Notable Deaths on May 22nd
May 22nd Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
337 |
Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome (306-37), dies at 47 |
748 |
Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680) |
987 |
Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20 |
1068 |
Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025) |
1455 |
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle) |
1455 |
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406) |
1457 |
Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381) |
1501 |
Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66 |
1538 |
John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471) |
1540 |
Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57 |
1666 |
Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608) |
1667 |
Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68 |
1688 |
Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70 |
1745 |
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671) |
1746 |
Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660) |
1760 |
Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700) |
1772 |
Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687) |
1781 |
Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45 |
1801 |
Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer, dies at 58 |
1802 |
Martha Washington, 1st US First Lady (1789-97), dies at 70 |
1819 |
John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84 |
1825 |
Domenico Corri, composer, dies at 80 |
1851 |
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755) |
1859 |
Ferdinand II, [Re Bomba], Dutch King of Sicily, dies at 49 |
1868 |
Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies |
1871 |
Friedrich Halm, Die Rache der Toten |
1873 |
Alessandro Manzoni, La colonna infame |
1878 |
Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52 |
1880 |
Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80 |
1885 |
Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83 |
1885 |
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables |
1898 |
Edward Bellamy, American author/socialist, dies of tuberculosis at 48 |
1910 |
Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46 |
1910 |
Jules Renard, The Red Head |
1920 |
Hal Reid, At Cripple Creek |
1921 |
Marie E Wilton, writer, dies |
1921 |
Emil Skjerne, En Mesalliance |
1924 |
Bobby Franks, |
1925 |
John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Brit field marshall (WWI), dies at 72 |
1925 |
John French, |
1925 |
Jack Chenault, Within Our Gates |
1928 |
William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54 |
1928 |
Alfred Bishop, The Brass Bottle |
1932 |
Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80 |
1933 |
Hal Wilson, The Unpardonable Sin |
1938 |
Amalia Kasprowicz, Ofiara namietnosci |
1939 |
Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45 |
1939 |
Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882) |
1939 |
George Backus, The Warrens of Virginia |
1939 |
Jirí Mahen, Jánosik |
1939 |
Ernst Toller, Pastor Hall |
1941 |
Ida Waterman, Stella Maris |
1941 |
Norton Travis, A Noble Reward |
1942 |
Alexandre Volkoff, Father Sergius |
1943 |
Jules Cowles, Seven Chances |
1943 |
Szymon Kataszek, Kazdemu wolno kochac |
1945 |
Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies |
1945 |
Spencer Trevor, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
1946 |
Karl Hermann Frank, |
1947 |
Vitaliy Perezhogin, Sorochinskaya yarmarka |
1947 |
Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrong Box |
1948 |
Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57 |
1948 |
J.L. Ralston, |
1948 |
Claude McKay, Big Fella |
1949 |
Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80 |
1949 |
Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies |
1949 |
Miklós Pataki, Sári biró |
1949 |
Enrique Acosta, Monerías |
1949 |
Klaus Mann, Mephisto |
1949 |
James Forrestal, Target: Japan |
1949 |
Charles G. Booth, The House on 92nd Street |
1950 |
Otto Brefin, Freed Hands |
1950 |
Eugene Pouyet, La Boheme |
1952 |
Liva Weel, Odds 777 |
1952 |
Yuri Kochurov, Professor Mamlock |
1952 |
John M. Voshell, Enemies of Children |
1953 |
Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70 |
1953 |
Frederick J. Jackson, The Stolen Actress |
1954 |
Big Chief Bender, The Baseball Revue of 1917 |
1955 |
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Bird of Paradise |
1955 |
Fred Allen, T-Men |
1956 |
Richard Stanton, The Pinnacle |
1957 |
Lajos Rajczy, Egy fiúnak a fele |
1959 |
Harold V. King, Stage Fright |
1960 |
Caroline Francke, Bombshell |
1960 |
Claire Phillips, I Was an American Spy |
1961 |
Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at 53 |
1961 |
Joan Davis, Hold That Ghost |
1961 |
Emil Brosig, Heinrich Heines erste Liebe |
1961 |
Egon Brosig, Hoffnung ist ein Ding mit Federn |
1961 |
Edward F. Cline, Cops |
1963 |
Pierre Rocher, Jenny |
1963 |
Byron Morgan, Sons of the Desert |
1964 |
Stephan Rosti, Lord of the Revels |
1965 |
Bobby Watson, comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), dies at 77 |
1965 |
Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies |
1965 |
Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882) |
1965 |
Bobby Watson, The Paleface |
1966 |
Tom Goddard, cricketer (22 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1930-39), dies |
1967 |
Langston Hughes, American poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto), dies at 65 |
1967 |
Thekla Borgh, Girl from Stormy Croft |
1967 |
Andrey Frolov, The Winner |
1970 |
Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76 |
1972 |
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80 |
1975 |
Torben Meyer, actor (Viking, Roberta, Sunny), dies at 90 |
1975 |
Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900) |
1975 |
Tashkhodzha Khodzhayev, Abu Raykhan Beruni |
1977 |
Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73 |
1977 |
Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer, dies at 80 |
1978 |
Bjarne Brustad, composer, dies at 83 |
1978 |
Yevgeni Khrinyuk, Anna i komandor |
1979 |
Paul Leslie Peil, Gunsmoke in Tucson |
1979 |
Christian Gottschalch, Once Upon a War |
1981 |
Ardell Lytle, The Thing from Another World |
1981 |
Pluma Noisom, The Gilded Lily |
1981 |
Lewis B. Patten, Death of a Gunfighter |
1981 |
Elzbieta Kozlowska, Cma |
1982 |
Italia Frandi, The Redeeming Sin |
1982 |
T.J. Fowler, True Blue |
1983 |
John Barrett, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1983 |
Art Cruickshank, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
1983 |
Clara Østø, We Meet at Tove's |
1983 |
John Penrose, Kind Hearts and Coronets |
1984 |
John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery |
1984 |
Karl-August Fagerholm, SF-katsaus 29 |
1984 |
George Zaharias, Babe |
1984 |
Rogelio A. González, Un rincón cerca del cielo |
1984 |
John Marley, The Godfather |
1985 |
Gerald Case, The Elephant Man |
1985 |
Wolfgang Reitherman, The Jungle Book |
1986 |
Martin Gabel, actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63 |
1986 |
Georgie Nokes, It's a Wonderful Life |
1986 |
Martin Gabel, The James Dean Story |
1986 |
Miklós Erdély, Verzió |
1987 |
Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65 |
1987 |
James Drought, Tom Brown of Culver |
1987 |
Mario Zafred, Chronicle of Poor Lovers |
1987 |
Thornton Freeland, Flying Down to Rio |
1988 |
Dennis Day, tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy), dies at 71 |
1988 |
Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73 |
1988 |
Colette Duval, Mort d'un pourri |
1988 |
Torborg Stjerner, Flickorna på Solvik |
1988 |
Liane Held Carrera, The Hero of Bunko Hill |
1988 |
Nora Oosterwijk, De witte |
1989 |
Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953) |
1989 |
Gerd Oswald, The Conscience of the King |
1990 |
Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies |
1990 |
Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies at 71 of heart failure |
1990 |
Zelda Cleaver, The Engagement Ring |
1990 |
Captain Kidd Brewer Jr., The Abyss |
1990 |
Brian White, |
1990 |
Lawrence L. Goldman, Kronos |
1990 |
Czeslaw Przybyla, The Dancing Hawk |
1990 |
P.R. Reid, The Colditz Story |
1990 |
Max Wall, Little Dorrit |
1990 |
Rocky Graziano, Episode #3.11 |
1991 |
Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51 |
1991 |
Lino Brocka, Insiang |
1992 |
Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909) |
1992 |
György Ránki, Merry-Go-Round |
1992 |
Dan Enright, Caroline? |
1992 |
James Kitchen, Flivver Flying |
1992 |
Elizabeth David, Matters of Taste |
1992 |
Alice Monte, Some Like It Hot |
1992 |
Maciek Piotrowski, A View to a Kill |
1993 |
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100 |
1993 |
Lajos Santa Pusta, Panonski vrh |
1993 |
Velia Martinez, Here Comes the Bride |
1993 |
Irma Vila, Canta y no llores... |
1993 |
Klaus Lindemann, Der Fall des Robert Schumann |
1994 |
Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68 |
1994 |
Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belgium comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies |
1994 |
Jane Dulo, Soylent Green |
1994 |
Mihály Hárs, Lutra |
1994 |
Nancy Torres, Rebel Souls |
1995 |
Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83 |
1995 |
Stephen L. Price, Jumanji |
1995 |
Robert Flemyng, Funny Face |
1996 |
Duncan Montgomery Stewart, academic, dies at 66 |
1996 |
Rex Collings, writer/publisher, dies at 70 |
1996 |
Tanju Okan, Berdus kiz |
1996 |
Veikko Lavi, Lauluja elämästä |
1996 |
Shelley List, Between Friends |
1996 |
Lamont Arnold, The Silence of the Lambs |
1997 |
Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908) |
1997 |
Johnny Fox, The Midnight Message |
1997 |
Donald Curtis, Spellbound |
1997 |
Lee Pulford, The Blues Brothers |
1997 |
Fred Mah, China's Little Devils |
1997 |
Renzo Montagnani, The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob |
1997 |
Zbigniew Bartosiewicz, Teddy Bear |
1998 |
José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910) |
1998 |
Lucjan Dembinski, The Moomins |
1998 |
Allan Ray, Cape Fear |
1998 |
Robert Sugalski, Kidnap Madonna's Baby |
1998 |
Mary Jane Milliken, A Hero of the Big Snows |
1998 |
Kresimir Zidaric, Predstava 'Hamleta' u Mrdusi Donjoj |
1998 |
John Derek, The Ten Commandments |
1999 |
Duilio Coletti, Anzio |
1999 |
Miklós Szabó, The Armchair |
1999 |
Pierre Amzallag, Indochine |
1999 |
Loleh Bellon, Casque d'Or |
1999 |
Ab Van der Linden, Flappie |
1999 |
Rubén W. Cavalloti, Prisoner 1040 |
1999 |
Oliver Cliff, Operation Souvenir |
2000 |
Eric Matthews, Santa's Slay |
2000 |
Ernst Dieter Lueg, Bericht aus Bonn |
2001 |
Connie Marshall, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House |
2001 |
Zofia Lubicz, Rekord swiata |
2001 |
Whitman Mayo, Boyz n the Hood |
2001 |
Jack Watling, Sink the Bismarck! |
2002 |
Joe Cascarella, New York Yankees: Part 1 |
2002 |
Fritz Hippler, The Eternal Jew |
2002 |
Ole Høyer, The Misfit Brigade |
2002 |
Joachim Wichmann, Der Beginn |
2002 |
Hannah Bjarnhof, A Place Nearby |
2003 |
Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim |
2003 |
Maria Danilewicz-Zielinska, Ida |
2003 |
Ellsworth Hanna, Forrest Gump |
2003 |
Francisco Newman, Virgin Again |
2003 |
Brooke Chapin, The Gang's All Here |
2003 |
Colin Skinner, Ups & Downs |
2004 |
Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945) |
2004 |
Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960) |
2004 |
Michael Wade, Auton |
2004 |
Wolfgang Richter, Good Bye Lenin! |
2004 |
John Braden, The Day It Came to Earth |
2004 |
Richard Biggs, Guiding Light |
2004 |
Jerzy Krasicki, The Birthday |
2004 |
Marylu Poolman, Schultze Gets the Blues |
2005 |
Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914) |
2005 |
Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914) |
2005 |
Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924) |
2005 |
Robina Marchesi, Further Tales of the City |
2005 |
Thurl Ravenscroft, The AristoCats |
2006 |
Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945) |
2006 |
Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945) |
2006 |
Salvatore Billa, Ginger and Fred |
2006 |
Lilia Prado, Mexican Bus Ride |
2006 |
Kathleen Arc, Employee of the Month |
2006 |
Hemza Al-Din, Control Room |
2006 |
Balduin Baas, Orchestra Rehearsal |
2007 |
Mitsue Suzuki, Childhood Days |
2007 |
Dermot O'Brien, Episode #1.13 |
2007 |
Don Genson, Doris Goes to Hollywood |
2007 |
Hans Ulrich Laufer, Mephisto |
2007 |
John Pashley, SCTV Channel |
2007 |
Gordon Howard, Adventure in Berlin |
2007 |
Anneliese Fleyenschmidt, Episode dated 8 October 1971 |
2007 |
Fannie Chaney, |
2007 |
Art Stevens, 101 Dalmatians |
2008 |
Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946) |
2008 |
Floyd Smith, A Killing in a Small Town |
2008 |
Jeanne Houser, You'll Find Out |
2008 |
Donald B. Hyatt, The Real West |
2008 |
Harry Lange, 2001: A Space Odyssey |
2009 |
Alexander Grill, Wenn Mädchen zum Manöver blasen |
2009 |
Herbert Ballmann, Einmal Ku'damm und zurück |
2009 |
Zé Rodrix, My Name Ain't Johnny |
2010 |
Judy Judd, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge |
2010 |
Veturi Sundara Ramamurthy, Leader |
2010 |
Michael Kuchwara, Episode dated 23 October 2009 |
2010 |
Martin Gardner, The Prologue to Houdini Magic's Expert at the Card Table |
2010 |
Pierre Zimmer, Eden and After |
2010 |
Mildred Brion, The Gauntlet |
2010 |
Gane Todorovski, Tito vo Makedonija |
2011 |
Chidananda Das Gupta, Amodini |
2011 |
Roger Tilton, Jazz Dance |
2011 |
Joe Sorbello, Rocky |
2011 |
Joseph Brooks, Transformers: Dark of the Moon |
2011 |
Fred Datig Jr., Sweetheart of Sigma Chi |
2011 |
Jacek Gruca, Lenin v Polshe |
2011 |
Suzanne Mizzi, Whoops Apocalypse |
2012 |
Wesley Brown, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85 |
2012 |
Janet Carroll, Risky Business |
2012 |
Hidekazu Yoshida, Glen Gould 1/4 |
2012 |
Juanita Boisseau, Cotton Club Girl |
2012 |
Janet Lees-Price, Not Peace, But a Sword |
2012 |
Aleksey Vanin, Okraina |
2012 |
Jesse Whittenton, 1962 NFL Championship Game |
2012 |
Boleslaw Sulik, Deep End |
2012 |
Dave Mann, Bill Cosby: Himself |
2013 |
Brian Greenhoff, |
2013 |
Henning Rischbieter, Piggies |
2013 |
Henri Dutilleux, Under the Sun of Satan |
2013 |
Luis de Cespedes, Heavy Metal 2000 |
2013 |
Bill Austin, With Love & Respect: A Reunion of the Lombardi Green Bay Packers |
2013 |
Don Andrea Gallo, Restiamo umani: The Reading Movie |
2013 |
Michael P. Joyce, Having Babies II |
2013 |
Bill Lansford, A Necessary War: December 1941 - December 1942 |
2013 |
William Douglas Lansford, Villa Rides |
2013 |
Mick McManus, World of Sport |
2013 |
Markku Suominen, Narrien illat |
2013 |
Lee Rigby, |
2013 |
Richard Thorp, The Dam Busters |
2014 |
Matthew Cowles, Shutter Island |
2014 |
Boris Olifer, Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: My nash, my novyy... |
2014 |
Turakhan Sadykova, Kelin |
2014 |
Józef Swider, Gdzie jest general? |
2014 |
Sergio Bustamante, Santa Sangre |
2014 |
Digne Meller-Marcovicz, Palermo or Wolfsburg |
2014 |
Dragoljub Velimirovic, Opelo za Bobija Fisera |
2014 |
Bernard Woringer, Angélique, marquise des anges |
2014 |
Imre Gedõvári, Seoul 1988: Games of the XXIV Olympiad |
2014 |
Armando Carini, The Wedding Trip |
2015 |
John Mosley, In Times of War: Stories of Colorado Veterans |
2015 |
Terry Sue-Patt, The Firm |
2015 |
Arno Bergler, Die Caine war ihr Schicksal |
2015 |
Helen McCole Bartusiak, Twelve Hungry Men |
2015 |
Marques Haynes, Go Man Go |
2017 |
Fox News Founder Roger Ailes Dies Aged 77 |
2018 |
Philadelphia's LOVE statue artist, Robert Indiana, dies at 89 |
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