What happened on September 22 ?

1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)

1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)

1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)

1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)

1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer

1566 - Johannes Agricola, German protestant reformer (b. 1494)

1607 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)

1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)

1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)

1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)

1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)

1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)

1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader

1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)

1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)

1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)

1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)

1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)

1961 - Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)

1987 - Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)

1989 - Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)

1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)

1996 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)

1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)

2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)

2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)

2002 - Mike Webster, American football player (b. 1952)

2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)

2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)

2004 - The Big Boss Man, professional wrestler