Famous Deaths on 5 May

Famous Deaths on 5 May

1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia
1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
1309 - King Charles II of Naples
1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
1859 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
1931 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
1942 - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
1945 - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897)
1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)
1983 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927)
1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player, grandmaster and world champion (b. 1911)
1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
2001 - Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher
2001 - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler
2002 - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904)
2002 - George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
2002 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
2007 - Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor (b. 1927)
2008 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor
984 - Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia