2022

2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium, the 22nd year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.

From left, clockwise: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; On 6 May, the global monkeypox outbreak begins in the United Kingdom; Lying-in-State of Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall; A child stands among the rubble of a house after the June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China; Demonstrators on the central square of Aktobe during the 2022 Kazakh unrest; A Russian BMP-3 near Mariupol destroyed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the greater Russo-Ukrainian War.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2019 2020 2021 – 2022 – 2023 2024 2025

2022 saw the ongoing impact of an inflation increase because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began in 2020, continued throughout the year.

In February, Russia invades Ukraine, causing the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. The consequences include international sanctions on Russia. More than 4.3 million Ukrainians leave, causing a refugee crisis.

2022 also saw the deaths of well known world leaders including Shinzo Abe, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Elizabeth II, the last of which reigned for more than seventy years.

Events

January

On 2 January, Prime Minister of Sudan Abdalla Hamdok resigns because of deadly anti-military coup protests

On 5 January, mass protests begin in Kazakhstan causing the country's government to resign

On 8 January, a rockfall in Capitólio, Brazil kills ten people

On 15 January, an eruption of Hunga Tonga happens in Tonga, becoming the largest volcanic eruption of the 21st century

On 18 January, MEP from Malta Roberta Metsola is elected the President of the European Parliament

On 23 January, President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is arrested in a military coup d'état

On 27 January, former First Lady Xiomara Castro is inaugurated the 56th and first female President of Honduras

On 29 January, Sergio Mattarella is re-elected President of Italy

• January 1
  • The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the largest free trade area in the world, comes into effect for Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
  • Twelve people are killed and 13 others are injured during a stampede at a Hindu shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
• January 2
  • South Africa's Houses of Parliament in Cape Town is damaged by a major fire.
  • Protests begin in Kazakhstan because of a large increase in fuel prices.
  • Abdalla Hamdok resigns as Prime Minister of Sudan as anti-military coup protests in the country get deadly.
• January 3 – COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to pass one million daily infections, with a total of 1.08 million reported cases, mainly caused by the Omicron variant.
• January 4
  • A three-day-long series of massacres begin in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Over 200 people are killed and several villages torched.
  • China, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France – all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – said a rare statement together saying that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought".
• January 5
  • In the United States, an apartment building fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 12 people and injures two others.
  • Prime Minister Askar Mamin and his government resign because of large protests in Kazakhstan and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Alihan Smaiylov. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev fires former President Nursultan Nazarbayev as chairman of the country's security council.
• January 6 – Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier, who was the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, dies at aged 94.
• January 7
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of COVID-19 cases passes 300 million worldwide.
  • At least 22 tourists freeze to death in vehicles in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan.
• January 8 – A rock fall in Capitólio, Minas Gerais, Brazil kills at least 10 people and injures 32 others.
• January 9
  • In the United States, a fire in an apartment building in The Bronx, New York City kills at least 19 people and injures over 60 others.
  • The Africa Cup of Nations begins in Cameroon.
• January 10 – The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient is reported in the United States. The patient was David Bennett Sr. from Baltimore, Maryland.
• January 11 – Italian MEP and President of the European Parliament David Sassoli dies in office at aged 65. MEP from Malta Roberta Metsola replaces him in an acting capacity.
• January 13 – A court in Germany rules that the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria have committed torture and mass murder. It convicts a former colonel, Anwar Raslan, to life in prison for crimes against humanity.
• January 14 – Margrethe II of Denmark celebrates her 50th anniversary as Queen of Denmark.
• January 14 –15 – Bandits kill over 50 people in Dankade, Kebbi State, Nigeria.
• January 15
  • A large eruption of Hunga Tonga, a submarine volcano in Tonga, causing tsunami warnings in Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States.
  • In the United States, a hostage crisis at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas ends with all hostages freed and the perpetrator, British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, shot dead.
• January 17
  • A 5.3 magnitude earthquake in Badghis Province of Afghanistan kills at least 26 people and injures five others.
  • A Houthi-led drone terrorist attack in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates kills three civilians and injures six others.
• January 18
  • The Parliament of Indonesia votes to officially change the capital of Indonesia from Jakarta to Nusantara.
  • Microsoft announces its plans to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard, making Microsoft the third largest gaming company (behind Tencent and Sony).
  • MEP Roberta Metsola from Malta is elected by the European Parliament as the next Parliament President, becoming the first Maltese person, the youngest person at aged 43 and the first woman since 2002 to be elected to the position.
• January 19
  • Protests in support of Prime Minister of Montenegro Zdravko Krivokapić begin.
  • U.S. President Joe Biden warns that Russia will invade Ukraine as the Russo-Ukrainian War escalates.
  • Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley is re-elected in a landslide victory after the Labour Party wins every seat in the House Assembly.
• January 20
  • 19-year old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world.
  • The Battle of al-Hasakah begins as a prison riot to free members of the Islamic State in Al-Hasakah, Syria with possibly over 200 people killed.
  • An explosion near Bogoso, Ghana destroys 500 buildings, killing at least 17 people and injuring 59 others.
• January 21
  • China, Russia and Iran have been training for war in the Indian Ocean.
  • A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a prison in Saada, Yemen kills at least 87 people and injured more than 200 others.
• January 22
  • Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh dies at aged 95.
  • A mass protest in Canada, mainly by truck drivers protesting against the country's COVID-19 vaccine mandate begins in Ottawa.
• January 23
  • Tropical Storm Ana kills 88 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, days after a series of floods killed 11 people in Madagascar.
  • President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian resigns because of lack of presidential powers and is replaced by Alen Simonyan as Acting President.
  • President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is arrested and removed from power by soldiers during a military coup d'état led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in Ouagadougou.
• January 27 – Former First Lady Xiomara Castro is inaugurated as the 56th President of Honduras, becoming the country's first female president.
• January 28 – The number of COVID-19 vaccinations given worldwide passes 10 billion.
• January 29 – Sergio Mattarella is re-elected as President of Italy, becoming the country's second president to ever be re-elected.
• January 30
  • Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa is re-elected after the Socialist Party wins 117 seats in the Assembly of the Republic.
  • In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty win their respective singles at the Australian Open.

February

On 4 February, the 2022 Winter Olympics begin in Beijing, China

On 6 February, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 70 years on the British throne

On 14 February, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uses the Emergencies Act to stop the convoy protests across the country

On 15 February, mudslides and floods in Petrópolis, Brazil kills over 220 people

On 21 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially recognizes Luhansk and Donetsk as independent from Ukraine.

On 24 February, President Vladimir Putin announces the Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 27 February, Russia is criticized for civilian deaths and the use of cluster bombs and thermobaric weapons during the Battle of Okhtyrka

• February 1 – Six people are killed in an attempted coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau which fails to remove President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embaló from power.
• February 2 – CODECO kill over 60 people in a massacre at an IDP camp in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• February 3
  • Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi kills himself in a suicide bombing during a United States Military raid in Atme, Syria.
  • India becomes the third country to pass 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 after the United States and Brazil.
• February 4
  • The 2022 Winter Olympics begins in Beijing, China.
  • Zdravko Krivokapić is removed as Prime Minister of Montenegro in a motion of no confidence, however he will continue as acting Prime Minister until a replacement is elected.
• February 5 – Cyclone Batsirai kills a total of 13 people across Madagascar, South Africa, Mauritius, and Réunion two weeks after Tropical Storm Ana killed 115 people in the same region.
• February 6
  • Indian playback singer and composer Lata Mangeshkar dies of COVID-19 at aged 92.
  • Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee, becoming the first British monarch to reign for 70 years.
  • The Africa Cup of Nations ends, with Senegal winning their first championship.
• February 8
  • The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide passes 400 million.
  • A state of emergency is declared following protests in Ottawa, Canada against the country's COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
• February 9 – The biggest breakthrough in fusion energy since 1997 is reported at the Joint European Torus in Oxford, United Kingdom with 59 megajoules created in over five seconds (11 megawatts of power), double than the last record.
• February 13
  • Frank-Walter Steinmeier is re-elected President of Germany in a landslide victory of 71% of the vote.
  • The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals with 23–20 to win Super Bowl LVI.
• February 14
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces he will use Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history in order to stop the Freedom Convoy, a nationwide protests and blockades in Canada against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions.
  • In Europe, seven people are killed in Storm Eunice, with a windspeed of 122 miles per hour (196 km/h) is the highest ever recorded in the United Kingdom.
• February 15
  • Prince Andrew, Duke of York settles a U.S. civil sexual assault case with Virginia Giuffre.
  • At least 176 people are killed because of mudslides and floods in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• February 16
  • Cristina Calderón, the last living full-blooded Yahgan person, dies of COVID-19 at aged 93.
  • Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández is arrested on a drug trafficking warrant after the United States files for his extradition.
• February 20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics ends in Beijing, China with Norway winning a record number of 16 gold medals.
• February 21
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledges the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and begins to move troops into the region.
  • Over 100 billion financial documents relating to offshore investment connected to clients of Credit Suisse in Switzerland are leaked.
• February 22 – In response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is put on hold by Germany. In the United States, President Joe Biden places economic sanctions towards oligarchs and banks in Russia for the first time.
• February 24 – President Vladimir Putin announces the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• February 25
  • Russia is stripped of the Champions League final, scheduled for May 28, with UEFA moving the venue from Saint Petersburg to Paris.
  • An earthquake in West Sumatra, Indonesia kills 12 people with over 380 injured.
• February 26 – The European Union, the United States and their allies announce their support in removing Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system.
• February 27
  • President Vladimir Putin orders Russia's nuclear deterrent forces to be on "special alert", their highest level, in response to what he calls "aggressive statements" by NATO. The move is condemned by the US.
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that the Ukrainian and Russian officials have agreed to meet, without conditions.
  • European nations announce a ban on Russian flights in their airspace.
  • In a referendum vote, Belarus votes to remove its non-nuclear status and to allow the country to host Russian forces permanently.
• February 28
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the second part of its report on climate change saying that many impacts are now "irreversible".
  • The United Nations reports more than 500,000 refugees have left from Ukraine into nearby countries.
  • Football governing bodies FIFA and UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions.
  • Switzerland, Monaco, Singapore and South Korea place economic sanctions on Russia such as controlling exports and assets.
  • A Russian airstrike kills over 70 Ukrainian soldiers at a military base in Okhtyrka. The Russian offensive has been criticized for civilian deaths and the use of cluster bombs and thermobaric weapons which may be seen as war crimes.

March

On 2 March, Russia takes control of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, a major Black Sea port

On 3 March, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine is attacked by Russia and catches on fire

On 3 March, former Mayor of Yerevan Vahagn Khachaturyan is elected the 5th President of Armenia

On 9 March, conservative prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol is elected the 13th President of South Korea

On 9 March, the wreckage of the Endurance which sank during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1915, is found in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica

On 11 March, Gabriel Boric is inaugurated as Chile's 36th President

On 16 March, an earthquake in Fukushima, Japan kills 4 people and injured over 190 people

On 18 March, the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge opens in Turkey, becoming the world's longest suspension bridge

• March 1
  • Belarus joins the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as its troops enter the Chernihiv region in the country's north.
  • World Athletics bans both Russia and Belarus from competing in all of its events.
  • In an emergency session, United Nations member states pass a resolution criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calling for the quick withdrawal of its forces.
• March 2
  • Russia claims to have captured its first large city, the Black Sea port of Kherson, as fighting intensifies across many parts of Ukraine, including civilian areas.
  • The United Nations reports that over a million refugees have now fled from Ukraine to other countries.
  • The International Criminal Court begins an investigation into possible war crimes committed in Ukraine.
• March 3
  • The Echo of Moscow, the oldest independent Russian radio station, is closed because of their coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  • Former Yerevan Mayor Vahagn Khachaturyan is elected the 5th President of Armenia.
  • Russia attacks the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, the largest in Europe, which leads to a fire at the site. The fire was soon put out, but officials said the fallout could have been ten times larger than the Chernobyl disaster.
• March 4
  • The 2022 Winter Paralympics begin in Beijing, China, making it the first city to host both Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics.
  • Australian cricketer Shane Warne dies of a possible heart attack at his Ko Samui, Thailand home, aged 52.
  • Foreign news outlets including the BBC, CNN, and many others stop their reporting in Russia, after new legislation threatens 15-year jail terms for spreading "fake news".
  • An Afghan member of the Islamic State carries out an attack at a Shia mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He kills over 60 people and injures over 190 others.
• March 5
  • Russia announces a temporary ceasefire to allow civilians to leave the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.
  • Visa and Mastercard, two of the world's largest payment processors, suspend their operations in Russia.
• March 6 – Vinnytsia International Airport is destroyed by Russian missiles, as President Zelenskyy calls for a no-fly zone to stop future attacks in Ukraine.
• March 7
  • Ukraine rejects a proposal by Moscow to open refugee passages, calling it "immoral" and "unacceptable", after the Russian defence ministry said refugees would only be allowed to reach Belarus or Russia.
  • The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 6 million.
• March 8
  • Opposition members of the National Assembly of Pakistan submit a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
  • Energy giant Shell promises to stop buying oil from Russia and to stop all current work in the country, which includes closing all service stations there.
  • The United States and United Kingdom announce a ban on Russian oil, while the European Union announces a two-thirds reduction in its demand for Russian natural gas.
  • Major global brands including McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Starbucks stop sales in Russia, in response to its attacks on Ukraine.
• March 9
  • Conservative prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol is elected the 13th President of South Korea, beating liberal former Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung.
  • The wreck of the Endurance, the ship sunk during Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, is found 107 years later in Antarctica in "good condition".
  • Russia launches an air strike in Mariupol that destroys a hospital including a maternity and children's ward.
• March 11
  • Gabriel Boric is sworn in as President of Chile, becoming the youngest head of state in the nation's history and the first to be born during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
  • The Russian Air Force widens its attack to include Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, two cities in the country's west, as well as Dnipro in the east.
• March 12 – Serdar Berdimuhamedow is elected the 3rd President of Turkmenistan by 73% of the vote, replacing his father Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
• March 13
  • The Power of the Dog wins the BAFTA Award for Best Film and Best Direction for Jane Campion.
  • 30 Russian missiles hit the Yavoriv military base, used for NATO training and close to the border with Poland, killing 35 and injuring 134 others.
• March 15 – Russia announces new sanctions on several U.S officials, banning U.S. President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others from entering the country; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is also banned.
• March 16 – A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes off Fukushima, Japan, killing at least 4 and injuring at least 194.
• March 17 – Cyclone Gombe, killed at least 53 people and injured 82 others, in Mozambique. Seven people died in Malawi and two died in Madagascar from the storm.
• March 18 – The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, the first bridge over the Dardanelles and the world's longest suspension bridge, opens in Turkey.
• March 21 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing all 133 people on board.
• March 23
  • American mathematician Dennis Sullivan wins the Abel Prize for his work in topology.
  • 50 people are killed in a series of attacks by al-Shabaab in Mogadishu and Beledweyne, Somalia.
• March 24 – NATO announces that four new battlegroups totalling 40,000 troops will be sent to Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, along with enhanced readiness for potential chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.
• March 25 – Russia announces that the first phase of its military invasion of Ukraine is almost complete, saying the country will focus on the "liberation" of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
• March 26 – Prime Minister Robert Abela is re-elected after his party wins 38 out of 65 seats in the House of Representatives of Malta.
• March 27 – CODA wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, Dune wins awards in six categories, Troy Kotsur, Jessica Chastain, Will Smith and Ariana DeBose win awards for acting at the 94th Academy Awards.
• March 29
  • Massive protests begin in Peru caused by the country's rising inflation, disapproval of President Pedro Castillo and failure to impeach Castillo a second time.
  • Russia's deputy defense minister says that Moscow has decided to "cut back" military activity near Kyiv and Chernihiv to increase mutual trust for future negotiations to agree and sign a peace deal with Ukraine".
• March 30
  • Earendel, the farthest known star, is discovered 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • In computing, Jack Dongarra won the Turing Award for his works towards supercomputing.
• March 31 – Expo 2020 closes in Dubai after a 6-month run; originally scheduled for April 10, 2021, it was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

