Maybe it's just me but I don't care what T.S. Eliot says - January of 2022 seems like the cruelest month. Or at least the most fatal. Here's a very partial list of some of those we have lost this month, listed in order of their departure:
- Football player and coach (Denver Broncos, Atlanta Falcons) Dan Reeves (age 77)
- Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician Richard Leakey (77)
- Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier (94)
- Film director and actor Peter Bogdanovich (82)
- Civil rights theorist Lani Guinier (71)
- Woodstock co-creator and promoter Michael Lang (77)
- Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget (65)
- Dobie Gillis actor Dwayne Hickman (87)
- Real-estate executive and convicted murderer Robert Durst (78)
- Ronettes singer Ronnie Spector (78)
- Zoo Atlanta western lowland gorilla Choomba (59), the fourth-oldest gorilla in the world
- Former Kentucky basketball coach Joe B. Hall (93)
- Country music disk jockey and television host Ralph Emery (88)
- Hollywood actress Yvette Mimieux (80)
- Tabla player Badal Roy (77)
- English "Babes in the Woods" murderer and child molester Russell Bishop (55)
- Singer and actor Meat Loaf (74)
- Comedian, actor, and game-show host Louie Anderson (68)
- Zen Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh (95)
- Charlie Brown voice actor Peter Robbins (65)
- Zoo Atlanta western lowland gorilla Ozzie (60), the oldest male gorilla in captivity
- "Johnny Fever" actor (WKRP in Cincinnati) Howard Hesseman (81)
- Television host and beauty queen Cheslie Kryst (30)
Obviously, many people are left off of this list, not the least of which are the 224,500 people around the world who died from the covids in January 2022. Impermanence is swift.
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