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On October 22, 1989, Jacob Erwin Wetterling, an 11‑year‑old from St.
Notable Deaths on October 22
1989 — Jacob Wetterling
American kidnapping victim (born 1978)
October 22 has 92 recorded notable deaths across history, from 726 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
92 source records
726 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on October 22
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- 1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas. Source
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. Source
- 2008 India launches its first uncrewed lunar probe mission Chandrayaan-1. Source
- 1923 The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. Source
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Charles Martel was a son of the Frankish statesman Pepin of Herstal and a noblewoman named Alpaida.
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Soupy Sales was best known for his local and network children's television series, Lunch with Soupy Sales (1953–1966), a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark.
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Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr.
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Kingsley Amis wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism.
More major people who died on October 22
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
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Charles Martel
Frankish political and military leader (born 688)
Charles Martel, Martel being an Old French sobriquet meaning "The Hammer", was a Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of the Franks…
2009
Soupy Sales
American comedian and actor (born 1926)
Milton Supman, known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio-television personality, and jazz aficionado.
2007
Ève Curie
French pianist and journalist (born 1904)
Ève Denise Curie Labouisse was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie.
1995
Kingsley Amis
English novelist, poet, critic (born 1922)
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher.
1935
Edward Carson
Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1854)
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who was the Attorney General and Solicitor General for England, Wales and Ireland,…
1986
Ye Jianying
Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (born 1897)
Ye Jianying was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China.
2016
Sheri S. Tepper
American writer (born 1929)
Sheri Stewart Tepper was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels.
1883
Thomas Mayne Reid
Irish British novelist and soldier (born 1818)
Thomas Mayne Reid was an Irish British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
1935
Ettore Marchiafava
Italian physician (born 1847)
Ettore Marchiafava was an Italian physician, pathologist and neurologist. He spent most of his career as professor of medicine at the University of Rome.
1996
Evdokia Reshetnik
Ukrainian zoologist
Evdokia Reshetnik was a Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist. She was a specialist in the mole-rats and ground squirrels of Ukraine, and was the first scientist to describe the sandy blind mole-rat of southern Ukraine in…
1959
Joseph Cahill
Australian politician, 29th Premier of New South Wales (born 1891)
John Joseph Cahill, also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959.
1972
James K. Baxter
New Zealand poet, writer, theologian, and social commentator. (born 1926)
James Keir Baxter was a New Zealand poet and playwright. He was also known as an activist for the preservation of Māori culture. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and controversial literary figures.
1992
Cleavon Little
American actor (born 1939)
Cleavon Jake Little was an American actor. He began his career in the late 1960s on the stage. In 1970, he starred in the Broadway production of Purlie, for which he earned both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
2015
Murphy Anderson
American illustrator (born 1926)
Murphy C. Anderson Jr. was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the…
1917
Bob Fitzsimmons
English-American boxer (born 1863)
Robert James Fitzsimmons was a Cornish-New Zealand professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion.
1956
Hannah Mitchell
English activist (born 1872)
Hannah Mitchell was an English suffragette and socialist. Born into a poor farming family in Derbyshire, Mitchell left home at a young age to work as a seamstress in Bolton, where she became involved in the socialist…
2024
Fernando Valenzuela
Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1960)
Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea, nicknamed "El Toro", was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher. Valenzuela played 17 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons, from 1980 to 1997.
1941
Guy Môquet
French militant (born 1924)
Guy Prosper Eustache Môquet was a young French Communist activist.
1990
Louis Althusser
Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1918)
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy.