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Deaths on March 22

1471 : George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
1589 : Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67
1627 : Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81
1639 : Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
1661 : Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73
1743 : Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77
1758 : Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
1771 : Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Bremer Beitr„ge), dies at 56
1777 : John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
1796 : Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68
1798 : Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51
1820 : Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41
1824 : Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76
1832 : J W Goethe, writer, dies at 82
1838 : Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
1845 : Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67
1867 : Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 70
1871 : Johnny Cuzens, cricketer (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
1890 : D‚sir‚ de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
1906 : Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1909 : Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66
1922 : Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86
1923 : Theophile Delcass‚, French statesman, dies at 71
1924 : R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67
1929 : Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64
1931 : Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1944 : ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
1945 : J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1946 : Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
1951 : J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Matth„us Passion), dies at 79
1953 : James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
1956 : George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
1958 : Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
1962 : Aura Abranches, Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65
1964 : Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76
1964 : Joseph Schildkraut, Austr actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies at 68
1969 : Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1971 : Martin Bodmer, writer, dies
1974 : Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
1975 : Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
1975 : Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
1975 : Paul Verhoeven, German director, dies at 73
1978 : Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
1979 : Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
1986 : Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies
1987 : Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
1991 : Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1993 : Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
1993 : Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
1993 : Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83
1993 : Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
1993 : Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
1994 : Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
1994 : Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
1994 : Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89
1994 : Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93
1995 : Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
1996 : Claude Mauriac, writer, dies at 81
1996 : Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59
1996 : Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47
1996 : Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78

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