Famous Deaths Happened In December - 22

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

1337  On December - 22 daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   

1419  On December - 22 john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies   

1440  On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

1550  Death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on December - 22.   

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on December - 22.   

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on December - 22.   

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on December - 22.   

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  On December - 22 death of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history john Newberry, English publisher, dies   

1788  On December - 22 death of percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)   

1797  On December - 22 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  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on this day in history.   

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  On December - 22 jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79   

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 December - 22 nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75   

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

1893  On December - 22 benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91   

1899  Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies on December - 22.   

1902  On this day in history richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62   

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 December - 22.   

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

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

1515  On this day in history 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