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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd of May 0853 | EVENT | A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt |
| 22nd of May 1176 | EVENT | The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo. |
| 22nd of May 1377 | EVENT | Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe. |
| 22nd of May 1455 | EVENT | Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England. |
| 22nd of May 1762 | EVENT | Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg. |
| 22nd of May 1807 | EVENT | A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason. |
| 22nd of May 1807 | EVENT | Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire |
| 22nd of May 1809 | EVENT | On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time. |
| 22nd of May 1819 | EVENT | The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20. |
| 22nd of May 1826 | EVENT | HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. |
| 22nd of May 1840 | EVENT | The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. |
| 22nd of May 1842 | EVENT | Farmers Lester Howe and Henry Wetsel discover Howe Caverns when they stumble upon a large hole in the ground. |
| 22nd of May 1843 | EVENT | Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail. |
| 22nd of May 1844 | EVENT | Persian Prophet The Bab announces his revelation, founding Babism. He announces to the world the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest". He is considered the forerunner of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith. |
| 22nd of May 1848 | EVENT | Slavery is abolished in Martinique. |
| 22nd of May 1856 | EVENT | Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"). |
| 22nd of May 1871 | EVENT | The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska. |
| 22nd of May 1872 | EVENT | Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers. |
| 22nd of May 1897 | EVENT | The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened |
| 22nd of May 1903 | EVENT | Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic. |
| 22nd of May 1906 | EVENT | The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". |
| 22nd of May 1915 | EVENT | Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction. |
| 22nd of May 1915 | EVENT | Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century. |
| 22nd of May 1936 | EVENT | Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland. |
| 22nd of May 1939 | EVENT | World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel. |
| 22nd of May 1942 | EVENT | Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies. |
| 22nd of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor. |
| 22nd of May 1942 | EVENT | The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed. |
| 22nd of May 1947 | EVENT | Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement. |
| 22nd of May 1958 | EVENT | Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils. |
| 22nd of May 1960 | EVENT | An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. |
| 22nd of May 1962 | EVENT | Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board. |
| 22nd of May 1963 | EVENT | Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards. |
| 22nd of May 1964 | EVENT | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America. |
| 22nd of May 1967 | EVENT | The L'Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured. |
| 22nd of May 1968 | EVENT | The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores. |
| 22nd of May 1969 | EVENT | Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. |
| 22nd of May 1972 | EVENT | Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 22nd of May 1980 | EVENT | Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man. |
| 22nd of May 1987 | EVENT | Hashimpura massacre in Meerut city of India. |
| 22nd of May 1990 | EVENT | North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen. |
| 22nd of May 1990 | EVENT | Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system. |
| 22nd of May 1992 | EVENT | After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time. |
| 22nd of May 1992 | EVENT | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations. |
| 22nd of May 1997 | EVENT | Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial. |
| 22nd of May 1998 | EVENT | Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton. |
| 22nd of May 2002 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park. |
| 22nd of May 2002 | EVENT | American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. |
| 22nd of May 2003 | EVENT | In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sorenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years. |
| 22nd of May 2004 | EVENT | The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one resident. |
| 22nd of May 2008 | EVENT | The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between 22 May and 31 May 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province. |
| 22nd of May 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French governor of New France (d. 1698) |
| 22nd of May 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794) |
| 22nd of May 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772) |
| 22nd of May 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840) |
| 22nd of May 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833) |
| 22nd of May 1783 | BIRTHDAY | William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850) |
| 22nd of May 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855) |
| 22nd of May 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883) |
| 22nd of May 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889) |
| 22nd of May 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella Glyn, British actress (d. 1889) |
| 22nd of May 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Catulle Mendes, French poet (d. 1909) |
| 22nd of May 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926) |
| 22nd of May 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Abdul-Baha, Son of Baha'u'llah (d. 1921) |
| 22nd of May 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913) |
| 22nd of May 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930) |
| 22nd of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Francois Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959) |
| 22nd of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947) |
| 22nd of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945) |
| 22nd of May 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924) |
| 22nd of May 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (d. 1957) |
| 22nd of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963) |
| 22nd of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne de Gaulle, widow of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979) |
| 22nd of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953) |
| 22nd of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956) |
| 22nd of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992) |
| 22nd of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962) |
| 22nd of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977) |
| 22nd of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Herge, Belgian comic-book creator (d. 1983) |
