Famous Deaths In December - 22
Friday, 25 October 2024
1100 On this day in history death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on December - 22.
1419 John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.
1440 On December - 22 death of bluebeard, pirate, executed
1550 On December - 22 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 December - 22.
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.
1708 On December - 22 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 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies on December - 22.
1788 Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on this day in history.
1797 On this day in history giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74
1806 On this day in history 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 December - 22 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 December - 22.
1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1875 On this day in history nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75
1880 On December - 22 george Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday
1893 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.
1899 Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies on December - 22.
1902 On December - 22 richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62
1908 On this day in history marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
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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