
The final days of 2022 saw the loss of some exceptionally notable figures, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Hatch, former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, American Indian Movement co-founder Clyde Bellecourt and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, former Mexico President Luis Echeverria, former Peru President Francisco Morales Bermudez, Cuban diplomat Ricardo Alarcón, former U.S. Other political figures who died this year include: former U.S. Pain, few gains for investors as markets slumped in 2022 He eventually resigned after an attempted coup, just as republics declared independence from the Soviet Union. His efforts to revitalize the Soviet Union led to the collapse of communism there and the end of the Cold War. Other world leaders who died in 2022 include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August. She likely met more people than anyone in history, and her image - on stamps, coins and bank notes - was among the most reproduced in the world.



Her death in September was arguably the most high-profile death this year, prompting a collective outpouring of grief and respect for her steady leadership as well as some criticism of the monarchy’s role in colonialism. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known. In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.
