Famous Deaths In December - 22

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.  

1337  On this day in history daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54  

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)  

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)  

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1708  On December - 22 death of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)  

1721  Death of Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery on this day in history.  

1723  On December - 22 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 this day in history.  

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

1797  Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 on December - 22.  

1806  On this day in history death of william Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)  

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  Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1863  Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on this day in history.  

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  On December - 22 johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86  

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  On December - 22 benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91  

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  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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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  On December - 22 birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)  

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

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

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on December - 22.  

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland was born on this day in history.  

1523  On this day in history birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen