Notable Deaths on May 5th
May 5th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
200 |
Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175) |
311 |
Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50 |
984 |
Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia |
1028 |
Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle |
1194 |
Casimir II, the Just, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies. Born 1138 |
1219 |
King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150) |
1309 |
Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies |
1504 |
Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82 |
1525 |
Frederik III, the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62 |
1582 |
Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies |
1586 |
Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529) |
1604 |
Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71 |
1613 |
Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66 |
1672 |
Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609) |
1678 |
Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70 |
1702 |
Jacob Hintze, composer, dies at 79 |
1705 |
Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64 |
1766 |
Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684) |
1786 |
Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies |
1801 |
Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 74 |
1808 |
Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757) |
1811 |
Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734) |
1821 |
French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815), dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena |
1821 |
Napoléon Bonaparte, Le mémorial de Sainte-Hélène |
1827 |
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1806-27), dies at 76 |
1831 |
Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65 |
1837 |
Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 |
1840 |
Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer, dies at 67 |
1840 |
Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76 |
1855 |
Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786) |
1859 |
Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53 |
1864 |
Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44 |
1864 |
John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43 |
1864 |
Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42 |
1875 |
Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71 |
1885 |
Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73 |
1885 |
Lauro Rossi, Il suono instabile della libertà |
1886 |
Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61 |
1892 |
Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80 |
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) |
1902 |
Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65 |
1902 |
Bret Harte, Four of the Apocalypse |
1904 |
Mór Jókai, Szaffi |
1909 |
Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies |
1911 |
James Allen Bland, Around the World in Eighty Days |
1918 |
Georges Ohnet, Her Sister's Rival |
1921 |
Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies |
1921 |
William Friese-Greene, Hyde Park Corner |
1927 |
Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies |
1928 |
Barry Pain, A Blind Bargain |
1931 |
Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899) |
1933 |
Frederik C.O. Raben-Levetzau, Kong Frederik VIII besøger Island |
1936 |
Beatrice Harraden, Ships That Pass in the Night |
1937 |
Fritz Müller, Der bebende Berg |
1938 |
Endre Nagy, A miniszterelnök |
1939 |
Clara Schønfeld, Master of the House |
1941 |
Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859) |
1941 |
Oliver T. Marsh, The Great Ziegfeld |
1941 |
Al Senator, Gunga Din |
1942 |
Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920) |
1942 |
