Famous Deaths on 5 Dec

Famous Deaths on 5 Dec

1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
1355 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
1560 - King Francis II of France (b. 1544)
1570 - Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)
1624 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
1654 - Jean François Sarrazin, French writer
1663 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1749 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685)
1758 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
1770 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
1784 - Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (b. 1753)
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
1819 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
1870 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (b. 1802)
1887 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
1891 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1895 - Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)
1925 - Władysław Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1940 - Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)
1940 - Jan Kubelík, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist (b. 1880)
1950 - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
1951 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1951 - Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
1953 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
1955 - Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (b. 1886)
1963 - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
1963 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
1965 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1966 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1909)
1968 - Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
1969 - Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (b. 1884)
1973 - Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (b. 1892)
1977 - Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
1983 - Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
1984 - Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
1986 - Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1989 - Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
1991 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
1991 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (b. 1921)
1993 - Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961)
1994 - Harry Horner, American art director (b. 1910)
1995 - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920)
1995 - Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (b. 1959)
1998 - Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
2001 - Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
2002 - Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911)
2002 - Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (b. 1931)
2005 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
2005 - Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932)
2005 - Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (b. 1949)
2006 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
2007 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
2007 - Andrew Imbrie, American composer (b. 1921)
749 - Saint John of Damascus, theologian