hmm das stimmt aber iwas nich... rein aus interesse ma 11.9.2001 eingegeben und da sind es auch "nur" "155,755 People"
und auch nur
Unusual Deaths in 2001
* Bernd-j�rgen brandes was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and then eaten by armin meiwes. before the killing, both men dined on brandes' severed penis. brandes had answered an internet advertisement by meiwes looking for someone for this purpose. brandes explicitly stated in his will that he wished to be killed and eaten. this is referred to in the song "mein teil" ("my part") by german ndh band rammstein.
* Takako konishi, a japanese woman, arrived in bismarck, north dakota where with the help of a scrawled map and due to the inherent language barrier, police deduced that she must have been in search of the lost cache of money that was buried in the film fargo. she was found dead in the woods six days later near detroit lakes, minnesota, possibly due to a combination of drugs and exposure to the cold. however, three weeks after her death, her parents in japan received a suicide note that she had sent several days before she died -- the story of her searching for the cache was fictional.
* Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak
* 1991 Bangladesh cyclone
* Halloween Blizzard
* Mount Pinatubo
* Ormoc tragedy
* 1991 Racha earthquake
* Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1991
* West Virginia Derecho
People who died on July 31 (various years)
* 2007 - Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch football player.
* 2006 - Paul Eells, "Voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks" sportscaster
* 2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker
* 2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress
* 2004 - Virginia Grey, American actress
* 2003 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist
* 2001 - Poul Anderson, American author
* 1993 - King Baudouin I of Belgium
* 1990 - Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player
* 1986 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist
* 1986 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat
* 1981 - Omar Torrijos, Panamanian military leader
* 1980 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer
* 1980 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist
* 1972 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium
* 1966 - Bud Powell, American jazz pianist
* 1964 - Jim Reeves, American singer
* 1954 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver
* 1943 - Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer
* 1953 - Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate
* 1944 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
* 1917 - Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans), Welsh poet
* 1917 - Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet
* 1914 - Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
* 1886 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer
* 1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States
* 1864 - Louis Hachette, French publisher
* 1784 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist
* 1750 - King John V of Portugal
* 1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
* 1653 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
* 1556 - Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and founder of the Jesuits
* 1508 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
* 1396 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1099 - El Cid, Spanish warrior
* 855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
* Dick shawn, a comedian who starred in the 1968 movie the producers, died of a heart attack while portraying a politician. just before he died, he announced, "if elected, i will not lay down on the job,".
* R. budd dwyer, a republican politician, committed suicide during a televised press conference. facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, dwyer shot himself in the mouth with a revolver.
People who died on January 08 (various years)
...
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist
...
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer
...
* Hurricane Hugo
* Loma Prieta earthquake
* 1989 Newcastle earthquake
* 2007 - Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian thinker
* 2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author
* 2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot
* 2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect
* 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
* 2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter
* 2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder
* 1999 - David Strickland, American actor
* 1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist
* 1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer
* 1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio)
* 1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer
* 1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor
* 1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach
* 1978 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat
* 1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader
* 1974 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b.1939)
* 1960 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician
* 1958 - Mike Todd, American film producer
* 1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician
* 1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor
* 1945 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* 1924 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon
* 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist
* 1896 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist
* 1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician
* 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
* 1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer
* 1772 - John Canton, English physicist
* 1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer
* 1758 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister
* 1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer
* 1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan
* 1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist
* 1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden
* 1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle)
* 1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
* 1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician
wenn ich ehrlich bin kenn ich von den ganzen leuten nur in goethe
mein geburtstag ist wies ausschaut auch ein ziemlicher todestag
People who died on October 07, 196* (the exact day you were born)
- Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate
An meinem Geb. sind auch einige deutsche dabei
- 1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist
- 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician
- 1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church
* While on the air giving a traffic report, the helicopter that jane dornacker was riding in stalled and crashed into the hudson river, killing her. this was the second helicopter crash she had been in that year.
Natural disasters in 1986
* Great San Salvador Earthquake
* Lake Nyos
* Winisk Flood, 1986
Approximately 146,972 people died worldwide on September 19, 1990.
People who died on September 19, 1990 (the exact day you were born)
Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer
Unusual Deaths in 1990
Joseph w. burrus, aged 32, an aspiring magician, decided to perform the "buried alive" illusion in a plastic box covered with cement. the cement crushed the box and he died of asphyxia.
George allen, an american football coach, died a month after some of his players gave him a gatorade shower following a victory (as it is tradition in american football). some argue this resulted in pneumonia.
