January
– 6: Sidney Poitiers, 94 years old The first black American actor to win an Academy Award in 1964 for Le Lys des champs.
– 14: Ricardo Bofill, 82 years old, Spanish architect.
– 15: Nino Cerruti, 91 years oldItalian fashion designer.
– 19: Gaspard Uliel, 37 years oldFrench actor.
– 20: Elza Soares, 91 years olda black singer of Brazilian song.
– 20:MEAT LOAF” (Marvin Lee Addai), 74 years old, American rocker for the movie “Bat Out of Hell”.
– 22: Thich Nhat Hanh, 95 years olda major figure in observant and pacifist Buddhism and a Vietnamese Zen master.
– 23: Thierry Mugler, 73 years oldFrench designer.
The actor died with his two children, Cesar Gaspard Uliel, 37, after a skiing accident
February
– 2: Monica Vitti, 90 years old, Italian star and muse of director Michelangelo Antonioni.
– 6: He is 92 years old Lata Mangeshkar The Indian Nightingale is a Bollywood singer and producer.
– 10: Luke Montagnier, 89 years old, The Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the AIDS virus, to positions disputed thereafter by the scientific community.
Mars
– 13: William Hurt, 71 years old Oscar-winning American actor for Kiss of the Spider Woman.
– 23: Madeleine Albright is 84 years old First US Secretary of State (1997-2001).
– 25: Taylor Hawkins, 50 years old Drummer of Foo Fighters, an American alternative rock band.
April
– 6: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 75 years old, An ultra-nationalist figure in Russian political life.
– 13: Michel Bouquet, 96 years old French theater monument actor.
– 23: Arno (Arnold Hintense), 72 years old, Belgian singer and actor.
Arno whose real name is Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens.
– 30: Marthe Gauthier, 96 years old, French co-discoverer of the extra chromosome responsible for trisomy 21.
– 30: Mino Raiola, 54 years old, Famous Italian-Dutch agent for footballers like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba.
Belgian singer Arnaud passed away at the age of 72
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– 11: Sherine Abu Akleh A Palestinian-American journalist from Al Jazeera was killed in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.
– 19: Vangelis (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79 years old, Brilliant Greek composer of films like Chariots of Fire.
– 26: Ray Liotta, 67 years old, The American actor stars in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”.
– 26: Andy Fletcher, aka “Fletch”, 60 years old, Founder of the British group Depeche Mode.
– 30: Boris Pahor, 108 years old, Slovenian-speaking Italian writer, survivor of the Italian fascists and Nazi camps, defender of minorities and of Europe.
American actor Ray Liotta dies in his sleep
June
– 14: Abraham Yehoshua, 85 years old Israeli writer, winner of the Israel Prize and the Foreign Medici Prize (2012), figure on the anti-occupation left.
– 17: Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91 years old, Main actor of French cinema and theater.
The embodiment of sadness and elegance, actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is dead
– 22: Eve Coppins, 87 years old, The French paleontologist who discovered Australopithecus Lucy in Ethiopia in 1974.
– 27: Leonardo Del Vecchio, 87 years old, Italy’s second wealth is at the helm of the global optical giant EssilorLuxottica.
July
– 2: Peter Brock, 97 years old, The British director who revolutionized theatre.
– 8: Eduardo dos Santos, 79 years old, Former Marxist rebel, President of Angola for 38 years (1979-2017) after hijacking excess oil earnings for his own benefit.
– 8: Shinzo Abe, 67 years oldConservative Prime Minister of Japan (2006-2007 and 2012-2020) assassinated during a meeting.
– 31: Bill Russell, 88 years old Legendary NBA basketball player and civil rights activist in the United States.
August
– 5: Issey Miyake, 84 years old, Japanese haute couture designer, inventor of seamless clothing.
– 8: Olivia Newton-John, 73 years old British Australian singer and actress, star of “Grease” with John Travolta.
– 11: Hani Morey, 96 years old, Japanese haute couture designer.
– 11: Jean JacquesQues Sempé, 89 years old, The great French designer, creator of “Little Nicholas”.
– 30: Mikhail Gorbachev, 91 A twentieth-century political figure who, despite himself, precipitated the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Designer Simbi, father of “little Nicholas”, dies
September
– 8: Elizabeth II, 96 years old, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.
– 10: William Klein, 96 years old, A senior American photographer who transformed reportage icons into fashion photography.
– 11: Javier Marías, 70 years olda Spanish writer translated into more than 40 languages, author in particular “Oxford Novel” (1989), “White Heart” (1993).
– 13: Jean-Luc Godard, 91 years old, Franco-Swiss director, brilliant representative of the new wave with “A bout de souffle”, “Pierrot le fou” and “Le Mépris”.
– 14: Irene Pappas, 93 years oldand the Greek star “Zorba the Greek” and “The Canons of Navarone”.
– 22: Hilary Mantel, 70 years old The British novelist has twice won the Booker Prize for “The Counselor,” a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, minister to Henry VIII.
– 24: Farrell “Pharoah” Sanders, 81, American saxophonist and international jazz personality.
– 26: Martyr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 96 years old. Naturalized Egyptian preacher in Qatar, head of the Muslim Brotherhood.
– 28: Artis Leon Ivy Jr. “Colio”, 59 years old American rapper known for his famous song “Gangsta’s Paradise”.
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October
– 4: Loretta Lynn, 90an American country music legend.
– 9: Bruno Latour, 75 years old, A major French intellectual with international influence, a figure in contemporary environmental thought.
– 11: Angela Lansbury, 96 years old British American actress, detective grandmother of the TV series “Arabesque”.
– 22: Dietrich Mateschitz, 78Austrian billionaire, founder of the energy drink company Red Bull.
– 25: Pierre Soulages, 102 years old, Black specialist French painter.
– 28: Jerry Lee Lewis, 87 years old Pioneer of American rock and roll.
November
– 9: Gal Costa, 77 years old, Legend of Brazilian music and tropical music.
– 20: Hebe de Bonafene, 93 years old, Standard bearer of the “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo” who marched tirelessly against the Argentine dictatorship to demand their “disappearance”.
– 30: Jiang Zemin, 96 years oldPresident of China (1993-2003) and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (1989-2002), accompanied China’s transformation into a global economic power.
Dec
– 4: Nick Bollettieri, 91 years old, Former American tennis coach, he has trained legends of his sport like Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, and Maria Sharapova.
– 29: Pele, 82 years old, The first football star in the world, a man who scored 1,281 goals and three times in the FIFA World Cup with the Brazilian Selecao (1958, 1962 and 1970).
The man who scored 1,281 goals and won the World Cup three times (Photo by Frank Fife)
– 28: Linda De Souza, 74 years oldPortuguese singer.
– 29: Vivienne Westwood, 81British fashion punk icon.
– 31: Benedict XVI, 95 years old, A brilliant German theologian, he became an “Honorary Pope” after renouncing his position as head of the Catholic Church in 2013.
Tributes flocked to the announcement of former Pope Benedict XVI’s death on December 31
France Press agency
