In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II, Pelé, Benedict XVI and Mikhail Gorbachev disappeared. Here is a summary of the great missing in the world.
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Sidney POITIER, 94, first black American actor to win an Oscar in 1964 for “Le Lys des champs”.
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Elza SOARES, 91, black diva of Brazilian song.
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“MEAT LOAF” (Marvin Lee ADAY), 74, American rocker performer of “Bat 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, the “Nightingale of India”, Bollywood singer and producer.
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Luc MONTAGNIER, 89, Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the AIDS virus, whose positions were then contested by the scientific community.
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William HURT, 71, Oscar-winning American actor for “Kiss of the Spider Woman”.
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Madeleine ALBRIGHT, 84, first female US Secretary of State (1997-2001).
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Taylor HAWKINS, 50, drummer for the Foo Fighters, American alternative rock band.
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Michel BOUQUET, 96 years old, actor, monument of French theatre.
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ARNO (Arnold Hintjens), 72, Belgian singer and actor.
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Mino RAIOLA, 54, famous Italian-Dutch agent of footballers like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba.
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Shireen ABU AKLEH, Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist killed in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.
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VANGELIS (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79 years old, great Greek composer of film scores like “Chariots of Fire”.
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Ray LIOTTA, 67, American actor star of 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 years old, Slovenian-speaking Italian writer, survivor of Italian fascists and Nazi camps, defender of minorities and of Europe.
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Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT, 91, an essential actor in French cinema and theatre.
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Leonardo DEL VECCHIO, 87, Italy’s second fortune at the head of the global optical giant EssilorLuxottica.
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Peter BROOK, 97, British director who revolutionized theatre.
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Eduardo DOS SANTOS, 79, former Marxist rebel, president of Angola for 38 years (1979-2017) having diverted the oil windfall for his benefit.
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Shinzo ABE, 67, Conservative Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007 and 2012-2020) assassinated during a meeting.
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Bill RUSSELL, 88, legendary NBA basketball player and civil rights activist in the United States.
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Issey MIYAKE, 84, Japanese haute couture designer, inventor of seamless clothes.
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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 haute couture designer.
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Jean-Jacques SEMPE, 89 years old, great French designer, creator of “Little Nicolas”.
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Mikhaïl GORBATCHEV, 91 years old, political figure of the 20th century who precipitated, in spite of himself, the fall of the USSR 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 years old, great American photographer who transposed the codes of reportage to fashion photography.
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Jean-Luc GODARD, 91, Franco-Swiss filmmaker, illustrious representative of the New Wave with “Breathless”, “Pierrot le fou”, “Le Mépris”.
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Irene PAPAS, 93, Greek star of “Zorba the Greek” and “Canons of Navarone”.
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Artis Leon IVEY Jr, “COOLIO”, 59, American rapper known for his hit “Gangsta’s Paradise”.
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Loretta LYNN, 90, American country music legend.
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Angela LANSBURY, 96, American-British actress, petulant detective grandmother of the television series “Arabesque”.
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Dietrich MATESCHITZ, 78, Austrian billionaire, founder of the energy drink company Red Bull.
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Pierre SOULAGES, 102 years old, French painter, black specialist.
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Jerry Lee LEWIS, 87, pioneer of American rock and roll.
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Gal COSTA, 77, legend of Brazilian music and muse of tropicalism.
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JIANG Zemin, 96, President of China (1993-2003) and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989-2002), he accompanied China’s transformation into a world economic power.
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Nick BOLLETTIERI, 91, former American tennis coach, he trained legends of his sport like Andre Agassi, Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova.
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PELÉ, 82, first planetary star of the round ball, man with 1281 goals and three Football World Cups with the Brazilian Seleçao (1958, 1962 and 1970).
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Vivienne WESTWOOD, 81, British fashion punk icon.
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Benedict XVI, 95, brilliant German theologian, became “pope emeritus” after renouncing his position as head of the Catholic Church in 2013.