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January[edit]
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- January 2 – Ken Block, American World Rally driver (b. 1967)[1][2]
- January 3 – Abdelsalam Majali, 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925)[3]
- January 4 – Rosi Mittermaier, German alpine skier and Olympic champion (b. 1950)[4]
- January 6
- Dick Savitt, American tennis player (b. 1927)[5]
- Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1964)[6]
- January 9 – K. Alex Müller, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1927)[7]
- January 10
- Jeff Beck, English guitarist (b. 1944)[8]
- Constantine II, last King of Greece (b. 1940)[9]
- George Pell, Australian cardinal (b. 1941)[10]
- January 13 – Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (b. 1931)[11]
- January 16
- Vladas Česiūnas, Lithuanian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (b. 1940)[12]
- Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress (b. 1927)[13]
- January 17 – Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian (b. 1904)[14]
- January 18 – David Crosby, American musician (b. 1941)[15]
- January 23 – Álvaro Colom, 47th President of Guatemala (b. 1951)[16]
- January 24 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect (b. 1927)[17]
- January 30 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)[18]
February[edit]
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- February 2 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French F1 driver (b. 1942)[19]
- February 3 – Paco Rabanne, Spanish-French fashion designer (b. 1934)[20]
- February 4 – Sherif Ismail, 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955)[21]
- February 5 – Pervez Musharraf, 10th President of Pakistan (b. 1943)[22]
- February 6
- Lubomír Štrougal, 19th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1924)[23]
- Christian Atsu, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1992)[24]
- February 8
- Burt Bacharach, American composer (b. 1928)[25]
- Ivan Silayev, 12th and final Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1930)[26]
- February 10
- Hugh Hudson, English film director (b. 1936)[27]
- Hans Modrow, 5th and final Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (b. 1928)[28]
- Carlos Saura, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1932)[29]
- Sergey Tereshchenko, 1st Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1951)[30]
- February 13 – José María Gil-Robles, 8th President of the European Parliament (b. 1935)[31]
- February 14 – Shoichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman (b. 1925)[32]
- February 15
- February 17 – Stella Stevens, American actress (b. 1938)[35]
- February 18 – Petar Zhekov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1944)[36]
- February 21 – Amancio, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)[37]
- February 22 – Ahmed Qurei, 2nd Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (b. 1937)[38]
- February 23 – John Motson, English football commentator (b. 1945)[39][importance?]
- February 24 – Walter Mirisch, American film producer (b. 1921)[40]
- February 26 – Bob Richards, American pole vaulter and Olympic champion (b. 1926)[41]
- February 27 – Gérard Latortue, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1934)[42]
March[edit]
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- March 1 – Just Fontaine, French footballer (b. 1933)[43]
- March 2
- Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1933)[44]
- Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan architect (b. 1944)[45]
- March 3 – Tom Sizemore, American actor (b. 1961)[46]
- March 5
- Klaus Bonsack, German luger and Olympic champion (b. 1941)[47]
- Gary Rossington, American guitarist (b. 1951)[48]
- Shozo Sasahara, Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1929)[49]
- March 6 – Pavel Kharin, Russian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (b. 1927)[50]
- March 7 – Pat McCormick, American diver and Olympic champion (b. 1930)[51]
- March 8 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (b. 1935)[52]
- March 9 – Robert Blake, American actor (b. 1933)[53]
- March 11 – Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor (b. 1925) [54]
- March 14 – Bobby Caldwell, American musician (b. 1951)[55]
- March 17 – Lance Reddick, American actor (b. 1962)[56]
- March 25 - Pascoal Mocumbi, 2nd Prime Minister of Mozambique (b. 1941)[57]
- March 28 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer (b. 1952) [58]
- March 31 – Sir Rabbie Namaliu, 4th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1947)[59]
April[edit]
- April 7 – Ben Ferencz, Last Nuremberg prosecutor (b. 1920) [60]
- April 13 – Mary Quant, British fashion designer (b. 1930) [61]
- April 22
- Mudar Badran, 23rd Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1934)[62]
- Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian (b. 1934)[63]
- April 23 – Tori Bowie, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1990)[64]
- April 25
- Harry Belafonte, American singer, actor, and activist (b. 1927)[65]
- Vera Krepkina, Ukrainian long jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1933) [66]
- April 29 – Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi 4th caliph of the Islamic State (b. N/A) [67]
- April 30 – Ralph Boston American long jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1939)[68]
May[edit]