Errol Hinds, A Berth Scandal |
1943 |
Herman Haller, Der Vetter aus Dingsda |
1944 |
Harry Adler, By Whose Hand? |
1945 |
Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926) |
1945 |
Franz Hofer, The Black Ball; or, Vengeance Bequeathed |
1945 |
Franklyn Garland, Shore Acres |
1945 |
Peter van Pels, |
1945 |
Guðmundur Kamban, Det sovende hus |
1947 |
Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917) |
1948 |
David Hertz, Love Crazy |
1948 |
Allen Doone, The Rebel |
1949 |
Emma Wiehe, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan |
1949 |
S.O. Schoening, Pat und Patachon im Paradies |
1949 |
Carl Jönsson, My Son the Minister |
1951 |
Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54 |
1951 |
Leo Diegel, American golfer, dies of throat and lung cancer at 52 |
1951 |
Eddie Dunn, The Great Dictator |
1951 |
Marriott Edgar, Hi Gang! |
1952 |
Alberto Savinio, La nostra anima |
1952 |
Rudolph Sieczynski, Eyes Wide Shut |
1953 |
Frank La Forge, The Gay Desperado |
1955 |
Jessie Arnold, The Light of Love |
1956 |
Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88 |
1956 |
Franz Pfaudler, Das Ochsenmenuett |
1956 |
Miklos Nyiszli, The Grey Zone |
1957 |
Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74 |
1957 |
Mikhail Gnesin, Amangeldy |
1958 |
Alfred Muzzarelli, The Dream of Butterfly |
1958 |
Imre Földes, Szíriusz |
1959 |
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, dies at 80 |
1959 |
Hal McIntyre, Love in Tune |
1959 |
Lalo Encinas, The Call of the Wild |
1959 |
Sidgui Roukhoulla, Peasants |
1960 |
Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58 |
1961 |
Aleksandr Gumburg, Poyedinok |
1961 |
Thames Williamson, A Bullet Is Waiting |
1962 |
Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (990 runs in 14 Tests for England), dies |
1962 |
Maureen Rasmussen, Brewster's Millions |
1963 |
Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies |
1963 |
Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73 |
1963 |
Mary Lou Dix, The Peppery Salt |
1963 |
Jane Romeyn, The Obsolete Man |
1964 |
Paul Rochin, Around the World in Eighty Days |
1965 |
Ascenso Ferreira, Oropa, França e Bahia |
1968 |
Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62 |
1969 |
Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57 |
1971 |
Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81 |
1971 |
Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia |
1971 |
Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887) |
1971 |
Alice Tissot, Children of Montmartre |
1972 |
Rev Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76 |
1975 |
Tibor Bercsényi, Egy bolond százat csinál |
1976 |
Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47 |
1976 |
Robert Pittack, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock |
1977 |
Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80 |
1977 |
Julián Soler, Las cinco advertencias de Satanás |
1978 |
Alfred H H Gilligan, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies |
1978 |
Mazhit Begalin, Pesn o Manshuk |
1979 |
Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68 |
1979 |
Eugene Anderson Jr., The Spider's Web |
1979 |
Gene Anderson Jr., Earth vs. the Flying Saucers |
1979 |
Branislav Surutka, TV Feljton: Francuskinja iz Slovca |
1980 |
Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79 |
1980 |
Cornel Coman, Prin cenusa imperiului |
1981 |
Bobby Sands, IRA activist/terrorist dies in the 66th day of his hunger strike aged 26 |
1981 |
Razak Khamrayev, Alisher Navoy |
1981 |
Bobby Sands, The Rising of the Moon |
1981 |
Henry Isabell, Wild Horse Rodeo |
1981 |
Harold Goss-Coyote, Windwalker |
1981 |
Ronald McQueen, The Cross-Town Hustle |
1982 |
Luce Fabiole, Love and Death |
1982 |
Norman Colbert, The Ugliest Girl in Town |
1982 |
Cal Tjader, The Campaign |
1982 |
Irmegard Keun, Gilgi: One of Us |
1982 |
