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December 1 – The farm protests in India end when the country repeal a controversial agricultural act.
 December 4
 Mount Semeru erupts in East Java, Indonesia killing 46 people and injuring 104 others.
 Adama Barrow is re-elected President of the Gambia winning 53% of the vote.
 Fourteen civilians are killed by Indian Special Forces officials in a failed ambush in Nagaland, India.
 December 6
 The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China's human rights record.
 COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to pass 50 million COVID-19 cases.
 Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to prison on charges of causing dissent.
 Karl Nehammer is sworn-in as the Chancellor of Austria after Alexander Schallenberg resigned from the position on 2 December.
December 7 – A prison fire kills at least 38 inmates and injures over 69 others in Burundi.
 December 8
 Olaf Scholz replaces Angela Merkel as the Chancellor of Germany.
 Fourteen people are killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu, India, including General Bipin Rawat.
 December 9 – At least 54 illegal immigrants are killed when the truck in which they are being smuggled crashes in Chiapas, Mexico.
 December 10 – In the United States, a tornado outbreak in the country's Southern States and Ohio Valley regions kills at least 88 people.
 December 12
 COVID-19 pandemic: Russia becomes the fifth country to pass 10 million COVID-19 cases after the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
 New Caledonia rejects independence from France in a referendum vote by 96.5%.
 December 13 – Kiril Petkov is elected the 56th Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
 December 14
 A fuel tanker explosion kills over 60 people and injured over 100 others in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.
 Floods in Malaysia kills at least 37 people.
December 15 – Siaosi Sovaleni is elected the 18th Prime Minister of Tonga, replacing Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa.
 December 17
 A building fire caused by a suspected arsonist in Osaka, Japan kills 25 people and injures three others.
 Typhoon Rai kills at least 200 people in the southern part of the Philippines and one person near Vietnam.
 December 19 – Gabriel Boric is elected the 36th President of Chile, defeating José Antonio Kast in the run-off general election with a 55.87% to 44.13% margin.
 December 20 – At least 64 people are killed and 24 others are missing in a shipwreck off the northeast coast of Madagascar.
 December 24 – At least 39 people are killed and over 70 others injured in a ferry fire in Jhalokati, Bangladesh.
 December 25 – The James Webb Space Telescope, a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope is launched.
 December 26 – Nobel Peace Prize-winning South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu dies at aged 90.
December 28 – In cricket, Australia wins The Ashes after winning the first three Tests against England.
 December 29
 The Supreme Court of Russia orders the closure of Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights group, for violations of the country's foreign agent law.
 Jeffrey Epstein's former associate, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is found guilty of sex trafficking of a child and three counts of conspiracy for transporting minors for sexual activities.
 Pro-democratic news website Stand News closes down after its staff are arrested by Hong Kong police officials for sedition.
 December 31 – American actress and comedian Betty White dies at aged 99.
Births 
 March 26 – Prince Julian, Duke of Halland
 June 4 – Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor

Deaths

January
January 1 – Dame Elmira Minita Gordon, 1st Governor-General of Belize (b. 1930)
 January 2 - Modibo Keita, 8th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1942)
 January 3 – Gerry Marsden, English musician (b. 1942)
 January 4
 Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1931)
 Albert Roux, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1935)
 January 5 – Colin Bell, English footballer (b. 1946)
 January 7 – Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941)
 January 11
 Sheldon Adelson, American businessman and casino magnate (b. 1933)
 Kathleen Heddle, Canadian Olympic rower (b. 1965)
 January 13 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-born American magician (b. 1939)
 January 16 – Phil Spector, American record producer and convicted murderer (b. 1939)
 January 18 – Jean-Pierre Bacri, Algerian-born French actor (b. 1951)
 January 20 - Justin Lekhanya, Chairman of the Military Council of Lesotho (b. 1938)
 January 23 – Hal Holbrook, American actor (b. 1925)
 January 24 – Larry King, American television journalist (b. 1933)
January 27
 Cloris Leachman, American actress (b. 1926)
 Mehrdad Minavand, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1975)
 January 28
 Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch Nobel atmospheric chemist (b. 1933)
 Vasily Lanovoy, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1934)
 Cicely Tyson, American actress (b. 1924)
 January 29 – Hilton Valentine, English guitarist (b. 1943)
February 1 – Edward Babiuch, 5th Prime Minister of the Polish People's Republic (b. 1927)
 February 2 – Fausta Morganti, Captain Regent of San Marino (b. 1944)
 February 3 – Tony Trabert, American tennis player and commentator (b. 1930)
 February 4 – Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut and molecular biologist (b. 1945)
 February 5
 Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (b. 1929)
 Leon Spinks, American professional boxer (b. 1953)
 February 6 – George Shultz, American politician, diplomat and economist (b. 1920)
 February 7 – Giuseppe Rotunno, Italian cinematographer (b. 1923)
 February 8
 Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist and screenwriter (b. 1931)
 Mary Wilson, American singer (b. 1944)
 February 9 – Chick Corea, American jazz keyboardist (b. 1941)
 February 11 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician (b. 1924)
 February 12 – Milford Graves, American jazz drummer, percussionist, and free jazz pioneer (b. 1941)
 February 13 – Yury Vlasov, Soviet and Russian weightlifter and writer (b. 1935)
February 14 – Carlos Menem, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1930)
 February 15 – Leopoldo Luque, Argentine footballer (b. 1949)
 February 16
 Bernard Lown, Lithuanian-American Nobel cardiologist and inventor (b. 1921)
 Joan Margarit, Spanish poet (b. 1938)
 Gustavo Noboa, 42nd President of Ecuador (b. 1937)
 February 17 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality (b. 1951)
 February 18 – Andrey Myagkov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1938)
 February 19 – Đorđe Balašević, Serbian recording artist and singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
 February 21 – Zlatko Saračević, Croatian handball player and coach (b. 1961)
 February 22 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher (b. 1919)
 February 23 – Fausto Gresini, Italian motorcycle racer and team manager (b. 1961)
 February 24
 Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (b. 1925)
 N'Singa Udjuu, First State Commissioner of Zaire (b. 1934)
 February 25
 Hannu Mikkola, Finnish rally driver (b. 1942)
March 1
 Zlatko Kranjčar, Croatian football player and manager (b. 1956)
 Ian St John, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
 March 2
 Chris Barber, English jazz musician (b. 1930)
 Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
 March 6 – Lou Ottens, Dutch inventor (b. 1926)
 March 9
 James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943)
 John Polkinghorne, English theoretical physicist and Anglican priest (b. 1930)
 March 10
 Hamed Bakayoko, 11th Prime Minister of Ivory Coast (b. 1965)
 Ali Mahdi Muhammad, 4th President of Somalia (b. 1939)
 Manuel Saturnino da Costa, 6th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1942)
 March 12 – Goodwill Zwelithini, king of the Zulu nation (b. 1948)
 March 13
 Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer (b. 1954)
 Murray Walker, British motor racing commentator (b. 1923)
 March 16
 Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1940)
 Sabine Schmitz, German motor racer and television presenter (b. 1969)
 March 17 – John Magufuli, 5th President of Tanzania (b. 1959)
March 20 – Peter Lorimer, Scottish international footballer (b. 1946)
 March 21
 Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer (b. 1931)
 Adam Zagajewski, Polish poet, essayist and translator (b. 1945)
 March 22 – Johnny Dumfries, Scottish peer and racing driver (b. 1958)
 March 23 – George Segal, American actor (b. 1934)
 March 24 – Jessica Walter, American actress (b. 1941)
 March 25
 Beverly Cleary, American author (b. 1916)
 Larry McMurtry, American author (b. 1936)
 Bertrand Tavernier, French film director and actor (b. 1941)
 March 28 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (b. 1936)
 March 29 – Bashkim Fino, 29th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1962)
 March 31 – Kamal Ganzouri, 46th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1933)
April 1 – Isamu Akasaki, Japanese Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
 April 2 – Christian Tumi, Cameroonian cardinal (b. 1930)
 April 4 – Robert Mundell, Canadian Nobel economist (b. 1932)
 April 5 – Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist (b. 1930)
 April 6 – Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author (b. 1928)
 April 9
 DMX, American rapper, songwriter and actor (b. 1970)
 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
 April 14
 Yıldırım Akbulut, 20th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1935)
 Bernie Madoff, American investment advisor, financier and convicted fraudster (b. 1938)
 April 16
 Charles Geschke, American businessman and computer scientist (b. 1939)
 Andrew Peacock, Australian politician (b. 1939)
 April 19
 Walter Mondale, American politician and diplomat (b. 1928)
 Jim Steinman, American rock lyricist and composer (b. 1947)
 Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer (b. 1946)
 April 20 – Idriss Déby, 6th President of Chad (b. 1952)
 April 23 – Milva, Italian singer and actress (b. 1939)
April 24 – Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano (b. 1928)
 April 26 – Tamara Press, Soviet Olympic shot put and discus thrower (b. 1937)
 April 28
 Michael Collins, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 Federico Salas, 136th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1950)
May 1 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress (b. 1931)
 May 3 – Lloyd Price, American singer-songwriter and businessman (b. 1933)
 May 4 – Simon Achidi Achu, 6th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1934)
 May 6
 Humberto Maturana, Chilean philosopher and biologist (b. 1928)
 Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (b. 1966)
 May 7 – Martín Pando, Argentine footballer (b. 1934)
 May 8
 Lee Han-dong, 33rd Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1934)
 Helmut Jahn, German-born American architect (b. 1940)
 Spencer Silver, American chemist and inventor (b. 1941)
 May 9 – José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Spanish poet and novelist (b. 1926)
 May 10 – Svante Thuresson, Swedish jazz musician (b. 1937)
 May 11 – Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (b. 1914)
 May 15
 Đorđe Marjanović, Serbian pop rock singer (b. 1931)
 Eva Wilma, Brazilian actress (b. 1933)
 May 16 – Rildo da Costa Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1942)
 May 18
 Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker (b. 1946)
Charles Grodin, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
 May 19 – Lee Evans, American Olympic athlete (b. 1947)
 May 20
 Francisco Brines, Spanish poet (b. 1932)
 Abubakar Shekau, Nigerian Islamic leader and militant (b. 1965, 1969 or 1975)
 May 21
 Tahir Salahov, Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian painter and draughtsman (b. 1928)
 Sunderlal Bahuguna, Indian environmentalist (b. 1927)
 May 22
 Francesc Arnau, Spanish footballer (b. 1975)
 Robert Marchand, French racing cyclist (b. 1911)
 Yuan Longping, Chinese agronomist (b. 1930)
 André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1966)
 May 23
 Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator (b. 1929)
 Cristóbal Halffter, Spanish classical composer and conductor (b. 1930)
 Ron Hill, English marathon runner (b. 1938)
 Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (b. 1928)
 Max Mosley, British racing driver and lawyer (b. 1940)
 May 26 – Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
 May 27
 Carla Fracci, Italian ballet dancer and actress (b. 1936)
Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
 Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929)
 May 30 – Rick Mitchell, Australian sprinter (b. 1955)
June 1 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943)
 June 3 – Sir Anerood Jugnauth, 2nd Prime Minister and 4th President of Mauritius (b. 1930)
 June 4
 Richard R. Ernst, Swiss Nobel chemist (b. 1933)
 Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet (b. 1924)
 June 5 – T. B. Joshua, Nigerian televangelist (b. 1963)
 June 6
 Revaz Gabriadze, Georgian filmmaker, painter and playwright (b. 1936)
 Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese Nobel chemist (b. 1935)
 Mansour Ojjeh, French Saudi Arabian entrepreneur (b. 1952)
 June 7
 Yoo Sang-chul, South Korean footballer (b. 1971)
 Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Iranian Shia cleric and terrorist (b. 1947)
 June 9
 Gottfried Böhm, German architect and sculptor (b. 1920)
 Edward de Bono, Maltese physician, psychologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
 June 10 – Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Indian director and poet (b. 1944)
 June 11 – Paola Pigni, Italian middle-distance runner (b. 1945)
 June 13 – Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937)
 June 14
 Enrique Bolaños, 29th President of Nicaragua (b. 1928)
Markis Kido, Indonesian badminton player (b. 1984)
 June 15 – Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1927)
 June 17 – Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (b. 1924)
 June 18
 Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer (b. 1928)
 Milkha Singh, Indian athlete (b. 1929)
  June 20 – Luis del Sol, Spanish footballer (b. 1935)
 June 23 – John McAfee, English-born American computer programmer and businessman (b. 1945)
 June 24
 Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (b. 1960)
 Trần Thiện Khiêm, 8th Prime Minister of South Vietnam and army officer (b. 1925)
 June 26 – Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Acting Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1929)
 June 29 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician and government official (b. 1932)
 June 30 – Bonfoh Abass, Acting President of Togo (b. 1948)
July 1 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1939)
 July 2 – Nikolai Slichenko, Soviet and Russian singer and actor (b. 1934)
 July 4 – Richard Lewontin, American evolutionary biologist (b. 1929)
 July 5
 Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, TV presenter and actress (b. 1943)
 Richard Donner, American film director (b. 1930)
 Vladimir Menshov, Soviet and Russian actor and film director (b. 1939)
 July 6
 Djivan Gasparyan, Armenian musician and composer (b. 1928)
 Patrick John, 1st Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1938)
 July 7
 Ahmed Jibril, Palestinian militant (b. 1938)
 Dilip Kumar, Indian actor, film producer and philanthropist (b. 1922)
 Jovenel Moïse, 42nd President of Haiti (b. 1968)
 Carlos Reutemann, Argentine Formula One driver and politician (b. 1942)
 July 9
 Frank Lui, 3rd Premier of Niue (b. 1935)
 Paul Mariner, English football player and manager (b. 1953)
 July 10 – Esther Béjarano, German singer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1924)
 July 13 – Shirley Fry, American tennis player (b. 1927)
 July 14
July 14
 Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
 Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist (b. 1935)
 July 16 – Surekha Sikri, Indian actress (b. 1945)
 July 17 – Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress and activist (b. 1939)
 July 19 – Arturo Armando Molina, 36th President of El Salvador (b. 1927)
 July 22 – Boris Chochiev, Acting Prime Minister of South Ossetia (b. 1957)
 July 23
 Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1940)
 Steven Weinberg, American Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
 July 25 – Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Portuguese military official and politician (b. 1936)
 July 26
 Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist (b. 1925)
 Joey Jordison, American drummer (b. 1975)
