Notable Deaths on November 22

Q: Who died on November 22?

Notable people who died on November 22 include: Antipope Felix II, Lothair II of Italy (born 926), As-Salih Ayyub, Eric V of Denmark (born 1249), Mikhail of Tver (born 1271).

Q: What is Raşit Küçük known for?

Raşit Küçük, Turkish Islamicist (born 1947)

83 people 365 – 2024

November 22 has seen 83 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 365 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2022 — Raşit Küçük

Turkish Islamicist (born 1947)

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He continued to focus on religious studies through university, defending a dissertation on the concept of love in the Qur'an and Sunnah in 1983

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Küçük taught at Marmara University in Istanbul, becoming a full professor in 2003 and serving as the dean of the Faculty of Theology from 2007 through 2011

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Küçük was appointed to the high council of Presidency of Religious Affairs in 2014, serving as that council's chairman until 2016

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Raşit Küçük was a Turkish academic with a focus on hadith scholarship and the life history of Muhammad

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Born in Akseki District, he entered an İmam Hatip school in Antalya after his primary studies

Antipope Felix II

Year 365 (CCCLXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the West as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Valens. The denomination 365 for this year has been…

365

Lothair II of Italy (born 926)

Lothair II, often Lothair of Arles, was the King of Italy from 947 to his death. He was of the noble Frankish lineage of the Bosonids, descended from Boso the Elder. His father and predecessor was Hugh of Provence,…

950

As-Salih Ayyub

ruler of Egypt

Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub, Kunya: Abu al-Futuh, also known as al-Malik al-Salih, was the Ayyubid ruler of Egypt from 1240 to 1249.

1249

Eric V of Denmark (born 1249)

Eric V Klipping was King of Denmark from 1259 to 1286. After his father Christopher I died, his mother Margaret Sambiria ruled Denmark in his name until 1266, proving to be a competent regent. Between 1261 and 1262, the…

1286

Mikhail of Tver (born 1271)

Mikhail Yaroslavich was Prince of Tver from 1285 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1304 to 1314 and again from 1315 until his death in 1318. He was canonized and counted among the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1318

John Lambert

English Protestant martyr

John Lambert was an English Protestant martyr burnt to death on 22 November 1538 at Smithfield, London.

1538

Ahmed I

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (born 1590)

Ahmed I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, Ottoman rulers would no longer…

1617

John Tillotson

English archbishop (born 1630)

John Tillotson was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694.

1694

Libéral Bruant

French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (born c. 1635)

Libéral Bruant was a French architect best known as the designer of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris. Bruant was the most notable member in a family that produced a long series of architects active from the 16th to the…

1697

Blackbeard

English pirate (born 1680)

Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been…

1718

Richard Edgcumbe

1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (born 1680)

Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, of Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 until 1742 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron…

1758

Robert Clive

English general, politician and first British governor of Bengal (born 1725)

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive,, also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC)…

1774

Johann Christian Reil

German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (born 1759)

Johann Christian Reil was a German physician, physiologist, anatomist, and psychiatrist. He coined the term psychiatry – Psychiatrie in German – in 1808.

1813

John Stackhouse

English botanist (born 1742)

John Stackhouse was an English botanist, primarily interested in spermatophytes, algae and mycology. He was born in Probus, Cornwall, and built Acton Castle, above Stackhouse Cove, Cornwall, in order to further his…

1819

Oscar James Dunn

African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (born 1826)

Oscar James Dunn served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction and was the first African American to serve as lieutenant governor of a U.S. state. He was also the first…

1871

Henry Wilson

American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (born 1812)

Henry Wilson was the 18th vice president of the United States, serving from 1873 until his death in 1875, and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading…

1875

Mary Boykin Chesnut

American author (born 1823)

Mary Boykin Chesnut was an American writer noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle." She described the war from within her…

1886

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.

American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (born 1859)

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was an American civil engineer. He is mostly known for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

1896

Arthur Sullivan

English composer (born 1842)

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works…

1900

Walter Reed

American physician and entomologist (born 1851)

Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact.…

1902

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Japanese shōgun (born 1837)

Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was ultimately…

1913

Jack London

American novelist and journalist (born 1876)

John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an…

1916

Francisco Moreno

Argentinian explorer and academic (born 1852)

Francisco Pascasio Moreno was a prominent explorer and academic in Argentina, where he is usually referred to as Perito Moreno. Perito Moreno has been credited as one of the most influential figures in the Argentine…

1919

Edward J. Adams

American serial/spree killer and bank robber (born 1887)

Edward James Adams was a notorious American criminal and spree killer in the Midwest. He murdered seven people—including three policemen—over a period of around 14 months and wounded at least a dozen others. At age 34,…

1921

Andy O'Sullivan

Irish Republican died in the 1923 Irish hunger strikes

Andy O'Sullivan was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was an intelligence officer and regional leader in the Irish Republican Army. He died during the 1923 Irish hunger strikes while in prison.

