Notable Deaths on August 5th
August 5th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
882 |
King Louis III of France (b. 863) |
1063 |
Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd |
1157 |
Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies |
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 |
1644 |
J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 |
1678 |
Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619) |
1743 |
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696) |
1778 |
Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22 |
1778 |
Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703) |
1792 |
Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60 |
1799 |
Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726) |
1830 |
Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68 |
1834 |
Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 |
1852 |
Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53 |
1856 |
Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61 |
1862 |
Thomas Williams, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47 |
1863 |
Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53 |
1864 |
Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 |
1868 |
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788) |
1877 |
Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (b. 1799) |
1880 |
Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816) |
1888 |
Anna Swan, |
1889 |
Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80 |
1891 |
Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73 |
1893 |
James Pierpont, Iron Man 3 |
1895 |
Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies |
1895 |
Friedrich Engels, Too Early/Too Late |
1900 |
James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 |
1901 |
Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60 |
1907 |
Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66 |
1910 |
Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42 |
1911 |
Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864) |
1915 |
Melville Stewart, The Galloper |
1916 |
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31 |
1916 |
Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46 |
1923 |
Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835) |
1924 |
George Majeroni, My Lady Incog. |
1925 |
Jennie Lee (actor), American actress (b. 1848) |
1925 |
Jennie Lee, The Birth of a Nation |
1927 |
Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies |
1927 |
Ilmari Mattson, Elämän maantiellä |
1928 |
László Bakó, A bánya titka |
1928 |
Albert Paul, Der Krieg brachte Frieden |
1929 |
Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847) |
1929 |
Leslie Faber, White Cargo |
1931 |
Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43 |
1931 |
Marie Hübnerová, Loupezník |
1931 |
Ullrich Haupt, Morocco |
1932 |
Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies |
1932 |
Israël Querido, Menschenwee |
1934 |
Neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa), dies at 26 |
1934 |
Bert Levy, New York and Its People |
1935 |
David Townsend, The Thin Man |
1937 |
James Dugan, The Eagle and the Hawk |
1940 |
Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 |
1940 |
Talbot Mundy, King of the Khyber Rifles |
1940 |
Johannes Buchholtz, Susanne |
1940 |
Bird Millman, The Law of the Yukon |
1940 |
Frederick Albert Cook, Dr. Cook at Copenhagen |
1941 |
Jack Budlong, They Died with Their Boots On |
1941 |
Barnett Parker, Marie Antoinette |
1942 |
Sidney Bracey, The Cameraman |
1943 |
Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55 |
1943 |
William H. Strauss, Golden Boy |
1944 |
Maurice Turnbull, cricketer (England)/rugby (Wales), dies |
1945 |
Charles Alexander, Objective, Burma! |
1946 |
Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863) |
1946 |
Wilhelm Marx, Eight Days of Happiness |
1947 |
Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies |
1947 |
Carl Hoffmann, Faust |
1948 |
Sam Landers, Reaching for the Moon |
1950 |
Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73 |
1950 |
Tadeusz Kanski, Czarci zleb |
1951 |
Harry MacPherson, The Remains of the Day |
1952 |
Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917) |
1952 |
Ella Shields, Herself |
1952 |
Keith Hårleman, En flicka kommer till sta'n |
1954 |
Ernest Whitman, Road to Zanzibar |
1955 |
Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42 |
1955 |
Suzan (Susan) Ball, American actress, of cancer aged 21 |
1955 |
Géza Kardos, A Nap lovagja |
1955 |
Carmen Miranda, Radio Days |
1955 |
Suzan Ball, Chief Crazy Horse |
1956 |
Otto Lengwinat, Raskolnikow |
1957 |
Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 |
1957 |
John Rox, Avalon |
1958 |
Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 |
1958 |
B. Weiler, Vertigo |
1958 |
John D. Weiler, Around the World in Eighty Days |
1958 |
Milan Orlovic, H-8... |
1958 |
Ulysses Williams, Hell Harbor |
1959 |
Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 |
1959 |
Morton Stevens, Fraternity of Five |
1959 |
Edgar A. Guest, Poetic Gem: Boyhood |
1959 |
G. Pat Collins, All Quiet on the Western Front |
1960 |
Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada, dies at 86 |
1960 |
Theodor Pistek, Skola základ zivota |
1960 |
George Chalmers, The Pioneers |
1961 |
Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63 |
1961 |
Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67 |
1961 |
Goffredo Bellisario, Kapò |
1962 |
Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose at 36 |
1962 |
John Willie, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak |
1962 |
Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot |
1963 |
Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898) |
1963 |
Salvador Bacarisse, Of Time and the City |
1964 |
Moa Martinson, writer, dies |
1964 |
Art Ross, Canadian hockey player and executive (b. 1886) |
1964 |
Art Ross, |
1965 |
Stephanie Gorman, The Baytown Outlaws |
1966 |
Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies |
1968 |
Luther Perkins American guitarist |
1971 |
Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74 |
1972 |
Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 |
1972 |
Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905) |
1975 |
Aleksandr Komissarov, Tsirk |
1976 |
Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88 |
1976 |
Lu Säuberlich, Der amerikanische Traum |
1977 |
Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87 |
1977 |
George P. Costello, Bad Girl |
1977 |
Leo Fleider, Titanes en el ring |
1977 |
Gerhard Just, Magie |
1978 |
Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 |
1978 |
Bill Baird, The Marines Come Thru |
1979 |
William Conselman Jr., False Paradise |
1980 |
Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924) |
1981 |
Nancy Massie, Challenge of the Superfriends |
1981 |
Gerda Tarnow, Enken |
1981 |
Ridgeway Callow, The Sound of Music |
1981 |
Everett Austin Goodell, Episode #9.4 |
1982 |
Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72 |
1982 |
Wanda Rotha, Circus World |
1982 |
Zuzanna Lozinska, Klakier |
1983 |
Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66 |
1983 |
Judy Canova, Sis Hopkins |
1983 |
Harold Shumate, Saddle Tramp |
1983 |
Johann Sklenka, Die Pannenhilfe |
1984 |
R Hagelstange, writer, dies |
1984 |
Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 58 |
1984 |
Isodore 'Tuts' Washington, Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together |
1984 |
Roland Kibbee, Vera Cruz |
1984 |
Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
1984 |
Hertha Thiele, Mädchen in Uniform |
1984 |
Emonuel Kalantarov, Alibaba Aur 40 Chor |
1984 |
Elsie Maison, The Lumber Yard Gang |
1985 |
Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 |
1985 |
Lee Richards, Christopher Street Blues |
1985 |
Anna Bakacs, Dracula |
1986 |
Luciana Peverelli, Violette nei capelli |
1987 |
Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79 |
1987 |
Bengt Lind af Hageby, Örlogsmän |
1987 |
James Hassinger, Digger's Daughter |
1987 |
Wladyslaw Surzynski, Podhale w ogniu |
1987 |
Aïda Hilal, The Imposter |
1987 |
Louise Brien, Smart Girl |
1987 |
Joseph Bouglione, Trapeze |
1987 |
Salvador Flores, La isla de las mujeres |
1987 |
Larry Smith, Plan 9 from Outer Space |
1988 |
Robert Howland, The Return of the Living Dead |
1988 |
Colin Higgins, Harold and Maude |
1988 |
Walter Poucher, Episode dated 18 November 1980 |
1988 |
Ralph Meeker, Paths of Glory |
1988 |
Józef Pieracki, Ashes and Diamonds |
1989 |
Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68 |
1989 |
Ilia Khmara, Gypsy Night |
1989 |
Max Macon, Whistling in Brooklyn |
1990 |
Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies |
1990 |
Bernard Maurice, Mon Oncle |
1990 |
Erzsi Hegedüs, Fejlövés |
1990 |
Augusto Lega, A Professional Gun |
1990 |
Pyotr Lyubeshkin, Father of a Soldier |
1990 |
Bob Synes, Fox's Fun House |
1991 |
Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies at 82 |
1991 |
Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 |
1991 |
Murray Golden, Requiem for Methuselah |
