2022 deaths

Tony_Binarelli

Antonio Binarelli (16 September 1940 – 12 July 2022) was an Italian magician. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in the 5th class Knight. Binarelli died on 12 July 2022 of an illness at a hospital in Rome, at the age of 81.

Mario_Bianchi

Mario Bianchi (7 January 1939 – April 2022) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Bianchi directed several features including sexploitation and pornographic films. He spent the majority of the 1990s directing pornography in Italy under the names Nicholas Moore, Tony Yanker and Martin White.

Didier-Léon_Marchand

Didier-Léon Marchard (1 November 1925 – 16 February 2022) was a French Roman Catholic bishop.
Marchard was born in France and was ordained to the priesthood in 1951. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Valence, France from 1978 until his retirement in 2001. Marchand died on 16 February 2022, at the age of 96.

Paul_Émile_Joseph_Bertrand

Paul Émile Joseph Bertramd (11 July 1925 – 27 July 2022) was a French Roman Catholic prelate.
Bertrand was born in France and was ordained to the priesthood in 1948. He served as the titular bishop of Tagaria and the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Lyon, France, from 1975 to 1989 and as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende from 1989 until his retirement in 2001.

François_Gros

François Gros (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ɡʁo]; 24 April 1925 – 18 February 2022) was a French biologist and one of the pioneers of cellular biochemistry in France. His scientific career concerned genes and their role in regulating cellular functions.Honorary professor at the Collège de France, member of the Institute of France, he was also director of the Pasteur Institute (1976–1982) and advisor to Prime Ministers Pierre Mauroy and Laurent Fabius (1981–1985).Elected correspondent (1977) then member (1979) of the French Academy of Sciences, he was permanent secretary from 1991 to 2000.Gros died on 18 February 2022, at the age of 96.

Jean_Bobet

Jean Bobet (22 February 1930 – 27 July 2022) was a French road bicycle racer. He was the younger brother of Louison Bobet. Less successful, he nevertheless won the world students' championship as an amateur and then, as a professional, Paris–Nice in 1955, Genoa–Nice in 1956 and the Circuit du Morbihan in 1953. He came third in Milan–San Remo in 1953. He rode from 1949 to 1959, including all three Grand Tours.
He and his brother retired from racing after a car carrying them crashed outside Paris in the autumn of 1960. Louison went into business ventures and Jean became a journalist. He became head of sport at Radio Luxembourg, wrote for L'Équipe and then Le Monde. He made occasional contributions to Miroir du Cyclisme and still (2008) appears on television, notably in retrospective programmes. He was instrumental in forming a museum in his brother's memory in Saint-Méen-le-Grand.
He wrote several books, including Louison Bobet, une vélobiographie (Éditions Gallimard, 1958), an account of life with his brother in Demain on roule (Editions de la Table Ronde, 2004), translated as Tomorrow We Ride (Mousehold Press, 2008), and a history of Octave Lapize, one of the first stars of the Tour de France: Lapize, celui-là était un 'as' (Editions de la Table Ronde, 2003), translated as Lapize ... now there was an ace (Mousehold Press, 2010).