1923

Werner Mölders

German colonel and pilot (born 1913)

Werner Mölders was a World War II German Luftwaffe pilot, wing commander, and the leading German fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War. He became the first pilot in aviation history to shoot down 100 enemy aircraft and…

1941

Lorenz Hart

American composer (born 1895)

Lorenz Milton Hart was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue Moon"; "The Lady Is a Tramp"; "Manhattan"; "Bewitched, Bothered and…

1943

Arthur Eddington

English astrophysicist and astronomer (born 1882)

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was an English astrophysicist and mathematician. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in…

1944

Otto Georg Thierack

German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (born 1889)

Otto Georg Thierack was a German Nazi jurist and politician.

1946

Shemp Howard

American actor and comedian (born 1895)

Shemp Howard was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the third Stooge in The Three Stooges, a role he played when the act began in the early 1920s (1923–1932), while it was still associated with Ted…

1955

Theodore Kosloff

Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (born 1882)

Theodore Kosloff was a Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, and teacher who became a prominent figure. Trained in the traditions of Imperial Russian ballet, he emigrated to the United States in the early…

1956

Aldous Huxley

English novelist and philosopher (born 1894)

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

1963

John F. Kennedy

American politician, 35th President of the United States (born 1917)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first…

1963

C. S. Lewis

British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian (born 1898)

Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge…

1963

J. D. Tippit

American police officer (born 1924)

J. D. Tippit was an American World War II U.S. Army veteran and Bronze Star recipient, who was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department from 1952 to 1963. On November 22, 1963, less than an hour after the…

1963

Herbert Wilkinson Ayre

English footballer (born 1882)

Herbert Wilkinson Ayre was a footballer who played in The Football League for Grimsby Town.

1966

Émile Drain

French actor (born 1890)

Émile Drain (1890–1966) was a French actor and comedian.

1966

Jules Léger

Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (born 1913)

Joseph Jules Léger was a Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as the 21st governor general of Canada from 1974 to 1979.

1980

Norah McGuinness

Irish painter and illustrator (born 1901)

Norah Allison McGuinness was an Irish painter and illustrator.

1980

Mae West

American stage and film actress (born 1893)

Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than seven decades. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of her time, she was known for portraying…

1980

Hans Adolf Krebs

German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration, a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food…

1981

Scatman Crothers

American actor and comedian (born 1910)

Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers was an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). He was…

1986

Luis Barragán

Mexican architect and engineer (born 1902)

Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín was a Mexican architect and engineer. His work has influenced contemporary architects visually and conceptually. Barragán's buildings are frequently visited by international students and…

1988

René Moawad

Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (born 1925)

René Anis Moawad was a Lebanese politician who served as the 9th president of Lebanon for seventeen days, from 5 to 22 November 1989, before his assassination by unknown assailants.

1989

Tadashi Imai

Japanese director (born 1912)

Tadashi Imai was a Japanese film director known for social realist filmmaking informed by a left-wing perspective. His most noted films include An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) and Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963).

1991

Sterling Holloway

American actor (born 1905)

Sterling Price Holloway Jr. was an American actor who appeared in over 100 films and 40 television shows. He did voice acting for The Walt Disney Company, playing Mr. Stork in Dumbo, Adult Flower in Bambi, the Cheshire…

1992

Anthony Burgess

English novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1917)

John Anthony Burgess Wilson was an English writer and composer.

1993

Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva

Soviet pianist, composer, and teacher (born 1924)

Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer, and teacher.

1993

Terence Donovan

English photographer and director (born 1936)

Terence Daniel Donovan was an English photographer and film director, noted for his fashion photography of the 1960s. A book of his fashion work, Terence Donovan Fashion, was published 2012. He also directed many TV…

1996

Michael Hutchence

Australian singer-songwriter (born 1960)

Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, lead singer and lyricist of the rock band INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997. The band sold over 50 million records…

1997

Stu Ungar

American poker player (born 1953)

Stuart Errol Ungar was an American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, widely regarded to have been the greatest gin player of all time and one of the best Texas hold 'em players.

1998

Christian Marquand

French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1927)

Christian Henri Marquand was a French actor.

2000

Mary Kay Ash

American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (born 1918)

Mary Kay Ash was an American businesswoman and founder of direct sales company Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. At the time of her death, she had a fortune of $98 million, and her company had more than $1.2 billion in sales…

2001

Theo Barker

English historian and academic (born 1923)

Theodore Cardwell Barker, usually known as Theo Barker, was a British social and economic historian.

