the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
Jaime Lerner, Brazilian architect, urban planner and politician (b. 1937)
Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929)
May 28 – Mark Eaton, American basketball player (b. 1957)
Marcell Jankovics, Hungarian animator and movie director (b. 1941)
Gavin MacLeod, American actor and writer (b. 1931)
Cornelius Sim, Bruneian cardinal (b. 1951)
B. J. Thomas, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
May 30 – Rick Mitchell, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1955)
May 31 – Arlene Golonka, American actress (b. 1936)
June 1 – Price Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943)
June 2 – Ottorino Sartor, Peruvian footballer (b. 1945)
F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (b. 1933)
Lakshmi Nandan Bora, Indian writer (b. 1931)
Anerood Jugnauth, 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritius and 4th President (b. 1930)
Ernie Lively, American actor (b. 1947)
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1933)
Vadim Kapranov, Soviet-born Russian basketball player, coach and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1940)
Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet (b. 1924)
John Malcolm Patterson, American politician (b. 1921)
Clarence Williams III, American actor (b. 1939)
June 5 – T. B. Joshua, Nigerian televangelist (b. 1963)
Revaz Gabriadze, Georgian filmmaker, painter and playwright (b. 1936)
Mochtar Kusumaatmadja, Indonesian politician (b. 1929)
Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1935)
Mansour Ojjeh, French-Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1952)
Guglielmo Epifani, Italian politician and trade unionist (b. 1950)
Yoo Sang-chul, South Korean footballer (b. 1971)
Gottfried Böhm, German architect and sculptor (b. 1920)
Edward de Bono, Maltese philosopher and writer (b. 1933)
Diogo Correa de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983)
Libuše Šafránková, Czech actress (b. 1953)
Valentina Sidorova, Russian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1954)
Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Indian filmmaker and poet (b. 1944)
Neno, Portuguese footballer (b. 1962)
Dingko Singh, Indian Olympic boxer (b. 1979)
Anatoly Chukanov, Russian cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1954)
Marco Maciel, 22nd Vice President of Brazil (b. 1940)
Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater and Olympic silver and bronze medalist (b. 1963)
June 13 – Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937)
Lisa Banes, American actress (b. 1955)
Enrique Bolaños, 29th President of Nicaragua (b. 1928)
Markis Kido, Indonesian badminton player and Olympic champion (b. 1984)
Adam Smelczyński, Polish trap shooter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1930)
June 15 – Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (b. 1924)
Tubilandu Ndimbi, Congolese footballer (b. 1948)
Jeannette Altwegg, Indian-born British figure skater and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer and politician (b. 1928)
Milkha Singh, Indian Olympic athlete and writer (b. 1929)
June 19 – Champ, First Dog of the United States (b. 2008)
Joanne Linville, American actress (b. 1928)
Luis del Sol, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1935)
John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman (b. 1945)
Brian London, English professional boxer (b. 1934)
Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (b. 1960)
Stephen Dunn, American poet and academic (b. 1939)
Trần Thiện Khiêm, 7th Prime Minister of South Vietnam (b. 1925)
June 25 – Jack Ingram, American racing driver (b. 1936)
Mike Gravel, American politician (b. 1930)
Abdalelah Haroun, Sudanese-born Qatari sprinter (b. 1997)
Jon Hassell, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1937)
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Acting Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1929)
Frederic Rzewski, American composer and pianist (b. 1938)
June 27 – Steven Horwitz, American economist (b. 1964)
June 28 – Burton Greene, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
Delia Fiallo, Cuban writer (b. 1924)
John Lawton, British singer (b. 1946)
Onsi Sawiris, Egyptian businessman (b. 1930)
Donald Rumsfeld, American politician (b. 1932)
Bonfoh Abass, Acting President of Togo (b. 1948)
Janet Moreau, American athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1927)
Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1939)
Josh Culbreath, American athlete and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1932)
Yury Dokhoian, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
Kartal Tibet, Turkish actor and movie director (b. 1938)
July 2 – Nikolai Slichenko, Soviet-Russian singer and actor (b. 1934)
Maidarjavyn Ganzorig, Mongolian cosmonaut (b. 1949)
Luminița Gheorghiu, Romanian actress (b. 1949)
Rick Laird, Irish jazz fusion bassist (b. 1941)
