Notable Deaths on April 22

Q: Who died on April 22?

Notable people who died on April 22 include: Pope Caius, Pope Agapetus I, Peter III of Raqqa, Saint Theodore of Sykeon, Kūkai.

Q: What is Richard Nixon known for?

Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (born 1913)

1994 — Richard Nixon

37th President of the United States (born 1913)

April 22 has seen 73 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 296 – 2023. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 73 people 296 – 2023

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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974

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A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D

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involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S

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president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.

Pope Caius

Pope Caius, also called Gaius, was the bishop of Rome from 17 December 283 to his death in 296. Little information on Caius is available except that given by the Liber Pontificalis, which relies on a legendary account…

296

Pope Agapetus I

Pope Agapetus I was the bishop of Rome from 13 May 535 to his death on 22 April 536. His father, Gordianus, was a priest in Rome and he may have been related to two popes, Felix III and Gregory I.

536

Peter III of Raqqa

Peter III of Callinicum was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 581 until his death in 591. He is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Martyrology of Rabban…

591

Saint Theodore of Sykeon

Saint Theodore of Sykeon, also known as Theodore the Sykeote, was a revered Byzantine ascetic, who lived between the first half of the 6th century and the thirteenth year of the Emperor Heraclius' rule in the early 7th…

613

Kūkai

Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism (born 774)

Kūkai , born Saeki no Mao posthumously called Kōbō Daishi , was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi under…

835

Wuzong

Chinese emperor (born 814)

Emperor Wuzong of Tang, né Li Chan, later changed to Li Yan just before his death, was an emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 840 to 846. Emperor Wuzong is mainly known in modern times for the religious…

846

Philip of Poitou

Prince-Bishop of Durham

Philip of Poitou was Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208, and prior to this Archdeacon of Canterbury.

1208

Francis of Fabriano

Italian writer (born 1251)

Francesco da Fabriano - born Francesco Venimbeni - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member from the Order of Friars Minor. He was a noted writer on various theological and biblical matters and was known for his…

1322

Eleanor of Woodstock

countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (born 1318)

Eleanor of Woodstock was an English princess and the duchess of Guelders and countess of Zutphen by marriage to Reginald II of Guelders. She was regent as the guardian of their minor son Reginald III from 1343 until…

1355

Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg

Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Paderborn (born 1550)

Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg was a Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, then Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, then Prince-Bishop of Paderborn.

1585

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1547)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work…

1616

Georg Stiernhielm

Swedish linguist and poet (born 1598)

Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, mathematician, linguist and poet. He has been called "the father of the Swedish skald art".

1672

Hans Erasmus Aßmann

German poet (born 1646)

Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz was a statesman and poet from the second Silesian school. He lived in Bohemia.

1699

Antoine de Jussieu

French botanist and physician (born 1686)

Antoine de Jussieu was a French naturalist, botanist, and physician. The standard author abbreviation Ant.Juss. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

1758

James Hargreaves

British inventor (born 1720)

James Hargreaves was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764.

1778

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

French admiral (born 1763)

Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve was a French Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of a Franco-Spanish fleet which was defeated by…

1806

Gregory V of Constantinople

Greek patriarch and saint (born 1746)

Gregory V of Constantinople, born Georgios Angelopoulos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808, and from 1818 to 1821. He was responsible for much restoration work to the…

1821

Richard Trevithick

English engineer and explorer (born 1771)

Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age. He was an…

1833

Friedrich Robert Faehlmann

Estonian philologist and physician (born 1798)

Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) was an Estonian writer, medical doctor and philologist. He was a co-founder of the Learned Estonian Society and its chairman (1843-1850).

1850

Nicolás Bravo

Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (born 1786)

Nicolás Bravo Rueda was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim President of Mexico three times, in 1839, 1842, and 1846. Previously, he fought in the Mexican War of Independence, and served as Mexico's…

1854

Martín Carrera

Mexican general and president (1855) (born 1806)

Antonio Martín Mariano Carrera Sabat was a Mexican general, senator, and interim president of the country for about a month in 1855. He was a moderate liberal.

