Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22
Friday, 18 July 2025
1100 On this day in history death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1337 On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.
1646 Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on this day in history.
1660 On December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on December - 22.
1681 Death of Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611) on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.
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 On this day in history giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74
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 Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 on December - 22.
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 December - 22.
1870 On December - 22 constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]
1874 Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
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 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on this day in history.
1913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on this day in history.
1917 On this day in history francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67
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