Famous Deaths on 22 Aug

Famous Deaths on 22 Aug

1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 - Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143)
1280 - Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216)
1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
1350 - Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
1358 - Isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)
1485 - Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)
1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
1572 - Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi bishop of Bergamo
1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
1926 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851)
1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1960 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and Olympic medalist (b. 1898)
1965 - Ellen Church, First American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1973 - Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
1977 - Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (b. c. 1892)
1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
1980 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (b. 1891)
1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
1994 - Gilles Groulx, French Canadian film director (b. 1931)
2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (b. 1920)
2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2004 - Al Dvorin, American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.1923)
2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)