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History Deaths on April 22


Irene Rich
Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)

#Irene_Rich

James H. Critchfield
James H. Critchfield, American CIA officer (b. 1917)

#James_H._Critchfield

Alida Valli
Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)

#Alida_Valli

Emperor Wuzong of Tang
Wuzong, Chinese emperor (b. 814)

#Emperor_Wuzong_of_Tang

Horace Donisthorpe
Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870)

#Horace_Donisthorpe

James P. Kirkwood
James P. Kirkwood, Scottish-American engineer (b. 1807)

#James_P._Kirkwood

Lionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill, English-American actor (b. 1885)

#Lionel_Atwill

Will Geer
Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)

#Will_Geer

Henry Lerolle
Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (b. 1848)

#Henry_Lerolle

D'Iberville Fortier
D'Iberville Fortier, Canadian diplomat (b. 1926)

#D'Iberville_Fortier

Charles Middleton (actor)
Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)

#Charles_Middleton_(actor)

Kostas Krystallis
Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (b. 1868)

#Kostas_Krystallis

Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895)

#Charles_Hamilton_Houston

George Stanley Gordon
George Stanley Gordon, American businessman (b. 1926)

#George_Stanley_Gordon

Erika Fuchs
Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)

#Erika_Fuchs

Martha Griffiths
Martha Griffiths, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 58th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (b. 1912)

#Martha_Griffiths

Ferenc Oslay
Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883)

#Ferenc_Oslay

Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (b. 1867)

#Käthe_Kollwitz

Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798)

#Friedrich_Robert_Faehlmann

Pat Tillman
Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (b. 1976)

#Pat_Tillman

Hazel Dickens
Hazel Dickens, American singer-songwriter, bassist and guitarist (b. 1935)

#Hazel_Dickens

Nicolás Bravo
Nicolás Bravo, Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (b. 1786)

#Nicolás_Bravo

Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (b. 1915)

#Philip_Morrison

Oswaldo Vigas
Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (b. 1926)

#Oswaldo_Vigas

J. S. Verma
J. S. Verma, Indian judge, 27th Chief Justice of India (b. 1933)

#J._S._Verma

Donna Williams
Donna Leanne Williams, Australian writer, artist, activist (b. 1963)

#Donna_Williams

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902)

#Ansel_Adams

Paul Hugh Emmett
Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and academic (b. 1900)

#Paul_Hugh_Emmett

Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)

#Richard_Nixon

Jane Froman
Jane Froman, American actress and singer (b. 1907)

#Jane_Froman

Martín Carrera
Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1806)

#Martín_Carrera

Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director and photographer (b. 1914)

#Jack_Cardiff

Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg
Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Paderborn (b. 1550)

#Henry_of_Saxe-Lauenburg

Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (b. 1771)

#Richard_Trevithick

Dick Balharry
Dick Balharry, Scottish environmentalist and photographer (b. 1937)

#Dick_Balharry

Eleanor of Woodstock
Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (b. 1318)

#Eleanor_of_Woodstock

Earl Hines
Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)

#Earl_Hines

Juanita Millender-McDonald
Juanita Millender-McDonald, American educator and politician (b. 1938)

#Juanita_Millender-McDonald

Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1547)

#Miguel_de_Cervantes

Richard Barrett (lawyer)
Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (b. 1943)

#Richard_Barrett_(lawyer)

Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish linguist and poet (b. 1598)

#Georg_Stiernhielm

Édouard Lalo
Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (b. 1823)

#Édouard_Lalo

Erin Moran
Erin Moran, American actress (b. 1960)

#Erin_Moran

Allen Jacobs
Allen Jacobs, American football player and coach (b. 1941)

#Allen_Jacobs

Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)

#Henry_Campbell-Bannerman

Henry Royce
Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1863)

#Henry_Royce

Jason Dunham
Jason Dunham, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)

#Jason_Dunham

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (b. 1763)

#Pierre-Charles_Villeneuve

Gregory V of Constantinople
Gregory V of Constantinople, Greek patriarch and saint (b. 1746)

#Gregory_V_of_Constantinople

Mike Larrabee
Mike Larrabee, American runner (b. 1933)

#Mike_Larrabee

Richie Havens
Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)

#Richie_Havens

Linda Lovelace
Linda Lovelace, American porn actress and activist (b. 1949)

#Linda_Lovelace

Erika Nõva
Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (b. 1905)

#Erika_Nõva

Jovan Krkobabi?
Jovan Krkobabi?, Serbian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1930)

#Jovan_Krkobabi?

Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (b. 1924)

#Eduardo_Paolozzi

André Caplet
André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)

#André_Caplet

Harlan F. Stone
Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)

#Harlan_F._Stone

Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)

#Albert_Salmi

Gennadi Vengerov, Belarusian-Russian actor (b. 1959)
Werner Potzernheim, German cyclist (b. 1927)
Mohammad Naseem, Pakistani-English activist (b. 1924)
Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936)
Mike Smith, English footballer (b. 1935)
Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (b. 1930)
Dave Gold, American businessman, founded 99 Cents Only Stores (b. 1932)
George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (b. 1927)
Buzz Potamkin, American director and producer (b. 1945)
Bill Granger, American author (b. 1941)
John Amabile, American football player and coach (b. 1939)
Ed Chynoweth, Canadian businessman (b. 1941)
Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (b. 1921)
Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1919)
Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (b. 1926)
Chan Canasta, Polish-English magician (b. 1920)
Kitch Christie, South African rugby player and coach (b. 1940)
Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (b. 1908)
Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
Jane Kenyon, American poet and author (b. 1947)
Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1917)
Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (b. 1907)
Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author (b. 1921)
Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (b. 1902)
Stephen H. Sholes, American record producer (b. 1911)
Walt Faulkner, American race car driver (b. 1918)
Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
Nikolaos Roussen, Greek captain (b. 1913)
Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (b. 1812)
Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (b. 1825)
James Hargreaves, British inventor (b. 1720)
Antoine de Jussieu, French botanist and physician (b. 1686)
Hans Erasmus Aßmann, German poet (b. 1646)
Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (b. 1251)
Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham
Saint Theodore of Sykeon
Peter III of Raqqa
Pope Agapetus I
Pope Caius