Celebrities and global icons who died in 2022

Remembering famous figures the world lost this year

The past year saw the deaths of several high-profile figures including Britain’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as well as the former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union.

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