What happened on March 22 ?

1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)

1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian

1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)

1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)

1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)

1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)

1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)

1758 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)

1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)

1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)

1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)

1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)

1896 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)

1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)

1924 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)

1945 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)

1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)

1958 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)

1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1904)

1978 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)

1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)

1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor

1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)

1993 - Curtis Taylor, an eighth grader who went to Oak Bridge Middle School and got teased. (b. 1978)

1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)

1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)

1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)

2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)

2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)

2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas

2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)

2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)

2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)