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

1440  On December - 22 death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

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

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1646  On December - 22 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  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  Death of Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) on December - 22.   

1721  On this day in history death of nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery   

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

1738  Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 on December - 22.   

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  Death of Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]   

1874  On December - 22 johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86   

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

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

1902  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 on December - 22.   

1908  On this day in history marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44   

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

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

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1095  On December - 22 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 this day in history.   

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

1452  On this day in history birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on this day in history.   

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland was born on this day in history.   

1523  On December - 22 birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen