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In Memoriam 2022: Singers, Dancers, Actors, Writers, Directors

ByGramilano Reading Time: 9 minutes
in memoriam 2022
in memoriam 2022

In memoriam 2022: a personal list of some of the artists the world lost in 2022

NameDatesAgeDescription
Max Riebl26 June 1991 – 30 April 202230Australian countertenor
Oleksandr Shapoval9 February 1975 – 12 September 202247Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer with the National Opera of Ukraine. Killed in battle.
Anne Heche25 May 1969 – 11 August 202253American actress
Irene Cara18 March 1959 – 25 November 202263American singer, songwriter, and actress known for the 1980 musical film Fame, and for singing Flashdance… What a Feeling in 1983 
Bob Saget17 May 1956 – 9 January 202265American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955 – 24 October 202267American actor, comedian, writer, and singer known for his Southern drawl in Will & Grace and American Horror Story
Ray Liotta18 December 1954 – 26 May 202267Actor best known for Goodfellas and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams.
Hilary Mantel6 July 1952 – 22 September 202270British 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 Alley12 January 1951 – 5 December 202271American actress best known for TV’s Cheers and the Look Who’s Talking films
Maria Ewing27 March 1950 – 9 January 202271American opera singer
William Hurt20 March 1950 – 13 March 2022711980s foremost leading men in movies such as Broadcast News, Body Heat, and The Big Chill.
Robbie Coltrane30 March 1950 – 14 October 202272Scottish actor and comedian. Of his hundreds of roles, he’s best known for Hagrid in the Harry Potter series
John Aler4 October 1949 – 10 December 202273American lyric tenor who performed in concerts, recitals, and operas.
Mariana Nicolesco28 November 1948 – 14 October 202273Romanian operatic soprano
Olivia Newton-John26 September 1948 – 8 August 202273British-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 Mugler21 December 1948 – 23 January 202273French fashion designer who designed signature looks for Michael Jackson, Madonna, Grace Jones, and David Bowie
Dennis Waterman24 February 1948 – 8 May 202274English 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 Loaf27 September 1947 – 20 January 202274Rock superstar best known for Bat Out of Hell album and his appearance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Ivan Reitman27 October 1946 – 12 February 202275 Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker. He was best known for his comedies Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters
Roberto Masotti1947 – 25 April 202275Italian photographer, with his partner Silvia Lelli he was the official photographer at La Scala from 1979 until 1996
Bob LuPone29 July 1946 – 27 August 202276American actor and artistic director, brother of actress Patti LuPone and original Zach in A Chorus Line
Michail Jurowski25 December 1945 – 19 March 202276Russian conductor, based in Germany
Radu Lupu30 November 1945 – 17 April 202276Romanian pianist
Catherine Spaak3 April 1945 – 17 April 202277French-born Italian actress and singer
Patricia Ruanne3 June 1945 – 1 November 202277British ballerina, ballet mistress, teacher, repetiteur, and director; created the role of Juliet in Nureyev’s production of Romeo and Juliet
Patrick Demarchelier21 August 1943 – 31 March 202278French fashion photographer.
Ronnie Spector10 August 1943 – 12 January 202278Singer 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 Bryden12 April 1942 – 5 January 202279Scottish stage and film director and screenwriter
Ruth Madoc16 April 1943 – 9 December 202279British actress best known as Gladys Pugh in the BBC comedy Hi-de-Hi! 
Vangelis29 March 1943 – 17 May 202279Greek composer best known for his Academy Award-winning score for Chariots of Fire, and Blade Runner
David Warner29 July 1941 – 24 July 202280English actor who worked in film, television and theatre
Yvette Mimieux8 January 1942 – 18 January 2022801960s film star of Where the Boys Are, The Time Machine and Light in the Piazza.
Anne Howells12 January 1941 – 18 May 202281British mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Petersen14 March 1941 – 12 August 202281 German filmmaker best known for World War II submarine epic Das Boot
James Caan26 March 1940 – 6 July 202282American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, also Funny Lady and Misery
Lynda Baron24 March 1939 – 5 March 202282English actress, best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC comedy series Open All Hours
Peter Bogdanovich30 July 1939 – 6 January 202282American 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 202283 English organist, conductor, and composer.
Issey Miyake22 April 1938 – 5 August 202284Japanese fashion designer
Sally Kellerman2 June 1937 – 24 February 202284Oscar and Emmy-nominated American actress known for Margaret Hot Lips Houlihan in Robert Altman’s 1970 film MASH
Angelo Badalamenti22 March 1937 – 1 December 202285American composer best known for scores for David Lynch productions Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive
Azio Corghi9 March 1937 – 17 November 202285Italian composer, academic teacher and musicologist.
Joanna Simon20 October 1936 – 19 October 202285American mezzo-soprano, her father Richard L. Simon, was the founder of the Simon & Schuster publishing company, her younger sister is Carly Simon
Peter Bowles16 October 1936 – 17 March 202285English television and stage actor best remembered for his roles in sitcoms
Barry Cryer23 March 1935 – 25 January 202286English writer, comedian, and actor
David Lloyd-Jones19 November 1934 – 8 June 202287British conductor and co-founder of Opera North
Harrison Birtwistle15 July 1934 – 18 April 202287English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas
Jerry Lee Lewis29 September 1935 – 28 October 202287Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer known for Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Letizia Battaglia 5 March 1935 – 13 April 202287Italian photographer and photojournalist
Michael Hampe3 June 1935 – 18 November 202287German theatre and opera director, and Intendant
Tony Walton24 October 1934 – 2 March 202287British set and costume designer known for theatre and film All That Jazz, Mary Poppins, Murder on the Orient Express 
Louise Fletcher22 July 1934 – 23 September 202288Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won her an Academy Award
Raymond Briggs18 January 1934 – 9 August 202288English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author best known for The Snowman and When the Wind Blows
Bob Rafelson 21 February 1933 – 23 July 202289American film director, writer, and producer known for Five Easy Pieces and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) 
Liane Daydé27 febbraio 1932 – 21 marzo 202289French ballerina and actress, étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet in the 1950s
Nichelle Nichols28 December 1932 – 30 July 202289 American actress, singer, and dancer who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek television series
16 March 1933 – 13 May 202289 Spanish mezzo-soprano, known for Rossini’s Rosina and Cinderella and Bizet’s Carmen as well as recitals
Loretta Lynn14 April 1932 – 4 October 202290Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music
Monica Vitti3 November 1931 – 2 February 202290Italian actress in several award-winning films by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s, but then began making comedies
Robert Morse18 May 1931 – 20 April 202290American actor who starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on stage and screen
16 July 1930 – 2 February 202291Italian costume designer and art director.
Jean-Louis Trintignant11 December 1930 – 17 June 202291French film legend regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era
Jean-Luc Godard3 December 1930 – 13 September 202291Enfant terrible of the French New Wave cinema with films including Breathless
Josephine Tewson26 February 1931 – 18 August 202291An English stage and television actress. She was best known for her roles in British television sitcoms, such as Keeping Up Appearances
Josephine Veasey10 July 1930 – 22 February 202291British mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with Wagner and Berlioz roles
Nino Cerruti25 September 1930 – 15 January 202291Italian businessman and stylist who founded his own haute couture house in 1967 in Paris
Antonietta Stella15 March 1929 – 23 February 202292Italian operatic soprano, one of the most prominent Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s
Daniele Barioni6 September 1930 – 5 November 202292Italian tenor from 1950s until 1970s: leading tenor at the Met between 1956 and 1962
George Crumb24 October 1929 – 6 February 202292American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music
Bernabé Marté­14 November 1928 – 18 March 202293Spanish tenor and husband of Montserrat Caballé
Bernard Cribbins29 December 1928 – 27 July 202293Beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade career ranged from Carry On comedies to children’s television
Estelle Harris22 April 1928 – 2 April 202293George Costanza’s short-fused mother on Seinfeld and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise
Filippo Crivelli 27 March 1928 – 6 February 202293Italian theatre and opera director
Irene Papas3 September 1929 – 14 September 202293Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films
10 November 1928 – 8 January 202293Oscar-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 Poitier20 February 1927 – 6 January 202294American actor, film director, and diplomat who in 1964 was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
Beryl Grey11 June 1927 – 10 December 202295British ballerina known for her theatrical glamour, exceptional technical ability and international appeal
Joseph Horovitz26 May 1926 – 9 February 202295Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
June Brown16 February 1927 – 3 April 202295British actress best known as chain-smoking Dot Cotton on the British soap opera EastEnders
16 October 1925 – 11 October 202296British actor known for Broadway musicals Mame, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, many films and Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote
21 March 1925 – 2 July 202297British theatre and opera director known for Carmen, Mahabharata, Marat/Sade, the film Lord of the Flies.
Leslie Phillips20 April 1924 – 7 November 202298British actor best known for his smooth, upper-class comic roles and as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies
Renato Balestra3 May 1924 – 26 November 202298Italian fashion designer
William Kraft6 September 1923 – 12 February 202298American composer, percussionist, and conductor
Ned Rorem23 October 1923 – 18 November 202299American composer of contemporary classical music and writer, best known for his 500 art songs
Henry Danton30 March 1919 – 9 February 2022102British dancer, teacher, and stager of classical ballet creating leading roles most notably in Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations partnering Moira Shearer
Ann Hutchinson Guest3 November 1918 – 9 April 2022103American authority on dance notation and movement analysis, based in the UK
Marsha Hunt17 October 1917 – 7 September 2022104One of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s

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4 Comments
Garcin

You just forgot Gaspar Uliel, 37 years old dead in a so stupid way…

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Gramilano

Thank you!

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Marta

I would add the visual artists Claes Oldenburg, Lee Bontecou, and Jennifer Bartlett.

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Gail A Glover

Stephen tWitch Boss as well.

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