Famous Deaths In December - 22

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 this day in history.  

1440  Death of Bluebeard, pirate, executed on this day in history.  

1550  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

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

1681  On this day in history death of richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)  

1708  On this day in history death of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)  

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 this day in history.  

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

1745  On December - 22 jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66  

1767  On this day in history john Newberry, English publisher, dies  

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 this day in history.  

1806  Death of William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) on this day in history.  

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

1867  On this day in history jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79  

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 December - 22.  

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

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

1893  On this day in history benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91  

1899  On this day in history 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  Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1917  On December - 22 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 this day in history 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  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on this day in history.  

1452  On this day in history birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer  

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

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 this day in history.