Richard Lewontin, American evolutionary biologist (b. 1929)
Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer and actress (b. 1943)
Richard Donner, American movie director (b. 1930)
Roberto Hernández, Cuban sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1967)
Vladimir Menshov, Soviet-Russian actor and movie director (b. 1939)
William Smith, American actor (b. 1933)
Stan Swamy, Indian Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and human rights activist (b. 1937)
Djivan Gasparyan, Armenian musician and composer (b. 1928)
Patrick John, 1st Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1938)
Robert Downey Sr.,
American actor and filmmaker (b. 1936)
Keshav Dutt, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1925)
Dilip Kumar, Indian actor, movie producer and philanthropist (b. 1922)
Jovenel Moïse, 42nd President of Haiti (b. 1968)
Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician (b. 1942)
Adrian Metcalfe, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1942)
Virbhadra Singh, Indian politician (b. 1934)
Frank Lui, 3rd Premier of Niue (b. 1935)
Geoff Makhubo, South African politician (b. 1968)
Paul Mariner, English footballer and manager (b. 1953)
Jehan Sadat, First Lady of Egypt (b. 1933)
Esther Béjarano, German singer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1924)
Carmel Budiardjo, British-Indonesian human rights activist (b. 1925)
Charlie Gallagher, Scottish-Irish footballer (b. 1940)
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1939)
Renée Simonot, French actress (b. 1911)
Edwin Edwards, American politician (b. 1927)
Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
Charles Robinson, American actor (b. 1945)
Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player (b. 1927)
Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1954)
Christian Boltanski, French sculptor, photographer and painter (b. 1944)
Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist (b. 1935)
Jerry Lewis, American politician (b. 1934)
Pyotr Mamonov, Russian rock guitarist (b. 1951)
William F. Nolan, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1928)
Danish Siddiqui, Indian photojournalist (b. 1983)
Hugo F. Sonnenschein, American economist (b. 1940)
Peter R. de Vries, Dutch journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956)
Biz Markie, American rapper and actor (b. 1964)
Surekha Sikri, Indian actress (b. 1945)
July 17 – Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress and activist (b. 1939)
July 18 – Nenad Stekić, Serbian Olympic long jumper (b. 1951)
July 19 – Arturo Armando Molina, 36th President of El Salvador (b. 1927)
July 20 – Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-born French actress (b. 1931)
Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French racecar driver (b. 1937)
Desmond O'Malley, Irish politician (b. 1939)
July 22 – Boris Chochiev, Acting Prime Minister of South Ossetia (b. 1957)
Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1940)
Tuomo Ylipulli, Finnish ski jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1965)
Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1933)
Rodney Alcala, American serial killer and rapist (b. 1943)
Jackie Mason, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1928)
July 25 – Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Portuguese military official and politician (b. 1936)
Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist (b. 1925)
Mike Enzi, American politician (b. 1944)
Joey Jordison, American heavy metal musician (b. 1975)
Ivan Toplak, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1931)
Saginaw Grant, American actor (b. 1936)
Mo Hayder, British writer (b. 1962)
Jean-François Stévenin, French actor (b. 1944)
Oleg Baklanov, Russian politician (b. 1932)
Porfirio Armando Betancourt, Honduran footballer (b. 1957)
Roberto Calasso, Italian writer and publisher (b. 1941)
István Csom, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1940)
Satsuki Eda, Japanese politician (b. 1941)
Pete George, American weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1929)
Dusty Hill, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
Carl Levin, American politician (b. 1934)
Albert Vanhoye, French Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1923)
July 31 – Terry Cooper, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
August 1 – Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (b. 1930)
Angela Bailey, English-born Canadian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1962)
Antonio de la Torre Villalpando, Mexican footballer (b. 1951)
Arthur Dion Hanna, 7th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1928)
Jean Hale, American actress (b. 1938)
Miroslav Lazanski, Serbian politician (b. 1950)
Antonio Pennacchi, Italian writer (b. 1950)
Bobby Eaton, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
Graham McRae, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1940)
Padma Sachdev, Indian poet and novelist (b. 1940)
Yevhen Marchuk, 4th Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1941)
Gábor Novák, Hungarian sprint canoer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1934)
Donald Kagan, Lithuanian-born American historian (b. 1932)
Trevor Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1980)
Brad Allan, Australian choreographer, stuntman and actor (b. 1973)
Markie Post, American actress (b. 1950)
Jane Withers, American actress (b. 1926)
Paul Hellyer, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
Stefan Kapłaniak, Polish sprint canoer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1933)
Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet, translator, and philosopher (b. 1941)
Cesare Salvadori, Italian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
Sir Lester Bird, 2nd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1938)
Alex Cord, American actor (b. 1933)
Pat Hitchcock, English-born American actress (b. 1928)
Sergei Kovalev, Russian human rights activist and politician (b. 1930)
Olivia Podmore, New Zealand Olympic cyclist (b. 1997)
Tony Esposito, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1943)
Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1927)
Victoria Paris, American pornographic actress and model (b. 1960)
Peter Fleischmann, German movie director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
Gianluigi Gelmetti, Italian-Monégasque conductor and composer (b. 1945)
Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician (b. 1930)
Karl-Friedrich Haas, German sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1931)
Tarcísio Meira, Brazilian actor (b. 1935)
Una Stubbs, English actress (b. 1937)
Igael Tumarkin, German-born Israeli painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1929)
Gino Strada, Italian physician and activist (b. 1948)
Carlos Correia, 5th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
Piera Degli Esposti, Italian actress (b. 1939)
R. Murray Schafer, Canadian composer and writer (b. 1933)
Abdelhamid Brahimi, 3rd Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1936)
Paul Mitchell, American politician and businessman (b. 1956)
Gerd Müller, German footballer (b. 1945)
Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet-born Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion (b. 1936)
Sean Lock, English comedian and actor (b. 1963)
August 18 – Evgeny Sveshnikov, Russian chess player and writer (b. 1950)
Raoul Cauvin, Belgian comics writer (b. 1938)
Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist (b. 1939)
Chuck Close, American painter (b. 1940)
Sir Michael Cullen, 16th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1945)
Ian Carey, American DJ and record producer (b. 1976)
Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1936)
Don Everly, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (b. 1940)
Nicoletta Orsomando, Italian radio announcer and television personality (b. 1929)
Kalyan Singh, Indian politician (b. 1932)
August 22 – Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
Michael Nader, American actor (b. 1945)
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher (b. 1940)
José Yudica, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1936)
Rosita Quintana, Argentine-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
Hissène Habré, 1st Prime Minister and 5th President of Chad (b. 1942)
Harry Kent, New Zealand cyclist (b. 1947)
Jan Suchý, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1944)
Wilfried Van Moer, Belgian footballer (b. 1945)
Charlie Watts, English drummer (b. 1941)
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini, 11th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932)
Gerry Ashmore, English racing driver (b. 1936)
Gunilla Bergström, Swedish writer and illustrator (b. 1942)
Metin Çekmez, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
Aldo Eminente, French swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931)
Mario Guilloti, Argentine boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, Romanian fencer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
August 26 – Vladimir Shadrin, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player, coach and Olympic champion (b. 1948)
Edmond H. Fischer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
Siegfried Matthus, German composer and conductor (b. 1934)
Akis Tsochatzopoulos, Greek politician and convicted criminal (b. 1939)
Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek academic and historian (b. 1935)
Teresa Żylis-Gara, Polish operatic soprano (b. 1930)
Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929)
Ron Bushy, American rock drummer (b. 1941)
Jacques Rogge, 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942)
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican record producer and singer (b. 1936)
Vasile Belous, Moldovan boxer (b. 1988)