April

On 3 April, pictures from the Bucha massacre caused by Russia are released causing many countries calling the massacre a war crime

On 3 April, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán is re-elected in a landslide victory

On 8 April, Russia attacks a train station in Ukraine with missiles that kills over 50 civilians

On 11 April, Shehbaz Sharif is elected Prime Minister of Pakistan by the National Assembly, replacing Imran Khan

On 14 April, the Russian cruiser Moskva is sunk by Ukrainian forces in the Black Sea

On 24 April, French President Emmanuel Macron is re-elected

On 25 April, Twitter accepts Elon Musk's offer to buy the company for USD $44 billion

• April 1 – Eight people are killed and eighteen others injured in a methane leak in a mine near Sokobanja, Serbia.
• April 2 – Russia announces that it will not work with Western countries on the International Space Station until the "full and unconditional removal of illegal sanctions".
• April 3
  • A mass shooting, caused by a gang fight between the Bloods and Crips, in Sacramento, California in the United States kills six people and injures 12 others.
  • As Russia's forces retreat from areas near Kyiv, it is accused by Ukraine of war crimes because of civilian killings such as for committing the Bucha massacre. U.S. President Joe Biden called for Putin to be tried for war crimes.
  • In Pakistan, President Arif Alvi dissolves the National Assembly on Prime Minister Imran Khan's advice, after a no-confidence motion fails.
  • President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić is re-elected in a landslide victory.
  • Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán is re-elected in a landslide victory as the Fidesz–KDNP party alliance wins 135 out of 199 seats in the National Assembly of Hungary. Katalin Novák is elected as the country's first female president.
  • Finance Minister Rodrigo Chaves Robles is elected President of Costa Rica winning 53% of the vote against former President José María Figueres.
• April 4 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the third and final part of its report on climate change, warning that greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 at the latest and decline 43% by 2030, in order to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F).
• April 5 – A week after massive protests began in Peru, five people have been killed with President Pedro Castillo declaring a state of emergency.
• April 6 – The first known dinosaur fossil linked to the very day of the Chicxulub impact is reported by paleontologists.
• April 7
  • Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns as President of Yemen and is replaced by Rashad al-Alimi to focus on peace talks between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
  • The Supreme Court ruled that Prime Minister Imran Khan's move to call of early elections was illegal, meaning Khan would face a motion of no confidence by the National Assembly.
  • The United Nations votes by 93–24 to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, with 58 countries not voting.
  • HD1, the most distant galaxy candidate to date, is discovered 13.5 billion light-years away from Earth by the University of Tokyo.
• April 8
  • Russia is condemned by world leaders following a missile attack on a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, which kills dozens of civilians trying to evacuate, including children.
  • Global food prices increase to their highest level since 1990, with commodities such as wheat rising by nearly 20% as a result of the Ukraine crisis.
  • Flooding across KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, leaves over 300 people dead.
• April 10
  • In a mass shooting, armed bandits in Nigeria's Plateau State kill over 150 people and kidnap 70 others.
  • Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan is removed from office after a motion of no confidence passes in the National Assembly, becoming the first prime minister in Pakistan to be removed from office by a vote of no confidence. Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif is elected by the National Assembly the next day as the country's 23rd prime minister.
  • The first round of the French presidential election is held with President Emmanuel Macron and National Assembly Marine Le Pen advancing to the run-off.
• April 13
  • The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 500 million worldwide.
  • The Russian flagship cruiser Moskva, the largest naval vessel to be sunk since the end of World War II, sinks after an explosion off the Ukrainian coast.
• April 19
  • Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announces that Russia's military invasion has entered a new phase, focused on the entire front line of Eastern Ukraine with the city of Kreminna is reportedly the first to be captured.
  • Former President of East Timor and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta is elected president in a landslide victory winning 62% of the vote against incumbent President Francisco Guterres.
  • Kane Tanaka, supercentenarian who was Japan's oldest verified person ever and the world's second oldest verified person ever, dies at aged 119.
• April 20
  • Russian and Belarusian players are banned from the Wimbledon Tennis Championship.
  • A European Southern Observatory team announces the discovery of micronovae.
• April 21 – Mwai Kibaki, the 3rd President of Kenya who controversially manipulated his re-election in 2007, dies at aged 90.
• April 22 – The Large Hadron Collider begins full operations again, three years after being shut down for upgrades.
• April 24
  • The Freedom Movement party, led by Robert Golob, becomes the largest party in the National Assembly of Slovenia, winning 41 of 90 seats. They beat the sitting right-wing Prime Minister Janez Janša.
  • Emmanuel Macron is re-elected President of France beating Marine Le Pen with a 58.5% to 41.5% vote margin, becoming the first French president to be re-elected in twenty years.
• April 25 – Twitter accepts Elon Musk's offer to buy the company for USD $44 billion.
• April 27
  • The European Union accuses Russia of blackmail after gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria are halted by energy giant Gazprom.
  • The Central African Republic makes bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the second country in the world to adopt the cryptocurrency.
  • A court in Myanmar under the control of its military junta sentences former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison for corruption charges.
• April 28 – Dritan Abazović is elected 7th Prime Minister of Montenegro by the Parliament, replacing Zdravko Krivokapić.
• April 29 – A building collapse in Changsha, Hunan, China kills 53 people.

May

On 9 May, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns after two months of massive protests against his government

On 9 May, former Senator Bongbong Marcos is elected the 17th President of the Philippines in a landslide victory

On 14 May, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan becomes the 3rd President of the United Arab Emirates, after the death of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

On 14 May, a mass shooting at an American supermarket in Buffalo, New York kills 10 people

On 21 May, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese is elected Prime Minister of Australia

• May 2
  • Ronnie O'Sullivan wins the World Snooker Championship, beating Judd Trump in the final.
  • Russia announces it may be pulling out of the International Space Station in two years, because of the economic sanctions imposed on the nation after its invasion of Ukraine.
• May 3 – A motion of no confidence is declared against Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa and his cabinet, in an attempt to remove him from power.
• May 5
  • President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro orders an audit on the country's voting machines, five months before the general election is held.
  • Sinn Féin, led by Michelle O'Neill, win the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• May 6
  • A hotel explosion caused by a gas leak in Havana, Cuba kills 42 people and injures over 90 others.
  • An outbreak of monkeypox begins when the first monkeypox virus case is reported in London, the United Kingdom.
• May 8
  • John Lee is elected the 5th Chief Executive of Hong Kong, replacing Carrie Lam.
  • Alan Gagloyev is elected the 5th President of South Ossetia, beating incumbent President Anatoly Bibilov with a 56% to 41% vote margin.
• May 9
  • Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns because of massive protests against his government across Sri Lanka.
  • The Philippine presidential election is held to elect the country's 17th president and 15th vice president.
  • The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded, with The Washington Post winning a prize for its coverage of the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
• May 10
  • Yoon Suk-yeol is inaugurated as the 13th President of South Korea.
  • Leonid Kravchuk, the first President of Ukraine, dies at aged 88.
  • The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 begins in Turin, Italy.
  • Former Senator Bongbong Marcos, son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Marcos, and former Davao City mayor Sara Duterte, daughter of outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte, are declared the winners of the 2022 election, becoming the 17th President and 15th Vice President of the Philippines in a landslide victory.
• May 12
  • Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, is directly imaged for the first time ever.
  • Ranil Wickremesinghe is chosen by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the next Prime Minister of Sri Lanka amid massive national protests.
• May 13 – President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan dies at aged 73 and is replaced by Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan the next day.
• May 14
  • Russian forces withdraw from Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv, in the north-east of the country.
  • The Kalush Orchestra of Ukraine wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Stefania".
  • In the United States, at least 10 people are killed and three others injured in a mass shooting by a white supremacist at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
  • Widespread shortages of infant formula continue in the United States following a major recall and plant shutdown.
• May 15
  • Former President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is elected president again, beating President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.
  • President of Finland Sauli Niinistö says Finland will apply for membership in NATO.
• May 16
  • Sweden confirms it will apply to join NATO, after years of supporting being neutral.
  • McDonald's announces that it will permanently shut down its fast food operations in Russia due to the "humanitarian crisis" and "unpredictable operating environment" caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
  • Prime Minister of France Jean Castex resigns and is replaced by Élisabeth Borne, making her the second female to ever become France's prime minister.
  • The Siege of Mariupol ends in a Russian victory as Ukrainian troops are evacuated from Mariupol.
• May 17 – Oscar winning composer Vangelis, who was an influential electronic musician, dies of COVID-19 at aged 79.
• May 18 – Germany's Eintracht Frankfurt wins the UEFA Europa League, beating Scotland's Rangers F.C..
• May 19 – The Boeing Starliner has docked with the International Space Station.
• May 20 – The World Health Organization (WHO) holds an emergency meeting to discuss the fast spread of the monkeypox outbreak in almost a dozen countries, as the number of reported monkeypox cases reaches 100.
• May 21 – The Australian Labor Party wins the most seats in the federal election, with Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese replaced incumbent Scott Morrison as the Prime Minister of Australia.
• May 22 – Manchester City F.C. win the 2021–22 Premier League.
• May 24 – In the United States, a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas kills 19 students and two teachers and injures over sixteen others, with the gunman being killed by police officers.
• May 25
  • Over 50 civilians are killed by an armed jihadist group in Burkina Faso.
  • Italy's A.S. Roma beats the Netherlands's Feyenoord in the first UEFA Europa Conference League final.
• May 26 – Indian court sentences Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik to life in prison.
• May 28 – Spanish club Real Madrid beat English club Liverpool 1–0 to win the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League final played at the Stade de France in Paris, France.
• May 29
  • Tara Air Flight 197 crashed in Nepal with 22 people on board.
  • Marcus Ericsson wins the Indianapolis 500, becoming the second Swedish driver to do so.
  • In the first round of the Colombian presidential election, left-wing Senator Gustavo Petro and right-wing populist former Bucaramanga mayor Rodolfo Hernández Suárez advanced to the June run-off.

June

On 6 June, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson survives a motion of no confidence by a 59% to 41% margin

On 19 June, Senator Gustavo Petro is elected the 34th President of Colombia

On 24 June, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that abortion is not a protected right in the country

On 27 June, a Russian missile strikes a mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, killing twenty people

On 28 June, Turkey drops their objections for Finland's and Sweden's application to join NATO

• June 1
  • Denmark votes to eliminate its opt-out of the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy, by a 66.9% to 33.1% vote margin.
  • Seventy-one nations, territories, and dependencies begin a week of celebration for the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
  • A mass shooting in the United States at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills four people and the gunman while injuring over ten others.
• June 4
  • A fire and explosions at a storage depot in Bangladesh, kill at least 41 people and injure more than 450 others.
  • Retired general Bajram Begaj is elected the 9th President of Albania by the parliament in the 4th round of voting.
• June 5
  • Voters in Kazakhstan pass a constitutional referendum to change 56 amendments following the January unrest earlier this year.
  • At least 50 people are killed in a mass shooting-bomb attack in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria.
• June 6 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson survives a motion of no confidence and remains Conservative Party leader by a 59% to 41% margin.
• June 10 – Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is sentenced to ten years in prison for her role in the 2019 Bolivian political crisis.
• June 13 – A series of protests led by indigenous Ecuadorians, students and workers against President Guillermo Lasso's economic policies and raising fuel prices begin.
• June 14 – Canada and Denmark end their competing claims for Hans Island by dividing the island roughly in half.
• June 16 – The Golden State Warriors beat the Boston Celtics to win the NBA Finals for the fourth time.
• June 19
  • Senator Gustavo Petro is elected President of Colombia beating right-wing populist Rodolfo Hernández Suárez by a 50.4% to 47.3% margin, becoming the first leftist elected to the presidency.
  • The second round of the French legislative election is held and President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble political coalition wins the most seats, winning 245 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, however, did not win an overall majority.
• June 20 – Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett announces he will dissolve the Knesset and schedules a new legislative election for November while also announcing his resignation as prime minister.
• June 22 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake, kills at least 255 and injured 250 people in the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• June 23 – Dickon Mitchell's party wins a majority of seats in 2022 Grenada's general election, defeating Prime Minister Keith Mitchell's party. Dickon Mitchell is appointed Prime Minister of Grenada, following Keith Mitchell's resignation on June 24.
• June 24
  • The United States Supreme Court rules that abortion is not a protected right, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in a 5 to 4 vote.
  • At least 23 people die trying to cross the border in Melilla between Spain and Morocco.
• June 25 – A mass shooting at three places in Oslo, Norway targeting an LGBT pride parade kills two people and injures over 20 others in an act of Islamic terrorism.
• June 26
  • At least twenty-one people are found dead in a nightclub in East London, South Africa.
  • G7 leaders gather for a summit in Germany to talk about the invasion of Ukraine and support a ban on imports of Russian gold.
  • The Colorado Avalanche defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning to win the Stanley Cup.
• June 27
  • At least 14 people are killed and over 260 others are injured from a chlorine gas leak in Aqaba, Jordan.
  • At least three people are killed and over 50 others injured in the United States by a train derailment near Mendon, Missouri.
  • A Russian missile strikes a mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, killing 20 people and injuring over 50 others.
  • In the United States, 51 dead migrants are found in a trailer in San Antonio, Texas.
• June 28
  • Turkey reaches a deal with Finland and Sweden to remove its veto on allowing them to join NATO.
  • A NATO summit is held in Madrid, Spain where leaders talk about defensive help to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
• June 29 – Several defendants are found guilty by a court in Paris, France for their roles in the November 2015 Paris attacks.
• June 30 – The Battle of Snake Island ends in Ukrainian victory as Russian military troops withdraw from the island.

