Famous Deaths In August - 22

0408  On August - 22 flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48  

0634  On August - 22 abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies  

1155  Death of Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139) on August - 22.  

1188  Death of Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137) on August - 22.  

1241  On this day in history gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies  

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 this day in history philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies  

1358  On August - 22 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  Death of Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 on August - 22.  

1532  William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82 on August - 22.  

1553  On August - 22 death of john Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded  

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  On August - 22 death of bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)  

1609  Death of Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525) on this day in history.  

1652  Death of Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583) on August - 22.  

1680  Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1752  On August - 22 death of william Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)  

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

1773  On this day in history 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 August - 22.  

1801  On August - 22 pieter G van Overstraten, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 46  

1806  Death of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732) on this day in history.  

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

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  Bartolomeo Spontone, composer was born on this day in history.  

1601  Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667) was born on this day in history.  

1615  Christopher Gibbons, composer was born on August - 22.  

1624  Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701) was born on August - 22.  

1647  Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine) was born on August - 22.  

1679  On August - 22 birth of pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)  

1681  Pierre Danican Philidor, composer was born on this day in history.  

1753  Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer was born on August - 22.