Unusual Deaths in 1982
- Vic morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of twilight zone
- Vladimir smirnov, an olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, penetrated his mask, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.
People who died on April 22 (various years)
- 2007 - Juanita Millender-McDonald, congresswoman from southern California
- 2006 - Alida Valli, Italian actress
- 2005 - Norman Bird, UK character actor
- 2005 - Erika Fuchs, German translator
- 2005 - Philip Morrison, American physicist
- 2004 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient
- 2004 - Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action)
- 2003 - Felice Bryant, American songwriter
- 2003 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete
- 2003 - Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman
- 2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress
- 1999 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer
- 1998 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach
- 1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist
- 1995 - Maggie Kuhn, American activist
- 1994 - Richard Nixon, President of the United States
- 1988 - Irene Rich, American actress
- 1986 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer
- 1985 - Jacques Ferron, French Canadian physician, author and politician
- 1985 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer
- 1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer
- 1983 - John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (executed)
- 1983 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist
- 1980 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist
- 1980 - Jane Froman, American actor
- 1978 - Will Geer, American actor
- 1968 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive
- 1951 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist
- 1946 - Lionel Atwill, English Actor
- 1946 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- 1945 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician
- 1945 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist
- 1933 - Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer
- 1930 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet
- 1925 - André Caplet, French composer
- 1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1896 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer
- 1892 - Edouard Lalo, French composer
- 1854 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier
- 1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet
- 1833 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor
- 1806 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed)
- 1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor
- 1758 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist
- 1699 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman
- 1672 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet
- 1592 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect
- 536 - Pope Agapetus I
- 455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor
- 296 - Pope Caius