Famous Deaths on 5 Nov

Famous Deaths on 5 Nov

1370 - Casimir III the Great king of Poland
1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
1559 - Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476)
1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
1923 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1951 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)
1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
1960 - Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
1960 - Johnny Horton, country music singer (b.1925)
1960 - Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (b. 1880)
1964 - Buddy Cole, American jazz pianist and orchestra leader (b. 1916)
1964 - Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1893)
1971 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1974 - Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1975 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
1977 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
1982 - Edward Hallett Carr, historian
1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908)
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
1985 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
1986 - Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1925)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Television Presenter (b. 1922)
1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
1990 - Meir Kahane, Israeli rabbi and activist (b. 1932)
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
1992 - Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
1996 - Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
1997 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959)
1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909)
1997 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
2000 - Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)
2000 - Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b.1926)
2000 - Jimmie Davis, singer and politician (b. 1899)
2001 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)
2001 - Barry Horne , a British animal liberation activist.
2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
2005 - John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
2005 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (b. 1912)
2006 - Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925)
2007 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish football midfielder and coach (b. 1922)

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

1254 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Emperor of the Nicaea (b. circa 1192).
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 - Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 - John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
1704 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1781 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1856 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1893 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1906 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1924 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
1928 - Arnold Rothstein, American gambler (b. 1882)
1930 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1957 - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician (b. 1911)
1974 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1980 - Robert Nesta Marley, Jamaican reggae musician
1982 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitar player MC5 (b. 1949)
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)
1995 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
1997 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (b. 1924)
1999 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2003 - Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 - Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2005 - Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 - Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
2006 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
2007 - Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)