October 5 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 578 – Justin II, Byzantine emperor (b. 520)
  • 1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
  • 1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French author (b. 1030)
  • 1214 – Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
  • 1285 – Philip III of France (b. 1245)
  • 1528 – Richard Foxe, English bishop (b. 1448)
  • 1540 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
  • 1564 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer (b. 1510)
  • 1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
  • 1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
  • 1714 – Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
  • 1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
  • 1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
  • 1791 – Grigori Potemkin, Russian military leader and statesman (b. 1739)
  • 1805 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general (b. 1738)
  • 1813 – Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
  • 1848 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German politician (b. 1781)
  • 1861 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
  • 1880 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (b. 1819)
  • 1895 – Ralph Tollemache, English clergyman (b. 1826)
  • 1913 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
  • 1918 – Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
  • 1927 – Sam Warner, American film producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)
  • 1929 – Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest (b. 1876)
  • 1930 – Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English 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 author (b. 1898)
  • 1938 – Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (b. 1905)
  • 1940 – Ballington Booth, English-American co-founder of the Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
  • 1940 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American politician (b. 1859)
  • 1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
  • 1941 – Louis Brandeis, American jurist (b. 1856)
  • 1943 – Leon Roppolo, American clarinet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1902)
  • 1950 – Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
  • 1952 – Joe Jagersberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1884)
  • 1975 – Lady Constance Malleson, English actress and author (b. 1895)
  • 1976 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
  • 1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
  • 1981 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
  • 1983 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
  • 1983 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware (b. 1907)
  • 1986 – Mike Burgmann, Australian race car driver (b. 1947)
  • 1986 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
  • 1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
  • 1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
  • 1993 – Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
  • 1995 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
  • 1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)
  • 1997 – Brian Pillman, American football player and 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 environmentalist, director, and producer (b. 1957)
  • 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b. 1921)
  • 2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biologist (b. 1941)
  • 2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Jennifer Moss, English actress (b. 1945)
  • 2006 – Antonio Peña, Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (b. 1953)
  • 2007 – Justin Tuveri, Italian soldier (b. 1898)
  • 2009 – Mike Alexander, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Evile) (b. 1977)
  • 2010 – Bernard Clavel, French author (b. 1923)
  • 2010 – Mary Leona Gage, American model and actress, Miss USA 1957 (b. 1939)
  • 2010 – Steve Lee, Swiss singer-songwriter (Gotthard) (b. 1963)
  • 2011 – Derrick Bell, American academic and scholar (b. 1930)
  • 2011 – Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pentangle) (b. 1943)
  • 2011 – Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder and of Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
  • 2011 – Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
  • 2011 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Vojin Dimitrijević, Serbian lawyer and activist (b. 1932)
  • 2012 – James W. Holley, III, American politician (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Edvard Mirzoyan, Georgian-Armenian composer (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Claude Pinoteau, French director and scriptwriter (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Gloria Taylor, Canadian activist (b. 1948)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “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)