August 22 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 408 – Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
  • 1155 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
  • 1188 – Ferdinand II of León (b. 1137)
  • 1241 – Pope Gregory IX, (b. 1143)
  • 1280 – Pope Nicholas III (b. 1216)
  • 1304 – John II, Count of Holland (b. 1247)
  • 1350 – Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
  • 1358 – Isabella of France (b. 1295)
  • 1456 – Vladislav II of Wallachia
  • 1485 – Richard III of England (b. 1452)
  • 1553 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician (b. 1504)
  • 1572 – Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, English leader of the Rising of the North (b. 1528)
  • 1584 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet (b. 1530)
  • 1599 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553)
  • 1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (b. 1572)
  • 1609 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Polish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
  • 1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
  • 1680 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
  • 1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman (b. 1628)
  • 1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
  • 1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
  • 1773 – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English politician (b. 1709)
  • 1793 – Louis de Noailles, French marshal (b. 1713)
  • 1793 – Cäcilia Weber, German mother of Constanze Mozart (b. 1727)
  • 1797 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
  • 1806 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (b. 1732)
  • 1818 – Warren Hastings, English politician, 1st Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
  • 1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist(b. 1758)
  • 1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
  • 1861 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (b. 1831)
  • 1888 – Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian politician (b. 1817)
  • 1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
  • 1903 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
  • 1904 – Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1850)
  • 1909 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist (b. 1846)
  • 1914 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian bishop (b. 1859)
  • 1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
  • 1922 – Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader (b. 1890)
  • 1926 – Charles William Eliot, American academic, 21st President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
  • 1940 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
  • 1942 – Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
  • 1946 – Döme Sztójay, Hungarian soldier and diplomat (b. 1883)
  • 1950 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
  • 1951 – Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
  • 1953 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
  • 1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
  • 1960 – Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
  • 1963 – Augustus Goessling, American water polo player and swimmer (b. 1878)
  • 1965 – Ellen Church, American flight attendant (b. 1904)
  • 1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist (b. 1903)
  • 1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar (b. 1895)
  • 1973 – Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
  • 1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
  • 1976 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
  • 1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
  • 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
  • 1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
  • 1979 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
  • 1980 – James Smith McDonnell, American businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
  • 1980 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
  • 1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
  • 1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (b. 1942)
  • 1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
  • 1994 – Gilles Groulx, Canadian director (b. 1931)
  • 2003 – Generosa Ammon, American wife of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
  • 2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
  • 2003 – Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating coach (b. 1914)
  • 2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
  • 2004 – Angus Bethune, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
  • 2004 – Al Dvorin, American bandleader and talent agent (b. 1922)
  • 2004 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
  • 2005 – Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (b. 1914)
  • 2006 – Bruce Gary, American drummer and producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
  • 2008 – Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
  • 2009 – Elmer Kelton, American novelist (b. 1926)
  • 2010 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer and manager (b. 1923)
  • 2011 – Nick Ashford, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ashford & Simpson) (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Gudrun Berend, German hurdler (b. 1955)
  • 2011 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
  • 2011 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Nina Bawden, English author (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – John Davidson, American politician (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal and bishop (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Paulino Matip Nhial, South Sudanese military leader and politician
  • 2012 – Martin Shikuku, Kenyan politician (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – András József Szennay, Hungarian priest and clergyman (b. 1921)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.
    Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
    Philip Caputo (b. 1941)