Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22
Friday, 20 June 2025
1100 Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.
1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on this day in history.
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 December - 22.
1603 Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on this day in history.
1646 On December - 22 death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1660 Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on December - 22.
1668 On this day in history stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1681 On December - 22 death of richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1708 Death of Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) on this day in history.
1721 Death of Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery on December - 22.
1723 Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 on December - 22.
1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 on December - 22.
1745 On December - 22 jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66
1767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies on this day in history.
1788 Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on December - 22.
1797 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.
1806 Death of William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) on this day in history.
1815 On this day in history death of jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
1828 On December - 22 rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies
1832 Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1863 Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on December - 22.
1867 On December - 22 jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79
1870 On this day in history constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]
1874 On this day in history johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86
1875 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.
1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.
1893 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on December - 22.
1899 On December - 22 dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies
1902 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on this day in history.
1908 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on this day in history.
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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