Famous Deaths In December - 22

1100  On December - 22 death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia  

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III  

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

1668  On December - 22 stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies  

1681  Death of Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611) on this day in history.  

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1708  On December - 22 death of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)  

1721  On December - 22 death of nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery  

1723  Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1738  On December - 22 jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56  

1745  On this day in history jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66  

1767  John Newberry, English publisher, dies on this day in history.  

1788  On December - 22 death of percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)  

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

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 December - 22.  

1828  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on December - 22.  

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

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  Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871] on December - 22.  

1874  Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.  

1875  Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

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

1893  On December - 22 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  On December - 22 marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44  

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

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  On this day in history birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)  

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on December - 22.  

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

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  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on this day in history.