Famous Deaths In December - 22

1100  On this day in history death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on December - 22.   

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.   

1440  On December - 22 death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

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  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on December - 22.   

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on December - 22.   

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.   

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  On this day in history jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70   

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  Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on this day in history.   

1797  On this day in history giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74   

1806  On this day in history death of william Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)   

1815  Death of Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards on this day in history.   

1828  On December - 22 rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies   

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

1863  Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on December - 22.   

1867  Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75   

1880  On December - 22 george Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday   

1893  Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44   

1913  Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on December - 22.   

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 December - 22.   

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  On this day in history birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen