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December 22 Deaths in History - December 22 Birthdays - December 22 Events
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December 22, 2002 Joe Strummer, rocker, The Clash, dies at 50 December 22, 2002 Kenneth Tobey, actor, dies at 85 December 22, 2001 Lance Loud, "actor/early ""reality show"" star", An American Family, dies at 50 December 22, 2000 Florynce Rae Kennedy, lawyer/lecturer, dies at 84 December 22, 1998 Virginia Graham, talk show host/writer, dies at 86 December 22, 1997 Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81 December 22, 1997 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford, dies at 67 December 22, 1997 John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78 December 22, 1997 Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71 December 22, 1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 December 22, 1996 Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81 December 22, 1995 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84 December 22, 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81 December 22, 1993 Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76 December 22, 1992 Frederick W. Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99 December 22, 1991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus and Eurydike), dies at 91 December 22, 1990 Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76 December 22, 1990 Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies December 22, 1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 December 22, 1988 Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies December 22, 1987 Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies December 22, 1987 Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82 December 22, 1986 Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84 December 22, 1980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47 December 22, 1979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77 December 22, 1977 Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82 December 22, 1974 Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70 December 22, 1974 Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50 December 22, 1974 Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 December 22, 1973 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87 December 22, 1973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72 December 22, 1971 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58 December 22, 1971 Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63 December 22, 1969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80 December 22, 1969 Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52 December 22, 1969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75 December 22, 1968 Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 December 22, 1967 Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48 December 22, 1965 Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62 December 22, 1964 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66 December 22, 1959 Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60 December 22, 1958 Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75 December 22, 1958 Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (Judische Krieg), dies at 74 December 22, 1951 Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61 December 22, 1950 Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70 December 22, 1950 Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88 December 22, 1945 Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63 December 22, 1944 Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday December 22, 1944 Harry Langdon, U.S. comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60 December 22, 1941 Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83 December 22, 1940 Nathanael West, [Weinstein], U.S. writer (Cool Million), dies at 37 December 22, 1939 Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 53 December 22, 1937 Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55 December 22, 1923 Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67 December 22, 1918 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 December 22, 1917 Francesca Saveria Cabrini, U.S. saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 December 22, 1913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 December 22, 1908 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 December 22, 1902 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 December 22, 1899 Dwight L Moody, U.S. evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies December 22, 1899 Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman December 22, 1893 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 December 22, 1893 Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 December 22, 1890 Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies December 22, 1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday December 22, 1875 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 December 22, 1874 Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 December 22, 1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 December 22, 1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 December 22, 1863 Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 December 22, 1832 Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 December 22, 1828 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson, dies December 22, 1815 Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards December 22, 1797 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 December 22, 1767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies December 22, 1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 December 22, 1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 December 22, 1723 Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 December 22, 1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery December 22, 1668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies December 22, 1641 Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, PM of France, dies at 81 December 22, 1603 Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 December 22, 1440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed December 22, 1419 John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies December 22, 1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 |