Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

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

1337  On this day in history 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 December - 22.   

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 on December - 22.   

1738  Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1745  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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

1788  On this day in history death of percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)   

1797  Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1806  On December - 22 death of william Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)   

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

1828  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1870  On this day in history constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]   

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

1875  Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1880  On this day in history george Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday   

1893  Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on December - 22.   

1899  Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies on December - 22.   

1902  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on December - 22.   

1908  On December - 22 marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44   

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

1917  On this day in history francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67   

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1095  On this day in history birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  On December - 22 birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)   

1400  Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) was born on December - 22.   

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on this day in history.   

1452  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on December - 22.   

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

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland was born on this day in history.   

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on this day in history.