Famous Deaths on October 22

741 Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks and grandfather of Charlemagne, dies at 63

Ferdinand I (1345-1383)

King of Portugal (1367-83) who negotiated the first Anglo-Portuguese treaty, known as Ferdinand the Handsome or Ferdinand the Fickle, dies at 37 probably from poisoning

1494 Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies
1565 Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period, dies at 63
1651 Jacob Praetorius, German Baroque organist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 65
1674 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, dies at 53
1707 Cloudesley Shovell, British Commander-in-Chief of the British fleet, drowns in Scilly Naval disaster at 57
1708 Herman Witsius [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 72
1725 Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer (Tigrane), dies at 65
1751 William IV, Dutch Prince of Orange (1711-51) 1st hereditary stadtholder, dies of a stroke at 40
1755 Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1763 French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73
1764 Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (the elder), French violinist and Baroque composer, dies at 67
1792 Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer, dies at 67
1802 Samuel Arnold, English organist, theater composer (The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern), and music director (Marylebone Gardens). at 62
1813 August Harder, German composer, dies at 38
1818 Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
1835 Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73
1847 Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1852 Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern, German political writer and advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86
1854 Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), dies at 57
1859 Louis Spohr, German violin virtuoso and composer (Faust), dies at 75
1869 Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64
1871 Roderick Murchison, Scottish Geologist (Silurian system), dies at 79
1881 Janis Cimze, Latvian composer, Father of Latvian choir music, dies at 67
1882 Janos Arany, Hungarians epic poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65
1883 George Coulthard, Australian rules footballer (Victoria; Carlton FC) and cricket all-rounder (1 Test; Victoria CA), dies from tuberculosis at 27
1883 Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (The Headless Horseman), dies at 65
1889 Olivier Métra, French composer of balletss, light opera, and popular waltzes (Esperance!), and conductor, dies at 59
1891 Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1902 Annie Jones, American bearded lady (P. T. Barnum circus), dies of tuberculosis. at 37

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter (The Basket of Apples), dies of pneumonia at 67

1915 Andrew Noble, Scottish physicist who was a founder of the science of ballistics, dies at 84

Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917)

English boxer (first 3-division world champion; Middleweight 1981-96, Light Heavyweight 1903, Heavyweight 1897-99), dies from pneumonia at 54

1918 Myrtle Gonzalez, American silent film actress regarded as Hollywood's first Latin and Hispanic movie star actress (Missy, The Chalice of Courage, Her Great Part), dies from influenza and heart ailment at 27
1919 Bruce Frederick Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man), dies at 30
1926 John G. Shedd, American businessman (President of Marshall Field & Company, 1906-22), civic leader, and philanthropist (Shedd Aquarium), dies of appendicitis at 76
1926 Jules van den Heuvel, Belgian lawyer and politician, dies at 71
1927 Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1927 Ross Youngs, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1921, 22; NY Giants), dies of Bright's disease at 30

Andrew Fisher (1862-1928)

5th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-09, 1910-13, 1914-15), dies at 66

1929 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), dies at 69
1932 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, American Quaker orator, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, writer, and mountaineer, dies of a stroke at 89

Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934)

American gangster and FBI Most Wanted criminal, shot dead at 30 by the FBI in Ohio

1935 Edward Carson, Irish Unionist politician and lawyer (Irish Unionist Party), dies at 81
1935 Komitas [Soghomon Soghomonian], Armenian priest, composer (Patarag), and musicologist, dies at 66
1937 Frank Damrosch, German-born American author and music teacher (founded New York Musical Institute of Musical Art, later Julliard), dies at 88
1938 May Irwin, Canadian comedienne and singer (Hot Time in the Old Town), dies at 76
1942 Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, Belgian politician, and Nazi sympathizer (Flemish Nationally Covenant), dies at 58
1942 Sybren Tulip, Dutch National Socialist Party (NSB) member, and Superintendent of Police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies of rheumatic fever at 53
1943 Josef Venantius von Woss, Austrian composer, dies at 80
1948 August Hlond, Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, dies at 67
1952 Ernst Rüdin, Swiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, dies at 78
1954 Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1954 Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (one of the modernist Group of Five), dies at 64
1954 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer and pilot, dies at 54
1960 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian painter and decorator, dies at 67
1962 Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect (KLM building and design) dies at 75
1963 Elvin M. Jellinek, American physiologist and pioneer in the study of alcoholism, dies at 73
1964 Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan and President of Pakistan Muslim League, dies at 70
1965 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist leader of PKI (1951-65), murdered at 42
1965 Earl Cooper, American auto racer (AAA National Championship 1913, 15, 17; Indianapolis 500 1924 runner-up), dies at 78
1965 Paul Tillich, German-American theologist (Courage To Be), dies at 79
1966 Hewlett Johnson [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop, dies at 92
1967 Cornelis "Kees" Maks, Dutch figurative painter, dies at 91
1970 René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
1972 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies at 82
1973 Pablo Casals [Pau Casals i Defilló], Spanish cellist, conductor and composer, dies at 96

Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975)

