Deaths in 2023  

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• Sir Michael Gambon, 82, Irish-English actor (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Singing Detective).
• Catherine Lachens, 78, French actress (The Medic).
• François Glorieux, 91, Belgian conductor (Ballet of the 20th Century), composer, and musicologist.
• David McCallum, 90, Scottish actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and musician (The Edge).
• Erwin Olaf, 64, Dutch photographer.
• Lou Deprijck, 77, Belgian singer-songwriter and record producer ("Que Tal America", "Disco Samba", "Kingston, Kingston").
• Joe Matt, 60, American cartoonist (Peepshow), heart attack.
• Roger Whittaker, 87, British singer-songwriter.
• Fernando Botero, 91, Colombian painter and sculptor.
• Gary Wright, 80, American singer-songwriter ("Comin' Apart") and musician (Spooky Tooth).
• Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, catering executive and mercenary leader, co-founder of Wagner Group.
• Bobby Eli, 77, American guitarist (MFSB), songwriter ("Sideshow"), and record producer.
• Jamie Reid, 76, British visual artist (Sex Pistols) and anarchist.
• Robbie Robertson, 80, Canadian musician songwriter ("This Wheel's on Fire").
• Brice Marden, 84, American painter.
• Sixto Rodriguez, 81, American singer-songwriter ("Sugar Man").
• Konrad Klapheck, 88, German painter and graphic artist.
• Paul Reubens, 70, American actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure).
• Martin Walser, 96, German writer.
• Marc Augé, 87, French anthropologist (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity).
• Sinéad O'Connor, 56, Irish singer ("Nothing Compares 2 U").
• Juliette Mayniel, 87, French actress (Eyes Without a Face).
• Tony Bennett, 96, American singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco").
• João Donato, 88, Brazilian composer ("The Frog" and "Cala Boca Menino") and musician.
• Jane Birkin, 76, English-French singer ("Je t'aime... moi non plus") and actress (La Piscine).
• Milan Kundera, 94, Czech-French writer (The Unbearable Lightness of Being).
• Pascal Mercier, 79, Swiss writer and philosopher (Night Train to Lisbon).
• Vicki Anderson, 83, American soul singer ("The Message From The Soul Sisters").
• Alan Arkin, 89, American actor (Catch-22, Little Miss Sunshine).
• Lord Creator, 87, Trinidadian-born Jamaican singer-songwriter ("Kingston Town").
• Carmen Sevilla, 92, Spanish actress (Europe by Night), singer and dancer.
• Monte Cazazza, 68, American industrial musician ("Kick That Habit Man").
• Julian Sands, 65, British actor (A Room with a View, Tale of a Vampire).
• Peter Brötzmann, 82, German jazz saxophonist (Machine Gun).
• Sheldon Harnick, 99, American lyricist (Fiddler on the Roof) and songwriter.
• Teresa Taylor, 60, American drummer (Butthole Surfers) and actress (Slacker).
• Lisl Steiner, 95, Austrian-American photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.
• Glenda Jackson, 87, English actress (Marat/Sade, Women in Love).
• Cormac McCarthy, 89, American novelist (No Country for Old Men).
• Roger Payne, 88, American biologist and environmentalist.
• Silvio Berlusconi, 86, Italian statesman.
• Paul Ibou, 84, Belgian graphic designer.
• Pat Robertson, 93, American religious broadcaster.
• Ted Kaczynski, 81, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (Unabomber Manifesto), suicide.
• Françoise Gilot, 101, French painter (Life with Picasso.
• Astrud Gilberto, 83, Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer ("The Girl from Ipanema")
• Cynthia Weil, 82, American songwriter ("On Broadway", "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", "We Gotta Get Out of This Place").
• Paolo Portoghesi, 91, Italian architect and critic (Postmodern, the Architecture of the Post-industrial Society).
• Ilya Kabakov, 89, Russian-American installation artist.
• Kenneth Anger, 96, American filmmaker (Fireworks, Lucifer Rising) and writer (Hollywood Babylon).
• Tina Turner, 83, American singer ("Nutbush City Limits").
• Bill Lee, 94, American jazz musician and film composer (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing).
• Jean Haudry, 88, French linguist.
• Floyd Newman, 91, American saxophonist (The Mar-Keys, The Memphis Horns).
• Pete Brown, 82, English poet, lyricist ("Sunshine of Your Love") and singer.
• Helmut Berger, 78, Austrian actor (Ludwig, The Damned, Salon Kitty).
• Martin Amis, 73, British novelist (London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow).
• Wim Kayzer, 76, Dutch journalist, television maker and writer (A Glorious Accident).
• Sergey Dreyden, 81, Russian actor (Russian Ark).
• Rita Lee, 75, Brazilian singer (Os Mutantes).
• Philippe Sollers, 86, French writer and literary critic, founder of Tel Quel and L'Infini, subject of Writer Sollers.
• Gordon Lightfoot, 84, Canadian singer-songwriter ("If You Could Read My Mind").
