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Deaths on December 22

1337 : Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54
1419 : John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies
1440 : Bluebeard, pirate, executed
1603 : Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37
1641 : Maximilien de B‚thune duke of Sully, PM of France, dies at 81
1668 : Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1721 : Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
1723 : Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70
1738 : Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56
1745 : Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66
1767 : John Newberry, English publisher, dies
1797 : Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74
1815 : Jos‚ Maria Morelos, M‚xican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
1828 : Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies
1832 : Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72
1863 : Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36
1867 : Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79
1870 : Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]
1874 : Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86
1875 : Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75
1880 : George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday
1890 : Harry Pollitt, chairman Brit communist (1956-60), dies
1893 : Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91
1893 : Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80
1899 : Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies
1902 : Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62
1908 : Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
1913 : Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69
1917 : Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67
1918 : Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83
1923 : Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67
1937 : Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55
1939 : Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53
1940 : Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37
1941 : Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83
1944 : Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday
1944 : Harry Langdon, US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60
1945 : Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63
1950 : Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70
1950 : Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88
1951 : Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61
1955 : Len Braund, cricketer (23 Tests for England 987 runs 47 wkts), dies
1958 : Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75
1958 : Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (Jdische Krieg), dies at 74
1959 : Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60
1964 : Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66
1965 : Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62
1967 : Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48
1968 : Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73
1969 : Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80
1969 : Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52
1969 : Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75
1971 : Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58
1971 : Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63
1973 : Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87
1973 : Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72
1974 : Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70
1974 : Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50
1974 : Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & Professor), dies at 47
1977 : Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82
1979 : Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77
1980 : Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
1986 : Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84
1987 : Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
1987 : Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82
1988 : Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies
1989 : Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
1990 : Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76
1990 : Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies
1991 : Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91
1992 : Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99
1993 : Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81
1993 : Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
1995 : Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84
1996 : Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81
1997 : Dawn Steel, producer/pres (Col TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51
1997 : Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81
1997 : Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford, dies at 67
1997 : John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78
1997 : Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71
1997 : Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64

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