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John F. Kennedy was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president.
Notable Deaths on November 22
1963 — John F. Kennedy
American politician, 35th President of the United States (born 1917)
November 22 has 83 recorded notable deaths across history, from 365 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
83 source records
365 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on November 22
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- 1837 Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. Source
- 1943 Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government. Source
- 1935 The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. Source
- 1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership. Source
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Blackbeard's numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but Hornigold retired from piracy toward the end of 1717, taking two vessels with him.
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During the fourteen years between his times with the Stooges, he had a successful solo career as a film comedian, including a series of shorts by himself and with partners.
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Army veteran and Bronze Star Medal recipient, who was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department from 1952 to 1963.
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Scatman Crothers 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).
More major people who died on November 22
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1718
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.
1955
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…
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 Medal recipient, who was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department from 1952 to 1963.
1986
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).
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.
2016
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.
1902
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.
1981
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.
1286
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.
2022
Raşit Küçük
Turkish Islamicist (born 1947)
Raşit Küçük was a Turkish academic with a focus on hadith scholarship and the life history of Muhammad. Born in Akseki District, he entered an İmam Hatip school in Antalya after his primary studies.
2017
George Avakian
American music producer (born 1919)
George Mesrop Avakian was an American record producer, artist manager, writer, educator and executive.
1913
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Japanese shōgun (born 1837)
Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the 15th and last shōgun of Japan. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging Tokugawa shogunate, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
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.
1900
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.
2015
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.
1875
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.
1886
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…
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.
2011
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.