Notable Deaths on October 22

92 people 726 – 2024

October 22 has seen 92 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 726 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Ettore Marchiafava

1935 — Ettore Marchiafava

Italian physician (born 1847)

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Marchiafava was the first to describe syphilitic cerebral arteritis and degeneration of brain in an alcoholic patient, which is now eponymously named Marchiafava's disease

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In 1885 they gave the formal scientific name Plasmodium for these parasites

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In 1913 he was elected to Senate of the Kingdom of Italy

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He was elected member of the Accademia dei Lincei, becoming its vice-president in 1933.

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Ettore Marchiafava was an Italian physician, pathologist and neurologist


Itzamnaaj K'awiil
a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas
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Charles Martel
Frankish political and military leader (born 688)
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741
Abo
Japanese prince (born 792)
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842
Ferdinand I of Portugal
Portuguese king (born 1345)
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1383
James Douglas
1st Earl of Morton, Scottish earl (born 1426)
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Jean Grolier de Servières
French book collector (born 1479)
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1565
Domingo Báñez
Spanish theologian (born 1528)
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1604
Kikkawa Hiroie
Japanese daimyō (born 1561)
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1626
Hermann Witsius
Dutch theologian and academic (born 1636)
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1708
William IV
Prince of Orange (born 1711)
William IV was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751.
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1751
French astronomer (born 1725)
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1792
Juan Antonio Lavalleja
Uruguayan revolutionary general and politician, President of Uruguay (born 1784)
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1853
Louis Spohr
German violinist and composer (born 1784)
Louis Spohr, baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor.
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1859
George Coulthard
Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1856)
George Coulthard was an Australian cricketer, umpire and Australian rules footballer.
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1883
Thomas Mayne Reid
Irish British novelist and soldier (born 1818)
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1883
English politician (born 1835)
Lewis Ashurst Majendie was a British Conservative Party politician.
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1885
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow
Austrian physiologist and physician (born 1846)
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1891
Herman Adolfovich Trautschold
German geologist and paleontologist (born 1817)
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1902
Paul Cézanne
French painter (born 1839)
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1906
Konishiki Yasokichi I
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (born 1866)
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1914
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Notable deaths

Who died on October 22?

Ettore Marchiafava — Italian scientist (1847–1935)

Death year1935
Known forHe spent most of his career as professor of medicine at the University of Rome
Deaths on this date92 (726 – 2024)

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