July

On 4 July, seven people are killed in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois

On 7 July, Boris Johnson announces his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

On 8 July, former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated while speaking in Nara, Japan

On 13 July, heat waves across Europe break high temperature records and cause wildfires

On 14 July, Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President of Sri Lanka after leaving the country due to nationwide protests

On 21 July, Mario Draghi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy after failing to create a coalition government

On 23 July, the World Health Organization declares the ongoing monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

• July 1
  • Yesh Atid Leader Yair Lapid becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Israel following Naftali Bennett's resignation and dissolution of the Knesset.
  • A deadly unrest begins in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan.
• July 3
  • A series of floods in New South Wales, Australia forces over 85,000 people to evacuate.
  • A mass shooting at a mall in Copenhagen, Denmark kills three people and injures 27 others.
  • Russia and the Luhansk People's Republic take control of the entire Luhansk Oblast after seizing Lysychansk.
• July 4 – In the United States, a mass shooting during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois kills 7 people and injures 46 others.
• July 5
  • Mathematicians Hugo Duminil-Copin, June Huh, James Maynard and Maryna Viazovska win the Fields Medal.
  • ​Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe declares country's bankruptcy.
• July 6
  • ​After being badly damaged in a bombing, the Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, Georgia, are demolished.
  • The UEFA Women's Euro 2022 begins in England.
• July 7 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson resigns after many members of his cabinet resign that created a lack of confidence in his government.
• July 8
  • Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara, Japan.
  • José Eduardo dos Santos, who was Angola's president for nearly forty years and oversaw peace treaties and war, dies at the age of 79.
  • Elon Musk cancels his proposed acquisition of Twitter citing breach of contract.
  • Former President of Mexico Luis Echeverría, who was accused of genocide and human rights violations for his role in the Tlatelolco massacre, El Halconazo and the Mexican Dirty War, dies aged 100.
• July 9 – President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe agree to resign after protestors in Sri Lanka storm their homes in Colombo.
• July 10
  • A heat wave across Western Europe begins causing wildfires and the deaths of at least 600 people.
  • Novak Djokovic and Elena Rybakina win the men's and women's singles respectively at the Wimbledon Championships.
• July 11 – NASA releases the first operational image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
• July 13 – President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa leaves the country by military plane to the Maldives and resigns the following day.
• July 14
  • Mario Draghi announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, after the Five Star Movement withdraws from his national unity government; however his resignation is rejected by President Sergio Mattarella.
  • A Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, kills at least 22 people, including 3 children, and injures at least 100 others.
  • Former President of Peru Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, who led the country during a military dictatorship in the 1970s, dies at aged 100.
• July 20 – Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe is elected to replace President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
• July 21
  • Former Jharkhand Governor Draupadi Murmu is elected the 15th President of India, becoming the country's second female and its first tribal president.
  • Mario Draghi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy for the second time after he is unable to create a government coalition, with President Sergio Mattarella accepting his resignation.
  • The Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest freshwater fish species, is officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
  • The European Central Bank raises its key interest rate for the first time in more than 11 years, from minus 0.5 per cent to zero, with plans for further increases later in the year.
• July 22 – Dinesh Gunawardena is named the 15th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka by President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
• July 23
  • Myanmar's military junta executes four people, including former Pyithu Hluttaw member and political prisoner Zayar Thaw, in its first use of the death penalty in decades.
  • The World Health Organisation declares the ongoing Monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
• July 24
  • Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France, becoming the first Dane to win since 1996.
  • Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah names his son Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as the Prime Minister of Kuwait.
• July 25 – In a referendum, voters in Tunisia approve a new constitution which would expand the powers given to their president by making the country into a presidential system.
• July 26 – During a visit to Canada, Pope Francis apologizes for the Church's role in the Canadian Indian residential school system.
• July 27
  • Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr storm Baghdad's Green Zone and the Iraqi parliament.
  • In the United States, heavy rainfall causes statewide flooding in Kentucky that kills 25 people with many reported missing.
  • A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 320 others.
• July 28 – The Commonwealth Games begins in Birmingham, England.
• July 31
  • Former President of the Philippines Fidel V. Ramos, who helped remove Ferdinand Marcos from power, dies from COVID-19 at aged 94.
  • NBA Hall of Fame player and coach Bill Russell dies at aged 88.
  • The UEFA Women's Euro 2022 ends with England beating Germany in the final.
  • Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian terrorist who became the 2nd Emir of Al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden's death in 2011, is killed in a U.S.-approved CIA airstrike operation at aged 71.

August

On 9 August, Deputy President William Ruto is elected the 5th President of Kenya

On 11 August, a mass fish kill happens in the Oder river in Poland and Germany

On 12 August, author Sir Salman Rushdie is stabbed in the neck in Chautauqua, New York

• August 4
  • China conducts its largest ever live-fire exercise around Taiwan in response to a controversial visit by Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S official to visit Taiwan since the 1990s.
  • Prime Minister of Peru Aníbal Torres, resigns during multiple criminal investigations against President Pedro Castillo, however Castillo rejected his resignation.
  • American basketball player Brittney Griner is sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia for carrying and sneaking marijuana vape pens into the country.
• August 5 – Israel launches Operation Breaking Dawn on the Gaza strip, killing 44 in the military operation against PIJ forces.
• August 7 – Israel and Palestinian militias agree to a ceasefire, ending three days of air and rocket strikes.
• August 9
  • Deputy President William Ruto is elected the 5th President of Kenya, beating former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in a 50.5% to 48.9% margin.
  • James Marape is re-elected as prime minister by the parliament of Papua New Guinea.
• August 11 – A mass die-off of fish, beavers and other wildlife is discovered in the Oder river in Poland and Germany.
• August 12
  • Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses Sir Salman Rushdie is stabbed in the neck before giving a lecture in Chautauqua, New York in the United States.
  • A mass shooting in Cetinje, Montenegro kills eleven people and injured six others, making it the deadlist mass shooting in the country's history.
• August 14 – A church fire in Giza, Egypt kills 41 people, including children, and injures 14 others.
• August 18 – A rare and high-end derecho kills 13 people and injures many others across Corsica, Italy, Austria and Slovenia.
• August 19
  • In Mogadishu, Somalia more than 20 are killed when al-Shabaab members takeover a hotel.
  • A motion of no confidence against Montenegrin prime minister Dritan Abazović is passed in the Parliament of Montenegro, following dispute within his coalition government over an agreement the government signed with the Serbian Orthodox Church.
• August 22 – Oracle Corporation is sued by American and Irish lawyers saying it profits from a "surveillance machine" which sells the data of five billion people.
• August 24
  • President of Angola João Lourenço is re-elected in a landslide victory, beating Adalberto Costa Júnior.
  • Prayut Chan-o-cha is suspended as Prime Minister of Thailand and Prawit Wongsuwan becomes acting Prime Minister; however Prayut still claims to be prime minister.
• August 28 – More than 1,100 people are killed in floods in Pakistan.
• August 30 – Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the Cold War, dies at aged 91.

September

On 5 September, Liz Truss is elected to replace Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

On 8 September, Queen Elizabeth II dies at the age if 96 and her son, King Charles III becomes the King of the United Kingdom and its Commonwealth realm

On 15 September, over 445 bodies are found buried in Izium, Ukraine

On 21 September, Russian President Vladimir Putin announces a partial mobilization in the country as a response to the invasion of Ukraine

On 28 September, Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cuba and the United States, killing 137 people

• September 1
  • The United Nations releases a report saying that China's Xinjiang internment camps and treatment of Uyghurs may been seen as crimes against humanity.
  • Vice President of Argentina and former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner escapes and assassination attempt when a man pointed a gun, failing to shoot because if it jamming.
• September 2 – The G7 economies agree to add a price cap on Russian petroleum exports in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
• September 3 – Eight mountaineers are killed and four others are trapped while climbing Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia.
• September 4 – A stabbing spree in Saskatchewan, Canada leaves ten people dead and fifteen others injured.
• September 5
  • A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes China's Sichuan province, leaving at least 21 dead.
  • Liz Truss is elected to replace Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• September 8 – Charles III becomes King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms, after the death of his mother, Elizabeth II.
• September 11 – A magnitude 7.6 or 7.7 earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea, leaving at least seven people dead and many more missing.
• September 12 – Azerbaijan attacks Armenian cities along the border and occupies several border-area territories. More than 100 Armenian soldiers are killed in the clashes, while Azerbaijan said 71 of its soldiers were killed.
• September 13
  • Jean-Luc Godard, French filmmaker who helped create the French New Wave movement, dies by assisted suicide at aged 91.
  • Kazakhstan announces it will change the name of its capital from Nur-sultan back to Astana.
• September 14 – Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson announces her resignation after her coalition lost the majority of seats in the Riksdag following the general election.
• September 15 – Over 445 bodies are found buried in Izium, Ukraine, after Russian forces flee the city.
• September 16
  • At least 81 people are killed in renewed fighting between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
  • Protests take place in Iran over the death of 22 year-old Mahsa Amini because of police brutality by the Iranian Morality Police, for not wearing proper hijab.
• September 18 – A bus carrying people from Guiyang to a quarantine facility crashes in Guizhou, China, killing 27 people and injuring 20 others.
• September 19 – The state funeral of Elizabeth II is held at Westminster Abbey and is later buried at Windsor Castle.
• September 20 – Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sign a peace deal, ending the violent border clashes between the two countries.
• September 21 – Russian President Vladimir Putin announces partial mobilization in the country, calling 300,000 citizens to active service in the invasion of Ukraine.
• September 22 – The life sentence of convicted war criminal and former Prime Minister of Cambodia Khieu Samphan is upheld.
• September 23 – Russian-backed leaders hold sham referendums in four Ukrainian oblasts to make them part of Russia.
• September 24
  • Hurricane Fiona kills at least 27 people across the Caribbean and Canada.
  • Russ Kun is elected as the 16th President of Nauru in a landslide victory.
• September 25 – The centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni wins the general election in Italy.
• September 26
  • NASA's DART spacecraft successfully collides with the asteroid Dimorphos as an example of asteroid impact avoidance.
  • A school shooting in Izhevsk, Russia kills 17 people and injures 24 others.
  • Cuba legalizes same-sex marriage and adoption.
  • The Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines between Russia and Germany suffer multiple leaks and explosions, with intentional sabotage being a possible cause.
• September 27 – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is named as the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia by his father Salman of Saudi Arabia.
• September 28 – Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cuba and the United States, killing 137 people.
• September 29 – Russian President Vladimir Putin declares four occupied Ukrainian territories as part of Russia.
• September 30
  • A suicide attack on an education center kills at least 23 people and injures 27 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In Burkina Faso, a coup d'état led by Ibrahim Traore removes Interim President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba from power.

October

On 10 October, a retaliatory missile strikes by Russia hit Ukraine, including attacks in the capital of Kyiv, two days after an explosion on the Crimean Bridge by Ukrainian forces killed four people

On 18 October, Opposition Leader Ulf Kristersson is elected the 35th Prime Minister of Sweden

On 22 October, Giorgia Meloni is appointed the Prime Minister of Italy, becoming the country's first female prime minister

On 24 October, Rishi Sunak is elected to replace Liz Truss as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

On 30 October, former President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected the 39th president, defeating incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 general election

• October 1
  • Krišjānis Kariņš is re-elected Prime Minister of Latvia.
  • A fatal human crush happens during an association football match in Malang Regency, Indonesia, killing 131 people and injuring more than 500.
• October 2
  • The GERB Party led by former Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov wins the most seats in the National Assembly.
  • Željka Cvijanović is elected as Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • The first round of the Brazilian general election is held, with former President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and President Jair Bolsonaro advancing to the run-off election.
• October 3 – Svante Pääbo wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works in human genomes and evolution.
• October 4 – Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their works in quantum mechanics.
• October 5 – Carolyn Bertozzi, Karl Barry Sharpless and Morten P. Meldal win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their works in click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
• October 6
  • A former police sergeant kills 36 people, including 23 children at a nursery in Thailand. It is the deadliest mass murder by a single perpetrator in modern Thailand's history.
  • Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• October 7
  • Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian society Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties win the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Businessman Sam Matekane is elected Prime Minister of Lesotho.
  • An explosion at a gas station in Creeslough, Ireland kills ten people and injures eight others.
• October 8 – An explosion happens on the Crimean Bridge connecting Crimea and Russia, killing three people and causing a partial collapse of the only road bridge between the Crimean Peninsula and the Russian mainland.
• October 9
  • Alexander van der Bellen is re-elected President of Austria in a landslide victory.
  • Max Verstappen wins the Formula One World Championship.
• October 10
  • Former Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on banks and financial crises.
  • A retaliatory missile strikes by Russia hit Ukraine, including attacks in the capital of Kyiv.
  • Hurricane Julia kills at least 64 people across South and Central America.
• October 11 – Tony Award and Honorary Academy Award winning British-American actress Angela Lansbury dies at the age of 96.
• October 14 – A coal mine explosion in Amasra, Turkey kills more than 40 people and injures 11 others.
• October 15 – Evin Prison, Iran's main prison for political prisoners, catches fire killing at least 8 prisoners and injuring over 50 others.
• October 18
  • Moderate Party and Opposition Leader Ulf Kristersson is elected Prime Minister of Sweden, replacing Magdalena Andersson.
  • Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka wins the Booker Prize.
• October 20 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Liz Truss resigns after 45 days in office because of criticisms of her leadership and economic policies, making her the shortest serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom.
• October 22 – Giorgia Meloni becomes the Prime Minister of Italy after being designated by President Sergio Mattarella, becoming the first female Italian prime minister in the country's history and its first far right-wing prime minister since World War II.
• October 23 – Xi Jinping is re-elected to a third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
• October 24 – Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is elected unopposed as Leader of the Conservative Party and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, replacing Liz Truss.
• October 29
  • More than 100 people are killed and 300 others are injured by two car bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia.
  • At least 155 people are killed in a crowd crush in Seoul, South Korea with more than 130 others are injured.
• October 30
  • Former President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected the 39th president, defeating incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, winning 50.9% of the vote against Bolsonaro's 49.10%.
  • A footbridge in Gujarat, India collapses, killing at least 141 people.

November

• November 1
  • A coalition of right-wing and far-right political parties led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wins a 64-seat majority allowing him to be sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel for a third time in December.
  • A coalition left-leaning political parties wins a narrow one-seat majority of 90 seats. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen second government takes office in December not using the left-leaning majority but instead a moderate coalition, despite announcing her resignation before.
• November 2–3 – The Ethiopian government and the TPLF agree on a ceasefire after signing a peace treaty in Pretoria, South Africa.
• November 3 – In a failed assassination attempt on former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan during a rally, nine people were injured and one killed.
• November 5 – A fire at a café in Kostroma, Russia kills 15 people and injures 250 others.
• November 6–18 – The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on climate change mitigation takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
• November 6
  • A plane crash at Lake Victoria in Tanzania kills 19 people.
  • In baseball, the Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series.
• November 10 – A 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal, leaving at least six people dead.
• November 11
  • The cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which was worth $18 billion, files for bankruptcy.
  • Ukrainian forces recapture Kherson, the only regional capital to be taken by Russia since the start of the war.
• November 12 – In the United States, six people are killed in a mid-air plane crash at an air show in Dallas, Texas.
• November 13
  • Nataša Pirc Musar is elected the 5th President of Slovenia, becoming the first woman to hold this office.
  • At least six people are killed and 81 injured in a bombing in Istanbul, Turkey.
• November 15
  • The world population reaches 8 billion.
  • The 2022 G20 Bali summit in Bali, Indonesia takes place.
  • At least two people are killed after Russian-made missiles cross the Polish border and into the village of Przewodów.
• November 16 – NASA successfully launches Artemis 1 to the Moon, the first uncrewed mission of its Space Launch System.
• November 17 – The Democratic Party keep their majority in the United States Senate, while the Republican Party wins the majority in the United States House of Representatives.
• November 19 – Long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is appointed Prime Minister of Malaysia by Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah to form a unity government.
• November 19–20 – In the United States, a mass shooting at a gay nightclub kills five people and injures 25 others.
• November 20 until December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is held in Qatar and won by Argentina.
• November 20 – Nepali Congress, led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba wins the most seats in the House of Representatives with 89 seats, however does not win the majority by two seats.
• November 21
  • A factory fire kills at least 38 people and two others injured in Anyang, central China.
  • A 5.6 magnitude earthquake kills at least 56 people in Java, Indonesia.
  • Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan in a landslide victory.
• November 27 – Mass protests break out in China following the country's strict COVID-19 policies.
• November 30 – Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at the age of 96.

December

• December 2 – The G7 and Australia join the EU in adding a limit of $60 a barrel on Russian crude oil.
• December 5 – The National Ignition Facility manages to start fusion ignition.
• December 6 – Vice President and former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is convicted and sentenced to prison for corruption.
• December 7:
  • The Congress of Peru removes President Pedro Castillo from office and arrests him after he tries to dissolve congress in a coup attempt, Vice President Dina Boluarte replaces him.
  • In Germany, 25 members of a far-right group, including Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, are arrested in connection with a coup d'état plot.
  • Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider are elected Swiss Federal Councillor.
  • After massive protests against China's COVID policies, the Chinese government removes some of its COVID restrictions.
• December 8 – American basketball player Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout are freed through a prisoner exchange.
• December 10 – A housing block collapses after a suspected gas explosion on the island of Jersey killing at least nine people.
• December 17 – Leo Varadkar replaces Micheál Martin as Taoiseach of Ireland.
• December 18
  • HTMS Sukhothai, a corvette of the Royal Thai Navy, capsizes and sinks, leaving 31 crew members missing.
  • Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, after defeating France in the final.
• December 19 – At the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), nearly 200 countries agree a landmark deal to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030.
• December 21 – ​In Afghanistan, the Taliban bans women from attending university and working in non-government organisations.
• December 21–26 – A major winter storm hits the northern United States and southern Canada, killing at least 91 people and causes large North American air traffic.
• December 24
  • A fuel tanker explodes in Boksburg, South Africa killing eight people.
  • A fire at a nursing home in Kemerovo, Russia kills 22 people.
  • The Parliament of Fiji elects Sitiveni Rabuka as Prime Minister of Fiji, defeating incumbent Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.
• December 26 – Pushpa Kamal Dahal becomes the Prime Minister of Nepal, replacing Sher Bahadur Deuba after creating a political alliance.
• December 29 – Brazilian footballer Pelé dies at the age of 82.
• December 30
  • American television journalist Barbara Walters dies at the age of 93.
  • Luis Fernando Camacho, the Opposition Leader of Bolivia, is arrested and charged with terrorism.
• December 31
  • Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at the age of 95.
  • The Venezuelan opposition votes to dissolve the contested interim government led by Juan Guaidó.

Future events

• November 21 — December 18: The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be hosted in Qatar (First country to host a game in Middle East).

Deaths

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2022

Richard Leakey

Beatrice Mintz

Viktor Saneyev

Peter Bogdanovich

F. Sionil José

Sidney Poitier

Toshiki Kaifu

Bob Saget

David Sassoli

Ernest Shonekan

Ronnie Spector

Ricardo Bofill

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

Hardy Krüger

Gaspard Ulliel

Meat Loaf

Elza Soares

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Wim Jansen

• January 1
  • Andreas Kunz, German Nordic combined competitor and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
  • Dan Reeves, American football player and coach (b. 1944)
  • Calisto Tanzi, Italian businessman and convicted fraudster (b. 1938)
• January 2
  • Gianni Celati, Italian writer and translator (b. 1937)
  • Eric Walter Elst, Belgian astronomer (b. 1936)
  • Jens Jørgen Hansen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1939)
  • Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician (b. 1944)
• January 3
  • Mario Lanfranchi, Italian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
  • Beatrice Mintz, American embryologist (b. 1921)
  • Viktor Saneyev, Georgian triple jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1945)
• January 4
  • Rolf-Dieter Amend, German slalom canoeist and Olympic champion (b. 1949)
  • Joan Copeland, American actress (b. 1922)
  • Anatoliy Kuksov, Ukrainian footballer, manager and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1949)
  • Sindhutai Sapkal, Indian social worker and activist (b. 1948)
• January 5
  • Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1925)
  • Robert Blust, American linguist, lexicographer and academic (b. 1940)
  • Anatole Novak, French road bicycle racer (b. 1937)
  • Olga Szabó-Orbán, Romanian fencer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1938)
• January 6
  • Peter Bogdanovich, American movie director, actor, and writer (b. 1939)
  • Bob Falkenburg, American tennis player and businessman (b. 1926)
  • F. Sionil José, Filipino writer (b. 1924)
  • Mariano Laurenti, Italian movie director and actor (b. 1929)
  • Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, movie director and activist (b. 1927)
• January 7
  • Mino De Rossi, Italian cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1931)
  • Mark Forest, American bodybuilder and actor (b. 1933)
  • Anatoly Kvashnin, Russian general (b. 1946)
• January 8
  • Andrew Jennings, British investigative journalist (b. 1943)
  • Michael Lang, American concert producer (b. 1944)
  • Viktor Mazin, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1954)
  • John Rambo, American basketball player, high jumper and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1943)
  • Nina Rocheva, Russian cross-country skier and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1948)
• January 9
  • Franco Cavallo, Italian sailor and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1932)
  • Maria Ewing, American opera singer (b. 1950)
  • Dwayne Hickman, American actor (b. 1934)
  • Toshiki Kaifu, 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1931)
  • Bob Saget, American comedian, television presenter and actor (b. 1956)
• January 10
  • Herbert Achternbusch, German movie director, writer and painter (b. 1938)
  • Vladimir Dolgov, Russian swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1961)
  • Robert Durst, American convicted murderer and real estate businessman (b. 1943)
  • Deon Lendore, Trinidad and Tobago sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1992)
  • Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este, Italian aristocrat (b. 1930)
  • Abdurrahman Vazirov, Leader of the Azerbaijan SSR (b. 1930)
• January 11
  • Anatoly Alyabyev, Russian biathlete and Olympic champion (b. 1951)
  • Ahmet Yılmaz Çalık, Turkish footballer (b. 1994)
  • David Sassoli, 16th President of the European Parliament (b. 1956)
  • Guy Sajer, French soldier, writer and cartoonist (b. 1927)
  • Ernest Shonekan, 9th Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1936)
• January 12
  • Luis Castañeda, Peruvian politician and lawyer (b. 1945)
  • Ronnie Spector, American singer (b. 1943)
• January 13
  • Jean-Jacques Beineix, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1946)
  • Werner Delmes, German field hockey player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1930)
  • Raúl Vilches, Cuban volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1954)
• January 14
  • Ricardo Bofill, Spanish architect (b. 1939)
  • Ron Goulart, American comics writer and historian (b. 1933)
  • Alice von Hildebrand, Belgian-born American philosopher and theologian (b. 1923)
  • Dave Wolverton, American writer (b. 1957)
• January 15
  • Rink Babka, American discus thrower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1936)
  • Nino Cerruti, Italian stylist (b. 1930)
• January 16
  • Carmela Corren, Israeli-Austrian singer and actress (b. 1938)
  • Françoise Forton, Brazilian actress (b. 1957)
  • Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, 6th Prime Minister and 5th President of Mali (b. 1945)
  • Birju Maharaj, Indian dancer, composer and singer (b. 1938)
• January 17
  • Armando Gama, Portuguese pop singer-songwriter (b. 1954)
  • Yvette Mimieux, American actress (b. 1942)
  • Michel Subor, French actor (b. 1935)
• January 18
  • Sir David Cox, British statistician (b. 1924)
  • Paco Gento, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1933)
  • Dick Halligan, American musician and movie composer (b. 1943)
  • Lusia Harris, American basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1955)
  • Paavo Heininen, Finnish composer and pianist (b. 1938)
  • André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist (b. 1948)
• January 19
  • Hans-Jürgen Dörner, German footballer, manager and Olympic champion (b. 1951)
  • Nils Arne Eggen, Norwegian footballer and manager (b. 1941)
  • Elmar Fischer, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1936)
  • Stanisław Grędziński, Polish Olympic sprinter (b. 1945)
  • Hardy Krüger, German actor and writer (b. 1928)
  • Anatoly Malofeyev, Belarusian politician (b. 1933)
  • Anatoliy Novikov, Ukrainian judoka and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1947)
  • Gaspard Ulliel, French actor and model (b. 1984)
• January 20
  • Heidi Biebl, German alpine skier and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
  • Gernot Böhme, German philosopher and writer (b. 1937)
  • Benjamin Kogo, Kenyan steeplechase runner and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1944)
  • Meat Loaf, American singer and actor (b. 1947)
  • Elza Soares, Brazilian singer (b. 1930)
• January 21
  • Louie Anderson, American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1953)
  • James Forbes, American basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1952)
  • Clark Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1954)
  • Arnis Līcītis, Latvian actor (b. 1946)
  • Marcel Mauron, Swiss footballer (b. 1929)
  • Zhang Jie, Chinese writer (b. 1937)
• January 22
  • António Lima Pereira, Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
  • Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1926)
• January 23
  • Serge Korber, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
  • Barbara Krafftówna, Polish actress (b. 1928)
  • Keto Losaberidze, Georgian archer and Olympic champion (b. 1949)
  • Jean-Claude Mézières, French comic book artist (b. 1938)
  • Thierry Mugler, French fashion designer (b. 1948)
• January 24
  • Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian polemicist and conspiracy theorist (b. 1947)
  • Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1970)
  • Fatma Girik, Turkish actress and politician (b. 1942)
  • Miriam Naor, 11th President of the Supreme Court of Israel (b. 1947)
• January 25
  • Etchika Choureau, French actress (b. 1929)
  • Barry Cryer, English comedian and screenwriter (b. 1935)
  • Vladimir Gubarev, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1938)
  • Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1946)
  • Esteban Edward Torres, American politician (b. 1930)
  • Mark Tseitlin, Kyrgyz-born Israeli chess grandmaster (b. 1943)
• January 26
  • Bud Brown, American politician (b. 1927)
  • Philippe Contamine, French historian (b. 1932)
• January 27
  • René de Obaldia, French playwright and poet, member of the Académie Française (b. 1918)
  • Charanjit Singh, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1931)
• January 28
  • Hans-Peter Lanig, German alpine skier and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1938)
  • Mel Mermelstein, Czechoslovakian-born American Holocaust survivor and writer (b. 1926)
• January 29
  • Howard Hesseman, American actor (b. 1940)
  • Freddy Thielemans, Belgian politician (b. 1944)
• January 30
  • Frans Aerenhouts, Belgian cyclist (b. 1937)
  • Cheslie Kryst, American television presenter, beauty queen and Miss USA winner (b. 1991)
  • Piero Gamba, Italian conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
  • Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (b. 1936)
  • Robert Wall, American martial artist and actor (b. 1939)
• January 31 – Voldemaras Novickis, Lithuanian handball player and Olympic champion (b. 1956)

