While I was entering this world who was departing?

It's my birthday - time for a little morbidity.

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)