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1997Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87

1877Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 37

September 5th Deaths
Date Event
1165
Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143) 
1201
Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161) 
1235
Henry I, duke of Brabant, dies 
1548
Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36 
1566
Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71 
1569
Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44 
1572
Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71 
1607
Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529) 
1629
Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585) 
1659
Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71 
1683
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64 
1684
John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48 
1786
Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712) 
1803
Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44 
1808
John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722) 
1836
Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790) 
1836
Ferdinand Raimund, Der Bauer als Millionär 
1838
Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764) 
1857
Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798) 
1858
Moritz G, [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist, dies at 63 
1859
W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68 
1867
Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809) 
1876
Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790) 
1877
Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 37 
1890
Ludwig Deppe, composer, dies at 61 
1898
Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies 
1901
Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853) 
1902
Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician, dies at 80 
1906
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844) 
1910
Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70 
1910
Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54 
1910
Julian Edwards, Shine on Harvest Moon 
1911
Katherine Cecil Thurston, The Masquerader 
1912
Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845) 
1912
Arthur MacArthur, Major-General Arthur MacArthur and Staff 
1914
Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873) 
1917
Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872) 
1920
Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27 
1920
Robert Harron, The Birth of a Nation 
1922
Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867) 
1924
Eugen Nilsson, Löjen och tårar 
1924
Helen Tracy, Blue-Eyed Mary 
1926
Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890) 
1926
Alejandro Pérez Lugín, College Boarding House 
1927
Marcus Loew, The Saphead 
1930
Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849) 
1930
Robert M. Thompson, Nice and Friendly 
1931
John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909) 
1932
Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies 
1932
Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866) 
1932
Olga Jensen, Dydsdragonen 
1932
Paul Bern, The Beloved Rogue 
1932
Al Wilson, Flyin' Thru 
1933
Clay M. Greene, Two Smiths and a Haff 
1935
Henry K. Chambers, An American Widow 
1936
Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859) 
1938
Rudolf Biebrach, Falsche Scham - Vier Episoden aus dem Leben eines Arztes 
1939
Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor/director (Two Boys), dies at 67 
1940
Eugenie Forde, Wild and Willie 
1942
François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917) 
1944
Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed 
1945
Martti Tuukka, Sotagulashi Kaiun häiritty kesäloma 
1946
Chuck Callahan, Two Plus Fours 
1947
Finn Froelich, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 
1948
Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881) 
1948
Barbara Denny, All Women Have Secrets 
1949
Charles P. Kellogg, The Serpent's Tooth 
1951
Al Klein, Jest Moments 
1952
Earl Wayland Bowman, Big Stakes 
1953
Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895) 
1953
Nona Cooper, The Wizard of Oz 
1953
Walter Darré, Better Than Gold 
1953
Francis Ford, The Quiet Man 
1954
Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860) 
1955
Festus Phillips, The King of Kings 
1955
Nellie Lane, Circus Days 
1956
Carrie Moore, The Rugged O'Riordans 
1957
Anne Parrish, Born to Be Bad 
1957
Talib Sadykov, Alisher Navoy 
1958
Lulu Glaser, Love's Pilgrimage to America 
1959
Eva Gerson, Street of Sinners 
1960
Jimmy Savo, Carry on, Sergeant! 