Michael Constantine, American actor (b. 1927)
Julie Ditty, American tennis player (b. 1979)
Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (b. 1944)
Jean-Denis Bredin, French lawyer (b. 1929)
Daffney, American professional wrestler (b. 1975)
Leopoldo Serantes, Filipino boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1962)
Juan Rodríguez Vega, Chilean footballer (b. 1944)
Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor (b. 1934)
Aydin Ibrahimov, Azerbaijani wrestler and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1938)
Sidharth Shukla, Indian actor and reality show contestant (b. 1980)
Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer and politician (b. 1925)
Albert Giger, Swiss cross country skier and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1946)
Jörg Schlaich, German structural engineer (b. 1934)
Willard Scott, American weatherman (b. 1934)
Ion Caramitru, Romanian actor and politician (b. 1942)
Sarah Harding, English singer and actress (b. 1981)
Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian sprint canoeist, canoe racing coach and Olympic champion (b. 1949)
Živko Radišić, 2nd Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1937)
Jean-Pierre Adams, Senegalese-born French footballer (b. 1948)
Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (b. 1933)
Nino Castelnuovo, Italian actor (b. 1936)
Michael K. Williams, American actor (b. 1966)
September 7 – Jahangir Butt, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1943)
Dietmar Lorenz, German judoka and Olympic champion (b. 1950)
Art Metrano, American actor and comedian (b. 1936)
Yevgeny Zinichev, Russian politician and general (b. 1966)
Gene Littles, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
Danilo Popivoda, Slovenian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
Charles Konan Banny, 6th Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1942)
Jorge Sampaio, 18th President of Portugal (b. 1939)
Minna Aaltonen, Finnish actress and television host (b. 1966)
Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian Maoist leader and convicted terrorist (b. 1934)
Phùng Quang Thanh, Vietnamese politician and general (b. 1949)
Fran Bennett, American actress and teacher (b. 1937)
John Shelby Spong, American Episcopal bishop (b. 1931)
Fabio Taborre, Italian cyclist (b. 1985)
Gunnar Utterberg, Swedish sprint canoer and Olympic champion (b. 1942)
Antony Hewish, British radio astronomer and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1924)
Borisav Jović, 12th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1928)
Andrey Makeyev, Russian basketball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1952)
George Wein, American pianist and festival promoter (b. 1925)
David Yonggi Cho, South Korean Christian minister and convicted embezzler (b. 1936)
Ladislav Lubina, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1967)
Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1959)
Yuriy Sedykh, Russian track and field athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1955)
Žana Lelas, Croatian basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1970)
Gavan O'Herlihy, Irish-born American actor (b. 1951)
Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, Moroccan Islamic militant (b. 1973)
Dušan Ivković, Serbian basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
George Mraz, Czech-American musician (b. 1944)
Casimir Oyé-Mba, 3rd Prime Minister of Gabon (b. 1942)
Jane Powell, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1929)
Sir Clive Sinclair, English businessman and inventor (b. 1940)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 7th President of Algeria (b. 1937)
Thanu Padmanabhan, Indian physicist and cosmologist (b. 1957)
Alfonso Sastre, Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic (b. 1926)
Mario Camus, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish road racing cyclist (b. 1984)
Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer, poet and theatre director (b. 1931)
John Challis, English actor and comedian (b. 1942)
Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (b. 1940)
Sherwood Boehlert, American politician (b. 1936)
Jan Jindra, Czech rower and Olympic champion (b. 1932)
Aloys Jousten, Belgian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1937)
Claude Lombard, Belgian singer (b. 1945)
Helmut Oberlander, Ukrainian-born Canadian Nazi soldier (b. 1924)
Aharon Abuhatzira, Moroccan-born Israeli politician and convicted fraudster (b. 1938)
Romano Fogli, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1938)
Willie Garson, American actor (b. 1964)
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (b. 1935)
Abdelkader Bensalah, Acting Head of State of Algeria (b. 1941)
Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer and Olympic champion (b. 1944)
Roger Michell, South African-born British movie director (b. 1956)
