December 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 63 BC – Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura), Roman statesman
• 749 – Saint John of Damascus
• 1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
• 1355 – John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
• 1560 – King Francis II of France (b. 1544)
• 1570 – Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)
• 1624 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
• 1654 – Jean François Sarrazin, French writer
• 1663 – Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
• 1749 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, French explorer and trader (b. 1685)
• 1758 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
• 1770 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
• 1784 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet (b. 1753)
• 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
• 1819 – Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (b. 1802)
• 1887 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
• 1891 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1895 – Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)
• 1918 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician (b. 1852)
• 1925 – Władysław Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 – Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880)
• 1942 – Jock Delves Broughton, British noble (b. 1883)
• 1946 – Louis Dewis, Belgian post-impressionist painter (b. 1872)
• 1950 – Shri Aurobindo, Indian spiritual figure (b. 1872)
• 1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• 1951 – Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
• 1953 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
• 1955 – Glenn Luther Martin, American aviation executive (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Emil Fuchs, German-born American attorney and baseball team owner (b. 1878)
• 1963 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
• 1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Pakistani statesman (b. 1892)
• 1965 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1909)
• 1968 – Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1969 – Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
• 1973 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
• 1983 – Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
• 1984 – Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
• 1986 – Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Robert Karvelas, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
• 1993 – Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961)
• 1994 – Harry Horner, American art director (b. 1910)
• 1995 – Charles Evans, British mountaineer and surgeon (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920)
• 1995 – Lisa McPherson, American alleged Scientology victim (b. 1959)
• 1998 – Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
• 2002 – Roone Arledge, American sports broadcaster (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Kevin McQuay, Australian businessman (b. 1949)
• 2005 – Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
• 2006 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Andrew Imbrie, American composer (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Patriarch Alexy II of Russia, Russian religious figure (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Romanian politician (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer and composer (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Alan Armer, American television producer and director (b. 1922)
• 2010 – John Leslie, American pornographic actor and filmmaker (b. 1945)