 Ivan Toplak, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1931)
 July 28
 Roberto Calasso, Italian writer and publisher (b. 1941)
 Dusty Hill, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
 Shahrum Kashani, Iranian-American singer (b. 1974)
August 1 – Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (b. 1930)
 August 3 – Arthur Dion Hanna, 7th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1928)
 August 5 – Yevhen Marchuk, 4th Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1941)
 August 8 – Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet and philosopher (b. 1941)
 August 9
 Sir Lester Bird, 2nd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1938)
 Sergei Kovalev, Russian human rights activist (b. 1930)
 August 10 – Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish cardinal (b. 1927)
 August 13
 Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1929)
 Gino Strada, Italian surgeon and human rights activist (b. 1948)
 August 14 – Carlos Correia, 5th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
 August 15
 Abdelhamid Brahimi, 3rd Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1936)
 Gerd Müller, German footballer (b. 1945)
 August 16 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet and Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
 August 17 – Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (b. 1973)
August 18 – Jill Murphy, British author and illustrator (b. 1949)
 August 19 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist (b. 1939)
 August 21
 Don Everly, American musician (b. 1937)
 Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (b. 1940)
 August 23
 Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher (b. 1940)
 Rosita Quintana, Argentine-Mexican actress, singer, and songwriter (b. 1925)
 August 24
 Hissène Habré, 1st Prime Minister and 5th President of Chad (b. 1942)
 Wilfried Van Moer, Belgian footballer (b. 1945)
 Charlie Watts, English drummer (b. 1941)
 August 25 – Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini, 7th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932)
 August 27 – Edmond H. Fischer, American-Swiss Nobel biochemist (b. 1920)
 August 29
 Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929)
 Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican record producer and singer (b. 1936)
 Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic sailor and 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942)
 August 31 – Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (b. 1944)
September 

 September 1 – Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Kashmiri separatist leader (b. 1929)
 September 2 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer and politician (b. 1925)
 September 5
Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian Olympic canoeist (b. 1949)
 Živko Radišić, 2nd Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1937)
 September 6 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (b. 1933)
 September 8 – Dietmar Lorenz, German Olympic judoka (b. 1950)
 September 9 – Danilo Popivoda, Slovenian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
 September 10
 Charles Konan Banny, 6th Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast (b. 1942)
 Jorge Sampaio, 18th President of Portugal (b. 1939)
 Saadi Yacef, Algerian independence fighter, politician and actor (b. 1928)
 September 11 – Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian Terrorist Maoist leader and militant (b. 1934)
 September 13
 Antony Hewish, English Nobel radio astronomer (b. 1924)
 Borisav Jović, 12th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1928)
 September 14
 Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1959)
 Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet and Russian track and field athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1955)
 September 16
September 16
 Silas Atopare, 7th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1951)
 Casimir Oyé-Mba, 3rd Prime Minister of Gabon (b. 1942)
 Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1940)
 September 17
 Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 7th President of Algeria (b. 1937)
 Mario Camus, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
 September 19
 Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer, poet and theatre director (b. 1931)
 Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (b. 1940)
 September 21 – Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Egyptian field marshal, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (b. 1935)
 September 22
 Abdelkader Bensalah, Acting Head of State of Algeria (b. 1941)
 Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer and Olympic champion (b. 1944)
 September 25 – Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan military officer and convicted war criminal (b. 1941)
 September 27 – Roger Hunt, English footballer (b. 1938)
 September 30 – Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator (b. 1931)
October 2 – Umer Shareef, Pakistani director, producer and artist (b. 1960)
 October 3
 Jorge Medina, Chilean cardinal (b. 1926)
 Budge Patty, American tennis player (b. 1924)
 Lars Vilks, Swedish visual artist (b. 1946)
 October 9 – Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (b. 1933)
 October 10 – Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and engineer (b. 1936)
 October 14 – Lee Wan-koo, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1950)
 October 17 – Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1944)
 October 18
 Edita Gruberová, Slovak soprano (b. 1946)
 János Kornai, Hungarian economist (b. 1928)