Jüri Tamm, Estonian politician, hammer thrower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1957)
Melvin Van Peebles, American movie director, actor and playwright (b. 1932)
Kjell Askildsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1929)
Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1942)
Nino Vaccarella, Italian racecar driver (b. 1933)
Pee Wee Ellis, American saxophonist, composer and arranger (b. 1941)
Takao Saito, Japanese manga artist (b. 1936)
Paul Quilès, French politician (b. 1942)
Patricio Manns, Chilean singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
Mehdi Yaghoubi, Iranian wrestler and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1930)
José Freire Falcão, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1925)
Alan Lancaster, English rock bassist (b. 1949)
Roger Hunt, English footballer (b. 1938)
Cecilia Lindqvist, Swedish Sinologist and academic (b. 1932)
Tommy Kirk, American actor (b. 1941)
Eberhard Jüngel, German theologian (b. 1934)
Barry Ryan, British pop singer and photographer (b. 1948)
Lonnie Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1942)
Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1924)
Hayko, Armenian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1973)
Bronius Kutavičius, Lithuanian composer (b. 1932)
Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer (b. 1926)
Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (b. 1931)
October 1 – Earle Wells, New Zealand sailor, rower and Olympic champion (b. 1933)
Anthony Downs, American economist and politologist (b. 1930)
Ioannis Palaiokrassas, Greek politician (b. 1934)
Todd Akin, American politician (b. 1947)
Blanka Bohdanová, Czech actress (b. 1930)
Josep Maria Forn, Spanish actor and movie director (b. 1928)
Cynthia Harris, American actress (b. 1934)
Jorge Medina, Chilean Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1926)
Budge Patty, American tennis player (b. 1924)
Bernard Tapie, French businessman, politician and actor (b. 1943)
Lars Vilks, Swedish visual artist (b. 1946)
Sergey Danilin, Russian luger and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1960)
Valeriy Pidluzhnyy, Ukrainian long jumper and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1952)
Jürgen Goslar, German movie director and actor (b. 1927)
Robert Hosp, Swiss footballer (b. 1939)
October 6 – Tomoyasu Asaoka, Japanese footballer (b. 1962)
James Brokenshire, British politician (b. 1968)
Eva Rönström, Swedish gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1932)
Jerry Shipp, American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1935)
Raymond T. Odierno, American general (b. 1954)
Sanpei Shirato, Japanese manga artist (b. 1932)
October 9 – Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (b. 1933)
Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist (b. 1936)
Luis de Pablo, Spanish composer (b. 1930)
Tony DeMarco, American boxer (b. 1932)
Paddy Moloney, Irish musician, composer and producer (b. 1938)
Olav Nilsen, Norwegian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor (b. 1948)
October 12 – Dragutin Čermak, Serbian basketball player, coach and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1944)
Viktor Bryukhanov, Uzbek engineer (b. 1935)
Dale Kildee, American politician (b. 1929)
Agnes Tirop, Kenyan long-distance runner (b. 1995)
October 14 – Lee Wan-koo, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1950)
Sir David Amess, British politician (b. 1952)
Dan Benishek, American physician and politician (b. 1952)
Ruthie Tompson, American animator and supercentenarian (b. 1910)
Leo Boivin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
Felipe Cazals, Mexican movie director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
Betty Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1944)
Anders Bodelsen, Danish writer (b. 1937)
Val Bisoglio, American actor (b. 1926)
Franco Cerri, Italian guitarist (b. 1926)
Edita Gruberová, Slovak operatic soprano (b. 1946)
Willy Kemp, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer (b. 1925)
János Kornai, Hungarian economist and academic (b. 1928)
Colin Powell, American general and politician (b. 1937)
Jack Angel, American actor (b. 1930)
Leslie Bricusse, British composer, lyricist and playwright (b. 1931)
Pierre Kerkhoffs, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
Branko Mamula, Serbian politician and admiral (b. 1921)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1934)
Dragan Pantelić, Serbian footballer (b. 1951)
Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist (b. 1929)
Halyna Hutchins, Ukrainian-born American cinematographer and journalist (b. 1979)
Álex Quiñónez, Ecuadorian Olympic sprinter (b. 1989)
Peter Scolari, American actor (b. 1955)
Vyacheslav Vedenin, Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
Udo Zimmermann, German composer, opera director and conductor (b. 1943)
Marcel Bluwal, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1949)
Sirkka Turkka, Finnish poet (b. 1939)
Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Polish actor (b. 1950)
James Michael Tyler, American actor (b. 1962)
Fofi Gennimata, Greek politician (b. 1964)
Aleksandar Shalamanov, Bulgarian footballer and Olympic alpine skier (b. 1941)
Umberto Colombo, Italian footballer (b. 1933)
Roh Tae-woo, 6th President of South Korea (b. 1932)
Mort Sahl, Canadian-born American comedian, television personality and actor (b. 1927)
Walter Smith, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)
Bob Ferry, American basketball player and general manager (b. 1937)
Bernd Nickel, German footballer (b. 1949)
October 28 – Linwood Holton, American politician (b. 1923)
Mehdi Cerbah, Algerian footballer (b. 1953)
Aleksandr Martyshkin, Russian rower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1943)
Clément Mouamba, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1943)
Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor (b. 1975)
Pepi Bader, German bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1941)
Vyacheslav Khrynin, Russian basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
Igor Kirillov, Russian news anchor (b. 1932)
Basílio do Nascimento, East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1950)
Bert Newton, Australian television presenter (b. 1938)
Bernardo Tengarrinha, Portuguese footballer (b. 1989)
Doğan Akhanlı, Turkish-German writer (b. 1957)
Dean Shek, Hong Kong actor and producer (b. 1950)
Dame Catherine Tizard, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1931)
Gulraiz Akhtar, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (b. 1943)
Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist (b. 1921)
Emmett Chapman, American jazz guitarist and composer (b. 1936)
Nelson Freire, Brazilian pianist (b. 1944)
Pat Martino, American guitarist and composer (b. 1944)
Sabah Fakhri, Syrian tenor singer (b. 1933)
Dennis Moore, American politician and lawyer (b. 1945)
Viktor Putyatin, Ukrainian fencer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1941)
Neal Edward Smith, American politician (b. 1920)
Joanna Bruzdowicz, Polish composer (b. 1943)
Helga Lindner, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1951)
Dorothy Manley, British sprint runner and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1927)
Mario Lavista, Mexican composer and writer (b. 1943)
Ruth Ann Minner, American politician (b. 1935)
November 5 – Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1995)
Pavol Molnár, Slovak footballer (b. 1936)
Shawn Rhoden, Jamaican-American professional bodybuilder (b. 1975)
Raúl Rivero, Cuban poet and journalist (b. 1945)
Luíz Antônio dos Santos, Brazilian Olympic long-distance runner (b. 1964)
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, 12th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1948)
Muamer Zukorlić, Serbian politician and Islamic cleric (b. 1970)
Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1933)
Liudmila Belavenets, Russian chess player (b. 1940)
Sir James Gobbo, Australian politician, lawyer and judge (b. 1931)
Igor Nikulin, Russian hammer thrower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1960)
Enrique Rocha, Mexican actor (b. 1940)
Dean Stockwell, American actor (b. 1936)
Bas van der Vlies, 6th Leader of the Reformed Political Party (b. 1942)
Medina Dixon, American basketball player and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1962)
Mike Harris, South African racing driver (b. 1939)
Wilhelm Schraml, German Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1935)
Max Cleland, American politician (b. 1942)
Erika Fisch, German athlete (b. 1934)
Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese Buddhist nun and writer (b. 1922)
November 10 – Jun Hong Lu, Chinese-born Australian religious leader (b. 1959)
Per Aage Brandt, Danish poet, linguist and musician (b. 1944)
F. W. de Klerk, 7th State President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1936)
Graeme Edge, English drummer, songwriter and poet (b. 1941)
Carl von Essen, Swedish fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1940)
Winter, American Bottlenose dolphin (b. 2005)
Bob Bondurant, American racing driver (b. 1933)
Yevgeniy Chazov, Russian physician and politician (b. 1929)
Lothar Claesges, German cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1942)
Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (b. 1949)
Ron Flowers, English footballer (b. 1934)
Aleksandr Lenyov, Russian footballer (b. 1944)
Hadiya Khalaf Abbas, Syrian politician (b. 1958)
Ivo Georgiev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1972)
Gilbert Harman, American philosopher (b. 1938)
Wilbur Smith, Zambian-born British-South African writer (b. 1933)
Emi Wada, Japanese costume designer (b. 1937)
Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American writer and visual artist (b. 1925)
Bertie Auld, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
