December 5 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 63 BC – Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura), Roman statesman
  • 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-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 – Sri 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 – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1892)
  • 1977 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
  • 1979 – Jesse Pearson, American actor (b. 1930)
  • 1983 – Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
  • 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 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)
  • 2007 – George Paraskevaides, Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916)
  • 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)
  • 2011 – Peter Gethin, British racing driver (b. 1940)
  • 2011 – Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer (b. 1942)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)