Natural disasters in 1990
1990 Iran earthquake
1990 Luzon earthquake
People who died on September 19 (various years)
2006 - Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs)
2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist
2006 - Elizabeth Allen, American actress
2004 - Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist
2004 - Skeeter Davis, American singer
2004 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant
2004 - Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize
2003 - Slim Dusty, Australian singer
2002 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire
2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist
1997 - Rich Mullins, American singer
1995 - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman
1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway
1985 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer
1978 - Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian
1973 - Gram Parsons, American musician
1972 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist
1969 - Rex Ingram, American actor
1968 - Red Foley, American singer
1968 - Chester Carlson, American inventor
1967 - Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal
1967 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter
1955 - John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer
1949 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist
1949 - Will Cuppy, American humorist
1944 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross
1942 - Condé Nast, American publisher
1938 - Pauline Frederick, American actress
1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician
1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist
1927 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter
1924 - Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer
1905 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist
1893 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation
1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States
1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist
1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer
1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath
1692 - Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
1668 - William Waller, English soldier
Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)
1356 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers: Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan
690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
(muss man jmd. von denen kennen?^^)
Bruder:
Approximately 149,806 people died worldwide on April 05, 1994.
People who died on April 05, 1994 (the exact day you were born) Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (mein Bruder hat Kurt die lebensenergie geklaut , Ich hasse meinen Bruder dafür^^)
Natural disasters in 1994
Christmas 1994 Nor'easter
Northridge earthquake
1994 Paez river earthquake
People who died on April 05 (various years)
2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer
2007 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer
2007 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer
2007 - Darryl Stingley, American football player
2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)
2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer
2005 - John Sichel, British film and television director
2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress
2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel laureate
2004 - Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier
2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains)
2001 - Brother Theodore, German comedian
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver
1999 - Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist
1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet
1992 - Sam Walton, American retailer
1992 - Molly Picon, French actress
1991 - Sonny Carter, American astronaut
1991 - John Tower, American politician
1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors)
1982 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1981 - Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat)
1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon
1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviator
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the Republic of China
1974 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter
1973 - John Coleman, Australian rules footballer
1972 - Brian Donlevy, American actor
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist
1969 - Shelby Storck, American television producer
1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi
1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer
1964 - General Douglas MacArthur, American general
1946 - Vincent Youmans, American songwriter 1945 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (deshab is mein bruder wohl ein bisschen rechts^^)
1928 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier
1900 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician
1794 - Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician
1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader
1765 - Edward Young, English poet
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet
1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer
1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter
1697 - King Charles XI of Sweden
1695 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer
1693 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer
1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician
1673 - François Caron, French explorer
1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer
1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint
1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester
582 - Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople
* Hurricane Hugo
* Loma Prieta earthquake
* 1989 Newcastle earthquake
People who died on June ** (various years)
* 2007 - Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer
...
* 2002 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
...
* 1696 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland
...
* 1025 - Bolesław I the Brave, first king of Poland
naja den rest kannte ich nicht...ansonsten ist es ganz lustig, aber etwas "negativ" ...angenehmer wäre ein"positives" pendant zu dieser seite, denn ein geburtstag ist irgendwie angenehmer als ein todestag.
Christmas 1994 Nor'easter
Northridge earthquake
1994 Paez river earthquake
People who died on January 11 (various years)
2007 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author
2006 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim
2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ
2005 - Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist
2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer
2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread)
2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane)
2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor
2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director
2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex)
2002 - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect
2000 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player
2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor
1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer
1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor
1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel 1992 - a dot kid (amar Sicander laureate
1988 - Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world
1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator
1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress
1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist
1979 - Jack Soo, American actor
1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet
1970 - Richmal Crompton, British author
1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner
1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor
1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer
1952 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor
1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France
1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player
1931 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author
1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer
1923 - King Constantine I of Greece
1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named
1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi
1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer
1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer
1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist
1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem
1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer
1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist
1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer
1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet
1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor
1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader
1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic
1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada
1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet
1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman
1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist
1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria
1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor
844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
812 - Stauracius, Byzantine Emperor
802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
705 - Pope John VI
314 - St. Miltiades
Also, ich bin mir nicht sicher, aber sollte nicht - wenn man den 06 August 1945 eingibt - auch Hiroshima genannt werden? Stattdessen wird angegeben, das ein Wissenschaftler des Manhattan-Projekt als erster Mensch durch eine kritische Masse Plutonium starb.
Na denn - also, wenn so wichtige Infos, wie Hiroshima, nicht miteinbezogen werden, kann man doch auf diese Seite einen dampfenden Haufen setzen...
Approximately 144,245 people died worldwide on April 23, 1987.