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2022

Shintaro Ishihara

Monica Vitti

Christos Sartzetakis

Ronnie Hellström

Lata Mangeshkar

Luc Montagnier

Sir Manuel Esquivel

Ivan Reitman

Luigi De Magistris

Máté Fenyvesi

Gary Brooker

Mark Lanegan

Sally Kellerman

John Landy

• February 1
  • Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, Secretary of the Guardian Council (b. 1919)
  • Shintaro Ishihara, 33rd Governor of Tokyo (b. 1932)
  • Wolfgang Schwanitz, 4th Head of the Stasi (b. 1930)
  • Maurizio Zamparini, Italian football executive (b. 1941)
• February 2
  • Alberto Baillères, Mexican businessman (b. 1931)
  • Bill Fitch, American basketball coach (b. 1932)
  • Ed Foreman, American politician (b. 1933)
  • Ezio Frigerio, Italian costume designer and art director (b. 1930)
  • Monica Vitti, Italian actress (b. 1931)
• February 3
  • Dieter Mann, German actor (b. 1941)
  • Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, 2nd Leader of the Islamic State (b. 1976)
  • Christos Sartzetakis, 4th President of Greece (b. 1929)
• February 4 – Don Johnston, 4th Secretary-General of the OECD (b. 1936)
• February 5
  • Angélica Gorodischer, Argentine writer (b. 1928)
  • Boris Melnikov, Russian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
• February 6
  • George Crumb, American composer (b. 1929)
  • Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer (b. 1949)
  • Syl Johnson, American singer, musician and record producer (b. 1936)
  • Ryszard Kubiak, Polish rowing coxswain and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1950)
  • Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, composer and politician (b. 1929)
• February 7
  • Rex Cawley, American athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1940)
  • Margarita Lozano, Spanish actress (b. 1931)
  • Zbigniew Namysłowski, Polish jazz musician and composer (b. 1939)
  • Douglas Trumbull, American special effects supervisor and movie director (b. 1942)
• February 8
  • Bill Lienhard, American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
  • Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1932)
  • Jackie Robinson, American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1927)
  • Gerhard Roth, Austrian writer (b. 1942)
  • Götz Werner, German businessman (b. 1944)
• February 9
  • Abune Antonios, Eritrean Christian Patriarch (b. 1927)
  • Betty Davis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
  • Joseph Horovitz, Austrian-born British composer, conductor and academic (b. 1926)
  • Ian McDonald, English musician (b. 1946)
  • Nora Nova, Bulgarian-German singer (b. 1928)
  • André Wilms, French actor and comedian (b. 1947)
• February 10
  • Evgeniya Brik, Russian actress (b. 1981)
  • Sir Manuel Esquivel, 2nd Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1940)
  • Duvall Hecht, American rower, publisher and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
  • Eduard Kukan, Slovak politician (b. 1939)
  • Nikolai Manoshin, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1938)
• February 11
  • Addai II Giwargis, Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East (b. 1948)
  • Lula, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1946)
• February 12
  • Rahul Bajaj, Indian businessman and politician (b. 1938)
  • Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born American artist (b. 1915)
  • Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian movie director and producer (b. 1946)
• February 13
  • Berit Berthelsen, Norwegian athlete (b. 1944)
  • Halyna Sevruk, Uzbek-born Ukrainian artist (b. 1929)
• February 14
  • Borislav Ivkov, Serbian chess Grandmaster (b. 1933)
  • Julio Morales, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
  • Sandy Nelson, American drummer (b. 1938)
• February 15
  • Bappi Lahiri, Indian singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (b. 1952)
  • P. J. O'Rourke, American political satirist, journalist, and author (b. 1947)
  • Józef Zapędzki, Polish sport shooter and Olympic champion (b. 1929)
• February 16
  • Cristina Calderón, Chilean Yaghan writer (b. 1928)
  • Michel Deguy, French poet, editor and translator (b. 1930)
  • Luigi De Magistris, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1926)
  • Gail Halvorsen, American military pilot (b. 1920)
  • Andrey Lopatov, Russian basketball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1957)
  • Amos Sawyer, Interim President of Liberia (b. 1945)
• February 17
  • David Brenner, American movie editor (b. 1962)
  • Steve Burtenshaw, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
  • Máté Fenyvesi, Hungarian footballer and politician (b. 1933)
  • Jim Hagedorn, American politician (b. 1962)
  • Giuseppe Ros, Italian boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1942)
• February 18 – Héctor Pulido, Mexican footballer and manager (b. 1942)
• February 19
  • David Boggs, American electrical and radio engineer (b. 1950)
  • Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)
  • Dan Graham, American visual artist (b. 1942)
  • Kakuichi Mimura, Japanese footballer and manager (b. 1931)
  • Jacques Poos, Luxembourgian politician (b. 1935)
  • Karl Vaino, Estonian politician (b. 1923)
• February 20
  • Eduardo Bonomi, Uruguayan politician and guerilla fighter (b. 1948)
  • Joni James, American singer (b. 1930)
  • Oleksandr Sydorenko, Ukrainian swimmer and Olympic champion (b. 1960)
• February 21
  • Chor Yuen, Hong Kong movie director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1934)
  • Paul Farmer, American medical anthropologist (b. 1959)
  • Abdul Waheed, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
• February 22
  • K.P.A.C Lalitha, Indian actress (b. 1948)
  • Mark Lanegan, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1964)
• February 23
  • Tatiana Birshtein, Russian molecular scientist (b. 1928)
  • Rehman Malik, Pakistani politician (b. 1951)
  • Antonietta Stella, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1929)
  • Ion Adrian Zare, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
• February 24
  • Dmitry Debelka, Belarusian wrestler and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1976)
  • Sally Kellerman, American actress (b. 1937)
  • Ivanka Khristova, Bulgarian shot putter and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
  • John Landy, 26th Governor of Victoria and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1930)
  • Henry Lincoln, British actor, screenwriter and author (b. 1930)
  • Gary North, American Christian social theorist and economist (b. 1942)
  • Vitalii Skakun, Ukrainian soldier (b. 1996)
• February 26 – Danny Ongais, American racing driver (b. 1942)
• February 27
  • Ichiro Abe, Japanese judoka (b. 1922)
  • Veronica Carlson, British actress, model and painter (b. 1944)
  • Marietta Giannakou, Greek politician (b. 1951)
• February 28 – Abuzed Omar Dorda, 18th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1944)

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2022

Shane Warne

Giuseppe Wilson

Muhammad Rafiq Tarar

Rupiah Banda

Vic Elford

William Hurt

Eugene Parker

Kunimitsu Takahashi

Don Young

Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga

Madeleine Albright

Taylor Hawkins

Ayaz Mutallibov

• March 1
  • Conrad Janis, American musician and actor (b. 1928)
  • Alevtina Kolchina, Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
• March 2
  • Kenneth Duberstein, American lobbyist (b. 1944)
  • Frédérick Tristan, French writer, essayist and poet (b. 1931)
• March 3
  • Bruce Johnstone, South African racing driver (b. 1937)
  • Albert Pobor, Croatian football manager (b. 1956)
  • Dean Woods, Australian cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1966)
• March 4
  • Paula Marosi, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
  • Rod Marsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1947)
  • Mitchell Ryan, American actor (b. 1934)
  • Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (b. 1969)
  • Maryan Wisniewski, French footballer (b. 1937)
• March 5
  • Agostino Cacciavillan, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1926)
  • Antonio Martino, Italian politician (b. 1942)
• March 6
  • Frank O'Farrell, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  • Giuseppe Wilson, Italian footballer (b. 1945)
• March 7
  • Avraham Hirschson, Israeli politician (b. 1941)
  • Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1929)
• March 8
  • Tomás Boy, Mexican footballer (b. 1951)
  • René Clemencic, Austrian composer (b. 1928)
  • Grandpa Elliott, American singer and musician (b. 1944)
  • Sergei Mandreko, Russian-Tajik footballer and manager (b. 1971)
• March 9 – Justice Christopher, Nigerian footballer (b. 1981)
• March 10
  • Jürgen Grabowski, German footballer (b. 1944)
  • Mario Terán, Bolivian military warrant officer (b. 1941)
• March 11
  • Rupiah Banda, 4th President of Zambia (b. 1937)
  • Paul Genevay, French sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1939)
  • Rustam Ibragimbekov, Azerbaijani movie director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1939)
  • Jun Kondō, Japanese theoretical physicist (b. 1930)
• March 12
  • Alain Krivine, French politician (b. 1941)
  • Karl Offmann, 3rd President of Mauritius (b. 1940)
• March 13
  • Erhard Busek, Austrian politician (b. 1941)
  • Vic Elford, British racing driver (b. 1935)
  • William Hurt, American actor (b. 1950)
  • Ajdar Ismailov, Azerbaijani philologist, academic and politician (b. 1938)
  • Brent Renaud, American photojournalist, writer and filmmaker (b. 1971)
• March 14
  • Charles Greene, American sprinter and Olympic champion (b. 1945)
  • Scott Hall, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
  • Akira Takarada, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
  • Steve Wilhite, American computer scientist (b. 1948)
• March 15
  • Lauro Cavazos, American politician (b. 1927)
  • Eugene Parker, American solar physicist (b. 1927)
  • Anneli Sauli, Finnish actress (b. 1932)
• March 16 – Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese racing driver, motorcyclist, and team owner (b. 1940)
• March 17
  • Christopher Alexander, Austrian-born British-American architect, design theorist and writer (b. 1936)
  • Peter Bowles, English actor (b. 1936)
  • Tony Nash, British bobsledder and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
• March 18
  • Aleksei Bakharev, Russian-Ukrainian footballer (b. 1976)
  • Chaim Kanievsky, Polish-born Israeli rabbi (b. 1928)
  • Don Young, American politician and educator (b. 1933)
• March 19 – Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)
• March 20
  • Adriana Hoffmann, Chilean botanist, environmentalist and writer (b. 1940)
  • Reine Wisell, Swedish racing driver (b. 1941)
• March 21
  • Yuz Aleshkovsky, Russian-American playwright, poet, and singer-songwriter (b. 1929)
  • Shinji Aoyama, Japanese movie director, screenwriter and composer (b. 1964)
  • Yvan Colonna, French Corsican nationalist and convicted murderer (b. 1960)
  • Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, 16th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1954)
  • Nikolai Osyanin, Russian footballer (b. 1941)
  • Eva Ingeborg Scholz, German actress (b. 1928)
  • Fevzi Zemzem, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1941)
• March 22 – Mohammad Reyshahri, Iranian politician and cleric (b. 1946)
• March 23 – Madeleine Albright, Czechoslovak-born American politician (b. 1937)
• March 24
  • Kirk Baptiste, American sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1962)
  • Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (b. 1912)
• March 25 – Taylor Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1972)
• March 26 – Gianni Cavina, Italian actor (b. 1940)
• March 27
  • Titus Buberník, Slovak footballer (b. 1933)
  • Ayaz Mutallibov, 10th Prime Minister and 1st President of Azerbaijan (b. 1938)
  • Enrique Pinti, Argentine actor and comedian (b. 1939)
  • Martin Pope, American physical chemist, researcher and academic (b. 1918)
  • Alexandra Zabelina, Russian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1937)
• March 28
  • Naci Erdem, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1931)
  • Antonios Naguib, Egyptian Coptic Catholic cardinal (b. 1935)
• March 29 – Paul Herman, American actor (b. 1946)
• March 30
  • Juan Carlos Cárdenas, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1945)
  • Mathew Cheriankunnel, Indian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1930)
  • Egon Franke, Polish fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1935)
  • Tom Parker, English singer (b. 1988)
• March 31
  • Georgi Atanasov, 39th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1933)
  • Rıdvan Bolatlı, Turkish footballer (b. 1928)
  • Patrick Demarchelier, French fashion photographer (b. 1943)
  • Richard Howard, American critic, poet and translator (b. 1929)

