From Queen Elizabeth II to the Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, here are some of 2022's most-notable deaths.

January

6: Sidney Poitier, 94, American movie star, the first black man to win an Oscar, in 1964.

13: Jean-Jacques Beineix, 75, French director of iconic 1980s film Betty Blue.

15: Nino Cerruti, 91, Italian fashion designer.

20: Marvin Lee Aday, also known as Meat Loaf, 74, United States rocker of "Bat out of Hell" fame.

22: Thich Nhat Hanh, 95, Vietnamese Buddhist monk who introduced the West to mindfulness.

23: Thierry Mugler, 73, French fashion designer.

February

2: Monica Vitti, 90, Italian leading lady and muse of director Michelangelo Antonioni.

6: Lata Mangeshkar, 92, legendary Bollywood singer.

10: Luc Montagnier, 89, French scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine for his co-discovery of the HIV virus.

17: Ivan Reitman, 75, director of Ghostbusters.

March

4: Shane Warne, 52, Australian cricketer who was one of the game's best-ever players.

13: William Hurt, 71, American actor who won an Oscar for Kiss of the Spider Woman.

23: Madeleine Albright, 84, first female US secretary of state (1997-2001).

25: Taylor Hawkins, 50, drummer of the alternative US rock group Foo Fighters.

April

6: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 75, Russian ultra-nationalist politician who predicted the Ukraine war.

13: Michel Bouquet, 96, celebrated French stage and screen actor.

May

11: Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, American-Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist killed during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank.

19: Vangelis (Evangelos Papathanassiou), 79, Greek composer of award-winning scores for Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner.

26: Ray Liotta, 67, star of Martin Scorsese's gangster-classic Goodfellas.

26: Andy Fletcher, 60, founding member of British electronic-band Depeche Mode.

30: Boris Pahor, 108, Slovenian author who chronicled the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and Italian fascism.

June

14: Avraham Yehoshua, 85, revered Israeli novelist who championed Palestinian rights.

17: Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91, French star of New Wave films including A Man and a Woman.

22: Yves Coppens, 87, French paleontologist who co-discovered the famous fossil "Lucy" in Ethiopia.

27: Leonardo Del Vecchio, 87, Italy's second-richest man and eyewear magnate.

July

3: Peter Brook, 97, influential British theater director famed for his radical stagings of Shakespeare.

6: James Caan, 82, Hollywood star of The Godfather and Misery.

8: Shinzo Abe, 67, Japan's former premier, shot dead by a gunman at a campaign rally.

8: Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, 79, Angola's long-time ruler.

25: David Trimble, 77, politician, Nobel laureate for helping to broker the 1998 peace deal in Northern Ireland.

27: James Lovelock, 103, famed United Kingdom scientist behind the Gaia theory,who predicted climate change.

30: Nichelle Nichols, 89, groundbreaking black actress who starred in cult sci-fi series Star Trek.

31: Bill Russell, 88, American NBA basketball player and civil-rights activist.

August

5: Issey Miyake, 84, Japanese fashion designer who pioneered high-tech, comfortable fashion.

8: Olivia Newton-John, 73, star of hit-musical Grease alongside John Travolta.

12: Jean-Jacques Sempe, 89, French cartoonist, illustrator of Le petit Nicolas.

12: Anne Heche, 53, US actress, known for Donnie Brasco.

30: Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, last Soviet leader, whose reforms and outreach to the West set in motion the collapse of the USSR.

September

8: Queen Elizabeth II, 96, Britain's longest-serving monarch who reigned for 70 years.

10: William Klein, 96, American-fashion and street-life photographer.

13: Jean-Luc Godard, 91, by assisted suicide. Director who pioneered the French New Wave.

14: Irene Papas, 93, Greek star of Zorba the Greek.

22: Hilary Mantel, 70, British novelist, twice winner of the Booker Prize for her historical fiction best-sellers.

23: Farrel “Pharoah” Sanders, 81, US jazz saxophonist.

26: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, 96, prominent Sunni scholar and spiritual leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement.

28: Coolio (artis Leon Ivey Jr.), 59, US "Gangsta Paradise" rapper.

October

4: Loretta Lynn, 90, American country-music titan.

11: Angela Lansbury, 96, cinema and television star of series Murder She Wrote.

14: Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.

22: Dietrich Mateschitz, 78, Austrian billionaire who founded energy-drinks company Red Bull.

25: Pierre Soulages, 102, French abstract artist who painted almost exclusively in black.

28: Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, US 1950s rock-and-roll star.

November

9: Gal Costa, 77, Brazilian singer, a key figure in the 1960s Tropicalia scene.

20: Hebe De Bonafini, 93, one of the founders of Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo anti-dictatorship protest group.

30: Jiang Zemin, 96, Chinese leader who took power after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and oversaw a decade of breakneck growth.

30:  Christine McVie, 79, singer-songwriter and keyboard player with 1970s band Fleetwood Mac.