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Constantine the Great
Roman emperor from 306 to 337
Empress Genshō
Empress of Japan from 715 to 724
Blanche of England
English princess
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
English noble
Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford
15th-century English noble
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
English nobleman and military commander
Constantine the Great — Roman emperor from 306 to 337, who died on May 22 337.
Empress Genshō — Empress of Japan from 715 to 724, who died on May 22 748.
Blanche of England — English princess, who died on May 22 1409.
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset — English noble, who died on May 22 1455.
Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford — 15th-century English noble, who died on May 22 1455.
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland — English nobleman and military commander, who died on May 22 1455.
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- 192AAD 192Calendar year
- 1068
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Saint HumilityItalian saint - 1457
Rita of Cascia15th-century Italian Augustinian nun and saint - 1490
Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of KentEnglish administrator, nobleman and magnate - 1538
John Forest16th-century English Franciscan friar and martyr - 1540
Francesco GuicciardiniItalian writer, historian, and politician - 1545
Sher Shah SuriSultan of Hindustan from 1540 to 1545 - 1553
Giovanni BernardiItalian sculptor - 1602
Renata of LorraineDuchess of Bavaria from 1579 to 1597 - 1609
Pieter Willemsz VerhoeffDutch admiral (c. 1573–1609) - 1666GGaspar SchottGerman scientist
- 1667
Pope Alexander VIIHead of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667 - 1745
François Marie de Broglie, 1st Duke of Broglie - 1760BBaal Shem TovPolish founder of Hasidic Judaism
- 1772DDurastante NatalucciItalian historian
- 1795
Ewald Friedrich von HertzbergPrussian politician - 1802
Martha WashingtonFirst Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797 - 1851
Mordecai Manuel NoahAmerican diplomat and utopian writer - 1859
Ferdinand II of the Two SiciliesKing of the Two Sicilies from 1830 to 1859 - 1861TThornsbury Bailey Brown
- 1868
Julius PlückerGerman mathematician and physicist - 1885
Victor HugoFrench writer and politician - 1901
Gaetano BresciAssassin of Umberto I - 1910
Jules RenardFrench author - 1932
Abbey TheatreNational Theatre of Ireland, Dublin - 1933
Tsengeltiin JigjidjavPrime minister of Mongolia - 1938
William GlackensAmerican painter - 1939
Ernst TollerGerman author and revolutionary - 1939
Jiří MahenCzech writer - 1948
Claude McKayJamaican American writer and poet - 1950
Alfonso Quiñónez MolinaPresident of El Salvador - 1954
Chief BenderNative American baseball player - 1965
Christopher Stone (broadcaster) - 1966TTom GoddardEnglish cricketer
- 1967
Langston HughesAmerican writer and social activist - 1967
Charlotte SerberManhattan Project member - 1972
Cecil Day-LewisIrish-born British poet - 1972
Margaret RutherfordEnglish actress - 1974
Irmgard Flügge-LotzGerman-American mathematician and aerospace engineer - 1975
Lefty GroveAmerican baseball player - 1982
Cevdet SunayPresident of Turkey from 1966 to 1973 - 1983
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- 1984
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Wolfgang ReithermanGerman-American animator - 1988
Giorgio AlmiranteItalian politician - 1989
Steven De GrooteSouth African classical pianist - 1990
Rocky GrazianoAmerican boxer - 1991
Lino BrockaFilipino film director - 1991
Shripad Amrit DangeIndian communist politician(10 October 1899 – 22 May 1991) - 1991
Stan MortensenEnglish footballer and football manager - 1992
Zellig HarrisAmerican linguist - 1993
Mieczysław HorszowskiPolish and American pianist - 1997
Alziro BergonzoItalian architect and painter - 1997
Alfred HersheyAmerican bacteriologist and geneticist - 1998
John DerekAmerican actor and filmmaker - 1998JJosé Enrique Moyal
- 2000
Davie FultonCanadian politician - 2004
Richard BiggsAmerican actor - 2004
Mikhail VoroninRussian gymnast - 2005
Charilaos FlorakisGreek communist politician - 2005
Thurl RavenscroftAmerican actor - 2006
Lee Jong-wookSouth Korean physician - 2007
Pemba Doma SherpaNepalese mountain climber - 2008
Robert AsprinAmerican science fiction and fantasy author - 2010
Martin GardnerAmerican mathematics and science writer - 2011
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Muzafar BhuttoSindhi nationalist politician
- 2012
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- 2022
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86 people with a Wikipedia article died on May 22, including Constantine the Great, Empress Genshō, Blanche of England. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
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80 documented historical events happened on May 22, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine navy began a raid on the Nile Delta port city of Damietta, whose garrison was absent at the time. On the same day, in another year: Albrecht von Wallenstein and King Christian IV of Denmark signed the Treaty of Lübeck to end Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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