Irmgard Keun, Nach Mitternacht |
1983 |
John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80 |
1983 |
Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901) |
1983 |
Gottfried Neumann-Spallart, Maria Theresia |
1983 |
Ollie Sigurdson, Hound-Dog Man |
1983 |
John Williams, Dial M for Murder |
1983 |
Jack Ogilvie, The Eddy Duchin Story |
1984 |
Kurt Martti Wallenius, Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita |
1984 |
Joe Keller, To Catch a Thief |
1984 |
Christopher J.C. Agajanian, Gone in 60 Seconds |
1984 |
Svend Kragh-Jacobsen, Episode dated 30 March 1979 |
1984 |
Piri Parányi, A néma dosszié |
1984 |
János Garics, Alba Regia |
1985 |
Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901) |
1985 |
Viktor Rybák, Dvorovi u samoci |
1985 |
Mildred Dixon, 42nd Street |
1985 |
Sol Shor, Zorro's Fighting Legion |
1985 |
Helene Rosson, The Light |
1985 |
Gino Buzzanca, Easy Years |
1985 |
Carter Brown, The Pornographer |
1986 |
Jon William Haussermann Jr, composer, dies at 76 |
1986 |
Rui Coelho, composer, dies at 94 |
1986 |
Käthe Haack, Emil und die Detektive |
1986 |
Ruy Coelho, Ala-Arriba! |
1987 |
Olavi Saarinen, Naiskohtaloita |
1987 |
Phil Woolpert, Basketball Headliners |
1987 |
Caryl Wickman, Conan the Barbarian |
1987 |
Blanche Thompson, As the World Rolls On |
1987 |
H. Gärtner, Six Kids and the Honeymooners |
1987 |
Robert Stanford-Tuck, Battle of Britain |
1988 |
George Rose, actor (Devil's Disciple, Hideaways), dies at 68 |
1988 |
Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist |
1988 |
Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928) |
1988 |
Michael Shaara, Gettysburg |
1988 |
George Rose, A New Leaf |
1988 |
Michal Zarnecki, The Calm |
1988 |
Pauline Stafford, Girl Crazy |
1989 |
Frank Easton, cricket wicketkeeper (NSW 1933-39), dies |
1989 |
Mats Norryd, Clark |
1989 |
Helmuth M. Backhaus, Wenn man baden geht auf Teneriffa |
1989 |
Wolfgang Neuss, We Cellar Children |
1989 |
Zhirayr Vardanyan, Road to the Stage |
1990 |
Grace Ford, The Devil-Doll |
1990 |
Paul McGuire, Radar Men from the Moon |
1990 |
Reginald Goodall, Davy |
1990 |
Baby Lillian Wade, Only Five Years Old |
1990 |
Johnny Hudgins, Charleston Parade |
1990 |
Walter Bruch, Episode #1.1 |
1990 |
Endre Bohem, The Boys of Paul Street |
1991 |
William De Acutis, dies at 33 |
1991 |
Laura Kerr, The Farmer's Daughter |
1991 |
William De Acutis, Nine 1/2 Weeks |
1991 |
Françoise Lugagne, Diary of a Chambermaid |
1992 |
Ben Frommer, dies at 78 |
1992 |
Dick Yarmy, dies of lung cancer at 58 |
1992 |
Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64 |
1992 |
Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72 |
1992 |
Jean-Claude Pascal, Bad Liaisons |
1992 |
Jean Vauthier, Les abysses |
1992 |
Robert Gladstein, Beauty and the Beast |
1992 |
Michael O'Connor, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids |
1992 |
Dick Yarmy, Bone |
1992 |
Inger Bjarne, Ditte, Child of Man |
1992 |
Janina Sokolowska, Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny |
1992 |
Lowell Kinsall, The Wizard of Oz |
1992 |
Richard Graham, In Old Oklahoma |
1993 |
Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73 |
1993 |
Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72 |
1993 |
Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79 |
1993 |
Michael Moore, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory |
1993 |
Torsten Ullman, Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty |
1993 |
Steven Branch, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory |
1993 |
Christopher Byers, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory |
1993 |
Cliff Twemlow, Dawn of the Dead |
1993 |
Vuksan Lukovac, Balkan ekspres |
1993 |
Leilani, In Excess |
1993 |
Irving Howe, Zelig |
1993 |
Stanislaw Koczanowicz, Schindler's List |
1993 |
Lenore Kingston, It's a Good Life |
1993 |
