We’ve had to say goodbye to some big names this year in the worlds of entertainment and beyond.

Scroll through the gallery below to see the musicians, celebrities and other cultural figures we’ve lost in 2022

• Sidney Poitier

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  Evening Standard/Getty Images

• Bob Saget

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  Mike Coppola/Getty Images

• Ronnie Spector

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  Jack Kay/Daily Express/Getty Images

• Peter Bogdanovich

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  Araya Diaz/Getty Images

• André Leon Talley

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  Cindy Ord/Getty Images
• Gaspard Ulliel

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  Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

• Woodstock Music Festival co-producer Micael Lang

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  Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

• Meat Loaf

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  Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

• Louie Anderson

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  Ethan Miller/Getty Images

• Howard Hesseman

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  Matthew Peyton/Getty Images
• Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst

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  Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

• Mark Lanegan

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  Mark Davis/Getty Images

• Gary Brooker

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  Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

• Ivan Reitman

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  Theo Wargo/Getty Images

• Traci Braxton

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  Theo Wargo/Getty Images
• William Hurt

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  Charley Gallay/Getty Images

• Scott Hall

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  Larry Busacca/Getty Images

• Taylor Hawkins

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  Scott Dudelson/Getty Images

• Tom Parker of The Wanted

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  Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

• Gilbert Gottfried

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  Kevin Winter/Getty Images
• Robert Morse

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  Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

• Madeleine Albright

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  Mark Wilson/Getty Images

• Naomi Judd

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  Stephen Cohen/Getty Images

• Alan White, drummer for Yes

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  Mike Coppola/Getty Images

• Andy Fletcher, keyboardist/co-founder of Depeche Mode

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  Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images
• Alec John Such, original Bon Jovi bassist

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  Theo Wargo/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• James Caan

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  Matt Carr/Getty Images

• Tony Sirico

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  Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

• Ivana Trump

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  Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images

• William Hart, Lead Singer Of The Delfonics

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  Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
• Paul Sorvino

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  Kevin Winter/Getty Images

• Tony Dow

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• Bill Russell

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  Ethan Miller/Getty Images

• Nichelle Nichols

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  Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images

• Olivia Newton-John

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  Cole Bennetts/Getty Images
• Joe E. Tata (Nat from Beverly Hills, 90210)

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  Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images

• Mikhail Gorbachev

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  Photo by White House Photos/Getty Images

• Bernard Shaw

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  Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images

• Queen Elizabeth II

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  Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images

• Ken Starr

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  Photo By Pool/Getty Images
• Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched from ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’)

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  David Livingston/Getty Images

• Coolio

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  Brad Barket/Getty Images

• Wrestling icon Antonio Inoki

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  Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images

• Sacheen Littlefeather

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  Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

• Loretta Lynn

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  Terry Wyatt/Getty Images
• Angela Lansbury

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  Evan Agostini/Getty Images

• Robbie Coltrane

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  Ian Gavan/Getty Images

• Leslie Jordan

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  Vivien Killilea/Getty Images

• Jerry Lee Lewis

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  Evening Standard/Getty Images

• Julie Powell

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  Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
• Jeff Cook of Alabama

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  Kevin Winter/Getty Images

• Kevin Conroy

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  Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images

• Dan McCafferty of Nazareth

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  Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

• John Aniston

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  Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images

• Jason David Frank

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  Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images
• Irene Cara

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  United Artists/Archive Photos/Getty Images

• Christine McVie

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  Davidson/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

• Wilko Johnson

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  Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

• Gaylord Perry

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  Jim McIsaac/Getty Images

• Brad William Henke

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  Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
• Bob McGrath of ‘Sesame Street’

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  Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

• Kirstie Alley

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  Bryan Bedder/Getty Images

• Mills Lane

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  Ken Levine /Allsport/Getty Images

• Dorothy Pitman Hughes

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  Monica Schipper/Getty Images

• Stephen “tWitch” Boss

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  Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
• Billie Moore

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  Gary Newkirk/Allsport/Getty Images

• Dino Danelli

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  Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

• Ray Liotta

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  Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

• Vin Scully

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  Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images

• Terry Hall

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  Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
• Fighters Only World Mixed Martial Arts Awards 2011

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  Ethan Miller/Getty Images

• Pele

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  Xavi Torrent/Getty Images

• Vivienne Westwood

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  Francois Durand/Getty Images

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