What happened on August 22 ?

408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)

1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)

1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)

1241 - Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143)

1280 - Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216)

1286 - Erik V Klipping, King of Denmark (b. 1249)

1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)

1350 - Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)

1485 - Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)

1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)

1572 - Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)

1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)

1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)

1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)

1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)

1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)

1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)

1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)

1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)

1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)

1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)

1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)

1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)

1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)

1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)

1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)

1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)

1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)

1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)

1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)

1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)

1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)

1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)

1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)

1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)

1926 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)

1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851)

1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)

1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)

1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)

1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)

1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)

1977 - Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)

1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. 1892)

1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)

1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)

1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)

1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)

2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)

2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)

2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)

2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)