1871

James P. Kirkwood

Scottish-American engineer (born 1807)

James Pugh Kirkwood was a 19th-century American civil engineer, and general superintendent of the Erie Railroad in the year 1849–1850. He left the Erie to go to the southwest to construct railroads, and he made the…

1877

Édouard Lalo

French violinist and composer (born 1823)

Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer, violist, violinist, and academic teacher. His most celebrated piece is the Symphonie Espagnole, a five-movement concerto for violin and orchestra that remains a…

1892

Chaim Aronson

Lithuanian businessman and author (born 1825)

Chaim Aronson was a Lithuanian Jewish inventor and memoirist.

1893

Kostas Krystallis

Greek author and poet (born 1868)

Kostas Krystallis was an ethnic Aromanian, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to Greece after being denounced to the…

1894

Thomas Meik

English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (born 1812)

Thomas Meik was a 19th-century Scottish engineer.

1896

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also was Secretary…

1908

André Caplet

French composer and conductor (born 1878)

André Léon Caplet was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy who orchestrated several of his compositions, as well as arrangements of several of them for different…

1925

Henry Lerolle

French painter and art collector (born 1848)

Henry Lerolle was a French painter, art collector and patron, born in Paris. He studied at Académie Suisse and in the studio of Louis Lamothe.

1929

Ferenc Oslay

Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (born 1883)

Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist.

1932

Henry Royce

English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (born 1863)

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines that had a reputation for reliability and longevity. He and his two business associates Charles Rolls…

1933

Wilhelm Cauer

German mathematician and academic (born 1900)

Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and scientist. He is most noted for his work on the analysis and synthesis of electrical filters and his work marked the beginning of the field of network synthesis. Prior to his…

1945

Käthe Kollwitz

German painter and sculptor (born 1867)

Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working…

1945

Charles Hamilton Houston

American lawyer and academic (born 1895)

Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant…

1950

Horace Donisthorpe

English myrmecologist and coleopterist (born 1870)

Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his…

1951

Will Geer

American actor (born 1902)

Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist who was active in labor organizing and communist movements in New York City and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California, he befriended…

1978

Jane Froman

American actress and singer (born 1907)

Ellen Jane Froman was an American actress and singer. During her 30-year career, she performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems due to injuries sustained in a 1943 plane crash.

1980

Fritz Strassmann

German chemist and physicist (born 1902)

Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key piece of…

1980

Earl Hines

American pianist and bandleader (born 1903)

Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one source, "one of a…

1983

Ansel Adams

American photographer and environmentalist (born 1902)

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure"…

1984

Paul Hugh Emmett

American chemist and academic (born 1900)

Paul Hugh Emmett was an American chemist best known for his pioneering work in the field of catalysis and for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He spearheaded the research to separate isotopes of…

1985

Jacques Ferron

Canadian physician and author (born 1921)

Jacques Ferron was a Canadian physician and author.

1985

Mircea Eliade

Romanian historian and author (born 1907)

Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of…

1986

Erika Nõva

Estonian architect (born 1905)

Erika Nõva née Volberg was an Estonian architect, remembered mainly for her farmhouse designs. She was the first woman to graduate as an architect in Estonia.

1987

Grigori Kuzmin

Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (born 1917)

Grigori Kuzmin was an Estonian astronomer, who worked mainly in the field of stellar dynamics.

1988

Irene Rich

American actress (born 1891)

Irene Frances Rich was an American actress who worked in both silent films, talkies, and radio.

1988

Emilio G. Segrè

Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)

Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in…

1989

Albert Salmi

American actor (born 1928)

Albert Salmi was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Best known for his work as a character actor, he appeared in over 150 film and television productions.

1990

Jane Kenyon

American poet and author (born 1947)

Jane Kenyon was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subject of…

1995

Erma Bombeck

American journalist and author (born 1927)

Erma Louise Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996. Fifteen books of her humor have been published; most…

1996

Jug McSpaden

American golfer and architect (born 1908)

Harold Lee "Jug" McSpaden was an American professional golfer, and golf course architect.

