Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

1100  On December - 22 death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

1337  On this day in history daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   

1419  On this day in history john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies   

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

1550  On December - 22 death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III   

1603  On this day in history mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37   

1646  On this day in history death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)   

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

1668  On December - 22 stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies   

1681  On this day in history death of richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)   

1708  Death of Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) on this day in history.   

1721  Death of Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery on December - 22.   

1723  On this day in history jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70   

1738  Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 on December - 22.   

1745  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 on December - 22.   

1767  John Newberry, English publisher, dies on December - 22.   

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

1797  Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 on December - 22.   

1806  Death of William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) on December - 22.   

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 December - 22.   

1832  On this day in history ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72   

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

1867  Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 on December - 22.   

1870  On December - 22 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 December - 22.   

1880  On this day in history george Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday   

1893  Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on December - 22.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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1095  On December - 22 birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  On this day in history birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)   

1400  On December - 22 birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)   

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

1452  On December - 22 birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

1459  On this day in history birth of djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II   

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.