The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2022 within the period January–June. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
January
January 1 Edna Brown, 81, politician, member of the Ohio Senate (2011–2018) and House of Representatives (2002–2010) (b. 1940) Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr., 92, jurist, judge for the U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania (since 1976) (b. 1929) Richard Freed, 93, music critic (b. 1928) Arnold Jeter, 82, college football coach (Delaware State, New Jersey City) (b. 1939) Max Julien, 88, actor (The Mack, Getting Straight) and screenwriter (Cleopatra Jones) (b. 1933) Dan Reeves, 77, football player (Dallas Cowboys) and coach (Denver Broncos, Atlanta Falcons), Super Bowl champion (1972) (b. 1944) Ralph Staub, 93, football coach (Cincinnati Bearcats, Ohio State Buckeyes, Houston Oilers) (b. 1928) Jim Toy, 91, LGBTQ activist (b. 1930) January 2 Larry Biittner, 75, baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Washington Senators/Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos) (b. 1946) Da Hoss, 29, racehorse (b. 1992) Jody Gibson, 64, convicted madam (b. 1957) Bob Halloran, 87, sportscaster (CBS Sports) (b. 1934) Traxamillion, 42, hip hop producer (b. 1979) Jay Weaver, 42, bassist (Big Daddy Weave) (b. 1979) January 3 Odell Barry, 80, football player (Denver Broncos) and politician, mayor of Northglenn, Colorado (1980–1982) (b. 1941) John D. Hawke Jr., 88, lawyer, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance (1995–1998) and Comptroller of the Currency (1998–2004) (b. 1933) Jud Logan, 62, four-time Olympic hammer thrower (b. 1959) Beatrice Mintz, 100, embryologist (b. 1921) Jay Wolpert, 79, television producer (The Price Is Right) and screenwriter (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Count of Monte Cristo) (b. 1942) January 4 Ross Browner, 67, Hall of Fame football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Gamblers, Green Bay Packers) (b. 1954) Joan Copeland, 99, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Brother Bear, The Peacemaker) (b. 1922) Jim Corsi, 60, baseball player (Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox) (b. 1961) William M. Ellinghaus, 99, business executive, president of AT&T (1979–1984) (b. 1922) William Terrell Hodges, 87, jurist, judge for the U.S. District Court for Middle Florida (since 1971) (b. 1934) Tom Matchick, 78, baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers), World Series champion (1968) (b. 1943) Darryl Owens, 84, politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (2005–2019) (b. 1937) January 5 Josephine Abercrombie, 95, horse breeder (b. 1926) Lowell Amos, 79, convicted murderer (b. 1943) Robert Blust, 81, linguist and professor at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (b. 1940) Lawrence Brooks, 112, supercentenarian, nation's oldest living man and oldest World War II veteran (b. 1909) Dale Clevenger, 81, horn player, Grammy winner (1994, 2001) (b. 1940) Ralph Neely, 78, football player (Dallas Cowboys), Super Bowl champion (1972, 1978) (b. 1943) (death announced on this date) Greg Robinson, 70, football coach (Syracuse Orange, UCLA Bruins, Denver Broncos) (b. 1951) January 6 Peter Bogdanovich, 82, film director (The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon), actor and writer (b. 1939) Ray Boyle, 98, actor (b. 1923) Bob Falkenburg, 95, tennis player and entrepreneur (b. 1926) Barbara Jacket, 87, track and field coach (b. 1934) Sidney Poitier, 94, Bahamian-American actor (Lilies of the Field, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night), film director and activist, Oscar winner (1963) and Grammy winner (2001) (b. 1927) Calvin Simon, 79, Hall of Fame singer (Parliament, Funkadelic) (b. 1942) January 7 Dee Booher, 73, professional wrestler (GLOW) and actress (Brainsmasher... A Love Story, Spaceballs) (b. 1948) Edward Bozek, 71, Olympic fencer (1972, 1976) (b. 