Famous Deaths In August - 22

0408  Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 on this day in history.  

0634  Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies on August - 22.  

1155  Death of Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139) on this day in history.  

1188  On this day in history death of ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)  

1241  Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies on August - 22.  

1280  On this day in history nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies  

1286  On this day in history death of erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered  

1304  Death of John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247) on August - 22.  

1350  On August - 22 philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies  

1358  On this day in history death of isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)  

1367  On this day in history egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57  

1485  On this day in history death of richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32  

1532  William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1553  Death of John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded on this day in history.  

1572  On August - 22 death of thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)  

1584  Death of Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530) on August - 22.  

1599  On this day in history death of beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)  

1607  Death of Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572) on August - 22.  

1609  On this day in history death of maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)  

1652  Death of Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583) on this day in history.  

1680  On this day in history johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67  

1701  Death of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628) on August - 22.  

1711  Death of Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644) on August - 22.  

1752  Death of William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667) on August - 22.  

1755  Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies on August - 22.  

1773  On August - 22 death of george Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)  

1793  On this day in history louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80  

1797  Death of Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724) on this day in history.  

1801  Pieter G van Overstraten, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 46 on this day in history.  

1806  On August - 22 death of jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)  

1818  On this day in history warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85  

1828  On this day in history franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70  

1831  John White, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.  

1850  Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48 on August - 22.  

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1530  On this day in history birth of bartolomeo Spontone, composer  

1601  Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667) was born on August - 22.  

1615  On this day in history birth of christopher Gibbons, composer  

1624  Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.  

1647  On August - 22 birth of denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)  

1679  Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) was born on this day in history.  

1681  Pierre Danican Philidor, composer was born on August - 22.  

1753  On this day in history birth of christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer