Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

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

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history 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  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on December - 22.   

1660  On this day in history death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)   

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

1681  Death of Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611) on December - 22.   

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

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

1723  Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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  Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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 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  On this day in history jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79   

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

1874  On this day in history johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86   

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

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

1893  Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.   

1899  Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies on this day in history.   

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

1908  On December - 22 marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44   

1913  On December - 22 menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69   

1917  On December - 22 francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67   

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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 this day in history.   

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

1428  On this day in history birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury   

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

1459  On December - 22 birth of djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II   

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland was born on December - 22.   

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