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2022

Estelle Harris

Leonel Sánchez

Lygia Fagundes Telles

Sidney Altman

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Gilbert Gottfried

Michel Bouquet

Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb

Radu Lupu

Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Kane Tanaka

Mwai Kibaki

Orrin Hatch

Juan Diego

• April 1 – Aleksandra Yakovleva, Russian actress and businesswoman (b. 1957)
• April 2
  • Vance Amory, 2nd and 4th Premier of Nevis (b. 1949)
  • Estelle Harris, American actress (b. 1928)
  • Silvio Longobucco, Italian footballer (b. 1951)
  • Mıgırdiç Margosyan, Turkish-Armenian writer (b. 1938)
  • Leonel Sánchez, Chilean footballer (b. 1936)
• April 3
  • June Brown, English actress and writer (b. 1927)
  • Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazilian writer (b. 1918)
  • Einar Østby, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1935)
• April 4
  • John McNally, Irish boxer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1932)
  • Django Sissoko, Acting Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1948)
  • Gene Shue, American basketball player and coach (b. 1931)
  • Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player, coach and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1943)
  • Branislav Šoškić, 12th President of the Presidency of Montenegro (b. 1922)
  • Jerry Uelsmann, American photographer (b. 1934)
• April 5
  • Sidney Altman, Canadian-American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1939)
  • Joaquim Carvalho, Portuguese footballer (b. 1937)
  • David Kilgour, Canadian politician, writer and human rights activist (b. 1941)
  • Stanisław Kowalski, Polish masters athlete and supercentenarian (b. 1910)
  • Josef Panáček, Czech sport shooter and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
  • Nehemiah Persoff, American actor (b. 1919)
  • Bobby Rydell, American rock singer and actor (b. 1942)
  • Yefrem Sokolov, 21st First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1926)
  • Bjarni Tryggvason, Icelandic-born Canadian astronaut (b. 1945)
  • Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor, martial artist and filmmaker (b. 1943)
• April 6
  • Rae Allen, American actress (b. 1926)
  • Karol Divín, Slovak figure skater and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1936)
  • Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu, Romanian fencer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1944)
  • David McKee, British writer and illustrator (b. 1935)
  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician (b. 1946)
• April 7
  • Dušan Čkrebić, 55th Prime Minister and 11th President of Serbia (b. 1927)
  • Ludwik Dorn, Polish politician (b. 1954)
  • Miguel Ángel Estrella, Argentine pianist and human rights activist (b. 1940)
  • Fujiko A. Fujio, Japanese manga artist (b. 1934)
• April 8
  • Minori Matsushima, Japanese actress (b. 1940)
  • Peng Ming-min, Taiwanese independence activist and politician (b. 1923)
• April 9
  • Michael Degen, German-Israeli actor and Holocaust survivor (b. 1932)
  • Michel Delebarre, French politician (b. 1946)
  • Jack Higgins, British writer (b. 1929)
• April 10
  • Philippe Boesmans, Belgian composer (b. 1936)
  • John Drew, American basketball player (b. 1954)
  • Estela Rodríguez, Cuban judoka and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1967)
• April 11 – Hans Junkermann, German racing cyclist (b. 1934)
• April 12
  • Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian and actor (b. 1955)
  • Sergei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1962)
  • Irina Vorobieva, Russian Olympic pair skater (b. 1958)
• April 13
  • Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer (b. 1935)
  • Michel Bouquet, French actor (b. 1925)
  • Wolfgang Fahrian, German footballer (b. 1941)
  • Freddy Rincón, Colombian footballer (b. 1966)
  • Desai Williams, Canadian sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1959)
• April 14
  • Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957)
  • Ilkka Kanerva, Finnish politician (b. 1948)
• April 15
  • Jean-Paul Fitoussi, French economist (b. 1942)
  • Bernhard Germeshausen, German bobsledder and Olympic champion (b. 1951)
  • Michael O'Kennedy, Irish politician (b. 1936)
  • Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, 4th President of the European Parliament (b. 1925)
  • Liz Sheridan, American actress and dancer (b. 1929)
• April 16 – Joachim Streich, German footballer, manager and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1951)
• April 17
  • Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist (b. 1945)
  • Catherine Spaak, Belgian-Italian actress, model and singer (b. 1945)
• April 18
  • Lidiya Alfeyeva, Russian long jumper and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
  • Sir Harrison Birtwistle, British composer (b. 1934)
  • Valerio Evangelisti, Italian writer (b. 1952)
  • Hermann Nitsch, Austrian artist (b. 1938)
• April 19
  • Carlos Lucas, Chilean boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1930)
  • Sandra Pisani, Australian field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1959)
  • Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian and world's oldest person (b. 1903)
• April 20
  • Hilda Bernard, Argentine actress (b. 1920)
  • Antonín Kachlík, Czech movie director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
  • Javier Lozano Barragán, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1933)
  • Robert Morse, American actor and singer (b. 1931)
• April 21
  • Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya (b. 1931)
  • Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker (b. 1941)
  • Cynthia Plaster Caster, American artist (b. 1947)
• April 22
  • Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1951)
  • Michelle Suárez Bértora, Uruguayan politician and activist (b. 1983)
  • Viktor Zvyahintsev, Ukrainian footballer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1950)
• April 24
  • Arno, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1949)
  • Orrin Hatch, American politician (b. 1934)
• April 25 – Ursula Lehr, German researcher, academic and politician (b. 1930)
• April 26
  • İsmail Ogan, Turkish wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1933)
  • Klaus Schulze, German electronic musician and composer (b. 1947)
• April 27
  • Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1934)
  • Kenneth Tsang, Hong Kong actor (b. 1935)
• April 28
  • Neal Adams, American comics artist (b. 1941)
  • Juan Diego, Spanish actor (b. 1942)
  • Zoran Sretenović, Serbian basketball player and coach (b. 1964)
• April 29
  • Joanna Barnes, American actress and writer (b. 1934)
  • Georgia Benkart, American mathematician (b. 1947)
  • David Birney, American actor (b. 1939)
• April 30
  • Ricardo Alarcón, Cuban politician (b. 1937)
  • Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1946)
  • Bob Krueger, American politician (b. 1935)
  • Mino Raiola, Italian football agent (b. 1967)

May

Main article: Deaths in May 2022

Ivica Osim

Stanislav Shushkevich

Leonid Kravchuk

Ben Roy Mottelson

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Teresa Berganza

Andrew Symonds

Vangelis

Ciriaco De Mita

Ray Liotta

Angelo Sodano

Evaristo Carvalho

Bujar Nishani

Boris Pahor

• May 1
  • Ilan Gilon, Israeli politician (b. 1956)
  • Dominique Lecourt, French philosopher (b. 1944)
  • Takuya Miyamoto, Japanese footballer (b. 1983)
  • Ivica Osim, Bosnian footballer and manager (b. 1941)
  • Régine Zylberberg, Belgian-born French singer and nightclub owner (b. 1929)
• May 2 – Joseph Raz, Israeli philosopher (b. 1939)
• May 3
  • Tony Brooks, British racing driver (b. 1932)
  • Lino Capolicchio, Italian actor and director (b. 1943)
  • George Horvath, Swedish pentathlete and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1960)
  • Norman Mineta, American politician (b. 1931)
  • Stanislav Shushkevich, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus (b. 1934)
• May 4
  • Harm Ottenbros, Dutch road bicycle racer (b. 1943)
  • Géza Varasdi, Hungarian athlete and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1928)
• May 5
  • Mike Hagerty, American actor (b. 1954)
  • Ronald Lopatni, Croatian professional water polo player and Olympic champion (b. 1944)
  • Kenneth Welsh, Canadian actor (b. 1942)
  • Leo Wilden, German footballer (b. 1936)
• May 6
  • Patricia A. McKillip, American writer (b. 1948)
  • George Pérez, American comic book artist (b. 1954)
• May 7
  • Antón Arieta, Spanish footballer (b. 1946)
  • Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player (b. 1922)
  • Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
  • Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1966)
• May 8
  • Maria Gusakova, Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1931)
  • Bengt Johansson, Swedish handball player and coach (b. 1942)
  • Kim Chi-ha, South Korean activist, poet and playwright (b. 1941)
  • Antonio Salazar, Mexican footballer (b. 1989)
  • Fred Ward, American actor (b. 1942)
  • Dennis Waterman, English actor and singer (b. 1948)
• May 9
  • John H. Coates, Australian mathematician (b. 1945)
  • Tim Johnson, American politician (b. 1946)
  • Jody Lukoki, Dutch-Congolese footballer (b. 1992)
  • Adreian Payne, American basketball player (b. 1991)
• May 10
  • Leonid Kravchuk, 1st President of Ukraine (b. 1934)
  • Bob Lanier, American basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
  • Shivkumar Sharma, Indian musician and composer (b. 1938)
• May 11
  • Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian journalist (b. 1971)
  • Juan Amat, Spanish field hockey player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1946)
  • Jeroen Brouwers, Dutch writer (b. 1940)
  • Henk Groot, Dutch footballer (b. 1938)
• May 12 – Robert McFarlane, American lieutenant colonel and politician (b. 1937)
• May 13
  • Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1926)
  • Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 2nd President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1948)
  • Teresa Berganza, Spanish mezzo-soprano (b. 1935)
  • Simon Preston, English organist, conductor, and composer (b. 1938)
  • Yang Hyong-sop, 6th Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly (b. 1925)
• May 14
  • Maxi Rolón, Argentine footballer (b. 1995)
  • Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer (b. 1975)
• May 15
  • Robert Cogoi, Belgian singer (b. 1939)
  • Ignacy Gogolewski, Polish actor (b. 1931)
  • Knox Martin, Colombian-born American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
  • Jerzy Trela, Polish actor (b. 1942)
• May 16
  • Josef Abrhám, Czech actor (b. 1939)
  • John Aylward, American actor (b. 1946)
  • Hilarion Kapral, Canadian-born American Orthodox bishop (b. 1948)
  • Ademola Okulaja, Nigerian-born German basketball player (b. 1975)
• May 17
  • Rolands Kalniņš, Latvian movie director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
  • Rodri, Spanish footballer (b. 1934)
  • Vangelis, Greek musician and composer (b. 1943)
• May 18
  • Werner Israel, German-born South African-Canadian physicist (b. 1931)
  • Faouzi Mansouri, Algerian footballer (b. 1956)
  • Domingo Villar, Spanish writer (b. 1971)
• May 19 – Jean-Louis Comolli, French movie critic and director (b. 1941)
• May 21
  • Marco Cornez, Chilean footballer (b. 1957)
  • Rosemary Radford Ruether, American feminist theologian (b. 1936)
  • Jiří Zídek Sr., Czech basketball player and coach (b. 1944)
• May 23
  • Anita Gradin, Swedish politician (b. 1933)
  • Maja Lidia Kossakowska, Polish fantasy writer (b. 1972)
  • Ilkka Suominen, 19th Speaker of the Parliament of Finland (b. 1939)
• May 24
  • David Datuna, Georgian-born American artist (b. 1974)
  • Ouka Leele, Spanish photographer (b. 1957)
  • Thomas Ulsrud, Norwegian curler and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1971)
• May 25 – Lívia Gyarmathy, Hungarian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• May 26
  • Ciriaco De Mita, 47th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1928)
  • Andy Fletcher, English keyboard player (b. 1961)
  • Ray Liotta, American actor (b. 1954)
  • Enyu Todorov, Bulgarian freestyle wrestler and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1943)
  • Alan White, English drummer and DJ (b. 1949)
• May 27
  • Michael Sela, Polish-born Israeli immunologist and academic (b. 1924)
  • Angelo Sodano, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and politician (b. 1927)
• May 28
  • Walter Abish, Austrian-born American writer (b. 1931)
  • Evaristo Carvalho, 5th Prime Minister and 4th President of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1941)
  • Bo Hopkins, American actor (b. 1938)
  • Bujar Nishani, 7th President of Albania (b. 1966)
• May 29
  • Ronnie Hawkins, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1935)
  • Lester Piggott, English jockey (b. 1935)
• May 30
  • Friedrich Christian Delius, German writer (b. 1943)
  • Milton Gonçalves, Brazilian actor, political activist and television director (b. 1933)
  • Boris Pahor, Slovenian-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1913)
• May 31
  • KK, Indian singer (b. 1968)
  • Jacques N'Guea, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1955)
  • Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Colombian drug lord (b. 1939)

June

Main article: Deaths in June 2022

Valery Ryumin

Julio Jiménez

Philip Baker Hall

A. B. Yehoshua

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Dragan Tomić

Stien Kaiser

Yuri Shatunov

Martin Bangemann

• June 1
  • Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, Belgian teacher and philanthropist (b. 1921)
  • István Szőke, Hungarian footballer (b. 1947)
• June 2 – Uri Zohar, Israeli movie director, comedian and rabbi (b. 1935)
• June 3
  • Ken Kelly, American artist and album cover designer (b. 1946)
  • Grachan Moncur III, American trombonist (b. 1937)
  • Dorothy E. Smith, British-born Canadian sociologist (b. 1926)
• June 4
  • György Moldova, Hungarian writer (b. 1934)
  • Goran Sankovič, Slovenian footballer (b. 1979)
  • Alec John Such, American bassist (b. 1951)
• June 5 – Haidar Abdul-Razzaq, Iraqi footballer (b. 1982)
• June 6
  • Gianni Clerici, Italian tennis commentator and journalist (b. 1930)
  • Eric Nesterenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
  • Valery Ryumin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)
  • Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1941)
• June 7
  • Isaac Berger, Israeli-born American weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
  • Carl, Duke of Württemberg, German royal (b. 1936)
  • Keijo Korhonen, Finnish politician and academic (b. 1934)
  • Marco Luzzago, Lieutenant of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (b. 1950)
• June 8
  • Costică Dafinoiu, Romanian boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1954)
  • Julio Jiménez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1934)
  • Dale W. Jorgenson, American economist (b. 1933)
  • Dame Paula Rego, Portuguese-British visual artist (b. 1935)
• June 9
  • Billy Bingham, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1931)
  • Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician and actress (b. 1956)
  • Oleg Moliboga, Russian volleyball player, coach and Olympic champion (b. 1953)
• June 11 – Bernd Bransch, German footballer and Olympic champion (b. 1944)
• June 12
  • Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby union player (b. 1948)
  • Philip Baker Hall, American actor (b. 1931)
• June 13
  • Anatoly Mikhaylov, Russian hurdler and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1936)
  • Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer (b. 1936)
  • Giuseppe Pericu, Italian politician (b. 1937)
  • Rolando Serrano, Colombian footballer (b. 1938)
• June 14
  • Joel Whitburn, American writer and music historian (b. 1939)
  • A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer (b. 1936)
• June 15 – Cho Min-ho, South Korean ice hockey player (b. 1987)
• June 16
  • Steinar Amundsen, Norwegian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (b. 1945)
  • Yuri Fedotov Russian politician (b. 1947)
  • Tim Sale, American comics artist (b. 1956)
• June 17 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor (b. 1930)
• June 19
  • Gennady Burbulis, Russian politician (b. 1945)
  • Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Danish politician (b. 1941)
• June 20
  • Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor (b. 1937)
  • Sture Allén, Swedish linguist and academic (b. 1928)
  • Caleb Swanigan, American basketball player (b. 1997)
• June 21
  • James Rado, American actor, playwright and composer (b. 1932)
  • Jaroslav Škarvan, Czech handball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1944)
  • Dragan Tomić, Acting President of Serbia (b. 1936)
• June 22
  • Yves Coppens, French anthropologist (b. 1934)
  • Jonny Nilsson, Swedish speed skater and Olympic champion (b. 1943)
  • Jüri Tarmak, Estonian high jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1946)
• June 23
  • Ernst Jacobi, German actor (b. 1933)
  • Stien Kaiser, Dutch speed skater and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
  • Yuri Shatunov, Russian singer (b. 1973)
• June 25
  • Javier Cárdenas, Mexican footballer (b. 1952)
  • Bill Woolsey, American swimmer and Olympic champion (b. 1934)
• June 26
  • Thue Christiansen, Greenlandic visual artist and politician (b. 1940)
  • Margaret Keane, American artist (b. 1927)
  • Raffaele La Capria, Italian novelist and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• June 27
  • Leonardo Del Vecchio, Italian businessman (b. 1935)
  • Mats Traat, Estonian poet, translator and novelist (b. 1936)
• June 28
  • Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish actor, movie director and producer (b. 1937)
  • Martin Bangemann, German politician (b. 1934)
  • Pallonji Mistry, Indian-born Irish businessman (b. 1929)
  • Hichem Rostom, Tunisian actor (b. 1947)
  • Varinder Singh, Indian field hockey player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1947)
• June 29
  • Sonny Barger, American outlaw biker, writer and actor (b. 1938)
  • Eeles Landström, Finnish pole vaulter, businessman, politician and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1932)
• June 30 – Kazimierz Zimny, Polish athlete and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1935)

