Famous Deaths on 5 Sep

Famous Deaths on 5 Sep

1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
1734 - Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 - François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 - Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
1898 - Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 - Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 - Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1945 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1954)
1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 - DezsÅ' Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1970 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver and one-time F1 (posthumous) world champion (b. 1942)
1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 - Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 - Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 - Thomas Hansen (musician) (b. 1976)