Famous Deaths In December - 22

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on December - 22.  

1337  On December - 22 daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54  

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on December - 22.  

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

1550  Death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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.  

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1708  Death of Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) on December - 22.  

1721  Death of Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery on this day in history.  

1723  On December - 22 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 December - 22.  

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

1788  Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on this day in history.  

1797  Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 on December - 22.  

1806  Death of William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) on December - 22.  

1815  On December - 22 death of jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards  

1828  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on this day in history.  

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

1863  On this day in history michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36  

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 this day in history.  

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

1875  On December - 22 nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75  

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

1893  On December - 22 benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91  

1899  On December - 22 dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies  

1902  On this day in history richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62  

1908  Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on this day in history.  

1913  On December - 22 menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69  

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 this day in history.  

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  On December - 22 birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer  

1459  On this day in history birth of djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II  

1515  On December - 22 birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland  

1523  On December - 22 birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen