Notable Deaths on February 22

Q: Who died on February 22?

Notable people who died on February 22 include: Maximianus, Sabinian, Sicga, Wang, Guo Wei.

Q: What is S. Rajaratnam known for?

S. Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (born 1915)

2006 — S. Rajaratnam

Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (born 1915)

February 22 has seen 99 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 556 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · February 22 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 99 people 556 – 2026

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He served as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1965 until 1980, and subsequently as the 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980 to 1985

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Alongside his foreign affairs portfolio, he also served as Minister for Culture from 1959 to 1965, Minister for Labour from 1968 to 1971, Deputy Prime Minister from 1980 to 1985 and Senior Minister from 1985 to 1988

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Rajaratnam is remembered for authoring the Singapore National Pledge in 1966

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Sinnathamby Rajaratnam was a Singaporean statesman, journalist and diplomat

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Rajaratnam was pivotal in shaping Singapore's foreign policy framework during its formative years of sovereignty, helping secure the nation's position on the global stage

Maximianus

Bishop of Ravenna (born 499)

Maximianus of Ravenna, or Maximian was bishop of Ravenna in Italy. Ravenna was then the capital of the Byzantine Empire's territories in Italy, and Maximianus's role may have included secular political functions.

556

Sabinian

Pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Sabinian was the bishop of Rome from 13 September 604 to his death on 22 February 606. His pontificate occurred during the Eastern Roman domination of the papacy. He was the fourth former apocrisiarius to…

606

Sicga

Anglo-Saxon nobleman and regicide

Sicga was a nobleman in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.

793

Wang

Chinese Empress dowager

Empress Dowager Wang, formally Empress Gongxi, known during her lifetime at times as Empress Dowager Baoli (寶曆太后) then as Empress Dowager Yi'an (義安太后), was an empress dowager of the Chinese Tang dynasty. She was the…

845

Guo Wei

Chinese Emperor (born 904)

Guo Wei, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou (後周太祖), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigning from 951 until his…

954

Otto

Duke of Burgundy (born 944)

Otto of Burgundy was Duke of Burgundy from 956 to his death.

965

García I

King of Pamplona

García Sánchez I, was the king of Pamplona from 925 until his death in 970. He was the second king of the Jiménez dynasty, succeeding his father when he was merely six years old.

970

Lambert

Count of Chalon (born 930)

Lambert of Chalon was the count of Chalon from 956 to 978, and viscount of Autun.

978

Arnulf III

Count of Flanders

Arnulf III was Count of Flanders from 1070 until his death at the Battle of Cassel in 1071.

1071

Peter Damian

Italian cardinal

Peter Damian was an Italian reforming Benedictine monk and cardinal in the circle of Pope Leo IX. Dante placed him in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Francis of Assisi and he was…

1072

John of Fécamp

Italian Benedictine abbot

John of Fécamp, was an Italian-Norman Benedictine who was the most widely read of early medieval spiritual writers before the Imitation of Christ became popular, during a period called the Golden Age of Monasticism and…

1079

Roger Borsa

King of Sicily (born 1078)

Roger Borsa was the Norman Duke of Apulia and Calabria and effective ruler of southern Italy from 1085 until his death.

1111

Margaret of Cortona

Italian penitent (born 1247)

Margaret of Cortona was an Italian penitent of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She was born in Laviano, near Perugia, and died in Cortona. She was canonised in 1728.

1297

David II

King of Scotland (born 1324)

David II was King of Scotland from 1329 until his death in 1371. Upon the death of his father, Robert the Bruce, David succeeded to the throne at the age of five and was crowned at Scone in November 1331, becoming the…

1371

William Douglas

8th Earl of Douglas (born 1425)

William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, 2nd Earl of Avondale was a late Medieval Scottish nobleman, Lord of Galloway, and Lord of the Regality of Lauderdale, and the most powerful magnate in Southern Scotland. He was…

1452

Gerhard VI

German nobleman (born 1430)

Gerhard VI, Count of Oldenburg was a Count of Oldenburg and regent of Bad Zwischenahn in 1440–1482.

1500

Henry

Duke of Cornwall (born 1511)

Henry, Duke of Cornwall was the first living child of King Henry VIII of England and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and though his birth was celebrated as that of the heir apparent, he died within weeks. His death…

1511

Amerigo Vespucci

Italian cartographer and explorer (born 1454)

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italo-Spaniard explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom America is named.

1512

Olivier van Noort

Dutch explorer (born 1558)

Olivier van Noort was a Dutch merchant captain and the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world.

1627

Jean Chapelain

French poet and critic (born 1595)

Jean Chapelain was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a literary critic,…

1674

La Voisin

French occultist (born 1640)

Catherine Monvoisin, or Montvoisin, née Deshayes, known as "La Voisin", was a French fortune teller, commissioned poisoner, accused of witchcraft. She was the head of a network of fortune tellers in Paris providing…

1680

Charles Le Brun

French painter and theorist (born 1619)

Charles Le Brun was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time".…

1690

Frederik Ruysch

Dutch physician and anatomist (born 1638)

Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His anatomical…

1731

Francis Atterbury

English bishop (born 1663)

Francis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for…

1732

Christopher Seider

first American killed in the American Revolution (born 1758)

Christopher Seider was a boy who is considered to be the first American killed in the American Revolution. He was 11 years old when he was shot and killed by British customs officer Ebenezer Richardson in Boston on…

1770

Heshen

Chinese politician (born 1750)

Heshen (Manchu: ᡥᡝᡧᡝᠨ, romanized: Hešen; Chinese: 和珅; pinyin: Héshēn; Wade–Giles: Ho2-shen1; 1 July 1750 – 22 February 1799) of the Manchu Niohuru clan, was an official of the Qing dynasty. Favored by the Qianlong…

1799

Adam Ferguson

Scottish historian and philosopher (born 1723)

Adam Ferguson, also known as Ferguson of Raith, was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment.

1816

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

French painter and illustrator (born 1796)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the…

1875

Charles Lyell

Scottish geologist (born 1797)

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known today for his association with Charles Darwin and as the…

1875

Anna Kingsford

English physician and activist (born 1846)

Anna Kingsford was an English anti-vivisectionist, Theosophist, a proponent of vegetarianism and a women's rights campaigner.

1888

John Jacob Astor III

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1822)

John Jacob Astor III was an American financier, philanthropist and a soldier during the American Civil War. He was a prominent member of the Astor family, becoming the wealthiest member in his generation.

1890

Carl Bloch

Danish painter and academic (born 1834)

Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter.

1890

Charles Blondin

French tightrope walker and acrobat (born 1824)

Charles Blondin was a French tightrope walker and acrobat who achieved international fame in the mid-19th Century. Known for crossing the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, he toured the United States and beyond.

1897

Heungseon Daewongun

Korean king (born 1820)

Heungseon Daewongun was the title of Yi Ha-eung, the regent of Joseon during the minority of Emperor Gojong in the 1860s. Until his death, he was a key political figure of late Joseon Korea. He was known simply as the…

1898

Hugo Wolf

Austrian composer (born 1860)

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to…

1903

Leslie Stephen

English historian, author, and critic (born 1832)

Sir Leslie Stephen was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an Ethical movement activist. He was also the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the founder of England's Dictionary…

1904

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist and author (born 1857)

Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely…

1913

Francisco I. Madero

Mexican president and author (born 1873)

Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer, politician and statesman who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed and assassinated in a coup d'état in…

1913

Théophile Delcassé

French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1852)

Théophile Delcassé was a French politician who served as foreign minister from 1898 to 1905. He is best known for his hatred of Germany and efforts to secure alliances with Russia and the United Kingdom that became the…

1923

Harriet Converse Moody

American businesswoman and arts patron (born 1857)

Harriet Converse Moody was an American businesswoman and arts patron. Moody began her career in Chicago in 1889, working as a schoolteacher and then forming a successful restaurant and catering business that operated…

1932

Antonio Machado

Spanish-French poet and author (born 1875)

Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98. His work,…

1939

Stefan Zweig

Austrian journalist, author, and playwright (born 1881)

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.

1942

Christoph Probst

German activist (born 1919)

Christoph Ananda Probst (6 November 1919 – 22 February 1943) was a German medical student and member of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose. Although less publicly known than Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, Probst…

1943

Hans Scholl

German activist (born 1918)

Hans Fritz Scholl was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found…

1943

Sophie Scholl

German activist (born 1921)

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

1943

Kasturba Gandhi

Indian activist (born 1869)

Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian political activist who was involved in the Indian independence movement during British India. She was married to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi.…

1944

Fritz Schmenkel

anti-Nazi German who joined Soviet partisans (born 1916)

Fritz Paul Schmenkel was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism, who fought alongside the Soviet partisans in German-occupied Byelorussia during World War II.

1944

Osip Brik

Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (born 1888)

Osip Maksimovich Brik was a Russian avant garde writer, literary critic and lawyer, known for being an important member of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists.

1945

Abul Kalam Azad

Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of Education (born 1888)

Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin, better known as Maulana Azad and sometimes referred to as Abul Kalam Azad, was an Indian writer, activist of the Indian independence movement and statesman. A senior leader of the Indian…

1958

Paul-Émile Borduas

Canadian-French painter and critic (born 1905)

Paul-Émile Borduas was a Canadian artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Borduas had a profound…

1960

Nick LaRocca

American trumpet player and composer (born 1889)

Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca, was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who is credited by some as being "the father of modern jazz". He is the composer of…

1961

Felix Frankfurter

Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (born 1882)

Felix Frankfurter was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 until 1962, advocating judicial restraint.

1965

Frédéric Mariotti

French actor (born 1883)

Frédéric Mariotti was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned more than four decades through the early silent film era into the early 1950s.

1971

Jean-Jacques Bertrand

Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (born 1916)

Jean-Jacques Bertrand was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 21st premier of Quebec, from October 2, 1968, to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.

1973

Elizabeth Bowen

Anglo-Irish author (born 1899)

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.

1973

Katina Paxinou

Greek actress (born 1900)

Katina Paxinou was a Greek film and stage actress.

1973

Winthrop Rockefeller

American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (born 1912)

Winthrop Rockefeller was an American politician and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fourth son and fifth child of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He was one of the…

1973

Angela Baddeley

English actress (born 1904)

Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley was an English stage and television actress, widely remembered for her role as household cook Mrs. Bridges in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. Her stage career spanned seven…

1976

Florence Ballard

American singer (born 1943)

Florence Glenda Chapman was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including nine number-one hits. After being removed from…

1976

Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian painter, poet and playwright (born 1886)

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist…

1980

Josh Malihabadi

Indian-Pakistani poet and author (born 1898)

Josh Malihabadi popularly known as Shayar-e-Inqalab was a Pakistani Urdu poet.

1982

Adrian Boult

English conductor (born 1889)

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH was a British conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera…

1983

Romain Maes

Belgian cyclist (born 1913)

Romanus Maes was a Belgian cyclist who won the 1935 Tour de France after wearing the yellow jersey of leadership from beginning to end. Maes was the 13th child in his family. He started racing when he was 17. He turned…

1983

Salvador Espriu

Spanish author, poet, and playwright (born 1913)

Salvador Espriu i Castelló was a Catalan poet from Spain.

1985

Efrem Zimbalist

Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1889)

Efrem Zimbalist was a Russian and American concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.

1985

John Donnelly

Australian rugby league player (born 1955)

John "Dallas" Donnelly was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australian Kangaroos and New South Wales Blues representative, he played for Western Suburbs between…

1986

David Susskind

American talk show host and producer (born 1920)

David Howard Susskind was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host. His talk shows were innovative in the genre and addressed timely, controversial topics beyond the scope of…

1987

Andy Warhol

American painter and photographer (born 1928)

Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking,…

1987

Markos Vafiadis

Greek general and politician (born 1906)

Markos Vafeiadis was a leading figure of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) during the Greek Resistance and the Greek Civil War.

1992

Papa John Creach

American violinist (born 1917)

John Henry Creach, better known as Papa John Creach, was an American blues violinist who also played classical, jazz, R&B, pop and acid rock music. Early in his career, he performed as a journeyman musician with Louis…

1994

Ed Flanders

American actor (born 1934)

Edward Paul Flanders was an American actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Donald Westphall in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988). Flanders was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards and won three…

1995

Joseph Aiuppa

American gangster (born 1907)

Joseph John Aiuppa, also known as "Joey O'Brien" and "Joey Doves", was an American mobster who became a leader of the Chicago Outfit from 1971 until his skimming conviction in 1986.

1997

Abraham A. Ribicoff

American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (born 1910)

Abraham Alexander Ribicoff was an American politician from the U.S. state of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and was the…

1998

William Bronk

American poet and academic (born 1918)

William Bronk was an American poet. For his book, Life Supports (1981), he won the National Book Award for Poetry.

1999

Menno Oosting

Dutch tennis player (born 1964)

Menno Oosting was a professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who won seven ATP Tour doubles titles out of 18 finals in his career.

1999

Chuck Jones

American animator, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, filmmaker, painter, and voice actor, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts. He wrote,…

2002

Jonas Savimbi

Angolan general, founded UNITA (born 1934)

Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, also known as UNITA. UNITA was one…

2002

Andy Seminick

American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1920)

Andrew Wasal Seminick was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies between 1943 and 1951, and the Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs from 1952 through…

2004

Lee Eun-ju

South Korean actress and singer (born 1980)

Lee Eun-ju was a South Korean actress. She was best known for the films Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), Bungee Jumping of Their Own (2001), Lovers' Concerto (2002), and Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War…

2005

Simone Simon

French actress (born 1910)

Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931. She is perhaps best remembered for her role in the American horror film Cat People and its sequel The Curse of the Cat People.

2005

George Jellicoe

2nd Earl Jellicoe, English politician, Leader of the House of Lords (born 1918)

George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Baron Jellicoe of Southampton, was a British politician, diplomat and businessman.

2007

Dennis Johnson

American basketball player and coach (born 1954)

Dennis Wayne Johnson, nicknamed "DJ", was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, and Boston Celtics. He was a coach of the Los…

2007

Sukhbir

Indian author and poet (born 1925)

Sukhbir, alias Balbir Singh, was a Punjabi novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. He wrote and published for fifty years. He wrote seven novels, 11 short story collections, and five poetry collections, and…

2012

Frank Carson

Irish-English comedian and actor (born 1926)

Hugh Francis Carson KSG was a comedian and actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was best known for being a regular face on television for many years from the 1970s onwards, appearing in series such as The Comedians…

2012

Marie Colvin

American journalist (born 1956)

Marie Catherine Colvin was an American journalist who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death. She was one of the most prominent war correspondents…

2012

Rémi Ochlik

French photographer and journalist (born 1983)

Rémi Ochlik was a French photojournalist who was known for his photographs of war and conflict in Haiti and the Arab Spring revolutions. Ochlik died in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs during the Syrian uprising…

2012

Atje Keulen-Deelstra

Dutch speed skater (born 1938)

Atje Keulen-Deelstra was a Dutch speed skater, who was a four-time World Allround Champion between the age of 32 and 36.

2013

Jean-Louis Michon

French-Swiss scholar and translator (born 1924)

Jean-Louis Michon was a French traditionalist and translator who specialized in Islamic art and Sufism. He worked extensively with the United Nations to preserve the cultural heritage of Morocco.

2013

Wolfgang Sawallisch

German pianist and conductor (born 1923)

Wolfgang Sawallisch was a German conductor and pianist.

2013

Charlotte Dawson

New Zealand–Australian television host (born 1966)

Charlotte Dawson was a New Zealand–Australian television personality. She was known in New Zealand for her roles as host of Getaway, and in Australia as a host on The Contender Australia and as a judge on Australia's…

2014

Trebor Jay Tichenor

American pianist and composer (born 1940)

Trebor Jay Tichenor was a recognized authority on Scott Joplin and the ragtime era. He collected and published others' ragtime piano compositions and composed his own. He authored books about ragtime, and both on his…

2014

Leo Vroman

Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (born 1915)

Leo Vroman was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator.

2014

Chris Rainbow

Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (born 1946)

Christopher James Harley, known by the stage name Chris Rainbow, was a Scottish pop rock singer and musician, known for his solo work and his significant contributions to The Alan Parsons Project from 1979, as well as…

2015

Brody Stevens

American comedian and actor (born 1970)

Steven James Brody, known professionally as Brody Stevens, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He starred in the Comedy Central reality series Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!, and was known for appearances on Chelsea…

2019

Morgan Woodward

American actor (born 1925)

Thomas Morgan Woodward was an American actor who is best known for his recurring role as Marvin "Punk" Anderson on the television soap opera Dallas and for his portrayal of Boss Godfrey, the sunglasses-wearing "man with…

2019

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

American poet, painter (born 1919)

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film…

2021

John Lowe

English musician, pianist for The Quarrymen (born 1942)

John Charles "Duff" Lowe was an English pianist. In the late 1950s, he played piano for the Quarrymen, the group who would evolve into the Beatles.

2024

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (born 1966)

Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, commonly referred to by his alias "El Mencho", was a Mexican drug lord and head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), an organized crime group based in Jalisco. He was the most…

2026

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