22 December Deaths

December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are nine days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Deaths

AD 69 – Vitellius, Roman emperor (b. 15)
731 – Yuan Qianyao, official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
1012 – Baha' al-Dawla, Buyid amir of Iraq
1060 – Cynesige, Archbishop of York
1100 – Bretislav II of Bohemia (b. 1060)
1115 – Olaf Magnusson, King of Norway (b. 1099)
1419 – Antipope John XXIII
1530 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German lawyer and author (b. 1470)
1554 – Alessandro Bonvicino, Italian painter (b. 1498)
1572 – François Clouet, French miniaturist (b. c. 1510)
1603 – Mehmed III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1566)
1641 – Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, 2nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1560)
1646 – Peter Mogila, Moldavian metropolitan and saint (b. 1596)
1660 – André Tacquet, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1612)
1666 – Guercino, Italian painter (b. 1591)
1681 – Richard Alleine, English minister and author (b. 1611)
1767 – John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
1788 – Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
1806 – William Vernon, English-American merchant (b. 1719)
1828 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
1867 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
1870 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
1880 – George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
1891 – Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
1899 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
1902 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
1915 – Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
1917 – Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
1918 – Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
1919 – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
1925 – Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
1939 – Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
1940 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1941 – Karel Hašler, Czech actor, director, composer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
1942 – Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. 1858)
1943 – Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1866)
1944 – Harry Langdon, American actor, comedian, and vaudevillian (b. 1884)
1950 – Frederick Freake, English polo player (b. 1876)
1957 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (b. 1883)
1959 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress and dancer (b. 1901)
1960 – Ninian Comper, Scottish-English architect (b. 1864)
1962 – Ross McLarty, Australian politician, 17th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1891)
1965 – Richard Dimbleby, English journalist (b. 1913)
1968 – Raymond Gram Swing, American journalist (b. 1887)
1969 – Enrique Peñaranda, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1892)
1971 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch journalist and author (b. 1913)
1974 – Sterling North, American author and critic (b. 1906)
1979 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American director and producer (b. 1902)
1986 – Mary Burchell, English author and activist (b. 1904)
1987 – Luca Prodan, Italian-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
1988 – Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader and activist (b. 1944)
1989 – Samuel Beckett, Irish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1992 – Harry Bluestone, English violinist and composer (b. 1907)
1992 – Frederick William Franz, American religious leader (b. 1893)
1993 – Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913)
1995 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
1995 – James Meade, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1996 – Jack Hamm, American cartoonist and television host (b. 1916)
1997 – Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, Cuban-American dentist and activist (b. 1931)
2001 – Ovidiu Iacov, Romanian footballer (b. 1981)
2001 – Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (b. 1918)
2002 – Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Guyana (b. 1929)
2002 – Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2004 – Doug Ault, American baseball player and manager (b. 1950)
2006 – Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
2006 – Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
2007 – Charles Court, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia (b. 1911)
2007 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and playwright (b. 1932)
2009 – Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian rancher and politician (b. 1940)
2009 – Albert Scanlon, English footballer (b. 1935)
2010 – Fred Foy, American soldier and announcer (b. 1921)
2012 – Chuck Cherundolo, American football player and coach (b. 1916)
2012 – Ryan Freel, American baseball player (b. 1976)
2012 – Cliff Osmond, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2012 – Lim Keng Yaik, Malaysian physician and politician (b. 1939)
2013 – Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2013 – Hans Hækkerup, Danish lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
2013 – Ed Herrmann, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1946)
2013 – Oscar Peer, Swiss author, playwright, and philologist (b. 1928)
2014 – John Robert Beyster, American physicist and academic (b. 1924)
2014 – Christine Cavanaugh, American actress (b. 1963)
2014 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
2014 – Bernard Stone, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
2015 – Peter Lundblad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2015 – Freda Meissner-Blau, Australian activist and politician (b. 1927)
2016 – Chad Robinson, Australian rugby league player (b. 1980)

Source: wikipedia