1996

Munir Ahmad Khan

Pakistani nuclear engineer (born 1926)

Munir Ahmad Khan, NI, HI, FPAS, was a Pakistani nuclear engineer who is credited, among others, with being the "father of the atomic bomb program" of Pakistan for his leading role in developing the nation's nuclear…

1999

Felice Bryant

American songwriter (born 1925)

Felice Bryant and Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team. They are best known for songs such as "Rocky Top", "We Could", "Love Hurts", and numerous hits by…

2003

Erika Fuchs

German translator (born 1906)

Erika Fuchs, née Petri, was a German translator. She is largely known in Germany for her major involvement in the localization process of American Disney comics, especially Carl Barks' stories about Duckburg and its…

2005

Philip Morrison

American physicist and academic (born 1915)

Philip Morrison was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear…

2005

Eduardo Paolozzi

Scottish sculptor and artist (born 1924)

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art.

2005

Henriette Avram

American computer scientist and academic (born 1919)

Henriette Davidson Avram was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. Avram's development of the…

2006

Alida Valli

Italian actress (born 1921)

Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg, better known by her stage name Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning…

2006

Juanita Millender-McDonald

American educator and politician (born 1938)

Juanita Millender-McDonald was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 until her death in 2007, representing California's 37th congressional district, which…

2007

Jack Cardiff

British cinematographer, director and photographer (born 1914)

Jack Cardiff was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more…

2009

Richard Barrett

American lawyer and activist (born 1943)

Richard Barrett was an American white nationalist, lawyer and self-proclaimed leader in the nationalist Skinheadz movement. Barrett was a speaker and editor of the All The Way monthly newsletter. He was general counsel…

2010

George Rathmann

American chemist, biologist, and businessman (born 1927)

George Blatz Rathmann (1927–2012) was an American chemist, biologist, pioneer in biotechnology and corporate executive. In 1980 he co-founded and served as the first CEO of Amgen, and later founded Icos.

2012

Richie Havens

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

Richard Pierce Havens was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music encompassed elements of folk, soul, and rhythm and blues. He had a rhythmic guitar style. He was the opening act at Woodstock, sang many…

2013

Lalgudi Jayaraman

Indian violinist and composer (born 1930)

Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman was an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. He is commonly grouped with M.S. Gopalakrishnan and T.N.Krishnan as part of the violin trinity of Carnatic music. He was awarded the…

2013

Robert Suderburg

American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)

Robert Charles Suderburg was an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

2013

Oswaldo Vigas

Venezuelan painter (born 1926)

Oswaldo Vigas was a Venezuelan artist who worked as a painter, muralist, and sculptor. His body of work encompassed paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, and tapestries. He integrated pre-Columbian with modernist and…

2014

Dick Balharry

Scottish environmentalist and photographer (born 1937)

Richard Balharry was a Scottish conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer.

2015

Donna Leanne Williams

Australian writer, artist, and activist (born 1963)

Donna Leanne Williams, also known by her married name Donna Leanne Samuel and as Polly Samuel, was an Australian writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, and sculptor.

2017

Shirley Knight

American actress (born 1936)

Shirley Enola Knight Hopkins was an American actress, active in theatre, film, and television from the 1960s through the 2010s. She was a two-time Oscar nominee, a three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, and a Golden…

2020

Adrian Garrett

American professional baseball player (born 1943)

Henry Adrian Garrett Jr., nicknamed "Pat" and "Smokey", was an American professional baseball player and coach. A utility man in Major League Baseball, he appeared in 163 total games during eight seasons between 1966…

2021

Guy Lafleur

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1951)

Guy Damien Lafleur, nicknamed "the Flower" and "Le Démon Blond", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was the first player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 50 goals in six consecutive…

2022

Len Goodman

English ballroom dancer and television personality (born 1944)

Leonard Gordon Goodman was an English professional ballroom dancer, dance teacher, and dance competition adjudicator. He appeared as head judge on the British television programme Strictly Come Dancing – in which…

2023

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Richard Nixon — President of the United States from 1969 to 1974

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At least 26 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a group of tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack. Wikipedia →

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Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history. Wikipedia →

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The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming. Wikipedia →

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