Deaths on 22 April
2000s
Len Goodman
2023
English ballroom dancer (1944–2023)
Guy Lafleur
2022
Canadian ice hockey player (1951–2022)
Adrian Garrett
2021
American baseball player and coach (1943–2021)
Shirley Knight
2020
American actress (1936–2020)
Donna Williams
2017
Australian writer (1963–2017)
Dick Balharry
2015
Scottish conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer (1937–2015)
Oswaldo Vigas
2014
Venezuelan painter and muralist (1923–2014)
Richie Havens
2013
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1941–2013)
Lalgudi Jayaraman
2013
Indian violinist (1930–2013)
Robert Suderburg
2013
American composer
George Rathmann
2012
American chemist and biologist (1927–2012)
Richard Barrett (lawyer)
2010
American lawyer (1943–2010)
Jack Cardiff
2009
British cinematographer, director and photographer (1914–2009)
Juanita Millender-McDonald
2007
American politician (1938–2007)
Henriette Avram
2006
American computer programmer and system analyst
Alida Valli
2006
Italian actress (1921–2006)
Erika Fuchs
2005
German translator (1906–2005)
Philip Morrison
2005
American astrophysicist (1915–2005)
Eduardo Paolozzi
2005
Scottish sculptor and artist (1924–2005)
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
2003
American husband-and-wife music duo
1900s
Munir Ahmad Khan
1999
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1926–1999)
Erma Bombeck
1996
American humorist and writer (1927–1996)
Jug McSpaden
1996
American professional golfer (1908–1996
Jane Kenyon
1995
American poet, translator
Richard Nixon
1994
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
Albert Salmi
1990
American actor (1927–1990)
Emilio Segrè
1989
Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist (1905–1989)
Grigori Kuzmin
1988
Estonian astronomer
Irene Rich
1988
American actress (1891–1988)
Erika Nõva
1987
Estonian architect
Mircea Eliade
1986
Romanian-American historian of religion, writer and philosopher (1907–1986)
Paul Hugh Emmett
1985
American chemical engineer (1900–1985)
Jacques Ferron
1985
Canadian physician and author
Ansel Adams
1984
American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984)
Earl Hines
1983
American jazz pianist (1903–1983)
Jane Froman
1980
American actress (1907–1980)
Fritz Strassmann
1980
German chemist (1902–1980)
Will Geer
1978
American actor (1902–1978)
Horace Donisthorpe
1951
British myrmecologist & coleopterist
Charles Hamilton Houston
1950
American lawyer (1895–1950)
Wilhelm Cauer
1945
German mathematician and scientist (1900–1945)
Käthe Kollwitz
1945
German artist (1867–1945)
Henry Royce
1933
English engineer and car designer (1863–1933)
Ferenc Oslay
1932
Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and propagandist
Henry Lerolle
1929
French painter (1848–1929)
André Caplet
1925
French composer and conductor (1878–1925)
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1908
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908
1800s
Thomas Meik
1896
Scottish engineer
Kostas Krystallis
1894
Greek writer and poet
Chaim Aronson
1893
Lithuanian Jewish inventor and memoirist
Édouard Lalo
1892
French composer (1823–1892)
James P. Kirkwood
1877
American civil engineer
Martín Carrera
1871
President of Mexico in 1855
Nicolás Bravo
1854
President of Mexico in 1839, from 1842 to 1843, in 1846
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
1850
Estonian writer
Richard Trevithick
1833
British inventor and mining engineer (1771–1833)
Gregory V of Constantinople
1821
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
1806
French Navy officer (1763–1806)
Before 1800
James Hargreaves
1778
English inventor of the Spinning Jenny
Antoine de Jussieu
1758
French botanist (1686–1758)
Hans Erasmus Aßmann
1699
Georg Stiernhielm
1672
Swedish civil servant, mathematician, linguist and poet
Miguel de Cervantes
1616
Spanish writer (1547–1616)
Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg
1585
16th-century Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck and Paderborn
Eleanor of Woodstock
1355
Duchess of Guelders from 1332 to 1343
Francis of Fabriano
1322
Italian Roman Catholic professed member from the Order of Friars Minor and writer
Philip of Poitou
1208
12th- and 13th-century Bishop of Durham
Emperor Wuzong of Tang
846
Emperor of China from 840 to 846
Kūkai
835
Japanese Buddhist monk and Founder of the Shingon tradition
Theodore of Sykeon
613
Anatolian saint (6/7th century)
Peter III of Callinicum
591
40th Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Pope Agapetus I
536
Head of the Catholic Church from 535 to 536
Pope Caius
296
Head of the Catholic Church from 283 to 296