1991 |
Jovan Acin, Hey Babu Riba |
1991 |
Sôichirô Honda, Sony: Early Years |
1991 |
Evar Maran, Accadde tra le sbarre |
1991 |
Paul Brown, Cincinnati Bengals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers |
1991 |
Nina Reiggini, La herencia del diablo |
1992 |
Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 |
1992 |
Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies |
1992 |
Tante Leen, Parallellogramma |
1992 |
Robert Muldoon, Episode #1.2 |
1992 |
Jan Zangenberg, Manden med bowleren |
1992 |
Lillian V. Foote, On Valentine's Day |
1992 |
Rollie Lane, To Kill a Mockingbird |
1992 |
Jeff Porcaro, The Color Purple |
1993 |
Eugen Suchon, Boj sa skoncí zajtra |
1993 |
Bill Peterson, Cleveland Browns vs. Houston Oilers |
1993 |
Karin Nellemose, Master of the House |
1994 |
Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39 |
1994 |
Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82 |
1994 |
Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 |
1994 |
Terry Hibbitt, soccer star, dies at 47 |
1994 |
Frank DeSal, Book of Numbers |
1994 |
Corwin Hawkins, A Low Down Dirty Shame |
1994 |
John Merensky, Love Story |
1995 |
Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73 |
1995 |
Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81 |
1995 |
Clarice Blackburn, One Life to Live |
1995 |
Tony Penna, Swing with Bing |
1995 |
Lane Allan, MacArthur |
1996 |
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72 |
1996 |
Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46 |
1996 |
Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68 |
1996 |
Bruce Lidington, Jesus of Nazareth |
1996 |
Frank Marcus, The Killing of Sister George |
1996 |
Alexander Postler, Higher Principle |
1997 |
Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61 |
1997 |
Don Steele, Gremlins |
1998 |
Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (b. 1911) |
1998 |
Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912) |
1998 |
Eldon Shamblin, Take Me Back to Oklahoma |
1998 |
Henrik Dyfverman, Swedenhielms |
1998 |
Sigmund Miller, Jet Storm |
1998 |
Todor Zhivkov, |
1998 |
G.K. Stubbs, Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow |
1998 |
Coca Andronescu, Zile de vara |
1998 |
Otto Kretschmer, Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic - 1939-1944 |
1999 |
Herbert Wiere, Camping Trip |
1999 |
Gene Weed, The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards |
1999 |
David Munro, Pincer Movement |
1999 |
Walter Cornelis, Schaakmat |
2000 |
Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914) |
2000 |
Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920) |
2000 |
Edgardo Sogno, Luigi Einaudi. Diario dell'esilio svizzero |
2000 |
Fred Wolf, Headpin Hints |
2000 |
Sakari Puurunen, Viimeiset kiusaukset |
2000 |
Carl Horn, Harlan County U.S.A. |
2000 |
Stanislaw Grabowski, Gdy królowaly gwiazdy |
2000 |
Renée Devillers, Therese |
2000 |
Emin Khachaturyan, Stalker |
2000 |
Mac Shoub, Frisco Payoff |
2000 |
Alec Guinness, Star Wars |
2001 |
Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929) |
2001 |
Paul Joynt, One Life to Live |
2001 |
Elisabeth Ried, My Friend Barbara |
2001 |
Tom McCrory, The Black Hole |
2001 |
Kenneth MacDonald, The Day War Broke Out |
2001 |
Andrzej Rettinger, Nos |
2001 |
Bill Marky, Foxy Brown |
2001 |
Bahne Rabe, Wetten, dass..? aus Linz |
2001 |
Norman Suffern, The Woody Woodpecker Show |
2002 |
Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982) |
2002 |
Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916) |
2002 |
Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920) |
2002 |
Chick Hearn, Fletch |
2002 |
Franco Lucentini, The Sunday Woman |
2002 |
Willis Hudlin, Lou Gehrig |
2002 |
Jim Katugi Noda, Bus Stop |
2002 |
Shinsuke Mikimoto, Episode #1.13 |
2002 |
Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day |
2002 |
Francisco Coloane, Tierra del fuego |
2002 |
Darrell Porter, 1980 MLB All-Star Game |
2002 |
Josh Ryan Evans, How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
2002 |
Matt Robinson, The Abdication |
2003 |
Manuel Mur Oti, A Man on the Road |
2003 |
Mauno Käpyaho, No onkos tullut kesä |
2003 |
Carlo Coccioli, Episode dated 22 November 1961 |
2003 |
Miklós Boldizsár, István, a király |
2003 |
C. Curet Alonso, Pride and Glory |
2004 |
Bong Luk, Mang quan gui shou |
2005 |
Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936) |
2005 |
Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915) |
2005 |
Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941) |
2005 |
Angelina Estrada, Ghost |
2005 |
Devon Barry, Boy Band |
2005 |
Lyle 'Spud' Murphy, You Were Never Lovelier |
2005 |
Benjamin 2X, Seven Songs for Malcolm X |
2005 |
Joe Goss, Battlestar Galactica |
2005 |
Brian P. Morrison, Deadly Eyes |
2005 |
Jane Lawrence, Sailor's Holiday |
2005 |
Frantisek Sec, Sumný Líberec |
2006 |
Susan Butcher, American sled dog champion (b. 1954) |
2006 |
Wallace R. Bearden, Wedlock |
2006 |
Hugo Schiltz, Episode #1.6 |
2006 |
Alan Bell, The Last Emperor |
2006 |
Daniel Schmid, Hécate |
2006 |
Ángel de Andrés, Esquilache |
2006 |
Robert Alderette, The Old Man and the Sea |
2006 |
Romolo Garroni, La Chartreuse de Parme |
2006 |
Jack Rousso, Driving Miss Daisy |
2006 |
Sam White, People Are Funny |
2007 |
Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (b. 1943) |
2007 |
Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France |
2007 |
Peter Graham Scott, Night Creatures |
2007 |
Stanley Myron Handelman, Episode #1.6 |
2007 |
Jean-Marie Lustiger, Benedikt XVI. - Der rätselhafte Papst |
2007 |
Peter Thorup, Povl Dissing live fra 'Train' i Århus |
2007 |
Al Wilson, The Black Cauldron |
2007 |
Florian Pittis, Ma-ma |
2007 |
Henri Amouroux, Partir, revenir |
2007 |
Oliver Hill, The House Behind the Cedars |
2008 |
Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer/songwriter (b. 1929) |
2008 |
Wim Burkunk, Titaantjes |
2008 |
Grzegorz Cichomski, The Rainbow Thief |
2008 |
Michael Silberkleit, Sabrina the Teenage Witch |
2008 |
Siegfried Loyda, Das Geheimnis der Masken |
2008 |
Bruno Dallansky, Der stille Ozean |
2008 |
Eric Liebowitz, Episode dated 6 March 1997 |
2008 |
Heleen Pimentel, Oude botten breken niet |
2008 |
Eva Pflug, Lydia muss sterben |
2008 |
Lottie Brunn, Episode dated 31 May 1958 |
2009 |
Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1914) |
2009 |
Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront |
2009 |
Sam McGowan, Watchmen |
2009 |
Mildred Deutsch, Episode dated 15 February 1963 |
2009 |
Florence Anglin, One Life to Live |
2009 |
Norman Rice, Bloody Birthday |
2009 |
Albert Médina, The King and the Mockingbird |
2009 |
Jordi Sabater Pi, Episode #1.9 |
2009 |
Pavel Hása, Noc rozhodnutí |
2010 |
Anna Kowarska, Europa Europa |
2010 |
Jurgen Oesten, Silent Hunter III |
2010 |
Robert Aitken, A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki |
2010 |
Sha-Fei Ouyang, Long quan |
2010 |
Slavica Maras, Predstava 'Hamleta' u Mrdusi Donjoj |
2010 |
Eric Roberts, The Thargon Menace: Playing with Fire |
2011 |
Andrzej Lepper, former Polish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1954) |
2011 |
Fernanda Lobo, Roupas No Varal |
2011 |
Susan McLain, Baby Einstein: World Animal Adventure |
2011 |
Francesco Quinn, Platoon |
2011 |
Gary Ganote, Red Headed Stranger |
2011 |
Andrzej Lepper, Jak to sie robi |
2011 |
Jennifer Minetti, Jedermann |
2011 |
Maria Osiecka-Kuminek, Danton |
2011 |
Jeff West, Almost |
2011 |
Takehiko Maeda, Tora-san Loves an Artist |
2012 |
Claude Thompson, Elvis |
2012 |
Jack Fertig, Allah's Frontier |
2012 |
Chavela Vargas, Babel |
2012 |
Károly Safranek, Csongor és Tünde |
2012 |
Kenneth Stanness, Medico |
2012 |
Erwin Axer, Domek z kart |
2013 |
George Duke, American Grammy-Award winning musician, dies from chronic lymphocytic leukemia at 67 |
2013 |
Shawn Burr, Canadian ice hockey player, dies from complications from a fall at 47 |
2013 |
Frank Valdor, St. Pauli zwischen Nacht und Morgen |
2013 |
Jan Skotnicki, The Scar |
2013 |
Willie Dunn, These Are My People... |
2013 |
George Duke, Leap of Faith |
2013 |
Jonathan Dümcke, TKKG: The Secret to the Mysterious Mind Machine |
2014 |
Chapman Pincher, Inside MI5: The Real Spooks |
2014 |
Hans V. Engström, Mamma |
2014 |
Angéla Németh, Mexico City 1968: Games of the XIX Olympiad |
2014 |
Elfriede Brüning, Dr. Semmelweis |
2014 |
Jesse Steinfeld, Episode dated 15 February 1972 |
2014 |
Ruth Sacks, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont |
2014 |
Eddie Wallace, Prairie Roundup |
2014 |
Scott Ciencin, Devil Got My Woman |
2015 |
Herbert Wise, The Woman in Black |
2015 |
Jerzy Plazewski, Zylem 17 razy |
2015 |
Ellen Vogel, Twin Sisters |
2015 |
George Cole, Cleopatra |
2015 |
Malvina Ursianu, Intoarcerea lui Voda Lapusneanu |
2016 |
Egyptian Nobel Prize Winning Chemist Ahmed Zewail Dies Aged 70 |
2016 |
Steve LaTourette, nine-time congressman, dies of cancer aged 62 |
2016 |
Handball legend Michael 'Ducksie' Walsh dies, aged 50 |
2016 |
The Big Lebowski actor David Huddleston dies aged 85 |
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