Famous Deaths 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  On this day in history john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies  

1440  On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed  

1550  On December - 22 death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III  

1603  On December - 22 mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37  

1646  On December - 22 death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)  

1660  On December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)  

1668  Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on December - 22.  

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 this day in history.  

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  On December - 22 jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56  

1745  On this day in history jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66  

1767  John Newberry, English publisher, dies on December - 22.  

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

1797  On December - 22 giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74  

1806  On December - 22 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 this day in history 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  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 December - 22.  

1875  Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 on December - 22.  

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  On this day in history dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies  

1902  On December - 22 richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62  

1908  Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on December - 22.  

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

1917  Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

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1095  On December - 22 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 this day in history.  

1428  On December - 22 birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury  

1452  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on this day in history.  

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on this day in history.  

1515  On this day in history birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland  

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on December - 22.