| 22nd of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (d. 1989) |
| 22nd of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (d. 1970) |
| 22nd of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963) |
| 22nd of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985) |
| 22nd of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist and pianist (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (d. 1994) |
| 22nd of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999) |
| 22nd of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Davis, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987) |
| 22nd of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, actor, and composer |
| 22nd of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | James King, American tenor (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991) |
| 22nd of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Tucker, American director |
| 22nd of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Constantine, American actor |
| 22nd of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 22nd of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | T. Boone Pickens, Jr., American businessman |
| 22nd of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Ball, British musician |
| 22nd of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978) |
| 22nd of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Nero, American musician |
| 22nd of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Piche, Canadian baseball player |
| 22nd of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Benjamin, American actor |
| 22nd of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 22nd of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Shaw, American television journalist |
| 22nd of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor |
| 22nd of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician |
| 22nd of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Langbein, German athlete |
| 22nd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Kaczynski. American terrorist, known as the Unabomber |
| 22nd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk) |
| 22nd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress |
| 22nd of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy John, American baseball player |
| 22nd of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor |
| 22nd of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 22nd of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Vaiko, Indian politician |
| 22nd of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager |
| 22nd of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and a NASA astrophysicist (d. 1997) |
| 22nd of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Baker, American politician |
| 22nd of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Taupin, English songwriter |
| 22nd of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician |
| 22nd of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Bianchi, American serial killer |
| 22nd of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bernhard Brinkmann, German politician |
| 22nd of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer |
| 22nd of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Barnett, German politician |
| 22nd of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Winton, British radio DJ and television presenter |
| 22nd of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money) |
| 22nd of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Dammers, English musician (The Specials) |
| 22nd of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American jazz guitarist (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Iva Davies, Australian rock star (Icehouse) |
| 22nd of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Al Corley, American actor and producer |
| 22nd of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Sweet, Australian actor |
| 22nd of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Murkowski, American politician |
| 22nd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Welch, English actress and presenter |
| 22nd of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Morrissey, English singer |
| 22nd of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Hideaki Anno, Japanese director |
| 22nd of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Breen, American sportscaster |
| 22nd of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Cusack, American actress |
| 22nd of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997) |
| 22nd of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Renee, American fetish model |
| 22nd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Fanis Christodoulou, Greek basketball player |
| 22nd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative) |
| 22nd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Mesa, Dominican baseball player |
| 22nd of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Vanderslice, American musician |
| 22nd of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Smith, American actress |
| 22nd of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian |
| 22nd of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Brown, American basketball player |
| 22nd of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Linehan, Irish television writer and director (Black Books, The IT Crowd) |
| 22nd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Campbell, British model and actress |
| 22nd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver |
| 22nd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paddy Atkinson, English footballer and assistant manager |
| 22nd of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Ortiz, Mexican professional wrestler |
| 22nd of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Raimund Marasigan,Filipino Musician |
| 22nd of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Belknap, American actress |
| 22nd of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Annabel Chong, Singapore-born pornographic actress |
| 22nd of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Riley Dobi Noel, American convicted murderer (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Eastwood, American actress and model |
| 22nd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Tavarez, Dominican baseball player |
| 22nd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor |
| 22nd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Tiatto, Australian footballer |
| 22nd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Gunn, American actor |
| 22nd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | John Bale, American baseball player |
| 22nd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Fenton, English footballer |
| 22nd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | A. J. Langer, American actress |
| 22nd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice-hockey player |
| 22nd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Brookshaw, American professional wrestler and valet |
| 22nd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer |
| 22nd of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Erlandsson, drummer of Swedish death metal band Arch Enemy |
