August 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 882 – King Louis III of France (b. 863)
• 1063 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd (b. 1007)
• 1364 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
• 1572 – Isaac Luria, Palestinian Kabbalist (b. 1534)
• 1579 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
• 1610 – Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1552)
• 1633 – Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
• 1678 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican viol player, tenor and composer (b. 1619)
• 1743 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
• 1778 – Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
• 1792 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
• 1799 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (b. 1726)
• 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)
• 1895 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 – Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (b. 1840)
• 1911 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864)
• 1923 – Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian Slavist (b. 1835)
• 1925 – Jennie Lee, American actress (b. 1848)
• 1929 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847)
• 1944 – Maurice Turnbull, English cricketer (b. 1906)
• 1946 – Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1952 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
• 1955 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1963 – Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Art Ross, Canadian hockey player and executive (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Luther Perkins American guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1972 – Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
• 1978 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Harold L. Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
• 1983 – Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1984 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Georg Gaßmann, German politician (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese automotive executive (b. 1906)
• 1992 – Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (Toto) (b. 1954)
• 1994 – Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born Brazilian writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Tullio Crali, Italian artist associated with Futurism (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
• 2002 – Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Matt Robinson, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Susan Butcher, American sled dog champion (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer and producer (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Catholic Cardinal (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer-songwriter (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Neil Bartlett, English chemist, produced xenon hexafluoroplatinate (b. Sept. 15, 1932)
• 2009 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1914)