People who died on April 23 (various years)
* 2007 - Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation
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# 1217 - King Inge II of Norway
# 1151 - Queen Adeliza of England
# 1124 - King Alexander I of Scotland
# 1016 - Ethelred II of England
# 1014 - Brian Boru, High King of Ireland (killed in battle)
# 997 - Saint Adalbert of Prague, bishop (b. ca. 956)
# 871 - Ethelred of Wessex
# 725 - Wihtred, King of Kent
# 303 - Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr
* A 25-year-old dutch woman studying in paris, ren�e hartevelt, was killed and eaten by a classmate, issei sagawa, when he invited her to dinner for a literary conversation. the killer was declared unfit to stand trial and extradited back to japan, where he was released from custody within fifteen months.
* Carl mccunn, in march 1981, paid a bush pilot to drop him at a remote lake near the coleen river in alaska to photograph wildlife, but had not arranged for the pilot to pick him up again in august. rather than starve, mccunn shot himself in the head. his body was found in february 1982.
* Boris sagal, a motion picture-director, died while shooting the tv miniseries world war iii when he walked into the tail-rotor blade of a helicopter and was decapitated.
People who died on April 18 (various years)
* 2007 - Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki
* 2005 - Sam Mills, American football player
* 2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji
* 2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist
* 2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler
* 2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer
* 1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician
* 1996 - Bernard Edwards, American record producer
* 1996 - Brook Berringer, American football player
* 1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina
* 1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka
* 1990 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler
* 1976 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer
* 1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker
* 1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer
* 1965 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor
* 1964 - Ben Hecht, American writer
* 1958 - Maurice Gamelin, French general * 1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1947 - Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader
* 1945 - Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b.1876)
* 1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist
* 1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer
* 1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral.
* 1942 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socalite
* 1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer
* 1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer
* 1917 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist
* 1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus
* 1898 - Gustave Moreau, French painter
* 1873 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist
* 1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist
* 1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist
* 1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
* 1732 - Louis Feuillée, French explorer
* 1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice
* 1674 - John Graunt, English statistician
* 1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian
* 1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
* 1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
* 1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer
* 1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet
* 1552 - John Leland, English antiquarian
* 1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
wer starb an deinem geburtstag ?
es handelt isch um eine seite die dir sagt welche mehr oder weniger bekannten leute an deinem geburtstag gestorben sind !!
Huhu^^, da mache ich auch glei mit , colle namen hab ich fett marikiert.
Spoiler:
People who died on September 29, 1988 (the exact day you were born)
* Charles Addams, American cartoonist
Natural disasters in 1988
* 1988 Spitak earthquake
* Hurricane Gilbert
People who died on September 29 (various years)
* 2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress
* 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec
* 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic
* 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer
* 2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken"
* 2004 - Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider
* 2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam
* 1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles
* 1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide
* 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist
* 1996 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian
* 1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer
* 1989 - Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate
* 1987 - Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company
* 1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player
* 1981 - Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager
* 1976 - Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler,
* 1975 - Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager
* 1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet
* 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor
* 1967 - Carson McCullers, American author
* 1952 - John Cobb, British racing driver
* 1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete
* 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter
* 1927 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer
* 1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate
* 1925 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer
* 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer
* 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet
* 1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist
* 1889 - Louis Faidherbe, French general
* 1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon
* 1833 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
* 1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States
* 1800 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet
* 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier
* 1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs
* 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
* 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden
* 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany
* 2007 - J Edward Oliver, catoonist and composer
* 2006 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician
* 2006 - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin
* 2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player
* 2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor
* 2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer
* 2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer
* 2003 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer
* 2002 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner
* 2001 - Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe
* 2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver
* 1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor
* 1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor
* 1995 - Friz Freleng, American animator
* 1989 - Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager
* 1979 - George Brent, British actor
* 1978 - Cybele, Greek actress
* 1977 - William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays)
* 1976 - Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared."
* 1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
* 1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver
* 1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver
* 1968 - Little Willie John, American singer
* 1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver
* 1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete
* 1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist
* 1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician
* 1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive
* 1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic)
* 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer
* 1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician
* 1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter
* 1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer
* 1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam
* 1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States
* 1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist
* 1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor
* 1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer
* 1883 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader
* 1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist
* 1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral
* 1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot
* 1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer
* 1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge
* 1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher
* 1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist
* 1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine
* 1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria
* 1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer
* 1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet
* 1647 - Alse Young, American "witch"
* 1595 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman
* 1536 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet
* 1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
* 1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan
* 1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria
* 946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
* 818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
* 604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
* Hurricane Hugo
* Loma Prieta earthquake
* 1989 Newcastle earthquake
People who died on May 22 (various 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)