Historical Deaths Today: 22 September

Deaths

• 1072 - Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)


• 1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)


• 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)


• 1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)


• 1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)


• 1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469


• 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer


• 1566 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)


• 1607 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)


• 1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)


• 1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)


• 1692 - Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials


• 1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)


• 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)


• 1775 - Matthew Wright, executed for killing Pope Clement XIV


• 1776 - Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)


• 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)


• 1828 - Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)


• 1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)


• 1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)


• 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)


• 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)


• 1914 - Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)


• 1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)


• 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)


• 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)


• 1961 - Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)


• 1962 - Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha, 40th Oveyssi Sufi master (b. 1887)


• 1969 - Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)


• 1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)


• 1987 - Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)


• 1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)


• 1989 - Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)


• 1992 - Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)


• 1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)


• 1996 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)


• 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)


• 1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)


• 2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)


• 2000 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)


• 2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)


• 2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)


• 2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)


• 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)


• 2004 - Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)


• 2006 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)


• 2006 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)


• 2007 - Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)


• 2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)