Famous Deaths 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 December - 22.  

1419  On December - 22 john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies  

1440  On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed  

1550  On December - 22 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  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  On this day in history death of richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)  

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1708  Death of Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) on December - 22.  

1721  Death of Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery on this day in history.  

1723  On this day in history jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70  

1738  Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 on December - 22.  

1745  On this day in history 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  On December - 22 giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74  

1806  Death of William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) on this day in history.  

1815  On this day in history death of jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards  

1828  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on this day in history.  

1832  On this day in history ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72  

1863  On this day in history michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36  

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  On this day in history johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86  

1875  On this day in history nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75  

1880  George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.  

1893  On this day in history benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91  

1899  Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies on December - 22.  

1902  On December - 22 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 December - 22.  

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  On this day in history birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)  

1400  Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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