Famous Deaths In December - 22

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on December - 22.   

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 December - 22.   

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  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on December - 22.   

1660  On this day in history death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)   

1668  On December - 22 stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies   

1681  Death of Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611) on December - 22.   

1708  Death of Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) on December - 22.   

1721  Death of Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery on December - 22.   

1723  On December - 22 jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70   

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

1745  On this day in history jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66   

1767  On December - 22 john Newberry, English publisher, dies   

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

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

1806  On December - 22 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 December - 22.   

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 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  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  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 this day in history.   

1913  Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1917  On December - 22 francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67   

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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  On this day in history birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)   

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on this day in history.   

1452  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on December - 22.   

1459  On this day in history birth of djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II   

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.