Famous Deaths In December - 22

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

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

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

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  On December - 22 death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)  

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on this day in history.  

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

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

1745  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1767  On this day in history john Newberry, English publisher, dies  

1788  Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on December - 22.  

1797  On this day in history giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74  

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

1815  Death of Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards on December - 22.  

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

1832  Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 on December - 22.  

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

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

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

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  George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.  

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 December - 22 richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62  

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

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 December - 22.  

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

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

1400  On this day in history 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  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on December - 22.  

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

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