Famous Deaths on May 22

Czech painter (1930-2016)

Greek writer

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1969)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1974)

American minister, social reformer, columnist (1832–1913)

United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy (1892-1949)

Japanese photographer (1838–1904)

British biographer, suffragist and philanthropist

Actor, Film director (1891–1964)

Etzer Vilaire was a Haitian poet.

Polish-born Israeli agriculturist and biologist (1891–1975)

Ukrainian Australian artist who won the Blake Prize, and the Sulman Prizes (1910-1981)

Swedish inventor and businessman (1785-1873)

American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian

Canadian politician (1782–1840)

Italian military architect

Swedish archbishop (1712-1786)

Swiss theologian

Priest and writer

Czech astronomist

German scientist (1608-1666)

Spanish theologian; (1544-1606)

12th-century French nun, philosopher and writer

Pope

Ethiopian church musician, music theoretician, priest and saint of the orthodox Ethiopian church at the time of the Kingdom of Aksum