Famous Deaths on 5 Jan

Famous Deaths on 5 Jan

1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
1387 - King Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
1400 - John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. ca. 1350)
1448 - Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)
1465 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
1477 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (killed in battle) (b. 1433)
1524 - Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
1527 - Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (b. 1498)
1588 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
1589 - Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
1740 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)
1762 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
1771 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
1823 - Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
1846 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
1858 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
1860 - Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (b. 1811)
1883 - Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806)
1888 - Henri Herz, Austrian pianist (b. 1803)
1891 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1904 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
1910 - Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
1933 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
1937 - Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
1939 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (b. 1897)
1940 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
1941 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
1943 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1864)
1946 - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
1951 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1952 - Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India (b. 1887)
1954 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1956 - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
1963 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1970 - Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (b. 1896)
1970 - Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896)
1970 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1971 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
1974 - Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
1976 - John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
1976 - Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (b. 1935)
1979 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
1981 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
1981 - Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893)
1982 - Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (b. 1892)
1982 - Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
1982 - Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
1985 - Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (b. 1906
1987 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)
1988 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
1990 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
1991 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922)
1994 - Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1994 - Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator (b. 1912)
1996 - Lincoln Kirstein, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur (b. 1907)
1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966)
1997 - Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
1997 - André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (b. 1924)
1998 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (b. 1935)
1998 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
2001 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2003 - Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (b. 1922)
2003 - Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (b. 1918)
2004 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (b. 1944)
2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2006 - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
2007 - Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2007 - Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (b. 1910)
2008 - Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)