Kurt Lauterbach, Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am Ersten |
1993 |
Wesley Giraud, No Greater Glory |
1994 |
Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83 |
1994 |
Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63 |
1994 |
Louise Troy, Yours, Mine and Ours |
1994 |
Gregor Dahlman, Åsa-Nisse i rekordform |
1994 |
Joe Layton, My Name Is Barbra |
1995 |
Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86 |
1995 |
Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89 |
1995 |
Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86 |
1995 |
James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81 |
1995 |
Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75 |
1995 |
Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies |
1995 |
Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63 |
1995 |
Josef Bek, Hrátky s certem |
1995 |
Mikhail Botvinnik, |
1996 |
Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86 |
1996 |
Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58 |
1996 |
Sally Starr, Pardon My Gun |
1996 |
Aleksey Konyashin, Pokrov Gates |
1996 |
Peter Gladke, The Honeymooners: Play It Again, Norton |
1996 |
Jordan Carlton, Mr. Holland's Opus |
1996 |
Harold Kussell, New Faces of 1937 |
1997 |
Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924) |
1997 |
Lucjan Wiernek, Termos |
1997 |
Walter Gotell, One Life to Live |
1997 |
Ervin Kibédi, Kár a benzinért |
1997 |
Sten Engborg, Gnäggar bäst som gnäggar sist |
1997 |
Lojze Rozman, Don't Cry, Peter |
1997 |
Aurelia Lopatowska, Noce i dnie |
1997 |
Carl Henning, Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine |
1998 |
Syd Lawrence, Episode #8.7 |
1998 |
Alfredo Dalton, Adiós muchachos |
1998 |
Thom Bastholm, Dobbeltgjengeren |
1999 |
Darwyn Swalve, Barton Fink |
1999 |
Frank Kamaunu, The Double Wall |
1999 |
Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Learn How to Read and Write, Son |
1999 |
Bambino, Unit 7 |
1999 |
John Howard, Richard Todd |
1999 |
Elspeth March, Woman Times Seven |
1999 |
Américo Paredes, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez |
1999 |
Adam, Ah! Qu'il fait bon chez nous |
2000 |
Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914) |
2000 |
Gino Bartali, Totò al giro d'Italia |
2000 |
Edward Ashley, Pride and Prejudice |
2000 |
John Howard, D-Day: Turning the Tide |
2000 |
Gerhard Helwig, Im Staub der Sterne |
2001 |
Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher |
2001 |
Sture Dahlström, Vulkanmannen |
2001 |
Terry Ryan, Dobie's Navy Blues |
2001 |
Boozoo Chavis, Double Jeopardy |
2001 |
Veronika Putz, Beastie Girl |
2001 |
Jan Cmíral, Voyage to the End of the Universe |
2002 |
Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926) |
2002 |
Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904) |
2002 |
George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916) |
2002 |
Andrey Rostotskiy, Pravda leytenanta Klimova |
2002 |
Peter Folken, Der schielende Buddha |
2002 |
Randy Anderson, Starrcade |
2002 |
Shogo Shiotani, Danger in New Tokyo: The Final Victory |
2002 |
Michael Todd Jr., Cinerama Adventure |
2002 |
Djurdja Segedin, The Ninth Circle |
2002 |
George Sidney, Anchors Aweigh |
2002 |
Carol Brannon, Cynthia |
2003 |
Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912) |
2003 |
Frank D'Annolfo, Sun Valley Serenade |
2003 |
Walter Sisulu, Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Road to Resistance |
2003 |
Roger Windle Pilkington, The Golden Head |
2003 |
Barney Liddell, Lawrence Welk: Milestones & Memories - A Musical Family Reunion |
2003 |
Kathleen Claypool, The Mayor Who Came to Dinner |
2003 |
Waly Salomão, Veja Esta Canção |
2004 |
Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959) |
2004 |
Ritsuko Okazaki, Fruits Basket |
2004 |
Thea Beckman, Crusade in Jeans |
2004 |
David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Turned Into a Girl |
2004 |
Vern Taylor, An Officer and a Gentleman |
2004 |
Leopold Franc, Dneska prisel nový kluk |
2004 |
Kate Mundt, Kampen mod tuberkulosen |
2004 |
Nando Martellini, I marziani hanno 12 mani |
2005 |
Edgar Ponce, Ladies' Night |
2005 |
Phllip Campanella, Harold Rome: Pins and Needles |
2005 |
Skip Manisi, Chuck Bednarik |
2005 |
Ted Atkinson, Episode dated 7 April 1957 |
2005 |
Laura Netscher, Vacation Challenge |
2005 |
Elisabeth Fraser, A Patch of Blue |
2005 |
June MacCloy, Go West |
2006 |
Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919) |
2006 |
Jack Burkhard, Preppies |
2006 |
Larry Attebery, Hero at Large |
2006 |
Uldis Vazdiks, Viimne reliikvia |
2006 |
Franz Josef Steffens, Die Unschuld der Krähen |
2006 |
Marijke Höweler, Count Your Blessings |
2006 |
Naushad, Mughal-E-Azam |
2006 |
Stepán Lucký, The Key |
2006 |
Bob Salvini, Young@Heart |
2006 |
Atif Yilmaz, The Girl with the Red Scarf |
2006 |
R.C. Rosenbalm, The Bad Father |
2006 |
John Dunlop, Voices from a Mountain |
2007 |
Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor (b. 1927) |
2007 |
Cynthia Lindsay, Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni? |
2007 |
Edwin H. Simmons, Our Time in Hell: The Korean War |
2007 |
Chuck Zornig, Julius Caesar |
2007 |
Marián Zednikovic, Run, He Is Coming! |
2007 |
Carlos Quiney, Scream of the Demon Lover |
2007 |
Gusti Wolf, Die Austernlilli |
2007 |
Marguerite Morrissey, The Runner Stumbles |
2007 |
Dan Põldroos, Lammas all paremas nurgas |
2007 |
Zaz Vorka, Suspense |
2007 |
Buda Jeremic, Protekcija |
2008 |
Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917) |
2008 |
Jerry Wallace, An American Rhapsody |
2009 |
Dan Leegant, Escape from Alcatraz |
2009 |
Manuel Capetillo, Vivo o muerto |
2009 |
Steven H. Hansen, Henchmen |
2010 |
Gil Boyne, The Hypnotic Eye |
2010 |
Max Palevsky, Fun with Dick and Jane |
2010 |
Luis Barrios, La mujer de Lorenzo |
2010 |
Bob Mercer, Honky Tonk Freeway |
2010 |
Giulietta Simionato, Tosca's Kiss |
2010 |
Callie Angell, A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory |
2010 |
Elsa Rivas, La sombra de Safo |
2010 |
Harvin Sethi, Not Another High School Show |
2011 |
Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player and manager (b. 1924) |
2011 |
Claude Choules, last surviving World War I veteran (b. 1901) |
2011 |
Seymour Morgenstern, Scream for Help |
2011 |
Lester Coleman Jr., The Winner |
2011 |
Dorothy Partington, The Gunman |
2011 |
Arthur Laurents, West Side Story |
2011 |
Rolo Puente, Las minas de Salomón Rey |
2011 |
Dana Wynter, Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
2011 |
Claude Choules, The Last Tommy |
2012 |
Carl Johan Bernadotte, Gäst hos Hagge |
2012 |
Andreas Töfferl, EAV Live - Neunzig Minuten gemeine Verunsicherung |
2012 |
Stephen Lord, Demon in Lace |
2012 |
Tibor Biath, The Boxer and Death |
2012 |
Jeanne Evans, Third from the Sun |
2012 |
Maija-Leena Ervasti, Life's Hardy Men |
2012 |
Zivan Cvitkovic, The Elm-Chanted Forest |
2012 |
Jela Lukesová, Sahin |
2013 |
Nikola Majdak, Ars magna lucis et umbrae |
2013 |
David Harcourt, Romeo and Juliet |
2013 |
Dean Jeffries, Die Hard: With a Vengeance |
2013 |
Grady Hunt, The Blue and the Gray |
2013 |
Peter Mankovecký, Konecná stanica |
2013 |
Robert K. Ressler, The Night Stalker |
2013 |
Petar Popyordanov, Granitza |
2013 |
Rossella Falk, 8½ |
2013 |
Helmin Wiels, Episode #7.106 |
2014 |
Jacqueline Taylor, Hi'-Neighbor! |
2014 |
Timothy John Byford, Neven |
2014 |
Steve Parlavecchio, Bandwagon |
2014 |
Aaron Shirley, Bosom Friends |
2014 |
Jean Gaven, One Deadly Summer |
2014 |
Thory Bernhards, Episode #6.1 |
2015 |
Hans Jansen, Episode #1.136 |
2015 |
Alan Marcus, The Marauders |
2016 |
'Knotted gun' sculptor Carl Fredrik Reutersward dies aged 81 |
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