Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 22-Dec

Died on This Day (22-Dec)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Édison Realpe	Édison Gabriel Realpe Solís was an Ecuadorian footballer who played for L.	Ecuadorian footballer	23	1
	Jason Lowndes	Jason Lowndes was an Australian cyclist, who rode professionally for the Garneau–Québecor, Drapac Professional Cycling and Israel Cycling Academy teams.	Australian cyclist	23	3
	Joe Cocker	John Robert "Joe" Cocker was an English singer known for his gravelly voice, spasmodic body movement in performance, and distinctive versions of popular songs of varying genres.	Rock/blues singer	70	6
	Bolesław Proch	Bolesław Proch was a Polish international motorcycle speedway rider who was Polish Junior Champion in 1974.	Polish speedway rider	60	8
	Aurora Miranda	Aurora Miranda da Cunha Richaid was aBrazilian singer and actress.	Entertainer	90	15
	Joe Strummer	John Graham Mellor , better known as Joe Strummer, was a Turkish-born English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, actor, and radio host who was best known as the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist, co-lead vocalist of punk rock band the Clash, formed in 1976.	Pop singer	50	18
	August Zingel	The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II.	Knight cross of the Iron cross recipient	78	20
	Robin Friday	Robin Friday was a gay English footballer who played professionally as a forward for Reading and Cardiff City during a career that lasted four years in the mid-1970s.	English footballer	38	30
	Carlos Ramírez Ulloa	Carlos Ramírez Ulloa was a Mexican civil engineer.	Civil engineer	77	40
	Arthur Korn	Arthur Korn was a German physicist, mathematician and inventor.	German physicist	75	75

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Paddy Ashdown	Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, , known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999.	British politician and diplomat	77	2
	John Buckingham	John Buckingham was an English National Hunt jockey, best known for riding Foinavon to victory in the 1967 Grand National.	English horse racing jockey	76	4
	Diomedes Díaz	Diomedes Díaz Maestre was a Colombian vallenato singer, songwriter, and composer.	Singer, musician	56	7
	Walter T. Galligan	Walter Turbush Galligan was a United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as commander United States Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force, with headquarters at Yokota Air Base, Japan.	United States general	85	10
	Dave Dudley	Dave Dudley was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass.	American musician	75	17
	Grzegorz Ciechowski	Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski was a Polish rock musician and film music composer.	Polish composer	44	19
	Butterfly McQueen	Butterfly McQueen was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in films as Prissy in Gone with the Wind .	American actress	84	25
	Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon	Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon was an Indian poet of Malayalam literature.	Indian writer	74	35
	Philip Toosey	Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham in Thailand during World War II.	British banker	71	45
	Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer	Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish post-romanticist poet and writer , also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.	Spanish poet	34	150