English historian (A Study of History), dies at 86

1978 John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber
1979 Nadia Boulanger, French composer and conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony), dies at 92
1981 Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
1982 Savitri Devi [Maximiani Portas], Greek French Nazi writer, dies at 77
1984 Harold Laurence Walters, American composer, dies at 66
1984 Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75
1985 Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian operatic soprano, dies at 91
1986 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1986 Ivor Francis, Canadian-American radio, stage, and screen character actor (Dusty's Trail; The Prisoner of Second Avenue), and acting teacher, dies at 67
1986 Jane Dornacker, American stand-up comic, songwriter, rock vocalist (The Tubes), and ill-fated traffic reporter, dies in a helicopter crash at 39
1986 Ye Jianying, Chinese communist general and politician (Head of State of the People's Republic of China 1978-83), dies at 89
1987 Angiolino "Lino" Ventura, Italian actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A--), dies of a heart attack at 68
1989 Ewan MacColl [James Miller], Scottish folk singer-songwriter ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"), dies at 74
1989 Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim, is kidnapped, assaulted and murdered at 11 by Danny Heinrich. His abduction and murder would remain a mystery for 30 years.
1989 Roland Winters [Winternitz], American actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers, Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
1989 Tony Manero, American golfer (US Open 1936), dies at 84
1990 Frank Sinkwich, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1942, U of Georgia; NFL Draft #1 pick Detroit Lions 1943; NFL MVP 1944), dies at 70
1991 Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies
1992 Cleavon Little, American actor (Blazing Saddles; Toy Soldiers), dies of colon cancer at 53
1992 Josef Veselka, Czech choral conductor (Prague Philharmonic Choir, 1959-81), and pedagogue, dies at 82
1992 Red Barber, American baseball broadcaster (Cincinnati Reds 1934–38, Brooklyn Dodgers 1939–53, NY Yankees 1954–66), dies at 84
1993 Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
1993 Fred C Shapiro, American journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
1993 Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat, dies at 80
1993 Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, Venezuelan musician and composer, dies at 80
1994 Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
1994 David Buchan, Scottish ethno-musicologist, dies at 55
1994 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1994 Harold Horace Hopkins, British physicist and inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
1994 James "Jimmy" Miller, American record producer and musician (The Rolling Stones), dies of liver failure at 52
1994 Rollo May, American psychologist (Love & Will), dies at 85
1994 Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
1994 William Frankena, American philosopher, dies at 86
1995 Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
1995 K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
1995 Kingsley Amis, English novelist (Lucky Jim; James Bond Dossier), dies of injuries from a fall at 73
1995 Mary Wickes [Wickenhauser], American character actress (Father Dowling Mysteries; Sister Act; Dennis The Menace), dies of surgery complications at 79
1995 Ralph Whitlock, British farmer, conservationist, writer, and broadcaster, dies at 81
1995 Simone Gallimard, French editor and publisher, dies at 77
1996 John Bauldie, British music journalist, dies at 47
1996 Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
1997 Harry Goodman, American jazz bassist, and sometimes tuba player, dies at 91
1997 Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
1998 Eric Ambler, English author of thrillers and spy novels (Epitaph for a Spy), dies at 89
1999 Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 100, 4 x 50, HS 206; Wellington, Canterbury) and rugby union centre (1 Test England 1947), dies at 82
2000 Hank Wyse, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1945; Chicago Cubs), dies at 82
2001 Cliff Adams, British singer (The Stragazers; The Cliff Adams Singers), dies at 78
2001 Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2004 Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil), dies at 90
2004 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr., American naval officer, First African American fleet commander, dies at 82
2005 Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 Franky Gee [Francisco Gutierrez], American-German rapper and pop singer ("Captain Jack"), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 43
2005 Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2006 Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 84
2006 Choi Kyu-hah, President of South Korea, dies at 87
2006 Richard Mayes, British actor (Doctor Who, Emmerdale), dies of a stroke at 83
2007 Ève Curie, French author and daughter of Madame Curie, dies at 102
2009 Don Lane, American-born Australian television personality (b. 1933)
2009 Soupy Sales [Milton Supman], American comedian, television, and radio personality, dies from cancer at 83
2011 Karl-Heinz Köper, German conductor, and composer (Tuba-Tabu; Pop Corn Concerto), dies at 84
2011 Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Crown Prince (2005-11), dies at 82 or 83
2012 Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, dies at 89
2012 Russell Means, Native American activist, dies from esophageal cancer at 72
2012 Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby union prop (32 Tests [30 as captain]; Auckland RFU), dies at 77
2016 Steve Dillon, English comic book artist (Preacher), dies at 54
2017 George Young, Scottish-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (the Easybeats, Flash and the Pan), dies at 70
2017 Paul J. Weitz, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (Skylab 2, STS-6), dies at 85
2019 Hans Zender, German composer and conductor (Stephen Climax; Chief Joseph), dies at 82
2019 Ramon Zupko, American classical and electro-acoustic composer (Fluxus), and educator (Western Michigan University, 1971-96), dies at 86
2019 Raymond Leppard, British-American harpsichordist, conductor (Indianapolis Symphony, 1987-2001; BBC Northern Symphony, 1973-80), and composer (Lord Of The Flies), dies at 93
2020 Derek Quinn, British guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers - "I'm Telling You Now"), dies at 68
2020 Matt Blair, American football linebacker (6 × Pro Bowl 1977–82; First-team All-Pro 1980; Minnesota Vikings), dies from dementia complications at 70
2021 Jay Black [David Blatt], American pop singer (Jay and the Americans - “Come A Little Bit Closer”; “This Magic Moment”), dies of pneumonia and complications from dementia at 82
2021 Peter Scolari, American stage and screen Emmy Award-winning actor (Newhart - "Michael"; Girls - "Tad"; Bosom Buddies - "Henry"), dies of cancer at 66 [1]

Dietrich Mateschitz (1944-2022)

Austrian businessman (founder, owner Red Bull Racing; FC Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig; co-creator Red Bull energy drink), dies of pancreatic cancer at 78