Famous Deaths In December - 22

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 this day in history.  

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on December - 22.  

1440  Death of Bluebeard, pirate, executed on December - 22.  

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  On this day in history death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)  

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

1668  Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on this day in history.  

1681  On December - 22 death of richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)  

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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 this day in history.  

1738  On December - 22 jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56  

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

1767  On December - 22 john Newberry, English publisher, dies  

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 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  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on December - 22.  

1832  On December - 22 ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72  

1863  On December - 22 michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36  

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

1875  On December - 22 nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75  

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

1893  Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.  

1899  On December - 22 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  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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1095  On December - 22 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 December - 22.  

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on December - 22.  

1452  On December - 22 birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer  

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  On December - 22 birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen