Famous Deaths on 22 May

Famous Deaths on 22 May

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)
1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
1667 - Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
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)
1795 - Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
1851 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1859 - King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
1868 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
1885 - Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
1901 - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (b. 1869)
1910 - Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
1932 - Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
1939 - Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
1966 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1967 - Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
1972 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
1975 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
1989 - Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
1990 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2005 - Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
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)
2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
2008 - Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
337 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
748 - Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)