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)

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

“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)

“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)