Matthew Perry and 24 more shocking deaths of 2023

The number of births and deaths each year has been exorbitant for years. In 2022, the UN counted the arrival of 134 million children in the world and the death of 67 million people. 2023 is no exception.

Among the deaths of the year there are more or less a hundred who correspond to famous people in their area. Politicians, athletes, actors, singers, musicians and more.

So here we decided to collect twenty-five of them, ordered by date of death from January to December.

The most important deaths of 2023

Jeff Beck

The first sensational death of the year occurred on January 10, with the departure of legendary guitarist Jeff Beck. Beck, who was 78, died after suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis.

Rachel Welch

Welch was 82 when he died on February 15. She, the American actress, belonged to the golden age of Hollywood and was a sex symbol for decades.

Paco Rabanne

The Franco-Spanish designer died on February 18. He was 88 years old. He was the creator of the famous perfume and textile brand that bears his name.

Tom Sizemore

The Saving Private Ryan actor’s death was one of the most surprising of the year. He was 61 years old when he lost his life on March 3. Assisted euthanasia was performed on him due to a stroke.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

The Japanese musician was 71 when he died on March 28. Lui shone with his pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) and composing the scores for countless films, including Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and The Last Emperor, for which he won an Oscar.

Harry Belafonte

Musician Harry Belafonte was also one of the most recognized social activists of the second half of the 20th century in the United States. He died on April 25th.

Rita Lee

Rita Lee was one of the most important composers and singers in the history of Brazilian music. You have also worked for a long time as a television presenter. She was 75 years old when she died on May 8.

Tina Turner

Turner, the “Queen of Rock & Roll,” has been one of the most profitable musical artists in history: she has sold more than 180 million records and singles over the course of her career.

The Swiss American could not tolerate the series of illnesses from which she suffered in recent years and died on May 24.

Martin Amis

On May 19, a prominent writer of his generation said goodbye to the earthly plane. The Englishman wrote the novel Zone of Interest, now widely cited for the film of the same name which shone at Cannes and could be nominated for an Oscar.

Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)

On June 10, the famous Unabomber was found dead in his cell. After moving to a remote cabin in Montana, USA, he sent 16 bombs to different targets in a period of time that lasted just under two decades (1978-1995).

He killed 3 people and injured 23. He was also a mathematician and philosopher who criticized contemporary society and technological development.

Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi was president of the Council of Ministers on three occasions (1994-1995, 2001-2006 and 2008-2011) and of AC Milan from 1986 to 2017. He was 86 years old when he died on 12 June from complications resulting from chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy was one of the most important American novelists of recent times. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of numerous renowned titles, such as No Country for Old Men, The Road and All the Beautiful Horses. He was 89 years old.

Alan Arkin

Arkin was a famous New York actor, winner of an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine. He died at the age of 89.

Milan Kundera

The Czech novelist, author of world-famous works such as “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and “The Joke,” died on July 11 in Paris at the age of 94.

Jane Birkin

The British singer and actress – who gave her name to one of the most luxurious bags in the world – died at 76 in Paris after developing her entire artistic career in France. She had been absent from the scene for some time due to health problems.

Tony Bennett

The legendary American ballad and jazz singer, lead singer of the immortals “Blue Velvet” and “I Left My Heart In San Francisco”, died in the early hours of July 21, 2023. The cause of his death was not given. He was about to turn 97.

In 2021, his family announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and that his second album with Lady Gaga would be his last release before permanently retiring from music.

Sinéad O’Connor

The Irish singer died on Wednesday 26 July at the age of 56.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. “Her family and friends are devastated and have asked for privacy during this difficult time,” her family wrote, confirming the sad news.

William Friedkin

The director of cinema milestones such as The Exorcist and Contact in France has died at the age of 87 in Los Angeles (California, USA).

The death was confirmed by the rector of Chapman University, Stephen Galloway, a friend of the deceased’s wife, producer Sherry Lansing, according to specialized media.

Yevgeny Prigozhin

The leader of the Wagner group was one of the most high-sounding surnames of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

He was on the passenger list of a private flight of an Embraer Legacy traveling to the city of St. Petersburg that crashed in the city of Kuzhénkino, Tver Oblast, on August 23, 2023.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Having died aged 94, Mohamed al Fayed dreamed of being an English Lord. He bought the iconic Harrods department store, a London football club and a castle in Scotland, but never got the recognition he expected from the United Kingdom.

The father of Diana of Wales’s last partner has died a day before the anniversary of his son Dodi’s death along with the princess in a car crash in Paris in 1997, his family has announced.

Fernando Botero

Painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose voluminous figures became an emblem of Colombian art, traveling the world and earning millions of dollars at auctions, has died at the age of 91.

The death was confirmed by his daughter Lina Botero, who told Caracol Radio that her father had died in Munich due to complications from pneumonia.

Michele Gambon

British actor Michael Gambon, who played the powerful wizard Albus Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, has died at age 82, his family announced Thursday.

In half a century of career, Gambon has won four Baftas, the British film and television awards, and played the head of Harry Potter’s wizarding school in six of the eight films of the saga.

Terence Davis

British director Terence Davies, best known for a pair of exuberant and powerful films inspired by his childhood in post-war Liverpool, has died at the age of 77.

Davies’ manager, John Taylor, said the director died on Saturday “peacefully at home in his sleep” after a short illness.

Bobby Charlton

Bobby Charlton, the iconic English footballer who survived the plane crash that decimated a Manchester United team destined for greatness before becoming the great pillar of the team that won the 1966 World Cup, has died. He was 86 years old.

Matthew Perry

“Friends” actor Matthew Perry died of an accidental ketamine overdose, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Department said.

Perry, 54, died “accidentally,” authorities concluded in their investigation into the death that rocked Hollywood in October.

Lifeguards found Perry unconscious in a pool at his Los Angeles home on the 28th of that month and were unable to revive him.

Rosalynn Carter

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter’s closest advisor during his single term as U.S. president and the next four decades as a global humanitarian, died Sunday. She was 96 years old.

The Carter Center said in a statement that Rosalynn died after living with dementia and health problems for several months.

The statement added that he “died peacefully, with family by his side” at 2.10pm at his home in the rural community of Plains in southern Georgia.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger, the American diplomat whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power shaped the post-World War II world, died on Wednesday, November 29 at the age of 100.

Ryan O’Neal

Actor and heartthrob Ryan O’Neal, nominated for an Oscar for films such as Stanley Kubrick’s “Love Story” and “Barry Lyndon,” has died at the age of 82 in Los Angeles. His son reported it on Instagram.

“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to say, but here we are. My father died peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as they would us,” Patrick O said ‘Neal on social media.