In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II, Pele, Benedict XVI, and Mikhail Gorbachev are gone. Here is a summary of the world’s greatest missing persons.
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Sidney Poiter, 94, the first black American actor to win an Academy Award in 1964 for Le Lys des Champs.
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Elza Soares, 91, black singer of Brazilian song.
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“MEAT LOAF” (Marvin Lee Addai), 74, American rock guitarist for Bate Out of Hell.
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Thierry Mugler, 73, French designer.
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Monica Vitti, 90, Italian star and muse of director Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Lata MANGESHKAR, 92, “Indian Nightingale”, Bollywood singer and producer.
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Luc Montnier, 89, Nobel laureate in medicine for discovering the AIDS virus, whose positions were later disputed by the scientific community.
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William Hurt, 71, is an Oscar-winning American actor for “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”
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Madeleine Albright, 84, first US Secretary of State (1997-2001).
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Taylor Hawkins, 50, is a drummer for Foo Fighters, the American alternative rock band.
Michel Bouquet, 96, actor, French theater monument.
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ARNO (Arnold Hintjens), 72, Belgian singer and actor.
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Mino Raiola, 54, is an Italian-Dutch agent famous for soccer players such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba.
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Sherine Abu Akl, a Palestinian-American journalist for Al-Jazeera, was killed in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.
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VANGELIS (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79, great Greek composer for films like Chariots of Fire.
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Ray Liotta, 67, American actor, star in Martin Scorsese’s “Freedmen.”
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Andy FLETCHER, alias “Fletch”, 60, founder of the British group Depeche Mode.
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Boris Pahor, 108, Slovenian-speaking Italian writer, survivor of Italian fascists and Nazi camps, advocate for minorities and Europe.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91, is a leading actor in French cinema and theater.
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Leonardo Del Vecchio, 87, Italy’s second fortune at the helm of global optics giant EssilorLuxottica.
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Peter Brook, 97, is a British director who has revolutionized theatre.
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Eduardo dos Santos, 79, a former Marxist rebel, was president of Angola for 38 years (1979-2017) after he funneled excess oil revenues to his advantage.
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The assassination of Shinzo Abe, 67, the conservative Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007 and 2012-2020) during a meeting.
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Bill Russell, 88, legendary NBA player and civil rights activist in the United States.
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Issey MIYAKE, 84, Japanese luxury fashion designer, inventor of seamless clothing.
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Olivia Newton-John, 73, British-Australian singer and actress, star of “Grease” with John Travolta.
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Hanae MORI, 96, Japanese luxury fashion designer.
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Jean-Jacques Semp, 89, gorgeous French designer, creator of “Little Nicolas”.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, a 20th-century political figure who, in spite of himself, precipitated the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Elizabeth II, 96, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.
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William Klein, 96, is a great American photographer who transposed the codes of reportage into fashion photography.
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Jean-Luc Godard, 91, Franco-Swiss filmmaker, brilliant representative of the New Wave with “Breathless”, “Pierrot le fou”, “Le Mépris”.
Irene Pappas, 93, Greek star of “Zorba the Greek” and “The Canons of Navarone.”
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Artis Leon IVEY Jr, “COOLIO”, 59, American rapper known for his song “Gangsta’s Paradise”.
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Loretta Lynn, 90, American country music legend.
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Angela Lansbury, 96, British-American actress, scandalous detective grandmother of the TV series “Arabesque”.
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Dietrich Mateschitz, 78, Austrian billionaire, founder of energy drink company Red Bull.
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Pierre Souleges, 102, French painter, specializing in black.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, pioneer of American rock and roll.
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Gal COSTA, 77, Brazilian music legend and equatorial inspiration.
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Jiang Zemin, 96, President of China (1993-2003) and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (1989-2002), accompanied China’s transformation into a global economic power.
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Nick Bollettieri, 91, is an American former tennis coach who has trained legends of his sport such as Andre Agassi, Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova.
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Pele, 82, the first planetary star in the round ball, a man who scored 1281 goals and three FIFA World Cups with the Brazilian Seleçao (1958, 1962 and 1970).
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Vivienne Westwood, 81, British punk fashion icon.
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Benedict XVI, 95, a brilliant German theologian, became an “Honorary Pope” after stepping down as head of the Catholic Church in 2013.
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