Notable Deaths on December 22nd
December 22nd Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
69 |
Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor for 8 months, executed by the troops of his successor Vespasian in Rome |
1100 |
Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia |
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 |
1550 |
Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III |
1603 |
Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1566) Reigned 1595-1603. |
1646 |
Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) |
1660 |
André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) |
1668 |
Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies |
1681 |
Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611) |
1708 |
Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) |
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 |
1738 |
Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed) |
1745 |
Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 |
1767 |
John Newberry, English publisher, dies |
1788 |
Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) |
1797 |
Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 |
1806 |
William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) |
1815 |
Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards |
1828 |
Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US President Andrew Jackson, dies of heart failure |
1828 |
William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766) |
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 |
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, La hora bruja |
1874 |
Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 |
1875 |
Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 |
1875 |
Zsigmond Kemény, Boldogtalan szerelmesek |
1880 |
George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans], Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday |
1880 |
George Eliot, Middlemarch |
1893 |
Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 |
1893 |
Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 |
1893 |
Aleksandre Kazbegi, Caucasian Love |
1899 |
Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies |
1902 |
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 |
1902 |
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Libidomania |
1908 |
Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 |
1911 |
Karl Hoschna, Everyone Says I Love You |
1911 |
Wright Lorimer, The Shepherd King |
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 |
1923 |
Petar Dobrinovic, Tragedija nase dece |
1924 |
Mrs. Stuart Robson, Lured from Squash Center |
1925 |
Mary Thurman, Wife in Name Only |
1930 |
Charles Harris, Driving Miss Daisy |
1932 |
J.L. Roop, Tom Goes on His Vacation |
1932 |
Joseph Leeland Roop, The Lost World |
1933 |
William Dyer, The Martyr Sex |
1934 |
Wallace Thurman, Tomorrow's Children |
1935 |
Barney Hellum, Horsefeathers |
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 |
1939 |
Ma Rainey, The Graduate |
1940 |
Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37 |
1940 |
Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust |
1941 |
Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83 |
1941 |
Karel Hasler, Ballad-Singer |
1941 |
Fritz Lamprecht, Begravelsesherrerne |
1942 |
Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858) |
1943 |
Beatrix Potter, English children's writer and illustrator ("The Tale of Peter Rabbit") dies aged 77 |
1943 |
Beatrix Potter, Tales of Beatrix Potter |
1943 |
Percy Hemus, Reno |
1944 |
Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday |
1944 |
Harry Langdon, US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60 |
1944 |
Eddie James, The Little Organ Player of San Juan |
1944 |
Harry Langdon, The Flying Deuces |
1944 |
Eleni Papadaki, Stella Violanti |
1945 |
Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63 |
1945 |
Nelson Shawn, Episode #8.16 |
1945 |
Arthur Chesney Train, Illusion |
1946 |
Francis Salabert, Beauty Prize |
1946 |
Edward A. Kull, Tarzan and the Green Goddess |
1947 |
Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902) |
1947 |
A. Seymour Brown, Titanic |
1947 |
Meredith M. Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles |
1948 |
Donald Brian, The Man Without a Country |
1949 |
Samuil Stollerman, The Taras Family |
1950 |
Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70 |
1950 |
Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88 |
1950 |
Walter Damrosch, Carnegie Hall |
1951 |
Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61 |
1952 |
Mir Jam, Love Isn't Always on Time |
1952 |
Vivia Ogden, Way Down East |
1954 |
Bill Wallace, Mexican Hayride |
1954 |
William Wallace, The Great Dictator |
1954 |
Kathleen Key, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
1955 |
Len Braund, cricketer (23 Tests for England 987 runs 47 wkts), dies |
1955 |
Vivian Meik, The Doll of Death |
1955 |
Rose Lichtenstein, Der Passagier in der Zwangsjacke |
1955 |
Wastl Witt, Der weißblaue Löwe |
1955 |
Mindret Lord, The Virgin Queen |
1956 |
Maurice Desfassiaux, At 3:25 |
1957 |
Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase |
1957 |
Topi Kankainen, The Unknown Soldier |
1958 |
Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75 |
1958 |
Carlo Keil-Möller, Ett brott |
1958 |
Ross Saxon, The Milkman |
1959 |
Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60 |
1959 |
Gilda Gray, Piccadilly |
1960 |
Laura Dunin-Osmólska, Milosc przez ogien i krew |
1960 |
Arnulf Schröder, Der eingebildete Doktor |
1960 |
Julius Lébl, Provdám svou zenu |
1961 |
Dick Elliott, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
1961 |
Yrjö Kianne, Kaksi kivaa kaveria |
1961 |
Johanne Fritz-Petersen, Gillekop |
1962 |
Gaston Séverin, Diary of a Country Priest |
1964 |
Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66 |
1965 |
Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62 |
1965 |
Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913) |
1965 |
Budd Buster, Zorro's Fighting Legion |
1966 |
Oliver Johnston, A King in New York |
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 |
1971 |
Renee Evans, 42nd Street |
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 |
1976 |
Slobodan Djuric, Izvinjavamo se, mnogo se izvinjavamo |
1977 |
Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82 |
1977 |
Evgeniy Bondarenko, Krov lyudskaya: ne voditsa |
1977 |
Ernst Waldbrunn, Die Flucht |
1977 |
Frank Thieß, It Was a Gay Ballnight |
1978 |
Robert Maxwell, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song |
1978 |
Rochus Gliese, Rübezahls Hochzeit |
1979 |
Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77 |
1980 |
Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47 |
1980 |
Lesser Samuels, Ace in the Hole |
1980 |
William Strong, Illicit |
1980 |
Willard Jones, The Magic Sword |
1980 |
Karl Dönitz, At vinde krigen |
1980 |
Miriam Battista, Così è la vita |
1980 |
Thomas Valentin, Die Unberatenen |
1980 |
Lenore Shanewise, Kick the Can |
1980 |
Ruth Yorke, The Hobby |
1980 |
Samuel Rheiner, On the Waterfront |
1983 |
Grace DeCarlton, The Window of Dreams |
1983 |
Bruno Hübner, Patriots |
1983 |
Howard Brennan, November 22nd and the Warren Report |
1983 |
Charles Lloyd Pack, Horror of Dracula |
1983 |
Marjorie Marshall, Beauty Contest |
1984 |
Edith Lindeman, Circle of Friends |
1984 |
Stan Jay, Birds and Bottom Drawers |
1985 |
D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958) |
1985 |
Dante Magnani, Easy Living |
1985 |
Lawrence Hauben, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1985 |
Johan Walhain, De bloeiende perzik |
1985 |
D. Boon, Jackass: The Movie |
1986 |
Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84 |
1986 |
Conny Odd, Beloved White Mouse |
1986 |
Harvey Stephens, Sergeant York |
1986 |
Art Lane, Wings |
1986 |
Arthur A. Lane, For Whom the Bell Tolls |
1986 |
Ivan Fichev, Borba za shtastie |
1986 |
Carlton Johnson, The Wiz |
1986 |
Yoshio Yoshida, Godzilla vs. Hedorah |
1987 |
Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies |
1987 |
Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82 |
1987 |
Henry Cotton, Fairway Champions |
1987 |
Cynthia Berger, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case |
1987 |
Alice Terry, The Conquering Power |
1987 |
Gustav Fröhlich, Metropolis |
1987 |
Luca Prodan, Nazarena Vélez/Hilda Lizarazu/Claudia Puyó |
1987 |
Karel Houska, Who Wants to Kill Jessie? |
1987 |
Geoffrey Parsons, 127 Hours |
1987 |
Bobby Hogue, Game 3 |
1988 |
Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies |
1988 |
Chico Mendes, Brazilian environmental activist and rubber tapper, assassinated at 44 by rancher Darcy Alves |
1988 |
Iván Boldizsár, Before Midnight |
1988 |
Tucker Smith, West Side Story |
1988 |
Pedro F. Miret, Bloody Marlene |
1988 |
Charles J. Bigelow, Mr. Wong, Detective |
