Famous Deaths on 22 Feb

Famous Deaths on 22 Feb

1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c.1055)
1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1371 - King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)
1690 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
1727 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1903 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1904 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1913 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1923 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
1934 - Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
1943 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
1944 - Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
1976 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
1982 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1983 - Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1985 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
1985 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
1989 - Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
1994 - Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
1995 - Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)
2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2004 - Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2006 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)
965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)