June 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 535 – Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
• 1017 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
• 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
• 1296 – Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
• 1316 – King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
• 1383 – Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
• 1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
• 1625 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
• 1667 – Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
• 1688 – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
• 1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
• 1722 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
• 1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
• 1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born colonial governor (b. 1718)
• 1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
• 1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, national hero in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1788)
• 1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
• 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
• 1900 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
• 1902 – Louis J. Weichmann, American witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
• 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1910 – O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
• 1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
• 1916 – Lord Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
• 1920 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
• 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 1930 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
• 1975 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
• 1976 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Sam Yorty, American mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer, composer, and actor (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher and humanist (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
• 2004 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
• 2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)