On this day: Ozzy Osbourne died in 2025

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 22: 1917 – Alexander Kerensky became prime minister of Russia, taking over from Prince Lvov. 1934 – John Dillinger, famed U.S. bank robber, was shot dead by FBI agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre after 13 months on the run. 1990 – Mongolians vote in country’s first free elections. 1997 – An Italian court handed former Nazi SS Captain Erich Priebke a five-year prison sentence for his role in Italy’s worst World War Two atrocity but freed his co-defendant, former Major Karl Hass. 1998 – American 4 x 400m team sprinters set world record at Goodwill Games. 1999 – China banned in Falun Gong, a spiritual movement, as a “cult” that threatened the government. 2004 – French crooner Sacha Distel, whose seductive good looks won him millions of female fans around the world, died aged 71. 2006 – Ships and aircraft toiled through the night whisking shell-shocked civilians from the fighting in Lebanon to safety in Cyprus in a mass evacuation exceeding 25,000 people. 2010 – Actors Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren awarded world record for most successful sports franchise in film history with movie “Rocky”. 2011 – Bombing, gun massacre in Norway. 2025 – John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne, pioneer of heavy metal music, died at age 76.