⚫ All the celebrities and public figures who passed away in 2022 2022 was the year we lost the Queen, celebrated Dame Deborah James and music legend Meat Loaf
– it’s been a year in which we have bade farewell to a number of notable figures from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sport and royalty.January
was the first black man to win the Oscar for best actor in 1964 for his performance as Homer Smith inThe Hollywood star also worked as an international diplomat, serving as the Bahamian ambassador to Japan and Unesco. He was knighted, and in 2009 given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. He died, aged 94, on 6 January from heart failure after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and prostate cancer.sold more than 100 million albums worldwide throughout his career.
The group’s biggest hit was their 1967 debut “A Whiter Shade Of Pale”, which held the number one spot on the UK singles charts for six weeks was named joint winner alongside Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” as the best British pop single 1952-1977 at the Brits.
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