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In memoriam 2022: a personal list of some of the artists the world lost in 2022
Name | Dates | Age | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Max Riebl | 26 June 1991 – 30 April 2022 | 30 | Australian countertenor |
Oleksandr Shapoval | 9 February 1975 – 12 September 2022 | 47 | Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer with the National Opera of Ukraine. Killed in battle. |
Anne Heche | 25 May 1969 – 11 August 2022 | 53 | American actress |
Irene Cara | 18 March 1959 – 25 November 2022 | 63 | American singer, songwriter, and actress known for the 1980 musical film Fame, and for singing Flashdance… What a Feeling in 1983 |
Bob Saget | 17 May 1956 – 9 January 2022 | 65 | American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host |
Leslie Jordan | 29 April 1955 – 24 October 2022 | 67 | American actor, comedian, writer, and singer known for his Southern drawl in Will & Grace and American Horror Story |
Ray Liotta | 18 December 1954 – 26 May 2022 | 67 | Actor best known for Goodfellas and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. |
Hilary Mantel | 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022 | 70 | British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs, and short stories. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall |
Kirstie Alley | 12 January 1951 – 5 December 2022 | 71 | American actress best known for TV's Cheers and the Look Who's Talking films |
Maria Ewing | 27 March 1950 – 9 January 2022 | 71 | American opera singer |
William Hurt | 20 March 1950 – 13 March 2022 | 71 | 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as Broadcast News, Body Heat, and The Big Chill. |
Robbie Coltrane | 30 March 1950 – 14 October 2022 | 72 | Scottish actor and comedian. Of his hundreds of roles, he's best known for Hagrid in the Harry Potter series |
John Aler | 4 October 1949 – 10 December 2022 | 73 | American lyric tenor who performed in concerts, recitals, and operas. |
Mariana Nicolesco | 28 November 1948 – 14 October 2022 | 73 | Romanian operatic soprano |
Olivia Newton-John | 26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022 | 73 | British-Australian singer, actress and activist. A pop and country singer Physical, You're the One That I Want, and Sandy in the film version of Grease |
Thierry Mugler | 21 December 1948 – 23 January 2022 | 73 | French fashion designer who designed signature looks for Michael Jackson, Madonna, Grace Jones, and David Bowie |
Dennis Waterman | 24 February 1948 – 8 May 2022 | 74 | English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy roles in television including The Sweeney and Minder, and the musical Windy City |
Meat Loaf | 27 September 1947 – 20 January 2022 | 74 | Rock superstar best known for Bat Out of Hell album and his appearance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
Ivan Reitman | 27 October 1946 – 12 February 2022 | 75 | Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker. He was best known for his comedies Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters |
Roberto Masotti | 1947 – 25 April 2022 | 75 | Italian photographer, with his partner Silvia Lelli he was the official photographer at La Scala from 1979 until 1996 |
Bob LuPone | 29 July 1946 – 27 August 2022 | 76 | American actor and artistic director, brother of actress Patti LuPone and original Zach in A Chorus Line |
Michail Jurowski | 25 December 1945 – 19 March 2022 | 76 | Russian conductor, based in Germany |
Radu Lupu | 30 November 1945 – 17 April 2022 | 76 | Romanian pianist |
Catherine Spaak | 3 April 1945 – 17 April 2022 | 77 | French-born Italian actress and singer |
Patricia Ruanne | 3 June 1945 – 1 November 2022 | 77 | British ballerina, ballet mistress, teacher, repetiteur, and director; created the role of Juliet in Nureyev's production of Romeo and Juliet |
Patrick Demarchelier | 21 August 1943 – 31 March 2022 | 78 | French fashion photographer. |
Ronnie Spector | 10 August 1943 – 12 January 2022 | 78 | Singer with 1960s hits as Be My Baby, Baby I Love You and Walking in the Rain as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes |
Bill Bryden | 12 April 1942 – 5 January 2022 | 79 | Scottish stage and film director and screenwriter |
Ruth Madoc | 16 April 1943 – 9 December 2022 | 79 | British actress best known as Gladys Pugh in the BBC comedy Hi-de-Hi! |
Vangelis | 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022 | 79 | Greek composer best known for his Academy Award-winning score for Chariots of Fire, and Blade Runner |
