Emmy-nominated director Catherine Cyran dies at 59

There are many well-known faces from cinema, television, music, fashion, politics, literature and sport who have passed away in the last 12 months. Here are the deaths that have marked the year that is ending

Politicians, such as David Sassoli e Mikhail Gorbachev, rulers like Queen Elizabeth IIand also the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Journalists, like Eugenio Scalfari and Peter Angela, but also actors and celebrities, such as Angela Lansbury, Ray Liotta and Catherine Spaak: there are many well-known names who disappeared in 2022. That’s who he left us this year

SIDNEY POITIER – On January 6, he died at the age of 84 years old Sidney Poitier, first African-American actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor thanks to the film “Lilies of the Field” (1963). Also known for films such as “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” (1967) and “Inspector Tibbs’s Hot Night” (1967), was entered in 2002 at the twenty-second place among the biggest movie stars fromAmerican Film Institute

DAVID SASSOLI – On January 11, he died at the age of 65 David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament. Journalist and TG1 anchorman for years, Sassoli was at high altitude in the European Parliament since 2009 Pd: before being elected president he had been vice president in the previous legislature (2014-2019) and head of delegation of the Democrats (2009-2014)