May 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 200 – Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
• 311 – Galerius, Roman Emperor
• 984 – Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia
• 1028 – King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia (b. 994)
• 1194 – King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
• 1219 – King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
• 1309 – King Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
• 1525 – Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
• 1586 – Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
• 1604 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
• 1671 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
• 1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
• 1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• 1760 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (b. 1720)
• 1766 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1808 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
• 1811 – Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
• 1821 – Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
• 1827 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
• 1833 – Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (b. 1777)
• 1855 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
• 1859 – Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
• 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)
• 1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
• 1931 – Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
• 1941 – Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
• 1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
• 1945 – Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
• 1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
• 1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
• 1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)
• 1983 – Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
• 1985 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Mario Quintana, Brazilian poet (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player, grandmaster and world champion (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball head coach (b. 1940)
• 2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler
• 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)
• 2003 – Sam Bockarie, RUF Rebel commander (b. 1964)
• 2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
• 2005 – Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974)
• 2005 – Elisabeth Fraser, American television, film, and stage actress (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, American physicist, noted for making the first working laser (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)