July

Main article: Deaths in July 2022

Peter Brook

Robert Curl

James Caan

Shinzo Abe

José Eduardo dos Santos

Luis Echeverría

Francisco Morales-Bermúdez

Uwe Seeler

David Trimble

James Lovelock

Juris Hartmanis

Fidel V. Ramos

Bill Russell

Ayman al-Zawahiri

• July 1 – Richard Taruskin, American musicologist (b. 1945)
• July 2
  • Peter Brook, English theatre and movie director (b. 1925)
  • Susana Dosamantes, Mexican actress (b. 1948)
  • Andy Goram, Scottish footballer (b. 1964)
  • Laurent Noël, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1920)
  • Leonid Shvartsman, Belarusian animator (b. 1920)
• July 3
  • Robert Curl, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1933)
  • Ni Kuang, Hong Kong screenwriter and novelist (b. 1935)
• July 4
  • Remco Campert, Dutch writer (b. 1929)
  • Cláudio Hummes, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1929)
  • Janusz Kupcewicz, Polish footballer (b. 1955)
  • Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese manga artist and game creator (b. 1961)
• July 5
  • Arne Åhman, Swedish triple jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1925)
  • Mohammed Barkindo, 28th Secretary General of OPEC (b. 1959)
  • Manny Charlton, Scottish singer and musician (b. 1941)
  • Lenny Von Dohlen, American actor (b. 1958)
• July 6
  • James Caan, American actor (b. 1940)
  • Arnaldo Pambianco, Italian Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1935)
  • İlter Türkmen, Turkish politician (b. 1927)
• July 7 – Jacob Nena, 4th President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b. 1941)
• July 8
  • Shinzo Abe, 90th and 98th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1954)
  • José Eduardo dos Santos, 2nd President of Angola (b. 1942)
  • Luis Echeverría, 57th President of Mexico (b. 1922)
  • Gregory Itzin, American actor (b. 1948)
  • Tony Sirico, American actor (b. 1942)
  • Larry Storch, American actor (b. 1923)
• July 9
  • L. Q. Jones, American actor and director (b. 1927)
  • Barbara Thompson, English jazz saxophonist and composer (b. 1944)
  • András Törőcsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1955)
• July 10
  • Anvar Chingizoglu, Azerbaijani historian and ethnologist (b. 1962)
  • Hirohisa Fujii, Japanese economist and politician (b. 1932)
  • Juan Roca Brunet, Cuban basketball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1950)
• July 11
  • Víctor Benítez, Peruvian footballer (b. 1935)
  • José Guirao, Spanish politician, cultural manager and art expert (b. 1959)
  • Monty Norman, English composer, musician and singer (b. 1928)
• July 13 – Charlotte Valandrey, French actress and writer (b. 1968)
• July 14
  • Jürgen Heinsch, German footballer, manager and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1940)
  • Nikolai Krogius, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1930)
  • Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, 112th Prime Minister and 51st President of Peru (b. 1921)
  • Eugenio Scalfari, Italian politician and journalist (b. 1924)
  • Pleun Strik, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
  • Ivana Trump, Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, and model (b. 1949)
• July 15
  • Aleksandr Kozlov, Russian footballer (b. 1993)
  • Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, Brazilian aristocrat (b. 1938)
  • Georgi Yartsev, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1948)
• July 16
  • Georgs Andrejevs, Latvian politician (b. 1932)
  • Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist and writer (b. 1927)
• July 17
  • Eric Flint, American writer and editor (b. 1947)
  • Francesco Rizzo, Italian footballer (b. 1943)
• July 18
  • Ottavio Cinquanta, Italian sports administrator (b. 1938)
  • Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor (b. 1929)
• July 19
  • Michael Henderson, American singer-songwriter and bass guitarist (b. 1951)
  • Ruslana Pysanka, Ukrainian actress and cinematographer (b. 1965)
• July 20
  • Peter Inge, Baron Inge, British military officer (b. 1935)
  • Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian athlete and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1939)
• July 21
  • Milan Dvořák, Czech footballer (b. 1934)
  • Reino Paasilinna, Finnish politician (b. 1939)
  • Uwe Seeler, German footballer (b. 1936)
• July 22 – Robert Boutigny, French sprint canoeist and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1927)
• July 23
  • Diane Hegarty, American satanist (b. 1942)
  • Bob Rafelson, American movie director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• July 24
  • Janina Altman, Polish-Israeli chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1931)
  • Carla Cassola, Italian actress and composer (b. 1947)
  • David Warner, English actor (b. 1941)
• July 25
  • Uri Orlev, Polish-born Israeli writer and translator (b. 1931)
  • Yoko Shimada, Japanese actress (b. 1953)
  • Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian journalist, translator and poet (b. 1936)
  • Paul Sorvino, American actor (b. 1939)
  • David Trimble, Northern Irish politician and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1944)
• July 26
  • Anne-Marie Garat, French writer (b. 1946)
  • James Lovelock, English environmentalist (b. 1919)
  • Marit Paulsen, Norwegian-born Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1939)
• July 27
  • Mary Alice, American actress (b. 1936)
  • Bernard Cribbins, English actor, comedian and singer (b. 1928)
  • Yelizaveta Dementyeva, Russian sprint canoer and Olympic champion (b. 1928)
  • Tony Dow, American actor and television director (b. 1945)
  • Celina Seghi, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b. 1920)
• July 28
  • Pietro Citati, Italian writer and literary critic (b. 1930)
  • József Kardos, Hungarian footballer (b. 1960)
  • Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1942)
• July 29
  • Jean Bobet, French road bicycle racer (b. 1930)
  • Margot Eskens, German singer (b. 1939)
  • Juris Hartmanis, Latvian computer scientist (b. 1928)
• July 30
  • Pat Carroll, American actress and comedian (b. 1927)
  • Nichelle Nichols, American actress (b. 1932)
• July 31
  • Vadim Bakatin, Russian politician and intelligence officer (b. 1937)
  • Hubertus Leteng, Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1959)
  • Fidel V. Ramos, 12th President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
  • Bill Russell, American basketball player, coach and Olympic champion (b. 1934)
  • Ayman al-Zawahiri, 2nd Emir of Al-Qaeda (b. 1951)

August

Main article: Deaths in August 2022

Vin Scully

Issey Miyake

David McCullough

Dame Olivia Newton-John

Jozef Tomko

Yi-Fu Tuan

Anne Heche

Jean-Jacques Sempé

Wolfgang Petersen

Darya Dugina

Herman Van Springel

Milutin Šoškić

Charlbi Dean

Mikhail Gorbachev

• August 1
  • Carlos Blixen, Uruguayan basketball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1936)
  • Hugo Fernández, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1945)
  • Ilinka Mitreva, Macedonian politician (b. 1950)
  • Hiroshi Ōtake, Japanese actor (b. 1932)
  • Andrejs Rubins, Latvian footballer (b. 1978)
• August 2 – Vin Scully, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
• August 3
  • Raymond Damadian, American scientist and inventor (b. 1936)
  • Ng Boon Bee, Malaysian badminton player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
  • Villiam Vecchi, Italian footballer (b. 1948)
  • Jackie Walorski, American politician (b. 1963)
• August 5
  • Ana Luísa Amaral, Portuguese poet (b. 1956)
  • Judith Durham, Australian singer and musician (b. 1943)
  • Clu Gulager, American actor (b. 1928)
  • Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (b. 1938)
  • Jô Soares, Brazilian comedian and talk show host (b. 1938)
• August 6 – Carlo Bonomi, Italian actor and clown (b. 1937)
• August 7
  • Ezekiel Alebua, 3rd Prime Minister of Solomon Islands (b. 1947)
  • Biyi Bandele, Nigerian novelist, playwright and movie director (b. 1967)
  • Anatoly Filipchenko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1928)
  • Bill Graham, 50th Leader of the Opposition of Canada (b. 1939)
  • David McCullough, American historian and writer (b. 1933)
  • Roger E. Mosley, American actor (b. 1938)
  • Rostislav Václavíček, Czech footballer and Olympic champion (b. 1946)
• August 8
  • Lamont Dozier, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1941)
  • Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress (b. 1948)
  • Zofia Posmysz, Polish journalist, novelist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923)
  • Jozef Tomko, Slovak Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1924)
• August 9
  • Raymond Briggs, British writer and illustrator (b. 1934)
  • Ingemar Erlandsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1957)
  • Nicholas Evans, English writer (b. 1950)
  • Donald Machholz, American astronomer (b. 1952)
  • Alberto Orzan, Italian footballer (b. 1931)
  • Nikolay Slyunkov, 18th First Secretary of the Communist Party (1983–1987).
• August 10
  • Fernando Chalana, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1959)
  • Lydia de Vega, Filipino Olympic sprinter (b. 1964)
  • Kiril Dojčinovski, Macedonian footballer (b. 1943)
  • Hushang Ebtehaj, Iranian-German poet (b. 1928)
  • Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor, musician and comedian (b. 1945)
  • Yi-Fu Tuan, Chinese-American geographer (b. 1930)
• August 11
  • Michael Badnarik, American software engineer, political activist and radio talk show host (b. 1954)
  • Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and opera performer (b. 1980)
  • Anne Heche, American actress (b. 1969)
  • Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer (b. 1926)
  • Manuel Ojeda, Mexican actor (b. 1940)
  • Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist (b. 1932)
  • József Tóth, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1951)
• August 12
  • Claudio Garella, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
  • Anshu Jain, Indian-British banker (b. 1963)
  • Wolfgang Petersen, German movie director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1941)
  • Vyacheslav Semyonov, Ukrainian footballer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1947)
• August 13
  • Piero Angela, Italian television host, science journalist and writer (b. 1928)
  • Rossana Di Lorenzo, Italian actress (b. 1938)
• August 14
  • Kristaq Dhamo, Albanian actor and movie director (b. 1933)
  • Nina Garsoïan, French-born American Armenologist and academic (b. 1923)
  • Svika Pick, Polish-born Israeli singer-songwriter and television personality (b. 1949)
  • Dmitri Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1960)
• August 15 – Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1914)
• August 16
  • Joseph Delaney, British writer (b. 1945)
  • Eva-Maria Hagen, German actress and singer (b. 1934)
• August 18
  • Hadrawi, Somali poet, philosopher and songwriter (b. 1943)
  • Rolf Kühn, German clarinetist (b. 1929)
  • Herbert Mullin, American serial killer (b. 1947)
  • John Powell, American discus thrower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1947)
  • Josephine Tewson, British actress (b. 1931)
• August 19 – Leon Vitali, English actor (b. 1948)
• August 20
  • Barry Boehm, American computer scientist and software engineer (b. 1935)
  • Darya Dugina, Russian political activist (b. 1992)
• August 21 – Alexei Panshin, American writer and literary critic (b. 1940)
• August 22
  • Jerry Allison, American rock drummer and songwriter (b. 1939)
  • Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general and politician (b. 1926)
  • Rembert Weakland, American Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1927)
• August 23 – Creed Taylor, American trumpeter and record producer (b. 1929)
• August 24
  • Len Dawson, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1935)
  • Kazuo Inamori, Japanese businessman (b. 1932)
  • Kallistos, English Orthodox metropolitan and theologian (b. 1934)
  • Man of the Hole, Brazilian indigenous person (b. 1960s)
  • Orlando de la Torre, Peruvian footballer (b. 1943)
• August 25
  • Joey DeFrancesco, American musician (b. 1971)
  • Graziella Galvani, Italian actress (b. 1931)
  • Nel Noddings, American feminist, educator and philosopher (b. 1929)
  • Joe E. Tata, American actor (b. 1936)
  • Herman Van Springel, Belgian road racing cyclist (b. 1943)
• August 26 – Hana Zagorová, Czech singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1946)
• August 27
  • Robert LuPone, American actor and artistic director (b. 1946)
  • Manolo Sanlúcar, Spanish composer and guitarist (b. 1943)
  • Milutin Šoškić, Serbian footballer (b. 1937)
  • Emilio Trivini, Italian rower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1938)
• August 28
  • Ralph Eggleston, American animator and movie director (b. 1965)
  • Manzoor Hussain, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1958)
  • Peter Stephan Zurbriggen, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1943)
• August 29
  • Charlbi Dean, South African actress and model (b. 1990)
  • Hans-Christian Ströbele, German lawyer and politician (b. 1939)
• August 30
  • Gheorghe Berceanu, Romanian wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1949)
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final Leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1931)
  • Don L. Lind, American astronaut (b. 1930)

