS (1984–1992).

18^th: Tibor Pákh, 98, Hungarian anti-communist activist, revolutionary and political prisoner.

19^th: Jason David Frank, 49, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Sweet Valley High, The Junior Defenders), suicide.

20^th: Hebe de Bonafini, 93, Argentine civil rights activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo).

20^th: Joyce Bryant, 95, American singer, dancer and civil rights activist.

20^th: Mickey Kuhn, 90, American actor (Gone with the Wind, Red River, Broken Arrow).

21^st: Margherita Mo, 99, Italian partisan.

22^nd: Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, 104, British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1965–2002).

22^nd: Cecilia Suyat Marshall, 94, American civil rights activist, married to Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and historian.

22^nd: Yurii Shukhevych, 89, Ukrainian dissident and politician, MP (2014–2019) and Hero of Ukraine.

25^th: Irene Cara, 63, American singer ("Flashdance... What a Feeling") and actress (Sparkle, Fame), Oscar winner (1983).

26^th: Vladimir Makei, 64, Belarusian politician, minister of foreign affairs (since 2012.)

28^th: Clarence Gilyard, 66, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger, Die Hard, Matlock).

29^th: Hiroshi H. Miyamura, 97, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

30^th: Jiang Zemin, 96, Chinese politician, general secretary of the Communist Party (1989–2002) and president (1993–2003), mayor of Shanghai (1985–1988), leukemia and multiple organ failure.

30^th: Hale Zukas, 79, American disability rights activist.

December

1^st: Tumso Abdurakhmanov, 36, Russian blogger and Chechen dissident, shot.

1^st: Julia Reichert, 76, American documentarian (American Factory, Seeing Red, Union Maids), Oscar winner (2019), bladder cancer.

2^nd: Jaume Camps i Rovira, 78, Spanish lawyer and politician, member of the Catalan parliament (1980–2005).

2^nd: Raúl Guerra Garrido, 87, Spanish writer, National Prize for Spanish Literature (2006).

2^nd: Dominique Lapierre, 91, French writer (City of Joy, Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem!).

2^nd: Al Strobel, 83, American actor (Twin Peaks, Child of Darkness, Child of Light, Megaville).

2^nd: Tiit-Rein Viitso, 84, Estonian linguist.

3^rd: Kenneth O. Chilstrom, 101, American air force colonel and test pilot.

4^th: Yuriy Dubrovin, 83, Russian-Ukrainian actor (D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers, Trial on the Road, The Prisoner of Château d'If).

4^th: Bob McGrath, 90, American actor and singer (Sesame Street, Follow That Bird, Sing Along with Mitch), complications from a stroke.

4^th: Jacqueline Rigaud, 97, French resistance fighter, Righteous Among the Nations (2017).

5^th: Kirstie Alley, 71, American actress (Cheers, Veronica's Closet, Look Who's Talking), Emmy winner (1991, 1994), colon cancer.

6^th: Mills Lane, 85, American boxing referee and television personality (Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity Deathmatch).

6^th: Adolfas Šleževičius, 74, Lithuanian politician, prime minister (1993–1996).

7^th: Johnny Johnson, 101, British Royal Air Force officer (Operation Chastise).

7^th: Jan Nowicki, 83, Polish actor (Colonel Wolodyjowski, Spiral, Magnat), COVID-19.

7^th: Harry Yee, 104, American bartender, inventor of the Blue Hawaii.

8^th: Yitzhak Klepter, 72, Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and guitarist (The Churchills, Kaveret).

9^th: Herbert Deutsch, 90, American composer, co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

9^th: Qamar Gula, 70, Afghan singer, cancer.

9^th: Joseph Kittinger, 94, American air force officer and command pilot (Project Manhigh, Project Excelsior), lung cancer.

9^th: Ruth Madoc, 79, British actress (Hi-de-Hi!, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Britain), and singer.

9^th: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, 76, American LGBTQ activist and archivist.

9^th: Fredrick Terna, 99, Austrian-born American painter and Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz.)

10^th: John Fogarty, 75, New Zealand jurist, king's counsel (since 1990), judge of the High Court (2003–2017).

10^th: Grant Wahl, 49, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated) and author (The Beckham Experiment), aortic aneurysm.

11^th: Frances Hesselbein, 107, American management consultant, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA (1976–1990).

11^th: Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, 96, American Hawaiian royal princess.

12^th: Mirosław Hermaszewski, 81, Polish cosmonaut (Soyuz 30).

13^th: Stephen "tWitch" Boss, 40, American dancer, television personality (The Ellen DeGeneres Show, So You Think You Can Dance) and actor (Step Up), suicide by gunshot.

14^th: Jacob Luitjens, 103, Dutch Nazi collaborator.

14^th: Frank J. Shakespeare, 97, American diplomat and media executive, ambassador to Portugal (1985–1986) and the Holy See (1987–1989).

16^th: Aleh Hulak, 55, Belarusian human rights defender, clot.

16^th: Denise Meunier, 104, French schoolteacher and resistant.

18^th: Lyudmila Agranovskaya, 90, Russian mountain climber.

18^th: Petro Pylypchuk, 75, Ukrainian judge, chairman of the Supreme Court (2011–2013).

19^th: Ali Ahmed Aslam, 77, Pakistani-born Scottish chef and restaurateur, credited with inventing chicken tikka masala, septic shock and organ failure.

19^th: Manfred Messerschmidt, 96, German historian (Germany and the Second World War).

25^th: Alexey Maslov, 69, Russian military officer, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces (2004–2008).

26^th: Emilian Kamiński, 70, Polish actor (Akcja pod Arsenałem, Biały mazur) and theatre director.

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