April 22 - Deaths

Deaths

• 296 – Pope Caius
• 455 – Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor
• 536 – Pope Agapetus I
• 613 – Saint Theodore of Sykeon
• 1592 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect (b. 1511)
• 1672 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
• 1699 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman (b. 1646)
• 1758 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
• 1778 – James Hargreaves, English inventor, invented the Spinning Jenny (b. 1720)
• 1806 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (b. 1763)
• 1833 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor and mining engineer (b. 1771)
• 1839 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
• 1854 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (b. 1786)
• 1877 – James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
• 1892 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)
• 1893 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor and academic (b. 1825)
• 1896 – Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
• 1908 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
• 1925 – André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878)
• 1929 – Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
• 1930 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet (b. 1866)
• 1932 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, and irredenta (b. 1883)
• 1933 – Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer, co-founded the Rolls-Royce company (b. 1863)
• 1944 – Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer (b. 1913)
• 1945 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1945 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
• 1946 – Lionel Atwill, English actor (b. 1885)
• 1946 – Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
• 1949 – Charles B. Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)
• 1950 – Charles Hamilton Houston, American civil rights attorney (b. 1895)
• 1951 – Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
• 1968 – Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
• 1978 – Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1980 – Jane Froman, American actress (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902)
• 1983 – John Louis Evans, American convicted murderer (b. 1950)
• 1983 – Earl Hines, American jazz pianist (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
• 1985 – Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician, author, and politician (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer (b. 1907)
• 1988 – Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
• 1989 – Emilio Gino Segrè, Italian-American physicist (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1994 – Richard Nixon, American politician, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Maggie Kuhn, American activist, founder of the Gray Panthers movement (b. 1905)
• 1996 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American golfer (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
• 1999 – Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician and mind-reader (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Linda Lovelace, American porn actress (b. 1949)
• 2003 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Martha Griffiths,American lawyer, judge, and congresswoman (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Mike Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
• 2004 – Jason L. Dunham, American corporal, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
• 2004 – Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (b. 1976)
• 2005 – Norman Bird, English actor (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Robert Farnon, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
• 2006 – D'Iberville Fortier, Canadian politician and diplomat (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Juanita Millender-McDonald, American congresswoman (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Paul Davis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Richard Barrett, American lawyer and nationalist (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Moin Akhter, Pakistani actor (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Buzz Potamkin, American television producer (b. 1945)