David Warner | 29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022 | 80 | English actor who worked in film, television and theatre |
Yvette Mimieux | 8 January 1942 – 18 January 2022 | 80 | 1960s film star of Where the Boys Are, The Time Machine and Light in the Piazza. |
Anne Howells | 12 January 1941 – 18 May 2022 | 81 | British mezzo-soprano |
Wolfgang Petersen | 14 March 1941 – 12 August 2022 | 81 | German filmmaker best known for World War II submarine epic Das Boot |
James Caan | 26 March 1940 – 6 July 2022 | 82 | American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, also Funny Lady and Misery |
Lynda Baron | 24 March 1939 – 5 March 2022 | 82 | English actress, best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC comedy series Open All Hours |
Peter Bogdanovich | 30 July 1939 – 6 January 2022 | 82 | American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. Director of The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon |
Simon Preston | 4 August 1938 – 13 May 2022 | 83 | English organist, conductor, and composer. |
Issey Miyake | 22 April 1938 – 5 August 2022 | 84 | Japanese fashion designer |
Sally Kellerman | 2 June 1937 – 24 February 2022 | 84 | Oscar and Emmy-nominated American actress known for Margaret Hot Lips Houlihan in Robert Altman's 1970 film MASH |
Angelo Badalamenti | 22 March 1937 – 1 December 2022 | 85 | American composer best known for scores for David Lynch productions Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive |
Azio Corghi | 9 March 1937 – 17 November 2022 | 85 | Italian composer, academic teacher and musicologist. |
Joanna Simon | 20 October 1936 – 19 October 2022 | 85 | American mezzo-soprano, her father Richard L. Simon, was the founder of the Simon & Schuster publishing company, her younger sister is Carly Simon |
Peter Bowles | 16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022 | 85 | English television and stage actor best remembered for his roles in sitcoms |
Barry Cryer | 23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022 | 86 | English writer, comedian, and actor |
David Lloyd-Jones | 19 November 1934 – 8 June 2022 | 87 | British conductor and co-founder of Opera North |
Harrison Birtwistle | 15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022 | 87 | English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas |
Jerry Lee Lewis | 29 September 1935 – 28 October 2022 | 87 | Rock ‘n' roll pioneer known for Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On |
Letizia Battaglia | 5 March 1935 – 13 April 2022 | 87 | Italian photographer and photojournalist |
Michael Hampe | 3 June 1935 – 18 November 2022 | 87 | German theatre and opera director, and Intendant |
Tony Walton | 24 October 1934 – 2 March 2022 | 87 | British set and costume designer known for theatre and film All That Jazz, Mary Poppins, Murder on the Orient Express |
Louise Fletcher | 22 July 1934 – 23 September 2022 | 88 | Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won her an Academy Award |
Raymond Briggs | 18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022 | 88 | English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author best known for The Snowman and When the Wind Blows |
Bob Rafelson | 21 February 1933 – 23 July 2022 | 89 | American film director, writer, and producer known for Five Easy Pieces and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) |
Liane Daydé | 27 febbraio 1932 – 21 marzo 2022 | 89 | French ballerina and actress, étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet in the 1950s |
Nichelle Nichols | 28 December 1932 – 30 July 2022 | 89 | American actress, singer, and dancer who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek television series |
Teresa Berganza | 16 March 1933 – 13 May 2022 | 89 | Spanish mezzo-soprano, known for Rossini's Rosina and Cinderella and Bizet's Carmen as well as recitals |
Loretta Lynn | 14 April 1932 – 4 October 2022 | 90 | Kentucky coal miner's daughter who became a pillar of country music |
Monica Vitti | 3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022 | 90 | Italian actress in several award-winning films by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s, but then began making comedies |
Robert Morse | 18 May 1931 – 20 April 2022 | 90 | American actor who starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on stage and screen |
Ezio Frigerio | 16 July 1930 – 2 February 2022 | 91 | Italian costume designer and art director. |
