Famous Deaths In December - 22

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

1337  On December - 22 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  On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

1550  On December - 22 death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III   

1603  On this day in history mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37   

1646  On this day in history death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)   

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

1668  Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on this day in history.   

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  Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 on December - 22.   

1738  On this day in history jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56   

1745  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 on December - 22.   

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  Death of Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards on December - 22.   

1828  On December - 22 rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies   

1832  On this day in history ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72   

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  Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 on December - 22.   

1875  On this day in history nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75   

1880  On December - 22 george Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday   

1893  Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 on December - 22.   

1899  On December - 22 dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies   

1902  On December - 22 richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62   

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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1178  Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) was born on this day in history.   

1400  On December - 22 birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)   

1428  On this day in history birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury   

1452  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.