What happened on July 22 ?

1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (poisoned) (b. 1324)

1387 - Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)

1461 - King Charles VII of France (b. 1403)

1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat

1540 - John Zápolya, King of Hungary

1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)

1645 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)

1676 - Pope Clement X (b. 1590)

1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)

1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England

1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (executed) (b. 1715)

1802 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)

1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)

1832 - Emperor Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)

1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)

1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)

1908 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)

1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)

1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)

1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I pilot (killed in combat) (b. 1898)

1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)

1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)

1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)

1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (shot) (b. 1903)

1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)

1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)

1967 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)

1974 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)

1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)

1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)

1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)

1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)

2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)

2000 - Alexander Dallin, Stanford Professor (b. 1924)

2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)

2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)

2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)

2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)

2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)

2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (shot) (b. 1978)