Jean-Louis Trintignant | 11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022 | 91 | French film legend regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era |
Jean-Luc Godard | 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022 | 91 | Enfant terrible of the French New Wave cinema with films including Breathless |
Josephine Tewson | 26 February 1931 – 18 August 2022 | 91 | An English stage and television actress. She was best known for her roles in British television sitcoms, such as Keeping Up Appearances |
Josephine Veasey | 10 July 1930 – 22 February 2022 | 91 | British mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with Wagner and Berlioz roles |
Nino Cerruti | 25 September 1930 – 15 January 2022 | 91 | Italian businessman and stylist who founded his own haute couture house in 1967 in Paris |
Antonietta Stella | 15 March 1929 – 23 February 2022 | 92 | Italian operatic soprano, one of the most prominent Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s |
Daniele Barioni | 6 September 1930 – 5 November 2022 | 92 | Italian tenor from 1950s until 1970s: leading tenor at the Met between 1956 and 1962 |
George Crumb | 24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022 | 92 | American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music |
Bernabé Marté | 14 November 1928 – 18 March 2022 | 93 | Spanish tenor and husband of Montserrat Caballé |
Bernard Cribbins | 29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022 | 93 | Beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade career ranged from Carry On comedies to children's television |
Estelle Harris | 22 April 1928 – 2 April 2022 | 93 | George Costanza's short-fused mother on Seinfeld and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise |
Filippo Crivelli | 27 March 1928 – 6 February 2022 | 93 | Italian theatre and opera director |
Irene Papas | 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022 | 93 | Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films |
Marilyn Bergman | 10 November 1928 – 8 January 2022 | 93 | Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with husband Alan Bergman on The Way We Were, How Do You Keep the Music Playing? and hundreds of other songs |
Sidney Poitier | 20 February 1927 – 6 January 2022 | 94 | American actor, film director, and diplomat who in 1964 was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor |
Beryl Grey | 11 June 1927 – 10 December 2022 | 95 | British ballerina known for her theatrical glamour, exceptional technical ability and international appeal |
Joseph Horovitz | 26 May 1926 – 9 February 2022 | 95 | Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo |
June Brown | 16 February 1927 – 3 April 2022 | 95 | British actress best known as chain-smoking Dot Cotton on the British soap opera EastEnders |
Angela Lansbury | 16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022 | 96 | British actor known for Broadway musicals Mame, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, many films and Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote |
Peter Brook | 21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022 | 97 | British theatre and opera director known for Carmen, Mahabharata, Marat/Sade, the film Lord of the Flies. |
Leslie Phillips | 20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022 | 98 | British actor best known for his smooth, upper-class comic roles and as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies |
Renato Balestra | 3 May 1924 – 26 November 2022 | 98 | Italian fashion designer |
William Kraft | 6 September 1923 – 12 February 2022 | 98 | American composer, percussionist, and conductor |
Ned Rorem | 23 October 1923 – 18 November 2022 | 99 | American composer of contemporary classical music and writer, best known for his 500 art songs |
Henry Danton | 30 March 1919 – 9 February 2022 | 102 | British dancer, teacher, and stager of classical ballet creating leading roles most notably in Frederick Ashton's Symphonic Variations partnering Moira Shearer |
Ann Hutchinson Guest | 3 November 1918 – 9 April 2022 | 103 | American authority on dance notation and movement analysis, based in the UK |
Marsha Hunt | 17 October 1917 – 7 September 2022 | 104 | One of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s |

Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.
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You just forgot Gaspar Uliel, 37 years old dead in a so stupid way…
Thank you!
I would add the visual artists Claes Oldenburg, Lee Bontecou, and Jennifer Bartlett.
Stephen tWitch Boss as well.