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  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  Death of Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered on this day in history.   

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 August - 22 death of isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)   

1367  Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57 on August - 22.   

1485  Death of Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 on August - 22.   

1532  On this day in history william Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82   

1553  Death of John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded on August - 22.   

1572  Death of Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528) on August - 22.   

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

1599  Death of Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577) on August - 22.   

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

1609  On August - 22 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 this day in history.   

1711  On this day in history death of louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)   

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

1755  Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies on this day in history.   

1773  Death of George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709) on this day in history.   

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

1818  On August - 22 warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85   

1828  Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1831  On this day in history john White, composer, dies at 52   

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

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1530  On August - 22 birth of bartolomeo Spontone, composer   

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

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

1624  On this day in history birth of jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)   

1647  Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine) was born on this day in history.   

1679  On this day in history birth of pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)   

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

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