2001

Norman Granz

American record producer, founded Verve Records (born 1918)

Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded the record labels Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo and the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. Granz was acknowledged as…

2001

Parley Baer

American actor (born 1914)

Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" in the radio…

2002

Rafał Gan-Ganowicz

Polish mercenary and journalist (born 1932)

Rafał Gan-Ganowicz was a Polish soldier-in-exile, mercenary, journalist, member of the National Council of Poland, and political and social activist, dedicating his life to anti-communism.

2002

Bruce Hobbs

American jockey and trainer (born 1920)

Bruce Robertson Hobbs was an English jockey and racehorse trainer.

2005

Asima Chatterjee

Indian chemist (born 1917)

Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine. Her most notable work includes research on vinca alkaloids, the development of anti-epileptic…

2006

Pat Dobson

American baseball player and coach (born 1942)

Patrick Edward Dobson, Jr. was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Detroit Tigers (1967–69), San Diego Padres (1970), Baltimore Orioles (1971–72), Atlanta Braves (1973),…

2006

Maurice Béjart

French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927)

Maurice Béjart was a French dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He developed a popular expressionistic form of modern ballet, tackling vast themes. He was awarded…

2007

Verity Lambert

English television producer (born 1935)

Verity Ann Lambert was an English television and film producer.

2007

Jean Cione

American baseball player (born 1928)

Jean S. Cione [″Cy″] was a pitcher who played from 1945 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 8", 143 lb., she batted and threw left-handed.

2010

Frank Fenner

Australian virologist and microbiologist (born 1914)

Frank John Fenner was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the attempted control of…

2010

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Russian-American author (born 1926)

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967 she became an international…

2011

Sena Jurinac

Bosnian-Austrian soprano (born 1921)

Srebrenka "Sena" Jurinac was a Bosnian-born Austrian operatic soprano.

2011

Lynn Margulis

American biologist and academic (born 1938)

Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary biologist, who was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed biologists'…

2011

Paul Motian

American drummer and composer (born 1931)

Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer of Armenian descent. He played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties.

2011

Bryce Courtenay

South African-Australian author (born 1933)

Arthur Bryce Courtenay, was a South African-Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One.

2012

Tom Gilmartin

Irish businessman (born 1935)

Tom Gilmartin was an Irish businessman, whistleblower and pivotal Mahon Tribunal witness whose testimony concerning planning and political corruption "rocked Ireland". He played a crucial role in ending the political…

2013

Georges Lautner

French director and screenwriter (born 1926)

Georges Lautner (French: [lotnɛʁ]; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013 was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard.

2013

Alec Reid

Irish priest and activist (born 1931)

Alexander Reid was an Irish Catholic priest noted for his facilitator role in the Northern Ireland peace process, a role BBC journalist Peter Taylor subsequently described as "absolutely critical" to its success.

2013

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury

Bangladeshi politician (born 1949)

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury (Bengali: সালাউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরী; was a Bangladeshi politician and minister, a six-term member of the Jatiya Sangsad, and a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Standing Committee. He…

2015

Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed

Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)

Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was a Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal who served as a Member of Parliament and as the Minister of Social Welfare from 2001 to 2006.

2015

Kim Young-sam

South Korean soldier and politician, President of South Korea (born 1927)

Kim Young-sam, also known by his initials YS, was a South Korean politician who served as the seventh president of South Korea from 1993 to 1998.

2015

M. Balamuralikrishna

Indian vocalist and singer (born 1930)

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1978. He…

2016

George Avakian

American music producer (born 1919)

George Mesrop Avakian was an American record producer, artist manager, writer, educator and executive. Best known for his work from 1939 to the early 1960s at Decca Records, Columbia Records, World Pacific Records,…

2017

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Russian operatic baritone (born 1962)

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky was a Russian operatic baritone.

2017

Tommy Keene

American singer-songwriter (born 1958)

Tommy Keene was an American singer-songwriter, best known for releasing acclaimed songs in the 1980s. He has a longtime cult following among fans of power pop.

2017

Otto Hutter

Austrian-born British physiologist (born 1924)

Otto Fred Hutter was an Austrian-born British physiologist who was Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow.

2020

John Y. Brown Jr.

American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (born 1933)

John Young Brown Jr. was an American politician and entrepreneur from Kentucky. He served as the 55th governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, and built Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into a multimillion-dollar restaurant…

2022

Serge Vohor

Vanuatuan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (born 1955)

Rialuth Serge Vohor was a Vanuatuan politician. He hailed from the largest island of Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo, from Port Olry.

2024

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Raşit Küçük — Turkish Islamicist (1947–2022)

FeaturedRaşit Küçük

Death year2022

Known forBorn in Akseki District, he entered an İmam Hatip school in Antalya after his primary studies

Deaths on this date83 (365 – 2024)

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