Famous Deaths Happened In February - 22
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
0606 On February - 22 sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies
0965 On February - 22 death of odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle on February - 22.
1076 Death of Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered [or Feb 26] on February - 22.
1078 Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies on February - 22.
1111 On February - 22 death of roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1213 On this day in history wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies
1371 On February - 22 david II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), dies at 46
1478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies on February - 22.
1512 On this day in history amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60
1627 On February - 22 death of olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 John Wilson, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.
1680 Death of Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640) on February - 22.
1687 Death of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer on February - 22.
1690 On February - 22 charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
1727 Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58 on February - 22.
1731 Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92 on February - 22.
1732 Death of Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663) on this day in history.
1742 Death of Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688) on this day in history.
1750 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1770 On this day in history death of christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1788 On February - 22 franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
1797 On February - 22 death of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799 On February - 22 death of heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92 on this day in history.
1822 On this day in history johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66
1824 On this day in history john Davy, composer, dies at 60
1829 On this day in history adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53
1832 Death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany on this day in history.
1836 John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65 on February - 22.
1838 On February - 22 friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70
1846 On this day in history carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77
1849 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28 on this day in history.
1875 On February - 22 charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
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