Famous Deaths In December - 22

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

1337  On this day in history daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54  

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

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

1550  On December - 22 death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III  

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on December - 22.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

1767  John Newberry, English publisher, dies on December - 22.  

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

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

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

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

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  On this day in history constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]  

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

1875  Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 on December - 22.  

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

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

1899  On this day in history dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies  

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

1908  Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on December - 22.  

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

1917  On December - 22 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  Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) was born on December - 22.  

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 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.