Historical Deaths for Yesterday

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - Dec 22

1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54

1419 John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies

1440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed

1603 Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37

1641 Maximilien de B‚thune duke of Sully, PM of France, dies at 81

1668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies

1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery

1723 Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70

1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56

1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66

1767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies

1797 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74

1815 Jos‚ Maria Morelos, M‚xican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards

1828 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies

1832 Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72

1863 Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36

1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79

1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]

1874 Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86

1875 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75

1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday

1890 Harry Pollitt, chairman Brit communist (1956-60), dies

1893 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91

1893 Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80

1899 Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies

1902 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62

1908 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44

1913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69

1917 Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67

1918 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83

1923 Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67

1937 Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55

1939 Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53

1940 Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37

1941 Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83

1944 Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday

1944 Harry Langdon, US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60

1945 Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63

1950 Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70

1950 Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88

1951 Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61

1955 Len Braund, cricketer (23 Tests for England 987 runs 47 wkts), dies

1958 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75

1958 Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (JЃdische Krieg), dies at 74

1959 Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60

1964 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66

1965 Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62

1967 Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48

1968 Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73

1969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80

1969 Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52

1969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75

1971 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58

1971 Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63

1973 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87

1973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72

1974 Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70

1974 Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50

1974 Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & Professor), dies at 47

1977 Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82

1979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77

1980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47

1986 Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84

1987 Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies

1987 Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82

1988 Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies

1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83

1990 Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76

1990 Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies

1991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91

1992 Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99

1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81

1993 Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76

1995 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84

1996 Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81

1997 Dawn Steel, producer/pres (Col TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51

1997 Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81

1997 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford, dies at 67

1997 John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78

1997 Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71

1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64

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