Historical Deaths Today: 05 October

Deaths

• 578 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor


• 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)


• 1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler


• 1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)


• 1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)


• 1528 - Richard Foxe, English churchman


• 1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)


• 1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer


• 1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)


• 1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)


• 1714 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)


• 1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)


• 1777 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)


• 1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)


• 1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)


• 1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader


• 1848 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)


• 1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)


• 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)


• 1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)


• 1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)


• 1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)


• 1933 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)


• 1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)


• 1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)


• 1938 - Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)


• 1940 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)


• 1940 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)


• 1940 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican musician (b. 1889)


• 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)


• 1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)


• 1950 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)


• 1952 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884 or 1885)


• 1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)


• 1976 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)


• 1981 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)


• 1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)


• 1983 - Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)


• 1986 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)


• 1986 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)


• 1986 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)


• 1992 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)


• 1995 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)


• 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)


• 1997 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)


• 2000 - Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)


• 2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)


• 2002 - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)


• 2003 - Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)


• 2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)


• 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)


• 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)


• 2004 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)


• 2006 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)


• 2006 - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)


• 2007 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)