| 22nd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Vinnie Potestivo, American TV producer |
| 22nd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Chambers, British actor |
| 22nd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Alastair Ralphs, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 22nd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Og O hAilpin, Irish hurler |
| 22nd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dre Bly, American football player |
| 22nd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress |
| 22nd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Price, British model and reality TV personality |
| 22nd of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Maggie Q, American actress |
| 22nd of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nadia Khan, Pakistani TV presenter |
| 22nd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Baker, Australian Australian rules footballer |
| 22nd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rhett Fisher, American actor and musician |
| 22nd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Tracy, American baseball player |
| 22nd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Gregory, American figure skater |
| 22nd of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler |
| 22nd of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player |
| 22nd of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater |
| 22nd of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Smith, American football player |
| 22nd of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Erin McNaught, Australian beauty paegent and TV presenter |
| 22nd of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | John Hopkins, American motorcycling racer |
| 22nd of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Lauzon, American martial artist |
| 22nd of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer |
| 22nd of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | CariDee English, American model |
| 22nd of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Harrell, American football player |
| 22nd of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Gentili, Italian footballer |
| 22nd of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Jarvis, English international footballer |
| 22nd of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player |
| 22nd of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Emre Anuk, German footballer |
| 22nd of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer |
| 22nd of May 0192 | DEATH | Dong Zhuo, Chancellor of Han (slain by his adoptive son Lu Bu) (Born 138) |
| 22nd of May 0337 | DEATH | Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (Born 272) |
| 22nd of May 0748 | DEATH | Empress Gensho of Japan (Born 680) |
| 22nd of May 0985 | DEATH | Saint Bobo of Provence |
| 22nd of May 1068 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (Born 1025) |
| 22nd of May 1455 | DEATH | Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician |
| 22nd of May 1455 | DEATH | Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (Born 1406) |
| 22nd of May 1457 | DEATH | Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (Born 1381) |
| 22nd of May 1538 | DEATH | John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (Born 1471) |
| 22nd of May 1540 | DEATH | Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (Born 1483) |
| 22nd of May 1666 | DEATH | Gaspar Schott, German scientist (Born 1608) |
| 22nd of May 1667 | DEATH | Pope Alexander VII (Born 1599) |
| 22nd of May 1745 | DEATH | Francois-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (Born 1671) |
| 22nd of May 1746 | DEATH | Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (Born 1660) |
| 22nd of May 1760 | DEATH | Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (Born 1700) |
| 22nd of May 1772 | DEATH | Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (Born 1687) |
| 22nd of May 1795 | DEATH | Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (Born 1725) |
| 22nd of May 1851 | DEATH | Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (Born 1755) |
| 22nd of May 1859 | DEATH | King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (Born 1810) |
| 22nd of May 1861 | DEATH | Thornsbury Bailey Brown, first Union soldier to be killed by a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War (Born 1829) |
| 22nd of May 1868 | DEATH | Julius Plucker, German mathematician and physicist (Born 1801) |
| 22nd of May 1885 | DEATH | Victor Hugo, French author (Born 1802) |
| 22nd of May 1901 | DEATH | Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (Born 1869) |
| 22nd of May 1910 | DEATH | Jules Renard, French author (Born 1864) |
| 22nd of May 1932 | DEATH | Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (Born 1852) |
| 22nd of May 1939 | DEATH | Ernst Toller, German author (Born 1893) |
| 22nd of May 1939 | DEATH | Jiri Mahen, Czech author (Born 1882) |
| 22nd of May 1965 | DEATH | Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (Born 1882) |
| 22nd of May 1966 | DEATH | Tom Goddard, English cricketer (Born 1900) |
| 22nd of May 1967 | DEATH | Langston Hughes, American writer (Born 1902) |
| 22nd of May 1972 | DEATH | Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of May 1972 | DEATH | Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Born 1892) |
| 22nd of May 1975 | DEATH | Lefty Grove, American baseball player (Born 1900) |
| 22nd of May 1983 | DEATH | Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1899) |
| 22nd of May 1985 | DEATH | Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American Disney animator, director and producer (Born 1909) |
| 22nd of May 1988 | DEATH | Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (Born 1914) |
| 22nd of May 1989 | DEATH | Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (Born 1953) |
| 22nd of May 1990 | DEATH | Rocky Graziano, American boxer (Born 1922) |
| 22nd of May 1991 | DEATH | Stan Mortensen, English professional footballer (Born 1921) |
| 22nd of May 1992 | DEATH | Zellig Harris, American linguist (Born 1909) |
| 22nd of May 1997 | DEATH | Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (Born 1930) |
| 22nd of May 1997 | DEATH | Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1908) |
| 22nd of May 1998 | DEATH | Jose Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (Born 1910) |
| 22nd of May 1998 | DEATH | John Derek, American actor, director and photographer (Born 1926) |
| 22nd of May 2003 | DEATH | Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabe shooting victim |
| 22nd of May 2004 | DEATH | Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (Born 1945) |
| 22nd of May 2004 | DEATH | Richard Biggs, American actor (Born 1960) |
| 22nd of May 2005 | DEATH | Julia Randall, American poet (Born 1924) |
| 22nd of May 2005 | DEATH | Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (Born 1914) |
| 22nd of May 2005 | DEATH | Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (Born 1914) |
| 22nd of May 2006 | DEATH | Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (Born 1945) |
| 22nd of May 2006 | DEATH | Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (Born 1945) |
| 22nd of May 2008 | DEATH | Robert Asprin, American author (Born 1946) |