- May 1 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938) [69]
- May 3 – Nikica Valentić, 5th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1950)[70]
- May 5 – Siiri Rantanen, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1924)[71]
- May 15 – Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and Nobel laureate (b. 1937)[72]
- May 19 – Martin Amis, English writer (b. 1949) [73]
- May 20 – Terry McDermott, American speed skater and Olympic champion (b. 1940)[74]
- May 24 – Tina Turner, American-born Swiss singer, songwriter and actress (b. 1939)[75]
- May 28 – Harald zur Hausen, German virologist and Nobel Prize recipient (b. 1936)[76]
- May 29 – Vítězslav Mácha, Czech wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1948)[77]
June[edit]
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- June 3 – Jim Hines, American sprinter and Olympic champion (b. 1946)[78]
- June 4 – George Winston, American pianist (b. 1949)[79]
- June 5 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer (b. 1940)[80]
- June 10 – Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (b. 1942)[81]
- June 12
- Silvio Berlusconi, three-time Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1936)[82]
- Treat Williams, American actor (b. 1951)[83]
- June 15 – Glenda Jackson, English actress (b. 1936)[84]
- June 23 – Jimmy Kim, American taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion (b. 1967)[85]
- June 25 – John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist and Nobel laureate (b. 1922)[86]
- June 26 – Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1937)[87]
- June 29
- Alan Arkin, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1934)[88]
- Sir Tapley Seaton, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1950)[89]
July[edit]
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- July 2 – Milan Milutinović, President of Serbia (b. 1942)[90]
- July 6
- Arnaldo Forlani, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1925)[91]
- Peter Nero, American pianist and pops conductor (b. 1934)[92]
- July 11 – Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist (b. 1929)[93]
- July 12 – André Watts, American classical pianist (b. 1946)[94]
- July 17 – Sue Marx, American documentary film director (b. 1930)[95]
- July 20 – Rachid Sfar, Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1933)[96]
- July 21 – Tony Bennett, American singer (b. 1926)[97]
- July 25 – Bo Goldman American screenwriter (b. 1932)[98]
- July 26
- Jean-Jacques Honorat, 3rd Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1931)[99]
- Randy Meisner, American musician (b. 1946)[100]
- Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer (b. 1966)[101]
- July 30 – Paul Reubens, American actor (b. 1952)[102]
- July 31 – Surat Huseynov, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1959)[103]
August[edit]
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- August 4 – Boniface Alexandre, provisional president of Haiti (b. 1936)[104]
- August 5 – Arthur Schmidt, American film editor (b. 1937)[105]
- August 7 – William Friedkin, American film and television director (b. 1935)[106]
- August 17
- Karol J. Bobko, American astronaut (b. 1937)[107]
- John Devitt, Australian sprint freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion (b. 1937)[108]
- August 19 – John Edward Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc. (b. 1940) [109]
- August 22
- August 23
- Dmitry Utkin, mercenary leader and co-founder of Wagner Group (b. 1970)[112]
- Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary leader and co-founder of Wagner Group (b. 1961)[113]
September[edit]
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- ^ "Former Blackhawks great Bobby Hull dies at 84". January 30, 2023. Archived from the original on January 30, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ^ "Double F1 race winner Jean-Pierre Jabouille dies aged 80". Archived from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "Designer Paco Rabanne dies aged 88". BBC News. February 3, 2023. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
- ^ "President Sisi Mourns Death of Former PM Sherif Ismail". Archived from the original on February 4, 2023. Retrieved February 4, 2023.
- ^ "Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan President, passes away after prolonged illness in Dubai". The Times of India. February 5, 2023. Archived from the original on February 5, 2023. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
- ^ "Zemřel expremiér Lubomír Štrougal - Seznam Zprávy". www.seznamzpravy.cz. Archived from the original on February 6, 2023.
- ^ "Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu: 'You served our country well. Rest in peace'". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94". CBS News. Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ "Скончался экс-председатель Совета министров РСФСР Иван Силаев". Interfax.ru. Archived from the original on February 9, 2023.
- ^ "Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson dies aged 86". The Telegraph. February 10, 2023. Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ "Hans Modrow ist tot - Eulenspiegel Verlagsgruppe". www.eulenspiegel.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2023.
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- ^ "Fallece el expresidente del Parlamento Europeo, José María Gil-Robles". La Información. February 13, 2023. Archived from the original on February 13, 2023.