1950) Mark Forest, 89, bodybuilder and actor (Goliath and the Dragon) (b. 1933) Lani Guinier, 71, civil rights theorist (b. 1950) John Swantek, 88, Polish Catholic prelate, prime bishop (1985–2002) (b. 1933) January 8 Eddie Basinski, 99, baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Portland Beavers) (b. 1922) Marilyn Bergman, 93, songwriter ("The Way We Were", "The Windmills of Your Mind", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"), Oscar winner (1969, 1974, 1984) (b. 1929) Don Dillard, 85, baseball player (b. 1937) Michael Lang, 77, concert producer, co-creator of Woodstock (b. 1944) Michael Parks, 78, journalist and editor (The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun) (b. 1943) January 9 Jim Bakhtiar, 88, football player (b. 1934) Bill Boomer, 84, swim coach (b. 1937) Moe Brooker, 81, painter, educator, and printmaker (b. 1940) Maria Ewing, 71, opera singer (b. 1950) Dwayne Hickman, 87, actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Cummings Show, Cat Ballou) and television director (b. 1934) James Mtume, 75, musician (Mtume) and songwriter ("Juicy Fruit") (b. 1946) Bob Saget, 65, comedian, television presenter (America's Funniest Home Videos) and actor (Full House, How I Met Your Mother) (b. 1956) January 10 Robert Allan Ackerman, 77, film and theatre director (b. 1944) Marion Brash, 90, German-American actress (b. 1931) Robert Durst, 78, real estate executive and convicted murderer, subject of The Jinx (b. 1943) Joyce Eliason, 87, television writer and producer (The Jacksons: An American Dream, Titanic, The Last Don, A Loss of Innocence) (b. 1934) Don Maynard, 86, Hall of Fame football player (New York Titans / Jets, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals), Super Bowl champion (1969) (b. 1935) January 11 Clyde Bellecourt, 85, civil rights activist, co-founder of the American Indian Movement (b. 1936) Jana Bennett, 66, American-born British media executive (b. 1955) Orlando Busino, 95, cartoonist (b. 1926) Jeffery Paul Chan, 79, author and scholar (b. 1942) Jerry Crutchfield, 87, country and pop record producer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1934) Richard Folmer, 79, actor (The St. Tammany Miracle, Mad Money, Straw Dogs) (b. 1942) Tim Rosaforte, 66, golf writer (Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest) and broadcaster (ESPN) (b. 1955) Don Sutherin, 85, Hall of Fame football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders, Toronto Argonauts) and coach (b. 1936) January 12 CPO Boss Hogg, 52, rapper (b. 1969) Everett Lee, 105, violinist and conductor (b. 1916) Frank Moe, 56, politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (2005–2008) (b. 1965) Stephen H. Sachs, 87, politician, Attorney General of Maryland (1979–1987) (b. 1934) Ronnie Spector, 78, singer and front leader of The Ronettes (b. 1943) George O. Wood, 80, Pentecostal minister, general superintendent of the Assemblies of God USA (2007–2017) (b. 1941) J. Robert Wright, 85, priest and church historian (b. 1936) January 13 Israel S. Dresner, 92, Reform rabbi (b. 1929) Jim Forest, 80, writer and lay theologian (b. 1941) Larry Forgy, 82, politician (b. 1939) Donald Gurnett, 81, space physicist (b. 1940) Brianna Kupfer, 24, university student and murder victim (b. 1997) Darby Nelson, 81, politician and environmentalist (b. 1940) Junior Siavii, 43, football player (Kansas City Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks) (b. 1978) Terry Teachout, 65, playwright and critic (The Wall Street Journal) (b. 1956) Len Tillem, 77, attorney and radio broadcaster (KVON, KSRO, KGO) (b. 1944) Sonny Turner, 83, singer (The Platters) (b. 1938) Lynn Yeakel, 80, politician and academic administrator (b. 1941) January 14 Ann Arensberg, 84, book publishing editor and author (b. 1937) Flo Ayres, 98, radio actress (b. 1923) Dallas Frazier, 82, country musician and songwriter ("There Goes My Everything", "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)", "Elvira") (b. 