September

Main article: Deaths in September 2022

Frank Drake

Marsha Hunt

Elizabeth II

Javier Marías

Alain Tanner

Jean-Luc Godard

Irene Papas

Saul Kripke

Nick Holonyak

Louise Fletcher

Pharoah Sanders

Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Coolio

• September 1
  • Barbara Ehrenreich, American writer and political activist (b. 1941)
  • Ravil Maganov, Russian businessman (b. 1954)
  • Earnie Shavers, American boxer (b. 1944)
• September 2
  • Mišo Cebalo, Croatian chess grandmaster (b. 1945)
  • Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1930)
  • Manuel Duarte, Portuguese footballer (b. 1945)
• September 3
  • Yuri Bashkatov, Moldovan swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1968)
  • Shavez Hart, Bahamian track and field sprinter (b. 1992)
• September 4
  • Boris Lagutin, Russian boxer and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
  • Cyrus Mistry, Indian-Irish businessman (b. 1968)
  • Peter Straub, American writer (b. 1943)
• September 5 – Lars Vogt, German pianist and conductor (b. 1970)
• September 6 – Just Jaeckin, French movie director, photographer and sculptor (b. 1940)
• September 7
  • Marsha Hunt, American actress and activist (b. 1917)
  • Valeri Polyakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1942)
  • Dagmar Schipanski, German physicist and politician (b. 1943)
  • Piet Schrijvers, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1946)
• September 8 – Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign countries (b. 1926)
• September 9 – Jack Ging, American actor (b. 1931)
• September 10
  • William Klein, American-born French photographer, movie director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
  • B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist (b. 1921)
• September 11
  • Javier Marías, Spanish writer (b. 1951)
  • Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician (b. 1940)
  • Alain Tanner, Swiss movie director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• September 12 – Ramsey Lewis, American jazz pianist, composer and radio personality (b. 1935)
• September 13
  • Horacio Accavallo, Argentine boxer (b. 1934)
  • Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss movie director, screenwriter and movie critic (b. 1930)
  • Brian Hewson, English Olympic runner (b. 1933)
  • Ken Starr, American politician, lawyer and judge (b. 1946)
• September 14
  • Géza Csapó, Hungarian canoeist and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1950)
  • Irene Papas, Greek actress (b. 1929)
  • Henry Silva, American actor (b. 1926)
  • Mária Wittner, Hungarian revolutionary and politician (b. 1937)
• September 15
  • Brian Binnie, American commercial astronaut (b. 1953)
  • Francescantonio Nolè, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1948)
  • Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician (b. 1940)
• September 16 – Mahsa Amini, Iranian woman (b. 1999)
• September 17
  • Igor Maslennikov, Soviet and Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • Vlado Milunić, Yugoslav-born Czech architect (b. 1941)
  • Maarten Schmidt, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1929)
• September 18
  • Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Turkish wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1931)
  • Kjell Espmark, Swedish writer (b. 1930)
  • Nick Holonyak, American engineer and inventor (b. 1928)
• September 19
  • Klaus Behrens, German rower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1941)
  • Vladimir Golubev, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1950)
• September 20
  • Sergei Puskepalis, Russian actor and theatre director (b. 1966)
  • Virginio Rognoni, Italian politician (b. 1924)
• September 21
  • Lydia Alfonsi, Italian actress (b. 1928)
  • Andrea Molnár-Bodó, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1934)
  • Raju Srivastav, Indian actor and comedian (b. 1963)
• September 22
  • Donald M. Blinken, American politician (b. 1925)
  • Jorge Fons, Mexican movie director (b. 1939)
  • Dame Hilary Mantel, British writer (b. 1952)
• September 23
  • Prince Amartey, Ghanaian boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1944)
  • Louise Fletcher, American actress (b. 1934)
  • Franciszek Pieczka, Polish actor (b. 1928)
• September 24
  • Hudson Austin, Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of Grenada (b. 1938)
  • Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American actress and exotic dancer (b. 1948)
  • Pharoah Sanders, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1940)
• September 25
  • Aïcha Chenna, Moroccan social worker and women's rights activist (b. 1941)
  • Rafael Chimishkyan, Georgian weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1929)
  • Jacques Drèze, Belgian economist (b. 1929)
  • James Florio, American politician (b. 1937)
  • Andrés Prieto, Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1928)
• September 26
  • Ronney Pettersson, Swedish footballer (b. 1940)
  • Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic scholar (b. 1926)
  • Mark Souder, American politician (b. 1950)
  • Venetia Stevenson, English-American actress (b. 1938)
• September 27
  • Andrew van der Bijl, Dutch Christian missionary (b. 1928)
  • Kurt Binder, Austrian theoretical physicist (b. 1944)
  • Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer and dancer (b. 1954)
• September 28
  • Bruno Bolchi, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1940)
  • Coolio, American rapper and actor (b. 1963)
• September 29
  • Kathleen Booth, English computer scientist and mathematician (b. 1922)
  • Paul Veyne, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1930)
• September 30 – Yury Zaitsev, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1951)

October

Main article: Deaths in October 2022

Antonio Inoki

Sacheen Littlefeather

Loretta Lynn

Phil Read

Bruno Latour

Dame Angela Lansbury

James McDivitt

Robbie Coltrane

Lodewijk van den Berg

Ashton Carter

Jerry Lee Lewis

• October 1 – Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler and politician (b. 1943)
• October 2
  • Éder Jofre, Brazilian boxer (b. 1936)
  • Sacheen Littlefeather, American civil rights activist and actress (b. 1946)
  • François Remetter, French footballer (b. 1928)
• October 3
  • Per Bredesen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1930)
  • Tiffany Jackson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1987)
  • Kim Jung Gi, South Korean illustrator and comics artist (b. 1975)
  • Florin Zalomir, Romanian fencer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1981)
• October 4
  • Günter Lamprecht, German actor (b. 1930)
  • Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
  • Jesús del Muro, Mexican footballer and manager (b. 1937)
  • Peter Robinson, British-born Canadian writer (b. 1950)
  • Jürgen Sundermann, German footballer and manager (b. 1940)
• October 5
  • Wolfgang Kohlhaase, German movie director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • Ann-Christine Nyström, Finnish singer (b. 1944)
• October 6
  • Phil Read, English motorcycle racer (b. 1939)
  • Jody Miller, American singer (b. 1941)
• October 7
  • Ronnie Cuber, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1941)
  • Toshi Ichiyanagi, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1933)
  • Al Ries, American marketing professional and writer (b. 1926)
• October 8
  • Gerben Karstens, Dutch racing cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1942)
  • Peter Tobin, Scottish serial killer (b. 1946)
• October 9
  • Temsüla Ao, Indian poet and writer (b. 1945)
  • Yuriy Dehteryov, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1948)
  • Bruno Latour, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1947)
  • Eileen Ryan, American actress (b. 1927)
• October 10
  • Sergio Brighenti, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
  • Viktor Logunov, Russian track cyclist and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1944)
  • Allan Wood, Australian swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1943)
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician (b. 1939)
• October 11
  • Hikaru Matsunaga, Japanese politician (b. 1928)
  • Dame Angela Lansbury, British-American actress and singer (b. 1925)
  • Bill Nieder, American shot putter and Olympic champion (b. 1933)
• October 12
  • Lucious Jackson, American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
  • Ralph Pearson, American chemist (b. 1919)
• October 13
  • James McDivitt, American astronaut (b. 1929)
  • Halvor Næs, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (b. 1928)
  • Dagmar Rom, Austrian skier and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1928)
• October 14
  • Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor (b. 1950)
  • Stanislav Kropilák, Slovak basketball player (b. 1955)
  • Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek taekwondo athlete and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1979)
  • Kay Parker, British actress (b. 1944)
  • Ted White, American stuntman and actor (b. 1926)
  • Ralf Wolter, German actor (b. 1926)
• October 16
  • Jüri Arrak, Estonian painter (b. 1936)
  • Lodewijk van den Berg, Dutch-born American chemical engineer and astronaut (b. 1932)
  • Benjamin Civiletti, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
  • Josef Somr, Czech actor (b. 1934)
• October 17
  • Yury Klimov, Russian handball player, coach and Olympic champion (b. 1940)
  • Younoussi Touré, 4th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1941)
• October 18
  • Charles Duncan Jr., American businessman and politician (b. 1926)
  • Ole Ellefsæter, Norwegian cross-country skier, singer and Olympic champion (b. 1939)
  • Robert Gordon, American singer (b. 1947)
  • John P. Meier, American scholar and Roman Catholic priest (b. 1942)
• October 19 – Philip Waruinge, Kenyan boxer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1945)
• October 20
  • Anton Donchev, Bulgarian writer (b. 1930)
  • Ron Masak, American actor (b. 1936)
• October 21
  • Masato Kudo, Japanese footballer (b. 1990)
  • Silvana Suárez, Argentine beauty queen (b. 1958)
• October 22
  • Leszek Engelking, Polish writer and translator (b. 1955)
  • Rodney Graham, Canadian visual artist and musician (b. 1949)
  • Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman (b. 1944)
• October 23 – Libor Pešek, Czech conductor (b. 1933)
• October 24
  • Ashton Carter, American politician and academic (b. 1954)
  • Leslie Jordan, American actor and comedian (b. 1955)
  • Tomasz Wójtowicz, Polish volleyball player and Olympic champion (b. 1953)
• October 25
  • Jules Bass, American animator and television producer (b. 1935)
  • Mike Davis, American writer and activist (b. 1946)
• October 26
  • Brian Robinson, English cyclist (b. 1930)
  • Pierre Soulages, French visual artist (b. 1919)
• October 28 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1935)

November

Main article: Deaths in November 2022

Edward C. Prescott

Gal Costa

Fred Brooks

Jiang Zemin

Christine McVie

• November 1
  • Wilson Kiprugut, Kenyan athlete (b. 1938)
  • Takeoff, American rapper (b. 1994)
• November 2
  • Ela Bhatt, Indian cooperative organiser and activist (b. 1933)
  • Michael Möllenbeck, German discus thrower (b. 1969)
• November 5
  • Aaron Carter, American singer (b. 1987)
  • Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1933)
• November 6 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist (b. 1940)
• November 7
  • Chrysostomos II of Cyprus (b. 1941)
  • Leslie Phillips, English actor (b. 1924)
• November 8
  • Maurice Karnaugh, American physicist, mathematician and inventor (b. 1924)
  • Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer (b. 1946)
• November 9 – Gal Costa, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
• November 10 – Kevin Conroy, American actor (b. 1955)
• November 11
  • John Aniston, Greek-born American actor (b. 1933)
  • Gallagher, American comedian (b. 1946)
  • Keith Levene, English guitarist (b. 1957)
  • Sven-Bertil Taube, Swedish singer and actor (b. 1934)
• November 12
  • Cor van der Gijp, Dutch footballer (b. 1931)
  • Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee (b. 1945)
• November 14 – Virginia McLaurin, American community volunteer (b. 1909)
• November 17 – Fred Brooks, American computer scientist (b. 1931)
• November 18 – Ned Rorem, American composer and diarist (b. 1923)
• November 19
  • Greg Bear, American writer and illustrator (b. 1951)
  • Jason David Frank, American actor and martial artist (b. 1973)
• November 20 – Hédi Fried, Romanian-born Swedish author (b. 1924)
• November 22 – Pablo Milanés, Cuban singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• November 23 – Wilko Johnson, English guitarist (b. 1947)
• November 24
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer and editor (b. 1929)
  • Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1951)
• November 25 – Irene Cara, American singer (b. 1959)
• November 26 – Fernando Gomes, Portuguese footballer (b. 1956)
• November 27 – Maurice Norman, English footballer (b. 1934)
• November 28 – Clarence Gilyard, American actor (b. 1955)
• November 29 – Brad William Henke, American actor (b. 1966)
• November 30
  • Jiang Zemin, 5th President of China (b. 1926)
  • Christine McVie, British musician (b. 1943)

December

Main article: Deaths in December 2022

Kirstie Alley

Pelé

Barbara Walters

Pope Benedict XVI

• December 1
  • Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist (b. 1933)
  • Mylène Demongeot, French actress (b. 1935)
  • Gaylord Perry, American professional baseball player (b. 1938)
• December 4
  • Bob McGrath, American actor (b. 1932)
  • Patrick Tambay, French racing driver (b. 1949)
• December 5 – Kirstie Alley, American actress (b. 1951)
• December 6
  • Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese composer (b. 1948)
  • Adolfas Šleževičius, 6th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1948)
• December 9 - Joseph Kittinger, United States Air Force officer (b. 1928)
• December 11 – Angelo Badalamenti, American composer (Twin Peaks)
• December 12
  • Angelo Badalamenti, American composer (b. 1937)
  • Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut (b. 1941)
  • Stuart Margolin, American actor (b. 1940)
• December 16
  • Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1969)
  • Jose Maria Sison, Filipino writer and activist (b. 1939)
• December 20 – Franco Harris, American professional football player (b. 1950)
• December 23 – George Cohen, English footballer (b. 1939)
• December 28
  • Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect (b. 1931)
  • Sribhashyam Vijayasarathi, Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic. (b. 1936)
• December 29
  • Eduard Artemyev, Russian composer (b. 1937)
  • Ruggero Deodato, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1939)
  • Pelé, Brazilian footballer (b. 1940)
  • Edgar Savisaar, 1st Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Estonia (b. 1950)
  • János Varga, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1939)
  • Dame Vivienne Westwood, British fashion designer (b. 1941)
• December 30
  • Luann Ryon, American archer and Olympic champion (b. 1953)
  • Barbara Walters, American journalist (b. 1929)
• December 31
  • Pope Benedict XVI (b. 1927)
  • Anita Pointer, American singer (The Pointer Sisters) (b. 1948)

Nobel Prizes

• Chemistry – Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten P. Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless
• Economics – Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig
• Literature – Annie Ernaux
• Peace – Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and The Center for Civil Liberties
• Physics – Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
• Physiology or Medicine – Svante Pääbo