Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on December - 22.   

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on December - 22.   

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.   

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 December - 22.   

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on December - 22.   

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 this day in history stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies   

1681  Death of Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611) on this day in history.   

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  On December - 22 jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56   

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

1767  On December - 22 john Newberry, English publisher, dies   

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 this day in history.   

1815  On December - 22 death of jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards   

1828  On this day in history rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies   

1832  On December - 22 ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72   

1863  Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

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

1870  Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871] on December - 22.   

1874  Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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

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

1902  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1908  Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1913  On this day in history menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69   

1917  On this day in history 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  On December - 22 birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)   

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

1428  On December - 22 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  On December - 22 birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland   

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on December - 22.