1988 |
Chico Mendes, Testify! Eco-Defense and the Politics of Violence |
1988 |
Fred Slark, The Ipcress File |
1989 |
Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 |
1989 |
Massimo Serato, Don't Look Now |
1989 |
Ed Ware, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
1989 |
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot |
1989 |
Sherman H. Dryer, Catalina Caper |
1989 |
Andrés do Barro, Road to Santiago |
1990 |
Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76 |
1990 |
Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies |
1990 |
Ward Hawkins, Founder's Day |
1990 |
Udo Werner, Talentprobe |
1991 |
Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91 |
1991 |
Jack Otterson, Saboteur |
1991 |
Ernst Krenek, Everyman |
1991 |
Flora Geny, O Anjo Assassino |
1991 |
Morgan Upton, The Candidate |
1991 |
Orlando Zumpano, Rosaura a las 10 |
1992 |
Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99 |
1992 |
Harry Bluestone, X-Men: Days of Future Past |
1992 |
Peter Boesen, Sirup |
1992 |
Bolaji Badejo, Alien |
1992 |
Milo Sperber, The Spy Who Loved Me |
1992 |
William Janney, Coquette |
1992 |
Ted Willis, Flame in the Streets |
1992 |
Andrea Forzano, Ragazza che dorme |
1992 |
Jack M. Bohrer, Last Resort |
1992 |
Jack Bohrer, The Terror |
1993 |
Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81 |
1993 |
Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76 |
1993 |
Juan Alberto Soler, Summertime Killer |
1993 |
Don DeFore, It Happened on Fifth Avenue |
1993 |
Helene van Herck, Adieu Filippi |
1993 |
Marion Burns, The Dawn Rider |
1993 |
Alexander Mackendrick, The Man in the White Suit |
1993 |
Mario Amendola, Trinity: Gambling for High Stakes |
1993 |
Viktor Migulko, Klyuchi ot neba |
1993 |
Franz Josef Dahinden, The Legend of William Tell |
1993 |
Sylvia Bataille, A Day in the Country |
1994 |
John Zoller, The Producers |
1994 |
Nobuko Otowa, Onibaba |
1995 |
Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84 |
1995 |
James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907) |
1995 |
Stewart Bradley, The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife |
1995 |
Tom Pettit, The Huntley-Brinkley Report |
1995 |
Takuzô Kawatani, Empire of Passion |
1995 |
Klimenti Mints, By the Bluest of Seas |
1995 |
William Cottrell, Alice in Wonderland |
1995 |
Butterfly McQueen, Gone with the Wind |
1995 |
Pierre Cour, Pineapple Express |
1996 |
Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81 |
1996 |
Celso Guimarães, Asas do Brasil |
1996 |
Igor Oberberg, The Rest Is Silence |
1996 |
Miodrag Popovic, Roj |
1996 |
William de Marois, Bronco Smith |
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, 8th Marquess 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 |
1997 |
Jeanne De Bard, The Very Idea |
1997 |
Herman 'Flea' Clifton, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg |
1998 |
Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969) |
1998 |
Donald Soper, Tribune |
1998 |
Mark Goode, Episode #2.34 |
1998 |
Michelle Thomas, Hangin' with the Homeboys |
1998 |
Pierre Vallières, La liberté en colère |
1998 |
Aleksey Kutuzov, Zolotoy grammofon 2008 |
1998 |
Virginia Graham, Another World |
1999 |
Per Aabel, Portrettet |
1999 |
Blota Júnior, Carnaval em Lá Maior |
1999 |
Frances Sawyer, Dancing Lady |
2000 |
Stuart Lancaster, Edward Scissorhands |
2001 |
Grzegorz Ciechowski, The Hexer |
2001 |
Jonas Frick, Strul |
2001 |
Jan Kott, Czarne zloto |
2001 |
Lance Loud, An American Family |
2001 |
Angèle Durand, Captain Bay-Bay |
2001 |
Mary Wynn, The Power Divine |
2001 |
Thomas Nord Riley, Put Your Feet in Our Hands |
2001 |
Lance Fuller, This Island Earth |
2001 |
Genia Nikolaieva, Schlagerpartie |
2001 |
John Ray Harrison, Rush |
2001 |
Jacques Mayol, The Big Blue |
2002 |
Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (b. 1929) |
2002 |
Corey Rand, Santa Barbara |
2002 |
Kenneth Tobey, The Thing from Another World |
2002 |
Joe Strummer, Black Hawk Down |
2002 |
Eugene Williams, Judgment Night |
2002 |
Susan Fleming, The Range Feud |
2002 |
Ratno Timoer, Dendam manusia harimau |
2002 |
Clay Tanner, The Outlaw Josey Wales |
2002 |
Walter Weidler, Dimples |
2003 |
Dave Dudley, American singer (b. 1928) |
2003 |
Patrick Crean, War and Peace |
2003 |
Hans Koller, Die Zivilisationsbringer |
2003 |
Nelly Fontán, Tangos Are for Two |
2003 |
Hans Koller, Schlachtvieh |
2003 |
Nico D'Alessandria, The Emperor of Rome |