• Harry Belafonte, 96, American musician ("The Banana Boat Song"), actor and civil rights activist.
• Barry Humphries, 89, Australian comedian (Dame Edna Everage) and actor (Bedazzled).
• Mark Stewart, 62, English musician (The Pop Group) and songwriter ("She Is Beyond Good and Evil", "This Is Stranger Than Love").
• Anne Perry, 84, British author and convicted murderer (Parker–Hulme murder case).
• Mary Quant, 93, British fashion designer.
• Jah Shaka, Jamaican dub and reggae sound system operator.
• Karl Berger, 88, German jazz pianist, composer, and educator.
• Nora Forster, 80, German music promoter (The Slits, Sex Pistols, The Clash).
• Bill Butler, 101, American cinematographer (Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Grease).
• Seymour Stein, 80, American music executive, co-founder of Sire Records.
• Ryuichi Sakamoto, 71, Japanese composer ("Riot in Lagos", "Forbidden Colours").
• Johan Leysen, 73, Belgian actor (Grimm, The Brand New Testament).
• Sweet Charles Sherrell, 80, American bassist (James Brown, The J.B.'s).
• Wim de Bie, 83, Dutch comedian (Van Kooten en De Bie), writer, and singer.
• D. M. Thomas, 88, British poet, translator and novelist (The White Hotel).
• Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, 99, Ethiopian nun, pianist and composer.
• Wim de Bie, 83, Dutch comedian (Van Kooten en De Bie), writer and singer.
• Raoul Servais, 94, Belgian filmmaker, animator, and comics artist (Harpya).
• Fuzzy Haskins, 81, American songwriter, singer and musician (Parliament-Funkadelic).
• Dubravka Ugrešić, 73, Croatian-Dutch writer.
• Bobby Caldwell, 71, American singer ("What You Won't Do for Love").
• Napoleon XIV, 84, American singer ("They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!").
• Carlos Garnett, 84, Panamanian-American jazz saxophonist.
• Bert I. Gordon, 100, American film director and screenwriter (Village of the Giants).
• Piero Gilardi, 80, Italian sculptor.
• Peter Weibel, 78, Austrian artist.
• Wayne Shorter, 89, American jazz saxophonist ("Footprints").
• Juraj Jakubisko, 84, Slovak film director (Birds, Orphans and Fools , Bathory) and screenwriter.
• Gunnar Heinsohn, 79, German author, sociologist and economist (Söhne und Weltmacht ).
• Michel Deville, 91, French film director (The Reader).
• Stella Stevens, 84, American actress (The Nutty Professor).
• David Jude Jolicoeur, 54, American rapper (De La Soul) and songwriter ("Me Myself and I", "Feel Good Inc.").
• Raquel Welch, 82, American actress (One Million Years B.C., Bedazzled).
• Huey "Piano" Smith, 89, American R&B pianist and songwriter ("Don't You Just Know It").
• Alain Goraguer, 91, French jazz pianist, arranger and film composer (Fantastic Planet).
• Adrien Fainsilber, 90, French architect.
• Burt Bacharach, 94, American composer ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "Walk On By", "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)").
• Carlos Saura, 91, Spanish film director (Cría Cuervos ), respiratory failure.
• Paco Rabanne, 88, Spanish fashion designer.
• Barrett Strong, 81, American singer ("Money (That's What I Want)") and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone").
• Alastair Brotchie (1952 - 2023) was a founder of the London publishing house Atlas Press.
• Tom Verlaine, 73, American musician and songwriter ("Marquee Moon").
• Alfred Leslie, 95, American painter and film director (Pull My Daisy).
• Dean Daughtry, 76, American keyboard player ("Spooky").
• Agustí Villaronga, 69, Spanish film director (In a Glass Cage), screenwriter and actor.
• Eugenio Martín, 97, Spanish film director (Horror Express) and screenwriter.
• Wally Campo, 99, American actor (The Little Shop of Horrors).
• Marcel Zanini, 99, Turkish-born French jazz musician ("Tu veux ou tu veux pas").
• David Crosby, 81, American singer ("Eight Miles High") and songwriter (If I Could Only Remember My Name).
• Gina Lollobrigida, 95, Italian actress (Bread, Love and Dreams, "Il processo di Frine").
• Yukihiro Takahashi, 70, Japanese drummer and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra).
• Lisa Marie Presley, 54, American singer-songwriter.
• Hans Belting, 87, German art historian.
• Jeff Beck, 78, British guitarist (The Yardbirds, "Beck's Bolero").
• Dennis Budimir, 84, American jazz and rock guitarist (The Wrecking Crew).
• Paul Johnson, 94, British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s).
• Russell Banks, 82, American novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter).
• Michael Snow, 94, Canadian filmmaker (Wavelength).
• Fay Weldon, 91, British author, essayist and playwright (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil).
• Alan Rankine, 64, Scottish musician (The Associates).
• Fred White, 67, American drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire).

See also

• Lists of deaths by year