115,509 People
People who died on May 22 (in other years)
- 2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist
- 2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation
- 2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer
- 2005 - Julia Randall, American poet
- 2005 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece
- 2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast
- 2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor
- 2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
- 1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist
- 1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist
- 1990 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer
- 1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician
- 1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress
- 1972 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer
- 1967 - Langston Hughes, American writer
- 1966 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer
- 1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom
- 1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author
- 1939 - Ernst Toller, German author
- 1932 - Lady Gregory, Irish playwright
- 1910 - Jules Renard, French author
- 1885 - Victor Hugo, French author
- 1868 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist
- 1859 - King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
- 1795 - Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman
- 1772 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian
- 1760 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi
- 1746 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist
- 1745 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader
- 1667 - Pope Alexander VII
- 1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist
- 1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian
- 1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred)
- 1457 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint
- 1455 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle)
- 1455 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
- 1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan
- 337 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
Many happy comebackarounds!
ReplyDeleteTaking the day off?
I'll be working today but plan to kick back this evening.
ReplyDeleteBest regards to you. It would have been my father's 79th today. He was a really good person -- I am of the impression that you have that in common!
ReplyDeleteto quote Sandra Boynton:
ReplyDeleteHippo, birdie, two ewes!
Have a lovely day. Hope it involves chocolate and champagne.
Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteHave a grand celebration this evening.
And a reminder to take the day off next year.
That is a curious site. I was surprised to find that fewer people died on my birthday (during WWII) than my wife's (after the War). Maybe wars don't make that much difference in the overall death tally -- it's always a function of how many people are alive at the time. I suspect that you are younger than my wife because more people died on your birthday than hers.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Happy Birthday!
CCBC: I didn't think I was younger than anyone.
ReplyDeletei am already dead...and not yet born
ReplyDeleteOh Tom! Always so enigmatic.
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