1939) Ron Goulart, 89, author and comics historian (b. 1933) Alice von Hildebrand, 98, Belgian-born Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian (b. 1923) Carol Speed, 76, actress (Abby, Disco Godfather, Dynamite Brothers) (b. 1945) Dave Wolverton, 64, writer (The Runelords) (b. 1957) January 15 Rink Babka, 85, discus thrower, Olympic silver medallist (1960) (b. 1936) Ed Cheff, 78, college baseball coach (Lewis–Clark State College) (b. 1943) Dan Einstein, 61, independent record producer and co-founder of Oh Boy Records (b. 1960) Ralph Emery, 88, Hall of Fame disc jockey and television host (b. 1933) Joe B. Hall, 93, Hall of Fame basketball coach (Kentucky Wildcats) (b. 1928) Paul Carter Harrison, 85, playwright and academic (b. 1936) Michael Jackson, 87, British-American Hall of Fame talk radio host (KABC, KGIL) (b. 1934) Jon Lind, 73, songwriter ("Save the Best for Last", "Crazy for You") and musician (b. 1948) Steve Schapiro, 87, photojournalist (b. 1934) January 16 Ethan Blackaby, 81, baseball player (b. 1940) Morton J. Blumenthal, 90, politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1971–1975) (b. 1931) Rocco J. Carzo, 89, football and lacrosse coach (b. 1933) William Daley, 96, ceramist and professor (b. 1925) Brian DeLunas, 46, baseball coach (Seattle Mariners, Missouri Tigers) (b. 1975) Rod Driver, 89, British-born mathematician and politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (1987–1995, 2009–2011) (b. 1932) Richard J. Ferris, 85, business executive (United Airlines Limited) (b. 1936) John Rice Irwin, 91, cultural historian, founder of the Museum of Appalachia (b. 1930) Charles McGee, 102, fighter pilot (Air Force/Army Air Forces), member of the Tuskegee Airmen, Congressional Gold Medal recipient (b. 1919) Jeremy Sivits, 42, army reservist and convicted war criminal (b. 1979) Gale Wade, 92, baseball player (Chicago Cubs) (b. 1929) January 17 Jonathan Brown, 82, art historian (b. 1939) Edward Irons, 98, economist (b. 1923) Bill Jackson, 86, television personality (The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show, Gigglesnort Hotel) (b. 1935) Gilbert S. Merritt Jr., 86, judge (b. 1936) Yvette Mimieux, 80, actress (The Time Machine, The Black Hole, Jackson County Jail) (b. 1942) Joseph M. Minard, 90, politician, member of the West Virginia Senate (1990–1994, 2008–2013) (b. 1932) Patricia Kenworthy Nuckols, 100, Hall of Fame field hockey player (national team) and WASP pilot (b. 1921) Ronald G. Tompkins, 70, physician and academic (b. 1951) January 18 Jonathan Brown, 82, art historian (b. 1939) Hilario Candela, 87, Cuban-born architect (b. 1934) Ron Franklin, 79, sportscaster (ESPN) (b. 1942) Dick Halligan, 78, musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears) and film composer (Go Tell the Spartans, Fear City), Grammy winner (1970) (b. 1943) Lusia Harris, 66, Hall of Fame basketball player (Delta State Lady Statesmen, Houston Angels), Olympic silver medalist (1976) (b. 1955) André Leon Talley, 73, fashion journalist (Vogue) (b. 1948) January 19 Leland Byrd, 94, basketball player, coach and athletics administrator (West Virginia Mountaineers) (b. 1927) Dan Dworsky, 94, architect (b. 1927) Bob Goalby, 92, professional golfer, Masters winner (1968) (b. 1929) Gloria McMillan, 88, actress (Our Miss Brooks) (b. 1933) Jamye Coleman Williams, 103, activist (b. 1918) January 20 Fanita English, 105, Romanian-born psychoanalyst (b. 1916) Athan Catjakis, 90, politician (b. 1931) Meat Loaf, 74, singer ("Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)") and actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fight Club) (b. 1947) Popcorn Deelites, 24, racehorse and animal actor (Seabiscuit) (b. 1998) Earl Swensson, 91, architect (AT&T Building, Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center) (b. 1930) January 21 Louie Anderson, 68, comedian, actor (Baskets, Life With Louie), and game show host (Family Feud), Emmy winner (2015) (b. 1953)