August 05 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)


• 1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd


• 1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)


• 1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)


• 1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)


• 1610 - Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile


• 1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)


• 1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)


• 1743 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)


• 1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)


• 1792 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)


• 1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)


• 1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)


• 1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)


• 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)


• 1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)


• 1923 - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)


• 1925 - Jennie Lee (actor), American actress (b. 1848)


• 1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)


• 1944 - Maurice Turnbull, Former England cricketer (b. 1906)


• 1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)


• 1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)


• 1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)


• 1957 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)


• 1959 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)


• 1960 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)


• 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)


• 1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)


• 1964 - Art Ross, professional ice hockey player and executive (b. 1886) (Art Ross Trophy)


• 1968 - Luther Perkins American guitarrist, member of the Tennessee Three, backing band for Johnny Cash.


• 1972 - Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)


• 1978 - Jesse Haines, baseball player (b. 1893)


• 1980 - Harold Runnels, United States Congressman (b. 1924)


• 1984 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)


• 1991 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)


• 1991 - Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)


• 1992 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954)


• 1994 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (b. 1922)


• 1998 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)


• 1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)


• 2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)


• 2000 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)


• 2001 - Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)


• 2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)


• 2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)


• 2002 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)


• 2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)


• 2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)


• 2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)


• 2006 - Susan Butcher, American Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion (b. 1954)


• 2007 - Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (b. 1943)


• 2007 - Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France


• 2008 - Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer/songwriter (b. 1929)