Famous Deaths on 5 Aug

Famous Deaths on 5 Aug

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 CrèvecÅ"ur 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 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)
1998 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
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 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
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 - Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
2007 - Florian PittiÅŸ, Romanian artist (b. 1943)
2008 - Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer/songwriter (b. 1929)
882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)