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* Died: Aaliyah, contemporary R & B and pop singer, dies in a plane crash at the age of 22.

Died 22 years old, 6 December 1917, La Vacquerie.

| style =" font-size: 80 %" | Died April 22, 1988

Died at 22.

* Bogdan Stefanov Dobranov † ( 22 Jul 1975 Appointed-4 Oct 1983 Died )

Died in her home in Lithia Springs, Ga., on December 22, 2008, of a brain aneurysm.

* The X-Files ( 1993 ) ( episode 1. 14 " Genderbender ") ( episode 2. 04 " Sleepless ") ( episode 2. 12 " Aubrey ") ( episode 2. 15 " Fresh Bones ") ( episode 2. 17 " End Game ") ( episode 2. 19 " Død Kälm ") ( episode 2. 22 " F. Emasculata ") ( episode 2. 24 " Our Town ") ( episode 3. 02 " Paper Clip ") ( episode 3. 07 " Walk, The ") ( episode 3. 10 " 731 ") ( episode 3. 13 " Syzygy ") ( episode 3. 15 " Piper Maru ") ( episode 3. 17 " Pusher ") ( episode 3. 20 " José Chung's ' From Outer Space '") ( episode 3. 23 " Wetwired ") ( episode 4. 04 " Unruhe ") ( episode 4. 05 " Field Where I Died, The ") ( episode 4. 09 " Terma ") ( episode 4. 10 " Paper Hearts ") ( episode 4. 13 " Never Again ") ( episode 4. 14 " Memento Mori ") ( episode 4. 17 " Tempus Fugit ") ( episode 5. 11 " Kill Switch ") ( episode 5. 18 " Pine Bluff Variant, The ") ( episode 6. 02 " Drive ") ( episode 6. 07 " Terms of Endearment ") ( episode 6. 12 " One Son ") ( episode 6. 13 " Agua Mala ") ( episode 6. 17 " Trevor ") ( episode 6. 22 " Biogenesis ") ( episode 7. 07 " Orison ") ( episode 7. 15 " En Ami ")

* Died Norfolk House, St James's Square, London, 22 March 1886

*† Bishop Joseph Crétin ( July 23, 1850 Appointed – February 22, 1857 Died )

* Domenico Agostini † ( 22 Jun 1877 Appointed-31 Dec 1891 Died )

* Died: Terry Fox, 22, Canadian athlete and cancer activist &

* Died: Grigoris Lambrakis, 51, Greek politician, physician and athlete ( see 22 May )

* Eberhard von Hirnheim † ( 22 Dec 1552 Appointed-4 Jul 1560 Died )

Ruby Leigh Orgain ( Died October 22, 1984 )

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Died at 22.

* Archbishop Pietro Zamburlini ( 22 Jun 1896 Appointed-1909 Died )

* Joseph Godehard Machens † ( 22 Jun 1934 Appointed-14 Aug 1956 Died )

The tragedy is later termed " The Day the Music Died ", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song " American Pie ".

The tragedy is later termed " The Day the Music Died ", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song " American Pie ".

* List of American Politicians by Year Born or Died

The Day the Music Died, dubbed by Don McLean's song " American Pie ", was an aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, where rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson, perished.

On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died ( from Don McLean's song " American Pie "), Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

* Author William Adler, " The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon "-CSPAN, BookTV

* William F. Keough, Jr., 50 — Superintendent of American School in Islamabad, Pakistan, visiting Tehran at time of embassy seizure ( Died 11 / 27 / 1985 )

Don McLean immortalized Ritchie and his friends ' deaths as " The Day the Music Died ", when he chronicled his reaction to hearing about the plane crash in his song " American Pie ".

McLean's 1971 song " American Pie ," inspired by the death of Buddy Holly, became one of popular music's most-recognized songs of the 20th century, thanks to its abstract and vivid storytelling, which center around " The Day the Music Died " and popular music of the rock era.

In his book The Forgotten Dead-Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast Of Devon In 1944-And The Man Who Discovered Their True Story, published in 1988, Ken Small declares that the event " was never covered up ; it was ' conveniently forgotten '".

Through Alfred, he is the great-grandfather of the noted Yankton Sioux ethnologist and writer Ella Deloria and the great-great-grandfather of Standing Rock Sioux scholar and writer Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died For Your Sins ( 1969 ), an American Indian civil-rights manifesto.

* Died: Edwin B. Willis, 70, American Oscar-winning set designer

He was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto ( 1969 ), which helped generate national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement.

The American Anthropological Association sponsored a panel in response to Custer Died for Your Sins.

* Died: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 86, American philanthropist who gave away $ 475, 000, 000 of his inheritance during his lifetime.

* Died: Carleton S. Coon, 76, American anthropologist and archaeologist

* Died: Allen Ludden, 63, American game show host ( Password ), and husband of comedienne Betty White

* Died: Jenny Maxwell, 39, American film actress, murder victim

* Died: George Walsh, 92, American silent film leading man

* Died: Jule Gregory Charney, 64, American meteorologist and mathematician ; Edward Boatner, 83, African-American concert singer ; and John S. Knight, 86, American newspaper publisher

* Died: Yitzhak Zuckerman, 66, Polish leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who helped thousands of his fellow Jews escape the Nazi invasion, and continued to search for the Nazis after emigrating to Israel ; Sir Richard O ' Connor, 91, British general who led the fight against Italy in North Africa during World War II ; and Zerna Sharp, 91, American educator, who, beginning in 1924, created the " Dick and Jane " primers used for four decades in American schools.

* Died: Al Jackson, Jr., 39, American drummer who was a founder of Booker T. & the M. G .' s.