1960
Aku Korhonen, Tulitikkuja lainaamassa 
1960
Earl Long, Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics 
1960
Robert P. Kerr, Family Life 
1961
Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for South Africa, 1935), dies 
1963
Jerzy Pichelski, Speed 
1963
Harry Albiez, A Night at the Opera 
1964
Maurice Baron, Wings 
1965
Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882) 
1965
C. Gardner Sullivan, All Quiet on the Western Front 
1966
Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879) 
1968
Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 
1969
Henk Bijvanck, composer, dies at 59 
1969
Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58 
1972
Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered 
1972
Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered 
1973
Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889) 
1975
Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920) 
1975
Georg Ots, La Vie de Bohème 
1976
A E R Gilligan, cricketer (11 Tests for England 1922-25), dies 
1976
Dick Irving Hyland, Night Song 
1977
Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897) 
1977
Tatsuo Yoshida, Speed Racer 
1978
Joseph Glick, Around the World in Eighty Days 
1979
Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884) 
1979
Guy Bolton, Anastasia 
1979
Haroldo Barbosa, Planeta dos Homens 
1979
Barry O'Hara, Chuka 
1980
Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48 
1980
Obrad Gluscevic, Lito vilovito 
1980
Nikolai Valyano, A Greater Promise 
1980
Barbara Loden, Wanda 
1981
Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated 
1981
Lidia Simoneschi, The Facts of Murder 
1982
Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker, dies at 73 
1982
Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910) 
1982
Richard Lane, The Jackie Robinson Story 
1982
Douglas Bader, Douglas Bader 
1982
Darya Zerkalova, On His Own 
1983
Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909) 
1983
John Gilpin, Theatre of Blood 
1983
Gerbert Rappaport, Professor Mamlock 
1983
Bernard Lancret, Le Corbeau: The Raven 
1983
Yale Gracey, The Three Caballeros 
1984
Kenneth Kirk, Downhill Racer 
1985
Juliette Saint-Giniez, Her Bridal Night 
1985
Jirina Stepnicková, Marysa 
1986
Nikola Teodorovic, Na slovo, na slovo 
1986
Shokaku Shôfukutei, Tracked 
1986
Harry Karlsson, Prison 
1986
Paul Sann, Earl Wilson 
1987
Bill Bowes, cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), dies 
1987
Irve Tunick, Murder, Inc. 
1987
Quinn Martin, The Mephisto Waltz 
1987
Wolfgang Fortner, Corinna 
1987
Bill Fraser, The Barefoot Contessa 
1987
Dorothy Dorr, Hollywouldn't 
1988
Gert Froebe, actor (Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies at 75 
1988
Hans Albin, No Survivors, Please 
1988
Gert Fröbe, Goldfinger 
1988
Oda Schaefer, The Poll Diaries 
1988
Anna Norling, En vår i vapen 
1988
Lawrence Brown, Duke Ellington: Live in Montreal 
1989
Geneviève Kervine, La nuit des suspectes 
1989
Wenzel Lüdecke, Wet Asphalt 
1989
Riet Wieland Los, Een Geest in de doofpot 
1990
Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84 
1990
Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896) 
1990
Karl-Heinz Peters, Yesterday Girl 
1990
Frank Waldman, The Pink Panther Strikes Again 
1990
Beppo Brem, Pudelnackt in Oberbayern 
1991
Teno Pollick, The Hindenburg 
1991
Jean Rook, Episode #9.18 
1992
Billy Herman, 2nd baseman/manager (Dodgers, Cubs), dies at 83 
1992
Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88 
1992
Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43 
1992
Ingerlise Gaarde, Per 
1992
Fritz Leiber Jr., Burn, Witch, Burn 
1992
Irving Allen Lee, The Edge of Night 
1992
Ron Davis, Game 5 
1992
Christopher Trace, Episode dated 2 September 1963 
1992
László Rajcsányi, Helsinki 1952: Games of the XV Olympiad 
1992
Bohdan Korzeniewski, Zemsta 
1992
Robert Garsen, Talent Show 
1992
Billy Herman, When It Was a Game 
1993
Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78 
1993
John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57 
1993
René Klijn, [Dorian], singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30) 
1993
Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60 
1993
Cliff Carnell, A Woman Under the Influence 
1993
Venord Bradley, Lucy and Carol Burnett 
1993
John Truscott, The Spy Who Loved Me 
1993
Samim Kocagöz, Kalpaklilar 
1993
Yulian Semyonov, Protivostoyanie 
1993
Claude Renoir, The Spy Who Loved Me 
1994
Billy Usselton, saxophonist, dies at 68 
1994
Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62 
1994
John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47 
1994
William Usselton, US tenor saxophonist, dies at 68 
1994
Bob Matheson, Super Bowl VII 
1994
Milutin Jasnic, Tudja zemlja 
1994
Harry Brandelius, Melodin från Gamla Stan 
1994
Ike Williams, Flareup 
1994
Suzette Harbin, Look-Out Sister 
1995
Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83 
1995
James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95 
1995
John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45 
1995
Paul Julian, FernGully: The Last Rainforest 
1995
Jon Weaver, Monster Kid Home Movies 
1995
Salil Choudhury, Anand 
1995
John Megna, To Kill a Mockingbird 
1995
William Kunstler, Incident at Oglala 
1995
Benyamin S., Tarsan kota 
1996
Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69 
1996
Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby intl/journalist, dies at 67 
1996
Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86 
1996
Sam Cook, Forty Years at the Cricket 
1996
Danny Crystal, Some Kind of a Nut 
1996
Eugene Molnar, Lucy and the Drum Contest 
1996
Leonard Katzman, Walker, Texas Ranger 
1997
Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84 
1997
Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89 
1997
Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87 
1997
Mother Teresa, Don't Ask Me, Ask God 
1997
Rudolf Klicks, The Riders of German East Africa 
1997
Georg Solti, Apocalypse Now 
1997
Johanna Karl-Lory, Germany Pale Mother 
1997
Eddie Little Sky, A Man Called Horse 
1997
Iain Anders, Devil's Advocate 
1997
Mildred Dein, Shack Out on 101 
1997
Robert Sherman, Too Late the Hero 
1997
Ekaterina Ignatova, S detza na more 
1998
Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926) 
1998
Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921) 
1998
Leo Penn, The Enemy Within 
1998
Mary Ann Kasica, Song of the Wild West 
1998
Yoshie Hotta, Mothra 
1998
Fernando Balzaretti, Crónica de familia 
1998
William Soose, Playing for Keeps 
1999
Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914) 
1999
Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921) 
1999
Bryce Mackasey, 15 Nov 
1999
Ivor Roberts, Hopscotch 
1999
Allen Funt, More Candid Candid Camera 
1999
Alan Clark, K: Kenneth Clark 1903 - 1983 
1999
Walther Reyer, Sissi: The Young Empress 
2000
Olaf Olsen, The Man in the White Suit 
2000
George Musso, Pro Football 
2000
Palle Nielsen, Palle Nielsen træsnit 
2000
Hajrudin Hodzic, So 
2000
Stanislaw Rychlicki, Wielopole, Wielopole 
2001
Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912) 
2001
Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914) 
2001
Justin Wilson, Episode #14.18 
2001
Merril E. Joels, The Godfather 
2001
Robert H. Raff, The Last Waltz 
2001
Terry Gilbert, The Bounty 
2001
Heywood Hale Broun, HouseSitter 
2002
David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935) 
2002
Hugo Caprera, Let's Play in the World 
2002
E.M. Moody, Ed Gein 
2002
Aditya Chandora, No Pills in Happyland 
2002
Ed McCready, Dick Tracy 
2002
Florence Lessing, Moon Over Miami 
2002
Cliff Gorman, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 
2002
Jackie Kelk, The Pajama Game 
2002
Henry Lange, Daughters of Darkness 
2003
Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927) 
2003
Al Bernie, Episode #2.13 
2003
Ulla Kåge, Perhaps a Gentleman 
2003
Annukka Lomas, Punainen viiva 
2003
Kir Bulychyov, Gostya iz budushchego 
2003
Richard Boutet, La turlute des années dures 
2003
Gisele MacKenzie, Episode #1.9 
2003
Yûji Aoki, Shangri-La 
2003
Ian Hunter, Ian Hunter 
2003
Aimée, Corações Sem Piloto 
2003
David Fein, Live Aid 
2004
Steve Wayne, The Census Taker 
2004
Elodia Riovega, Holy Man 
2005
Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917) 
2005
Sy Marsh, Episode #1.1 
2005
Yvonne King, Twelve Monkeys 
2005
Carmen Pericolo, The Psychic 
2006
Günter Drescher, Gemeindeschwester Egon 
2006
Takeo Miratsu, The Legend of Dragoon 
2006
Anne Gregg, Episode dated 25 June 1996 
2006
Hilary Mason, Don't Look Now 
2006
Dean Ryane, Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying 
2006
Marlene Rosoff, Go-Go Motel 
2007
Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941) 
2007
Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939) 
2007
D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930) 
2007
Thomas Hansen (musician) (b. 1976) 
2007
Jennifer Dunn, Business Ethics 
2007
Nikos Nikolaidis, Singapore Sling 
2007
Thomas Hansen, Fra kjellerband til arenaband 
2007
Charlotte Zucker, Ghost 
2007
Julieta Campos, Los compromisos con la nación 
2007
D. James Kennedy, Scrooge and Marley 
2007
Paul Gillmor, Episode #1.1 
2008
Ritsaert ten Cate, Man alleen 
2008
Ilona Wilson, The Mad Bomber 
2008
Edward Blanchard, Fatal Instinct 
2008
Robert Giroux, Jack Kerouac: On the Road to Desolation 
2008
Eduardo Bergara Leumann, The Wing or Thigh? 
2008
Zaida Krimsamhalov, Bunja 
2009
Mohamed Saïd Hafifi, Assarab 
2009
Mohammed Afifi, The Mummy 
2010
Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990) 
2010
Elizabeth Jenkins, Harriet 
2010
David Dortort, Bonanza 
2010
Jefferson Thomas, Nine from Little Rock 
2010
Ernõ Bajor Nagy, Cat's Play 
2010
Lewis Nkosi, Come Back, Africa 
2010
Corneille, Episode dated 18 November 2002 
2011
Salvatore Licitra, Un ballo in maschera 
2011
José Delgado, Human v2.0 
2011
Vann Nath, S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine 
2011
Irving Wasserman, Mr. Saturday Night 
2011
Connie Nichols, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 
2011
Charles S. Dubin, Square One TV 
2012
Joe South, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, dies from heart failure at 72 
2012
Hiromichi Horikawa, Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen 
2012
Maria Becker, Der Kardinal von Spanien 
2012
Joe South, Children of Men 
2012
Danni Lachman, Good Boys 
2012
John Oaksey, Dead Cert 
2012
Viktoriya Fyodorova, The Enemy Within 
2012
Jane Sablow, Cravings 
2012
Rowland Barber, Somebody Up There Likes Me 
2012
Christian Marin, The Troops in New York 
2013
Willie Frazier, American football player, dies at 71 
2013
Rochus Misch, Hitler's Escape 
2013
Pencho Bogdanov, Animato 
2013
Nikolai Puchkov, Odnazhdy dvadtsat let spustya 
2013
Brian Comport, The Asphyx 
2013
Keith Stafford, The Outlaw Josey Wales 
2013
Jerry Russell, Ari no hitokami 
2013
Charles McGowan, A Chorus Line 
2014
Bruce Morton, The CBS Morning News 
2014
Bruce Minnix, Search for Tomorrow 
2014
Del Roy, Tin Cup 
2014
David Lomax, Election 92 
2014
Simone Battle, We the Party 
2014
Ruth Kappelsberger, Der Geisterbräu 
2014
Vic Holchak, 1988 
2014
Victor Holchak, Days of Our Lives 
2014
Kerrie Biddell, Episode #1.1 
2014
Karel Cerný, Amadeus 
2014
Henri Hohenemser, Die Zeit dazwischen 
2014
Ted Strauss, Stanley Marcus Documentary 
2015
Gene Elston, 1968 MLB All-Star Game 
2015
Ivan Brkic, How the War Started on My Island 
2015
Frederick 'Dennis' Greene, Sha Na Na 
2015
Sergio Ciani, Hercules Against the Moon Men 
2016
Richard Neville, founder of Oz magazine, dies aged 74 
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