Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

1100  On December - 22 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  On December - 22 john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies   

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 this day in history.   

1646  On this day in history 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  Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on December - 22.   

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 December - 22.   

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

1767  On this day in history john Newberry, English publisher, dies   

1788  Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on December - 22.   

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 this day in history rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies   

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

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

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

1875  Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 on December - 22.   

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  On this day in history dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies   

1902  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1908  Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 on December - 22.   

1913  Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on December - 22.   

1917  Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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1095  On this day in history birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  On December - 22 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  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 December - 22.   

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on December - 22.