 Colin Powell, American politician, diplomat and general (b. 1937)
 October 19 – Leslie Bricusse, British composer, lyricist and playwright (b. 1931)
 October 20 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1934)
 October 21 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist (b. 1929)
October 22 – Vyacheslav Vedenin, Soviet and Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
 October 26
 Walter Smith, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)
 Roh Tae-woo, 6th President of South Korea (b. 1932)
 October 29
 Clément Mouamba, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo (b. 1943)
 Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor, playback singer and producer (b. 1975)
 October 30 – Igor Kirillov, Soviet and Russian news presenter, announcer and actor (b. 1932)
 October 31 – Dame Catherine Tizard, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1931)
November 1
 Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist (b. 1921)
 Nelson Freire, Brazilian pianist (b. 1944)
 November 6
 Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, 12th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1948)
 Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1933)
 November 7 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (b. 1936)
 November 11
 F. W. de Klerk, 7th and last State President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1936)
 Graeme Edge, English drummer, songwriter and poet (b. 1941)
 November 12
 Bob Bondurant, American racing driver (b. 1933)
 Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (b. 1949)
 Ron Flowers, English footballer (b. 1934)
 November 13 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-born South African novelist (b. 1933)
 November 14 – Bertie Auld, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
 November 15 – László Z. Bitó, Hungarian physiologist and writer (b. 1934)
 November 23
 Chun Doo-hwan, 5th President of South Korea (b. 1931)
Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1931)
 November 26 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (b. 1930)
 November 27 – Apetor, Norwegian YouTuber (b. 1964)
 November 28
 Virgil Abloh, American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b. 1980)
 Alexander Gradsky, Soviet and Russian singer, songwriter and rock musician (b. 1949)
 Norodom Ranariddh, 31st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1944)
 Sir Frank Williams, English businessman, Formula One team owner and mechanic (b. 1942)
 November 29 – Kinza Clodumar, 7th President of Nauru (b. 1945)
 November 30 – Ray Kennedy, English footballer (b. 1951)
December 

 December 3
 Lamine Diack, Senegalese businessman, sports administrator and athlete (b. 1933)
 Horst Eckel, German footballer (b. 1932)
December 5 – Jacques Tits, Belgian-born French mathematician (b. 1930)
 December 6 – Kåre Willoch, 30th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1928)
 December 7 – Mustafa Ben Halim, 3rd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1921)
 December 8 – Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican musician (b. 1953)
 December 9
 Otar Patsatsia, 3rd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1929)
 Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress and politician (b. 1939)
 Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
 December 10 – Michael Nesmith, American musician and television personality (b. 1942)
 December 11
 Anne Rice, American author (b. 1941)
 Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player (b. 1938)
 December 12
 Sir Paulias Matane, 8th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1931)
 Vicente Fernández, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1940)
 December 13 – Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress (b. 1955)
 December 15 – Fayez Tarawneh, 31st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1949)
 December 18 – Lord Richard Rogers, Italian–born British architect (b. 1933)
December 19 – Robert H. Grubbs, American Nobel chemist (b. 1942)
 December 21 – Sir Carlyle Glean, 5th Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1932)
 December 23 – Joan Didion, American writer (b. 1934)
 December 25
 Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (b. 1920)
 Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter (b. 1963)
 December 26
 Karolos Papoulias, 6th President of Greece (b. 1929)
 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop, activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1931)
 E. O. Wilson, American biologist and writer (b. 1929)
 December 31 – Betty White, American actress (b. 1922)
Nobel Prizes

 Chemistry – David MacMillan and Benjamin List
 Economics – David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens
 Literature – Abdulrazak Gurnah
 Peace – Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
 Physiology or Medicine – Ardem Patapoutian and David Julius
 Physics – Klaus Hasselmann, Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi

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2022 (MMXXII) was .

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, and many parts of the world began to bring the coronavirus under control. 2022 was also a year in which the world population reached 8 billion people.

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
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
 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991 Toshiki Kaifu dies aged 91
 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 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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