October 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 578 – Justin II, Byzantine Emperor
• 1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
• 1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
• 1214 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
• 1285 – King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
• 1528 – Richard Foxe, English churchman
• 1540 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
• 1564 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
• 1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
• 1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
• 1714 – Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
• 1740 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
• 1777 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
• 1791 – Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
• 1805 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
• 1813 – Tecumseh, Shawnee leader (b. 1768)
• 1848 – Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
• 1895 – Ralph Tollemache, British clergyman (b. 1826)
• 1913 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
• 1918 – Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
• 1930 – Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
• 1933 – Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
• 1933 – Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
• 1936 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (b. 1898)
• 1938 – Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
• 1940 – Ballington Booth, English-born American religious leader (b. 1857)
• 1940 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
• 1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican musician (b. 1889)
• 1941 – Louis Dembitz Brandeis, American jurist (b. 1856)
• 1943 – Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1950 – Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
• 1952 – Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884)
• 1975 – Lady Constance Malleson, British actor and writer (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1981 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1986 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
• 1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
• 1986 – Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
• 1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
• 1993 – Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
• 1995 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
• 1996 – Seymour Cray, American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2000 – Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
• 2001 – Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
• 2002 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
• 2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American bear attack victim (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Jennifer Moss, English actress (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Antonio Peña, Mexican lucha libre promoter (b. 1953)
• 2007 – Justin Tuveri, Italian WWI veteran (b. 1898)
• 2009 – Mike Alexander, English bassist (Evile) (b. 1977)
• 2010 – Bernard Clavel, French novelist (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Steve Lee, Swiss musician and vocalist (Gotthard) (b. 1963)