January
- 3: Igor BOGDANOFF, 72, one of the twin stars of 1980s television, also died of Covid six days after his brother Grichka
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, May 24, 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival © Valery HACHE / AFP/Archives
- 13: Jean-Jacques BEINEIX, 75 years old, filmmaker, author of the cult film "37°2 in the morning"
- 19: Gaspard ULLIEL, 37, actor, died in a skiing accident
Flowers laid in front of a portrait of actor Gaspard Ulliel during his funeral at the Saint-Eustache church on January 27, 2022 in Paris © BERTRAND GUAY / AFP/Archives
- 23: Thierry MUGLER, 73 years old, couturier with spectacular outfits who reigned over the fashion of the 80s
- 27: René de OBALDIA, 103 years old, writer, poet and playwright, dean of the French Academy
FEBRUARY
- 8: Luc MONTAGNIER, 89, Nobel Prize for the discovery of the AIDS virus, whose positions were then contested by the scientific community
Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the AIDS virus, December 10, 2008 in Stockholm © Olivier MORIN / AFP/Archives
- 9: André WILMS, 74 years old, actor, favorite actor of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki
- 18: François GROS, 95, biologist, co-discoverer of messenger RNA
- 28: Dominique PATUREL, 90 years old, actor, French voice of JR Ewing in the TV series "Dallas"
MARCH
- 2: Jean-Pierre PERNAUT, 71 years old, journalist, former star presenter of 13H on TF1
The funeral of Jean-Pierre Pernaut at the Sainte-Clothilde basilica, March 9, 2022 in Paris © Thomas SAMSON / AFP/Archives
- 12: Alain KRIVINE, 80, figure of the Trotskyist far left and former presidential candidate
- 21: Yvan COLONNA, 61, Corsican independence activist, assassin of the prefect Erignac, died after three weeks of coma following his attack in prison
APRIL
- 9: Michel DELEBARRE, 75 years old, former baron PS du Nord, former mayor of Dunkirk and seven times minister
The comedian and humorist Claude Vega during the "Studio 1" program of Europe 1, March 12, 1984 in Paris © - / AFP/Archives
- 11: Claude VEGA, 91, humorist and actor, considered the father of modern imitation
- 13: Michel BOUQUET, 96 years old, actor, monument of French theater
- 21: Jacques PERRIN, 80, actor, filmmaker and producer
Actor, director and producer Jacques Perrin, January 11, 2016 in Paris © FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP/Archives
- 27: Bernard PONS, 95, figure of the RPR and Gaullism, former minister long close to Jacques Chirac
- 30: Marthe GAUTIER, 96, doctor, co-discoverer of the supernumerary chromosome responsible for trisomy 21
MAY
- 1st: REGINE, 92 years old, singer and actress, who reigned for a long time on the world of the night with discotheques in France and abroad
The singer Régine on the stage of the Folies Bergères, May 11, 2004 in Paris © Bertrand GUAY / AFP/Archives
- 1st: Michel VINAVER, 95, playwright and ex-entrepreneur, father of actress Anouk Grinberg
- 18: Françoise RUDETZKI, 73 years old, seriously injured in an attack in Paris in 1983 and since then tireless spokesperson for the victims of terrorism
- 22: MISS.
TIC (Radhia NOVAT), 66 years old, pioneer of Parisian street art
The writer Claude Michelet at the Brive Book Fair in November 2003 © DIARMID COURREGES / AFP/Archives
- 26: Claude MICHELET, 83 years old, "writer-farmer" author of the saga "Des grives aux loups"
JUNE
- 13: Henri GARCIN, 94 years old, actor, famous for his role in the television series "Maguy"
- 16: Michel DAVID-WEILL, 89, ex-CEO of the Lazard bank, founder of the investment company Eurazeo
The actor Jean-Louis Trintignant in October 2012 in Rome © Tiziana FABI / AFP/Archives
- 17: Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT, 91 years old, actor, key figure in French cinema and theater
- 22: Yves COPPENS, 87, paleontologist, discoverer of hominid fossils, including the famous Australopithecus Lucy
JUNE
- 13: Charlotte VALANDREY, 53, actress, died after the failure of a second heart transplant
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, May 24, 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival © Valery HACHE / AFP/Archives
- 18: DANI (Danièle GRAULE), 77 years old, singer and icon of Parisian nights
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, May 24, 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival © Valery HACHE / AFP/Archives
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- 31: Christophe IZARD, 85, TV man, father of "L'Ile aux enfants"
AUGUST
- 6: Daniel LEVI, 60 years old, singer, known for his role in "The Ten Commandments"
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, May 24, 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival © Valery HACHE / AFP/Archives
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- 11: Jean-Jacques SEMPE, 89 years old, cartoonist, father of "Little Nicolas"
SEPTEMBER
- 6: Just JAECKIN, 82 years old, photographer, filmmaker, director of the successful erotic film "Emmanuelle"
- 13: Jean-Luc GODARD, 91, Franco-Swiss director and one of the fathers of the New Wave, died by assisted suicide
- 26: Michel PINCON, 80 years old, sociologist, known for his work on workers and the rich
- 29: Paul VEYNE, 92 years old, historian, specialist in Greco-Roman Antiquity
OCTOBER
- 9: Bruno LATOUR, 75 years old, philosopher, sociologist, figure of ecological thought
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, May 24, 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival © Valery HACHE / AFP/Archives
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- 18: Jean TEULE, 69, writer revealed by comics
- 25: Pierre SOULAGES, 102 years old, world star of painting, known for his paintings with infinite shades of black
- 31: Philippe ALEXANDRE, 90 years old, journalist, political columnist
NOVEMBER
- 20: Pascal JOSEPHE, 68 years old, director of the antennas of several television channels
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, May 24, 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival © Valery HACHE / AFP/Archives
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- 23: Christian BOBIN, 71, writer notably known for "Le Très Bas" on Saint Francis of Assisi
DECEMBER
- 01: Mylène DEMONGEOT, 87 years old, figure of popular cinema
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, May 24, 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival © Valery HACHE / AFP/Archives
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- 02: Dominique LAPIERRE, 91 years old, journalist-writer author of "The city of joy", "Is Paris burning?"
and "O Jerusalem"
- 25: Françoise BOURDIN, 70, successful novelist with more than 15 million books sold
- 28: Linda DE SUZA, 74, singer born in Portugal and very popular in France
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