Virginio Pizzali, Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1934)
Satya Vrat Shastri, Indian scholar (b. 1930)
László Z. Bitó, Hungarian physiologist and writer (b. 1934)
Valeriy Dolinin, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1953)
Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player (b. 1975)
Osman Öcalan, Turkish militant and political activist (b. 1958)
November 16 – Nadrian Seeman, American nanotechnologist and crystallographer (b. 1945)
Leonid Bartenyev, Ukrainian sprinter, coach and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1933)
Theuns Jordaan, South African singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1971)
Art LaFleur, American actor (b. 1943)
Young Dolph, American rapper (b. 1985)
Slide Hampton, American jazz trombonist (b. 1932)
Mick Rock, British photographer (b. 1948)
Dzyanis Kowba, Belarusian footballer (b. 1979)
Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian politician (b. 1928)
Hank von Hell, Norwegian punk rock singer and actor (b. 1972)
Don Kojis, American basketball player (b. 1939)
Will Ryan, American actor and singer (b. 1949)
György Schöpflin, Hungarian politician (b. 1939)
Robert Bly, American poet (b. 1926)
Marietta Chudakova, Russian literary critic, historian, and writer (b. 1937)
Nina Ruslanova, Russian actress (b. 1945)
Noah Gordon, American writer (b. 1926)
Volker Lechtenbrink, German actor and singer (b. 1944
Paolo Pietrangeli, Italian singer-songwriter, movie director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
Marie Versini, French actress (b. 1940)
Chun Doo-hwan, 5th President of South Korea (b. 1931)
Sir James Mitchell, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1932)
Ennio Doris, Italian banker (b. 1940)
Wiesław Hartman, Polish show jumping equestrian and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1950)
November 25 – Oleksandr Omelchenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1938)
Doug Cowie, Scottish footballer (b. 1926)
Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (b. 1930)
Aleksandr Timoshinin, Russian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1948)
German Zonin, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
Almudena Grandes, Spanish writer (b. 1960)
Matti Keinonen, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1941)
Ruy Ohtake, Brazilian architect (b. 1938)
Virgil Abloh, American fashion designer (b. 1980)
Justo Gallego Martínez, Spanish monk and builder (b. 1925)
Alexander Gradsky, Russian rock singer, musician, and composer (b. 1949)
Laila Halme, Finnish singer (b. 1934)
C. J. Hunter, American Olympic shot putter and coach (b. 1968)
Emmit King, American Olympic sprinter (b. 1959)
Carrie Meek, American politician (b. 1926)
Norodom Ranariddh, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1944)
Prince Andrew Romanoff, Disputed Head of the House of Romanov (b. 1923)
Jolene Unsoeld, American politician (b. 1931)
Sir Frank Williams, British motor racing team owner and constructor (b. 1942)
Kinza Clodumar, 7th President of Nauru (b. 1945)
Arlene Dahl, American actress (b. 1925)
David Gulpilil, Australian actor (b. 1953)
Vladimir Naumov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
Alexander Zaitsev, Russian astronomer (b. 1945)
Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian writer and poet (b. 1939)
Oriol Bohigas, Spanish architect and urban planner (b. 1925)
Albert Bustamante, American politician and lawyer (b. 1935)
Ray Kennedy, English footballer (b. 1951)
Jonathan Penrose, English chess player (b. 1933)
Erwin Wilczek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1940)
Alvin Lucier, American composer (b. 1931)
Miroslav Zikmund, Czech writer and explorer (b. 1919)
Aldo Giordano, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1954)
Darlene Hard, American tennis player (b. 1936)
Richard Lerner, American chemist (b. 1938)
Sir Antony Sher, South African-born British actor (b. 1949)
Lawrence Weiner, American conceptual artist (b. 1942)
Lamine Diack, Senegalese businessman, sports administrator, and athlete (b. 1933)
Horst Eckel, German footballer (b. 1932)
Nina Urgant, Russian actress (b. 1929)
Momčilo Vukotić, Serbian footballer (b. 1950)
Jōji Yanami, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
Paul Lannoye, Belgian politician (b. 1939)
Pierre Rabhi, Algerian-born French environmentalist (b. 1938)
Bob Dole, American politician (b. 1923)
Aurelio Galfetti, Swiss architect (b. 1936)
Stevan Jelovac, Serbian basketball player (b. 1989)
John Miles, British singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1949)
Jacques Tits, Belgian-born French mathematician (b. 1930)
Emma Gapchenko, Russian archer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1938)
Masayuki Uemura, Japanese video game engineer (b. 1943)
Kåre Willoch, 30th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1928)
December 7 – Mustafa Ben Halim, 3rd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1921)
