Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

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

1337  On December - 22 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  Death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on this day in history.   

1603  On December - 22 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  On December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)   

1668  Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history john Newberry, English publisher, dies   

1788  On this day in history death of percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)   

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

1806  On this day in history death of william Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)   

1815  Death of Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards on this day in history.   

1828  On December - 22 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  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  On this day in history nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75   

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  Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies on December - 22.   

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

1908  On this day in history marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44   

1913  Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on December - 22.   

1917  On this day in history francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67   

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

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

1452  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on December - 22.   

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.