- ^ "Shoichiro Toyoda, who led Toyota's surge into U.S. market, dies at 97". Washington Post. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
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- ^ Muere Amancio Amaro, leyenda del Real Madrid (in Spanish)
- ^ Former PA cabinet leader Ahmed Qurei dies at 85
- ^ John Motson: Legendary commentator dies aged 77
- ^ Walter Mirisch, Oscar-Winning Producer of ‘In the Heat of the Night,’ Dies at 101
- ^ Bob Richards
- ^ Gérard Latortue, former interim Haitian premier, dies at 88
- ^ Just Fontaine, légende du football français, est mort (in French)
- ^ Wayne Shorter, icon of jazz saxophone, dies aged 89
- ^ https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/fallecio-el-arquitecto-uruguayo-rafael-vinoly-20233312127
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- ^ DDR-Rodellegende Klaus Bonsack gestorben (in German)
- ^ Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Last Original Member, Dead at 71
- ^ Shozo Sasahara
- ^ Умер чемпион Олимпиады-1956 в гребле Павел Харин (in Russian)
- ^ Aguilar, Robert (March 8, 2023). "Seal Beach's Olympic Icon Pat McCormick has passed away". The Seal Beach Sun. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ Actor, singer and Israel Prize laureate Chaim Topol dies at 87
- ^ Robert Blake Dies: Actor In ‘Baretta’ And ‘In Cold Blood’ Was 89, Beat Real-Life Murder Rap
- ^ "Muere el actor Ignacio López Tarso, el Macario inmortal del cine de oro mexicano". El País. 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ Bobby Caldwell, 'What You Won't Do For Love' Singer Dead at 71
- ^ Lance Reddick Dies: ‘John Wick’, ‘The Wire’, ‘Fringe’ & ‘Bosch’ Actor Was 60
- ^ Melo, Thiago (25 March 2023). "Morreu ex-primeiro-ministro de Moçambique Pascoal Mocumbi". dw.com. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 25 March 2023. (in Portuguese)
- ^ Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pop pioneer and Oscar-winning composer, dies aged 71
- ^ Ex-PM Namaliu dies suddenly in Rabaul
- ^ McFadden, Robert D. (April 8, 2023). "Benjamin B. Ferencz, Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor, Dies at 103". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
- ^ "Fashion designer Mary Quant dies aged 93". Sky News. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ Former PM Mudar Badran passes away
- ^ "Barry Humphries, entertainment icon behind Dame Edna, dies aged 89". 22 April 2023. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ^ Tori Bowie
- ^ Harry Belafonte, radical activist and entertainer with a ‘rebel heart,’ dies at 96
- ^ В Киеве умерла титулованная олимпийская чемпионка, покорившая весь Рим (фото) (in Russian)
- ^ Islamic State leader killed in Syria by Turkish intelligence services, Erdogan says
- ^ Tennessee State and Olympic track great Ralph Boston, who set world long jump record, dies at 83
- ^ Morris, Chris. "Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 84". Variety. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
- ^ Umro je Nikica Valentić (in Croatian)
- ^ Siiri Rantanen kuoli (in Finnish)
- ^ Robert Lucas, R.I.P.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (20 May 2023). "Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73". The New York Times. Vol. 172, no. 59795. pp. A1, A23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ Terry McDermott, Olympic gold medalist who was on Ed Sullivan Beatles episode, dies at 82
- ^ Tina Turner dies aged 83
- ^ Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen has passed away
- ^ Zesnul olympijský vítěz z Mnichova 1972 Vítězslav Mácha (in Czech)
- ^ Jim Hines, 1968 Olympic 100m champion and world record-holder, dies
- ^ Pianist George Winston Dead At 73
- ^ Astrud Gilberto: The Girl from Ipanema singer dies at 83
- ^ Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell
- ^ Silvio Berlusconi: former Italian prime minister has died at 86
- ^ Treat Williams, Star of 'Everwood' and 'Hair,' Dead at 71 Following Motorcycle Accident
- ^ Glenda Jackson: Oscar-winning actress and former MP dies at 87
- ^ Jimmy Kim
- ^ Goodenough, Nobel laureate who gave the world Li-ion batteries, passes away
- ^ Former Prime Minister Sir Lloyd passes
- ^ Alan Arkin, Oscar-Winning 'Little Miss Sunshine' Actor, Dead at 89
- ^ St. Kitts and Nevis mourns as Former Governor-General Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton passes away
- ^ Преминуо бивши председник Србије Милан Милутиновић (in Serbian)
- ^ E’ morto a 97 anni Arnaldo Forlani, pezzo di storia della Dc (in Italian)
- ^ Famed pianist and Pops legend Peter Nero is dead at 89
- ^ Czech Writer Milan Kundera Dies At 94
- ^ Indiana University mourns loss of André Watts, distinguished professor of piano
- ^ Sue Marx, Oscar-winning filmmaker from Michigan, dies at 92
- ^ Tunisia: Former Prime Minister Rachid Sfar passes away
- ^ Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96
- ^ Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Script, Dies at 90
- ^ L’ancien premier ministre de facto sous le règne des putchistes Jean Jacques Honorat est mort (in French)
- ^ Randy Meisner, Founding Eagles Member, Dies at 77
- ^ Sinéad O'Connor obituary
- ^ Paul Reubens Dies: Pee-Wee Herman Actor Was 70
- ^ Former Azerbaijani prime minister passes away
- ^ Décès de Boniface Alexandre, ancien président haïtien par intérim (in French)
- ^ Arthur Schmidt, Oscar-Winning Film Editor on ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ Dies at 86
- ^ William Friedkin, ‘The Exorcist’ Director, Dies at 87
- ^ Karol 'Bo' Bobko, astronaut who flew 3 shuttle missions, dies at 85
- ^ Australian Olympic swimming gold medal winner John Devitt dies at the age of 86
- ^ Adobe Co-Founder Dr. John Warnock Passes at 82
- ^ Tom Courtney, Sprinter Who Lunged to Grab Olympic Gold, Dies at 90
- ^ CR Rao, renowned Indian-American statistician who won math ‘Nobel Prize’, passes away
- ^ Wagner chief Prigozhin confirmed dead by Russian authorities after genetic tests
- ^ Wagner chief Prigozhin confirmed dead by Russian authorities after genetic tests
