May 22 - Deaths

Deaths

• 192 – Dong Zhuo, Chancellor of Han (slain by his adoptive son Lü Bu) (b. 138)
• 337 – Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
• 748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
• 985 – Saint Bobo of Provence
• 1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
• 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
• 1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)
• 1457 – Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
• 1538 – John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (b. 1471)
• 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
• 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
• 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
• 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)
• 1795 – Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
• 1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
• 1859 – King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
• 1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
• 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (b. 1869)
• 1910 – Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
• 1932 – Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
• 1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American Disney animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
• 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 1991 – Stan Mortensen, English professional footballer (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
• 1998 – José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
• 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
• 2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 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)