Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

1100  On this day in history death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

1337  On December - 22 daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   

1419  On December - 22 john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies   

1440  On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

1550  Death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on this day in history.   

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on December - 22.   

1660  On December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)   

1668  Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on December - 22.   

1681  On December - 22 death of richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)   

1708  On December - 22 death of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)   

1721  On this day in history death of nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery   

1723  On December - 22 jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70   

1738  Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1745  On December - 22 jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66   

1767  John Newberry, English publisher, dies on this day in history.   

1788  On December - 22 death of percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)   

1797  On December - 22 giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74   

1806  On this day in history death of william Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)   

1815  On this day in history death of jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards   

1828  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on this day in history.   

1832  Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1863  Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on December - 22.   

1867  Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1870  On this day in history constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]   

1874  Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 on December - 22.   

1875  Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1880  On December - 22 george Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday   

1893  On December - 22 benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91   

1899  On this day in history dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies   

1902  On this day in history richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62   

1908  Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on December - 22.   

1913  Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on December - 22.   

1917  Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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1095  On this day in history birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) was born on December - 22.   

1400  Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) was born on December - 22.   

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on this day in history.   

1452  On this day in history birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on this day in history.   

1515  On December - 22 birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland   

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on this day in history.