March 5 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1534 – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
  • 1539 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
  • 1592 – Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
  • 1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
  • 1622 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
  • 1695 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
  • 1726 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
  • 1770 – Crispus Attucks, American Revolution figure
  • 1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (b. 1694)
  • 1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
  • 1815 – Franz Anton Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
  • 1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
  • 1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
  • 1829 – John Adams, British mutineer (b. 1766)
  • 1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
  • 1876 – Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
  • 1893 – Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828)
  • 1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
  • 1895 – Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
  • 1903 – George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
  • 1904 – John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British Army officer (b. 1829)
  • 1907 – Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
  • 1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
  • 1926 – Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
  • 1927 – Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
  • 1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile executive (b. 1854)
  • 1931 – Fr. Arthur Tooth, British religious figure (b. 1839)
  • 1935 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest-civil engineer (b. 1877)
  • 1940 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
  • 1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
  • 1945 – Lena Baker, American convicted murderer (b. 1901)
  • 1947 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
  • 1950 – Edgar Lee Masters American poet, biographer and dramatist (b. 1868)
  • 1953 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
  • 1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)
  • 1953 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
  • 1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (b. 1888)
  • 1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
  • 1963 – Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
  • 1963 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
  • 1965 – Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
  • 1965 – Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
  • 1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
  • 1967 – Georges Vanier, Canadian politician (b. 1888)
  • 1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian Prime Minister (b. 1882)
  • 1973 – Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
  • 1974 – John Samuel Bourque, Canadian politician (b. 1894)
  • 1974 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
  • 1974 – Sol Hurok, Russian-born American impresario (b. 1888)
  • 1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (b. 1949)
  • 1980 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
  • 1980 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
  • 1981 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
  • 1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 1984 – Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
  • 1984 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
  • 1984 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
  • 1988 – Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
  • 1990 – Gary Merrill, American film actor (b. 1915)
  • 1993 – Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
  • 1995 – Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
  • 1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
  • 1996 – Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
  • 1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American dietician and author (b. 1909)
  • 1997 – Jean Dréville, French film director (b. 1906)
  • 1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
  • 2000 – Rena Dor, Greek actress and singer (b. 1917)
  • 2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. 1962)
  • 2004 – Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
  • 2006 – Richard Kuklinski, American organized crime figure (b. 1935)
  • 2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born American computer science professor (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (b. 1925)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)