Barry Harris, American jazz musician (b. 1929)
Susana Higuchi, Peruvian politician and engineer (b. 1950)
Lars Høgh, Danish footballer and coach (b. 1959)
Blackjack Lanza, American professional wrestler (b. 1935)
Alfredo Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1980)
Bipin Rawat, Indian military officer (b. 1958)
Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican bassist and record producer (b. 1953)
Andrzej Zieliński, Polish sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1936)
Jacques Zimako, French footballer (b. 1951)
Robert Jervis, American politologist (b. 1940)
Otar Patsatsia, 3rd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1929)
Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress, comedian and politician (b. 1939)
Al Unser, American racing driver (b. 1939)
Lina Wertmüller, Italian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
Cara Williams, American actress (b. 1925)
Maryse Wolinski, French writer and journalist (b. 1943)
December 10 – Michael Nesmith, American musician and songwriter (b. 1942)
Jack Hedley, British actor (b. 1929)
Anne Rice, American writer (b. 1941)
Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
Vicente Fernández, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1940)
Sir Paulias Matane, 8th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1931)
Yury Sharov, Russian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1939)
Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress (b. 1955)
Sergei Solovyov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1944)
December 14 – Rosita Sokou, Greek writer (b. 1923)
Ernst Fivian, Swiss gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1931)
bell hooks, American feminist writer (b. 1952)
Marilee Stepan, American swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1935)
Fayez Tarawneh, 31st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1949)
December 16 – Lucía Hiriart, 38th First Lady of Chile (b. 1922)
December 17 – Árpád Pusztai, Hungarian-born British biochemist and nutritionist (b. 1930)
Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1986)
Richard Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Italian-born British architect (b. 1933)
Boško Abramović, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1951)
Antoine Faivre, French scholar and occultist (b. 1934)
Carie Graves, American rower and Olympic champion (b. 1953)
Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1942)
Sally Ann Howes, English actress and singer (b. 1931)
Johnny Isakson, American politician (b. 1944)
Carlos Marín, German-born Spanish singer (b. 1968)
Norberto Boggio, Argentine footballer (b. 1931)
Jiří Čadek, Czech footballer (b. 1935)
Giuseppe Galante, Italian rower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
December 21 – Sir Carlyle Glean, 5th Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1932)
Chris Dickerson, American bodybuilder (b. 1939)
Joan Didion, American writer (b. 1934)
December 24 – José Villegas, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
Richard Marcinko, American military commander (b. 1940)
Jonathan Spence, English-born American historian and sinologist (b. 1936)
Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (b. 1920)
Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1929)
Karolos Papoulias, 6th President of Greece (b. 1929)
Dorval Rodrigues, Brazilian footballer (b. 1935)
Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican prelate, civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1931)
Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director (b. 1963)
E. O. Wilson, American biologist and writer (b. 1929)
April Ashley, English model, actress and writer (b. 1935)
Andreas Behm, German weightlifter and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1962)
Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist and poet (b. 1947)
Andrew Vachss, American writer and lawyer (b. 1942)
Michael R. Clifford, American astronaut (b. 1952)
John Madden, American football coach and sportscaster (b. 1936)
Hugo Maradona, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1969)
Harry Reid, American politician (b. 1939)
Sabine Weiss, Swiss-French photographer (b. 1924)
Antoine Bonifaci, French footballer (b. 1931)
Christian Gyan, Ghanaian-Dutch footballer (b. 1978)
Sam Jones, American basketball player (b. 1933)
Karel Loprais, Czech rally raid driver (b. 1949)
December 31 – Betty White, American actress and comedian (b. 1922)
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
2022 (MMXXII) was .
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Mino De Rossi, Italian cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1931)
Mark Forest, American bodybuilder and actor (b. 1933)
Anatoly Kvashnin, Russian general (b. 1946)
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)
Franco Cavallo, Italian sailor and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1932)