Deaths in History on November 22

1718 Blackbeard, notorious English pirate, dies in battle at 38

1758 Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1773 Robert Clive, English explorer and founder (British Empire in India), dies at 49
1781 Jan Ekels the Elder, Amsterdam painter and cartoonist, dies at 57
1782 John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies
1782 John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies
1783 John Hanson, American Continental Congressman and 1st US President under Articles of Confederation, dies at 68

1794 John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1799 Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
1803 Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar and poet, dies at 57
1825 Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies
1871 Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
1875 Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1893 James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer and inventor (Ferris Wheel), dies of typhoid fever at 37
1901 Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Russian biologist (founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals), dies at 61
1902 Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1904 Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies
1906 Ernst Josephson, Swedish painter, dies at 55
1907 Asaph Hall, American astronomer who discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos), dies at 78
1916 Jack London, American activist and author (Call of the Wild), dies at 40
1917 Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer, dies at 67
1920 Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1924 Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies at 59
1932 William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)

1936 Louis Apol, Dutch painter, etcher and literary, dies at 86
1940 Wacław Rawicz [Berent], Polish biologist and writer, dies at 67
1941 Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1944 Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist, cosmologist and mathematician (stars), dies at 61
1944 George Clausen, English painter, dies at 92
1946 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (Reich Minister of Justice 1942-45), dies at 57
1953 Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad, dies at 69
1954 Andrej J. Vysjinski, Russian lawyer and UN ambassador, dies at 70
1956 Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney, dies at 77

1963 Aldous Huxley, English author (Brave New World), dies at 69

1963 C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Irish author (Silver Chair), dies at 64

1963 John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas at 46

1963 NKD Nanavati, Indies general-major (WWII), dies
1963 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87
1963 Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 J. D. Tippit, American police officer, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald at 39 shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
1966 Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez, 1st Prime Minister of Dutch Antilles, dies at 59
1967 Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)

1982 Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936), dies at 73

1986 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1988 Janet Ertel, crooner, dies
1988 Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 Erich Fried, Austrian-British writer, dies at 67
1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
1989 C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1991 Jac de Jong [Jacobus Hendrik de Jong], Dutch entrepreneur and politician (Nedac-Sorbo), dies

1993 Anthony Burgess, British novelist and essayist (A Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76

1994 John Michael Grimes, British set designer (Philby, Burgess and MacLean), dies at 70
1995 John Putz, journalist, dies at 89
1995 Norman Potter, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer, dies at 72

1995 Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), dies at 95 [1]

1995 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (National Welfare Rights Association), dies at 69
1996 Terence Donovan, English fashion photographer, film and video director, commits suicide at 60
1997 Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
1997 Harry Kissin, Baron Kissin, British businessman and President (GPG), dies at 85
1998 Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
2001 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
2006 Ria Beckers, Dutch politician and leader of the progressive Christian party PPR, dies at 67
2006 Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician (co-founder of the Parti Québécois), dies at 80
2007 Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal(b. 1929)
2008 MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
2010 Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
2011 Lynn Margulis, American biologist (serial endosymbiotic theory), dies at 73
2011 Lana Peters [Svetlana Stalina], Stalin's daughter, dies at 85
2012 Bryce Courtenay, South African-born Australian novelist, dies from stomach cancer at 79
2015 Kim Young-sam, politician and activist - President of South Korea (1993-98), dies at 87
2020 Doris de Agostini-Rossetti, Swiss alpine skier (Downhill World Cup 1982/1983), dies at 62