Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.   

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

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on December - 22.   

1440  Death of Bluebeard, pirate, executed on December - 22.   

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 December - 22.   

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on this day in history.   

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on December - 22.   

1668  On this day in history stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies   

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

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 this day in history.   

1723  Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 on December - 22.   

1738  On this day in history jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56   

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

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

1788  Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on this day in history.   

1797  Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1806  On December - 22 death of william Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)   

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

1863  On December - 22 michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36   

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 December - 22.   

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

1875  On December - 22 nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75   

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

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

1899  On December - 22 dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies   

1902  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on December - 22.   

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

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

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

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1095  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) was born on December - 22.   

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  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on this day in history.   

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on December - 22.   

1515  On this day in history birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland   

1523  On December - 22 birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen