2022 (MMXXII) was .

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
 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.
 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

 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.
 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 has been 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 sex assault case with Virginia Giuffre.
 At least 176 people are killed because of mudslides and floods in Petrópolis, 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.

March

Future events

Unknown dates
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is expect to be host in Qatar (First country to host a game in Middle East).
According to NIWA, New Zealand is expected to have a below average month for the first time since January 2017.

Births

Deaths

January

 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)
 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

 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

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