2003 |
Riccardo Bertoni, Die Hard: With a Vengeance |
2003 |
Rose Hill, A Shot in the Dark |
2003 |
Dave Dudley, Dominick and Eugene |
2003 |
Wah Chang, The Time Machine |
2004 |
Doug Ault, American baseball player (b. 1950) |
2004 |
Paul Lopez, X2 |
2004 |
Lucile Zinman, Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America |
2004 |
Hasse Funck, Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner |
2004 |
Allan J. Moll, Wild in the Streets |
2005 |
George Fouche, Dead Poets Society |
2005 |
Aurora Miranda, The Three Caballeros |
2005 |
José Antonio Garcia, O Olho Mágico do Amor |
2005 |
Stephen Peet, George Pearson: Pioneer Film Maker |
2005 |
Wlodzimierz Tympalski, Trójkat bermudzki |
2005 |
Robert Wallstens, The Children of Alda Nuova |
2006 |
Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960) |
2006 |
Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919) |
2006 |
Dennis Linde, American songwriter (b. 1943) |
2006 |
Michael Morrison, Tracie Lords |
2006 |
Wilma Dykeman, The Electric Valley |
2006 |
Galina Ustvolskaya, Devochka i krokodil |
2006 |
Phillip Pine, The Four of Us Are Dying |
2006 |
Aslaug Øye, Stavanger - St. Svithuns by |
2006 |
Alan Kaul, The China Syndrome |
2006 |
Ervin Lázár, The Porcelain Doll |
2007 |
Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (b. 1932) |
2007 |
Charles Court, Nickel Queen |
2007 |
Julien Gracq, Appointment in Bray |
2007 |
Xhanfise Keko, Beni ecën vetë |
2007 |
William Herrin, Daniel Boone: The Promised Land |
2007 |
János B. Nagy, Johann Strauss: A denevér |
2007 |
Ruth Wallis, A Dirty Shame |
2007 |
Joe Ames, The Ames Brothers Show |
2007 |
Mirko Bogataj, Sedmina - Pozdravi Marijo |
2008 |
Coy Bacon, New York Giants vs. Washington Redskins |
2008 |
Carl Jacobs, Student Bodies |
2008 |
Peter Steiner, Drei Lederhosen in St. Tropez |
2008 |
Kofi Ghanaba, Mary and Max |
2009 |
Albert Scanlon, English footballer (b. 1935) |
2009 |
Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian politician (b. 1940) |
2009 |
Michael Currie, Halloween III: Season of the Witch |
2009 |
Piers Wardle, Fear of Furniture |
2009 |
Richard Bradley, The Crossing Guard |
2009 |
Milena Dvorská, Prazske noci |
2009 |
Bernard Droog, Character |
2009 |
James McCammond, Odd Man Out |
2009 |
Marie DeCicco, If These Walls Could Talk |
2010 |
Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (b. 1921) |
2010 |
Fred Foy, The (New) $25,000 Pyramid |
2010 |
Nalini Jaywant, Kalapani |
2010 |
Alan Shallcross, Churchill and the Generals |
2010 |
Masayoshi Nogami, Kôfun!! |
2011 |
William Duell, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
2011 |
Viktor Kosykh, Neulovimye mstiteli |
2011 |
James Ramseur, |
2011 |
Piotr Figiel, Przepraszam, czy tu bija? |
2011 |
James Price, The Gang Gets Whacked: Part 1 |
2011 |
Vincent Gabriele, Tribu.com |
2012 |
Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter, dies at 88 |
2012 |
Cliff Osmond, The Fortune Cookie |
2012 |
Roger Partin, Maintenance by Any Means |
2012 |
Emidio Greco, Una storia semplice |
2012 |
Mira Wanting, L'auberge espagnole |
2012 |
Ryan Freel, Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Cincinnati Reds |
2012 |
Kveta Legátová, Zelary |
2012 |
Marva Whitney, The Night James Brown Saved Boston |
2013 |
Ed Herrmann, American baseball player, dies from prostate cancer at 67 |
2013 |
Mikhail Rogov, ...I snova may! |
2013 |
Marco Zappia, Newhart |
2013 |
Bernard Michalski, Zaczarowany rower |
2013 |
Leonard Jackson, The Color Purple |
2013 |
Fred Rheinstein, Motorweek Illustrated |
2013 |
Angy Burri, Bodmers Reise |
2014 |
Brandon Stoddard, You Know My Name |
2014 |
António Montez, Amália |
2014 |
Joseph Sargent, Something the Lord Made |
2014 |
Joe Cocker, Iron Man 2 |
2014 |
Günter Wolf, Eine schöne Bescherung |
2014 |
Christine Cavanaugh, Babe |
2014 |
Bengt Thörnhammar, A Lesson in Love |
2014 |
Vera Gebuhr, Gertrud |
2014 |
Heather Hicks, Last Ex to Brooklyn |
2014 |
Richard Graydon, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels |
2014 |
Gerald Crossman, No Friendly Star |
2014 |
William Fishman, The Whitechapel Murders |
2016 |
Former Cabinet minister Lord Jenkin dies aged 90 |
2016 |
Music Legend Leonard Cohen Dies Aged 82 |
2016 |
Railway Children actress Deddie Davies dies aged 78 |
2017 |
Broadcasting Legend Dick Enberg Dies at Age 82 |
2017 |
June Rowlands, Toronto's first female mayor, dies aged 93 |
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