5 December Deaths

Published : 05 Dec 2018, 10:50

Jagoroniya Desk

December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

63 BC – Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman politician (b. 114 BC)
334 – Li Ban, emperor of Cheng Han (b. 288)
902 – Ealhswith, queen consort and wife of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex
1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona (b. 1053)
1212 – Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht
1244 – Joan, Countess of Flanders and Hainault(b. 1199 or 1200)
1355 – John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
1560 – Francis II of France (b. 1544)
1570 – Johan Friis, Danish politician (b. 1494)
1624 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560)
1654 – Jean François Sarrazin, French author and poet (b. 1611)
1663 – Severo Bonini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1582)
1749 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685)
1758 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (b. 1688)
1770 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692)
1784 – Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753)
1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
1819 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
1870 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
1887 – Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
1891 – Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1918 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
1925 – Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1926 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
1931 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1940 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
1941 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
1942 – Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)
1946 – Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
1951 – Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
1953 – William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901)
1955 – Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)
1961 – Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
1963 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905)
1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
1964 – V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
1965 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1968 – Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
1969 – Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
1969 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
1973 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892)
1975 – Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)
1977 – Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
1977 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
1979 – Jesse Pearson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
1983 – Robert Aldrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
1984 – Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b. 1894)
1986 – Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1989 – John Pritchard, English conductor and director (b. 1921)
1990 – Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916)
1994 – Harry Horner, Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)
1995 – L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)
1995 – Charles Evans, English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918)
1995 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (b. 1920)
1995 – Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (b. 1922)
1997 – Eugen Cicero, Romanian-German jazz pianist (b. 1940)
1998 – Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
2001 – Franco Rasetti, Italian-American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
2002 – Roone Arledge, American sportscaster and producer (b. 1931)
2002 – Ne Win, Burmese general and politician, 4th President of Burma (b. 1911)
2005 – Edward L. Masry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2006 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (b. 1924)
2007 – Andrew Imbrie, American composer and academic (b. 1921)
2007 – George Paraskevaides, Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Joannou & Paraskevaides (b. 1916)
2007 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (b. 1928)
2008 – Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (b. 1929)
2008 – George Brecht, American chemist and composer (b. 1926)
2008 – Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (b. 1924)
2008 – Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1926)
2008 – Anca Parghel, Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1957)
2009 – William Lederer, American soldier and author (b. 1912)
2010 – Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 – Don Meredith, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1938)
2011 – Peter Gethin, English race car driver (b. 1940)
2011 – Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
2012 – Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
2012 – Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (b. 1909)
2012 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of Brasília (b. 1907)
2012 – Ignatius IV of Antioch, Syrian patriarch (b. 1920)
2013 – Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (b. 1917)
2013 – William B. Edmondson, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1927)
2013 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2014 – Ernest C. Brace, American captain and pilot (b. 1931)
2014 – Fabiola, Queen of Belgium (b. 1928)
2014 – Talât Sait Halman, Turkish poet, translator, and historian (b. 1931)
2014 – Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish hurdler and politician (b. 1931)
2014 – Silvio Zavala, Mexican historian and author (b. 1909)
2015 – Vic Eliason, American clergyman and radio host, founded VCY America (b. 1936)
2015 – Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1929)
2015 – Chuck Williams, American businessman and author, founded Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (b. 1915)
2016 – Jayalalithaa, Indian politician, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1948)
2017 – Michael I of Romania (b. 1921)
2017 – August Ames (b. 1994)

Source: wikipedia

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