Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

1100  On December - 22 death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

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  On December - 22 death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

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 this day in history.   

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on this day in history.   

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

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)   

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 this day in history.   

1723  On this day in history jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70   

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

1745  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1863  Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on December - 22.   

1867  Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 on December - 22.   

1870  Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871] on this day in history.   

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 December - 22.   

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  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1908  On this day in history 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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1095  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) was born on December - 22.   

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 this day in history.   

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  On December - 22 birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland   

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