22 January Deaths

January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of the year (344 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

    239 – Cao Rui, Chinese emperor (b. 205)
    628 – Anastasius of Persia, monk
    1051 – Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
    1170 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (b. 1113)
    1188 – Ferdinand II of León (b. 1137)
    1341 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
    1517 – Hadım Sinan Pasha, Ottoman politician, 32nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. ?)
    1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
    1552 – Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English general and politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1500)
    1575 – James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (b. 1516)
    1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1547)
    1666 – Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (b. 1592)
    1750 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
    1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)
    1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German meteorologist and geologist (b. 1719)
    1798 – Lewis Morris, American judge and politician (b. 1726)
    1779 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
    1779 – Claudius Smith, American guerrilla leader (b. 1736)
    1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
    1850 – Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1795)
    1879 – Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
    1879 – Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
    1892 – Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
    1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
    1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
    1901 – Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
    1921 – George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
    1922 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
    1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
    1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
    1925 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer and mountain climber (b. 1859)
    1927 – James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (b. 1848)
    1929 – R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (b. 1856)
    1930 – Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (b. 1867)
    1931 – László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
    1945 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
    1949 – William Thomas Walsh, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1891)
    1950 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (b. 1892)
    1951 – Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American sprinter and high jumper (b. 1883)
    1957 – Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (b. 1876)
    1959 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
    1964 – Marc Blitzstein American pianist and composer (b. 1905)
    1966 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
    1967 – Robert Henriques, English farmer and author (b. 1905)
    1968 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1890)
    1971 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1890)
    1973 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
    1975 – Andrew George Burry, Swiss-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1873)
    1978 – Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894)
    1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1894)
    1979 – Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (b. 1940)
    1980 – Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (b. 1888)
    1981 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and academic (b. 1903)
    1982 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
    1985 – Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (b. 1899)
    1987 – R. Budd Dwyer, American educator and politician, 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania (b. 1939)
    1989 – S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan author and academic (b. 1924)
    1991 – Robert Choquette, Canadian author, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
    1993 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese playwright and photographer (b. 1924)
    1994 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
    1994 – Rhett Forrester, American singer-songwriter (Riot) (b. 1956)
    1994 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
    1996 – Israel Eldad, Polish-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1910)
    1997 – Ron Holden, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
    1997 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
    1999 – Graham Staines, Australian-Indian missionary and translator (b. 1941)
    2000 – Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1920)
    2000 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (b. 1916)
    2001 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
    2001 – Roy Brown, American clown and puppeteer (b. 1932)
    2002 – Peter Bardens, English keyboard player (b. 1945)
    2002 – Stanley Marcus, American businessman and author (b. 1905)
    2003 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (b. 1921)
    2004 – Billy May, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1916)
    2004 – Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1918)
    2004 – Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1923)
    2005 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1943)
    2005 – Carlo Orelli, Italian soldier (b. 1894)
    2005 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
    2006 – Aydın Güven Gürkan, Turkish academic and politician, Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security (b. 1941)
    2007 – Ngô Quang Trưởng, Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
    2007 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and activist (b. 1912)
    2007 – Liz Renay, American actress, author and performer (b. 1926)
    2008 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director (b. 1979)
    2008 – Miles Lerman, Polish Holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1920)
    2009 – Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
    2010 – Louis R. Harlan, American historian and author (b. 1922)
    2010 – Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
    2012 – Simon Marsden, English photographer and author (b. 1948)
    2012 – Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
    2012 – Clarence Tillenius, Canadian painter and environmentalist (b. 1913)
    2012 – Dick Tufeld, American actor, announcer, narrator and voice actor (b. 1926)
    2013 – Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (b. 1929)
    2013 – Hinton Mitchem, American businessman and politician (b. 1938)
    2014 – Maziar Partow, Iranian cinematographer (b. 1933)
    2015 – Fabrizio de Miranda, Italian engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge (b. 1926)
    2015 – Wendell H. Ford, American lieutenant and politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924)
    2015 – Margaret Bloy Graham, Canadian author and illustrator (b. 1920)
    2016 – Homayoun Behzadi, Iranian footballer and coach (b. 1942)
    2016 – Cecil Parkinson, English politician (b. 1931)
    2016 – Lois Ramsey, Australian actress (b. 1922)
    2016 – Kamer Genç, Turkish politician (b. 1940)

Source: Wikipedia