Famous People Who Died in 2022

• Abe, Shinzo

  Prime Minister of Japan, 2006-07 and 2012-present

• Albright, Madeleine

  U.S. Secretary of State, 1997-2001

• Bogdanovich, Peter

  Director of The Last Picture Show

• Caan, James

  Sonny Corleone in The Godfather

• Carter, Aaron

  The former teen star who sang Aaron's Party

• Durst, Robert

  The eccentric killer featured in the HBO show The Jinx

• Fletcher, Louise

  Nurse Ratched in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Godard, Jean-Luc

  Existentialist, Marxist French movie director

• Gorbachev, Mikhail

  The Nobel Prize-winning last leader of the Soviet Union

• Gottfried, Gilbert

  The comedian who voiced Iago in 'Aladdin'

• Harris, Lusia

  The subject of the 2021 documentary 'The Queen of Basketball'

• Hatch, Orrin

  U.S. Senator from Utah, 1976-2019

• Heche, Anne

  The one-time partner of Ellen DeGeneres who starred in Six Days Seven Nights

• Hurt, William

  Star of the movie Kiss of the Spider Woman

• Keane, Margaret

  The painter of big-eyed waifs from the 1960s

• Kerr, Anita

  Creator and leader of country music's The Anita Kerr Singers

• Lansbury, Angela

  Multiple Tony winner and star of Murder, She Wrote

• Liotta, Ray

  Henry Hill in the movie Goodfellas

• Lynn, Loretta

  The country music legend who sang "Coal Miner's Daughter"

• Mantel, Hilary

  The author of Wolf Hall

• Newton-John, Olivia

  The pop singer who starred in the 1979 musical Grease

• Nichols, Nichelle

  Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek TV series

• Pelé

  Brazil's most famous soccer star

• Poitier, Sidney

  The star of the 1967 film In The Heat of the Night

• Pope Benedict XVI

  The supreme leader of the Catholic Church, 2005-2013

• Queen Elizabeth II

  The British queen who reigned from 1952-2022

• Rafelson, Bob

  The director of the film Five Easy Pieces

• Russell, Bill

  11-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics

• Sorvino, Paul

  He played mob boss Paulie in the movie Goodfellas

• Straub, Peter

  The author of Ghost Story

• Vangelis

  The composer of 'Chariots of Fire'

• Walters, Barbara

  20/20 veteran and host of ABC's The View

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