Famous Deaths In December - 22
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
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 December - 22.
1419 John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.
1440 On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed
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 December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1668 On December - 22 stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1681 On this day in history death of richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
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 Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 on this day in history.
1738 On this day in history jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56
1745 On December - 22 jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66
1767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies on this day in history.
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 December - 22.
1815 On December - 22 death of jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
1828 On December - 22 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 December - 22.
1870 On December - 22 constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]
1874 On this day in history johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86
1875 On this day in history nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75
1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.
1893 On this day in history benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91
1899 Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies on this day in history.
1902 On this day in history richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62
1908 On December - 22 marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
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 December - 22.
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