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Bresci emigrated to the United States, where he became involved with other Italian immigrant anarchists in Paterson, New Jersey.
Notable Deaths on May 22
1901 — Gaetano Bresci
Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (born 1869)
May 22 has 86 recorded notable deaths across history, from 192 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
86 source records
192 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on May 22
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- 1840 The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. Source
- 1848 Slavery is abolished in Martinique. Source
- 2002 Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Source
- 2012 SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. Source
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Farid al-Din Sher Shah ,, better known as Sher Shah Suri, was the Sultan of Hindustan also known by his title Sultan Adil, as the first Sur Emperor, from 1540 until his death in 1545.
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David Wilkie is the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time.
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Martin Gardner had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century".
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After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox.
More major people who died on May 22
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1545
Sher Shah Suri
Indian ruler (born 1486)
Farid al-Din Sher Shah ,, better known as Sher Shah Suri, was the Sultan of Hindustan also known by his title Sultan Adil, as the first Sur Emperor, from 1540 until his death in 1545.
2024
David Wilkie
Scottish swimmer (born 1954)
David Andrew Wilkie was a Scottish swimmer who was the Olympic 200m breaststroke champion in 1976, the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960, and the first British man to do…
2010
Martin Gardner
American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (born 1914)
Martin Gardner was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science.
1975
Lefty Grove
American baseball player (born 1900)
Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was an American professional baseball pitcher.
1851
Mordecai Manuel Noah
American journalist and diplomat (born 1755)
Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic ancestry and was the grandson of Jonas Phillips.
1983
Albert Claude
Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade.
1938
William Glackens
American painter and illustrator (born 1870)
William James Glackens was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid down by the conservative National Academy of Design.
1992
Zellig Harris
American linguist and academic (born 1909)
Zellig Sabbettai Harris was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science widely considered to have been influential in his fields.
2015
Vladimir Katriuk
Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (born 1921)
Volodymyr Katriuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian soldier and beekeeper, who was accused of having taken part in the Khatyn massacre and other massacres under the cover of anti-partisan warfare as a member of the…
1553
Giovanni Bernardi
Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1495)
Giovanni Bernardi, also known as Giovanni da Castel Bolognese and as Giovanni da Castelbolognese, was an Italian gem engraver and medallist who was born in Castel Bolognese, Italy.
1455
Henry Percy
2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (born 1393)
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland was an English nobleman and military commander in the lead up to the Wars of the Roses.
1984
Karl-August Fagerholm
Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1901)
Karl-August Fagerholm was a Finnish politician. Fagerholm served as Speaker of Parliament and three times as Prime Minister of Finland.
2019
Judith Kerr
German-born British writer and illustrator (born 1923)
Anna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr was a German-born British writer and illustrator whose books sold more than 10 million copies around the world.
2026
Richard A. Tapia
American mathematician, National Medal of Science recipient (born 1939)
Richard Alfred Tapia was an American mathematician and academic who was a professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He held the title of University Professor, the university's highest academic rank.
1932
Augusta
Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.
192
Dong Zhuo
Chinese warlord and politician (born 138)
Dong Zhuo, courtesy name Zhongying, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
337
Constantine the Great
Roman emperor (born 272)
Constantine I, also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
1802
Martha Washington
First, First Lady of the United States (born 1731)
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States.
1967
Charlotte Serber
American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (born 1911)
Charlotte Serber was an American journalist, statistician and librarian. She was the librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, and the laboratory's only female group leader.