Famous Deaths on 22nd May

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337 - Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome (306-37) dies at 47
748 - Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
987 - Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20
1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1455 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
1455 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406)
1457 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1501 - Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66
1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57
1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
1667 - Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68
1688 - Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70
1745 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
1746 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
1760 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
1772 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
1781 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45
1801 - Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer, dies at 58
1819 - John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84
1825 - Domenico Corri, composer, dies at 80
1851 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1859 - Ferdinand II, [Re Bomba], Dutch King of Sicily, dies at 49
1868 - Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
1878 - Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52
1880 - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80
Author Victor Hugo (1885) 1885 - Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83
1898 - Edward Bellamy, writer, dies at 48
1910 - Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
1921 - Marie E Wilton, writer, dies
1925 - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Brit field marshall (WWI), dies at 72
1928 - William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54
1932 - Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80
1939 - Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45
1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
1945 - Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
1948 - Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57
1949 - Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
1949 - Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies
1953 - Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70
1961 - Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at 53
1965 - Bobby Watson, comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), dies at 77
1965 - Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
1966 - Tom Goddard, cricketer (22 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1930-39), dies
1967 - James Langston Hughes, American poet laureate, dies at 65
1970 - Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76
1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80
1975 - Torben Meyer, actor (Viking, Roberta, Sunny), dies at 90
1975 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
1977 - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73
1977 - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer, dies at 80
1978 - Bjarne Brustad, composer, dies at 83
1984 - John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery
1986 - Martin Gabel, actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63
1987 - Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65
1988 - Dennis Day, tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy), dies at 71
1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
1989 - Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
1990 - Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies
1990 - Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies at 71 of heart failure
1991 - Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51
1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
1993 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100
1994 - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68
1994 - Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belgium comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies
1995 - Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83
1996 - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, academic, dies at 66
1996 - Rex Collings, writer/publisher, dies at 70
1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
2005 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2005 - Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
2008 - Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
2012 - Wesley Brown, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85