Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022


              A person takes a picture of a portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Cathedral in Regensburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (Armin Weigl/dpa via AP)
            
              A person takes a picture of a portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Cathedral in Regensburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (Armin Weigl/dpa via AP)
            
              A person takes a picture of a portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Cathedral in Regensburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (Armin Weigl/dpa via AP)
            
              FILE - Sidney Poitier poses with his honorary Oscar during the 74th annual Academy Awards on March 24, 2002, in Los Angeles. Among the entertainers who died in 2022 was groundbreaking actor Poitier, who played roles with such dignity that it helped change the way Black people were portrayed on screen. Poitier, who died in January, became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film “Lilies of the Field." (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
            
              FILE - A smiling Queen Elizabeth II passes in front of British veterans during a ceremony in Arromanches, France, June 7, 1984, for the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landing. Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 was arguably the most high-profile death this year. In her 70 years on the British throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known. (AP Photo, File)
            
              FILE - Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media as he arrives at the prime minister's office for a cabinet meeting in Tokyo, Sept. 16, 2020. In 2022, the world saw the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister who was fatally shot during a campaign speech in July. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
            
              FILE - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attends the Moscow premier of a film made by Werner Herzog and British filmmaker Andre Singer based on their conversations in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 8, 2018. Gorbachev was among the world leaders who died in 2022; he died in August. His efforts to revitalize the Soviet Union led to the collapse of communism there and the end of the Cold War. He eventually resigned after an attempted coup, just as republics declared independence from the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
            
              FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant at the Buckingham Palace in London, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 was arguably the most high-profile death this year. In her 70 years on the British throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022