June 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 301 – Sima Lun, Chinese usurper of the Jin Dynasty (b. 249)
• 535 – Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople
• 754 – Saint Boniface, English missionary, bishop, and martyr
• 1017 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
• 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
• 1296 – Edmund Crouchback, English son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
• 1316 – Louis X of France (b. 1289)
• 1383 – Dmitry of Suzdal (b. 1324)
• 1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
• 1625 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
• 1667 – Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
• 1688 – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
• 1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
• 1722 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer and musician (b. 1660)
• 1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor (b. 1659)
• 1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (b. 1718)
• 1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
• 1819 – Bodawpaya, Burmese king (b. 1745)
• 1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, Greek soldier (b. 1788)
• 1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
• 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
• 1900 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
• 1902 – Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk, witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
• 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1910 – O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
• 1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1916 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, English field marshal (b. 1850)
• 1920 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
• 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 1930 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
• 1947 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator (b. 1878)
• 1975 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
• 1976 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian writer (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Sam Yorty, American politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Ramones) (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
• 2004 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer, pianist, composer, and author (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1978)
• 2009 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Lucky Diamond, American dog model (b. 1997)
• 2012 – Caroline John, English actress (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Hal Keller, American baseball player and executive (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Mihai Pătraşcu, Romanian computer scientist (b. 1982)
• 2012 – Athinodoros Prousalis, Greek actor (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Charlie Sutton, Australian footballer (b. 1924)