Famous Deaths on May 22, Who Died on May 22
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1068 | Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025) |
| 1310 | Saint Humility, founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (b. c.1226) |
| 1409 | Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (b. 1392) |
| 1455 | Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406) |
| 1457 | Rita of Cascia, Italian nun and saint (b. 1381) |
| 1490 | Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and magnate (b. 1416) |
| 1538 | John Forest, English friar and martyr (b. 1471) |
| 1540 | Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (b. 1483) |
| 1545 | Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (b. 1486) |
| 1553 | Giovanni Bernardi, Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1495) |
| 1602 | Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544) |
| 1609 | Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (b. 1573) |
| 1666 | Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608) |
| 1667 | Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599) |
| 1745 | François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general (b. 1671) |
| 1760 | Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (b. 1700) |
| 1772 | Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (b. 1687) |
| 1795 | Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (b. 1725) |
| 1802 | Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731) |
| 1851 | Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755) |
| 1859 | Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810) |
| 1861 | Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829) |
| 1868 | Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) |
| 1885 | Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802) |
| 1901 | Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869) |
| 1910 | Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864) |
| 192 | Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician (b. 138) |
| 1932 | Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852) |
| 1933 | Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894) |
| 1938 | William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870) |
| 1939 | Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893) |
| 1948 | Claude McKay, Jamaican writer and poet (b. 1889) |
| 1954 | Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884) |
| 1965 | Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882) |
| 1966 | Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900) |
| 1967 | Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902) |
| 1972 | Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904) |
| 1974 | Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903) |
| 1975 | Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900) |
| 1982 | Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899) |
| 1983 | Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| 1984 | Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901) |
| 1985 | Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909) |
| 1988 | Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914) |
| 1989 | Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953) |
| 1990 | Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922) |
| 1991 | Lino Brocka, Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
| 1992 | Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (b. 1909) |
| 1993 | Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892) |
| 1997 | Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (b. 1906) |
| 1998 | John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926) |
| 2000 | Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916) |
| 2004 | Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960) |
| 2005 | Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914) |
| 2006 | Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945) |
| 2007 | Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970) |
| 2008 | Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946) |
| 2010 | Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914) |
| 2011 | Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938) |
| 2012 | Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970) |
| 2013 | Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922) |
| 2015 | Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) |
| 2016 | Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933) |
| 2017 | Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981) |
| 2019 | Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923) |
| 2020 | Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (b. 1938) |
| 2022 | Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (b. 1931) |
| 337 | Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (b. 272) |
| 748 | Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 683) |
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