Famous Deaths on February 22

Italian journalist (1930-2009)

Belgian historian (1910-2002)

Indian politician, educator and social worker

Mexican revolutionary leader and president (1873-1913)

Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)

Portuguese engineer (1847-1925)

French microbiologist, the discoverer and founder of bacteriophages and bacteriophage therapy (1873–1949)

Belgian writer, editor (1840-1928)

Albanian writer (1846-1917)

Greek writer and politician

New Zealand journalist, poet, short-story writer, novelist, and community worker

Danish painter (1847-1926)

Canadian physicist and meteorologist (1872-1956)

Turkish writer (1910–1975)

Latvian mathematician (1910-1985)

American painter (1741–1827)

Swedish author and translator (1795-1876)

Norwegian historian (1845-1900)

English physician, activist and feminist (1846–1888)

German botanist and physicist (1677-1746)

German astrologer and historical writer

Hohenstaufen dynasty king (r. 1138–1152)

Frank/served Charlemagne as diplomat/abbot/poet/semi-son-in-law

Christian bishop of Smyrna