May 5 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 200 – Sun Ce, Chinese warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
  • 311 – Galerius, Roman emperor (b. 260)
  • 984 – Gerberga of Saxony (b. 913)
  • 1028 – Alfonso V of León (b. 994)
  • 1194 – Casimir II the Just (b. 1138)
  • 1219 – Leo II, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
  • 1309 – Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
  • 1426 – Ephraim of Nea Makri, Greek Orthodox saint (b. 1384)
  • 1525 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)
  • 1586 – Henry Sidney, Irish lord, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
  • 1604 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
  • 1671 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
  • 1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
  • 1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
  • 1760 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (b. 1720)
  • 1766 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
  • 1808 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
  • 1811 – Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
  • 1821 – Napoleon, French military and political leader (b. 1769)
  • 1827 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
  • 1833 – Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (b. 1777)
  • 1855 – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)
  • 1859 – Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
  • 1860 – John Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804)
  • 1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
  • 1896 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
  • 1900 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
  • 1916 – John MacBride, Irish Nationalist and member of the Easter Rising (b. 1865)
  • 1916 – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
  • 1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
  • 1931 – Glen Kidston, English aviator and race car driver (b. 1899)
  • 1941 – Natalie of Serbia (b. 1859)
  • 1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
  • 1944 – Bertha Benz German wife of Karl Benz, and the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance
  • 1945 – Peter Van Pels, Dutch holocaust victim (b. 1926)
  • 1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
  • 1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
  • 1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
  • 1965 – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor (b. 1915)
  • 1965 – John Waters, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1893)
  • 1971 – Violet Jessop, Argentinean ocean liner stewardess and nurse (b. 1887)
  • 1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
  • 1981 – Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)
  • 1983 – Horst Schumann, German nazi physician (b. 1901)
  • 1985 – Donald Bailey, English civil engineer, invented the Bailey bridge (b. 1901)
  • 1988 – Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
  • 1992 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French comedian and singer (b. 1927)
  • 1994 – Mario Quintana, Brazilian poet (b. 1906)
  • 1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
  • 1996 – Acharya Kuber Nath Rai Indian Writer (b.1933)
  • 1997 – Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
  • 1999 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1920)
  • 2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
  • 2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach (b. 1940)
  • 2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher (b. 1918)
  • 2001 – Raymond Kessler, American wrestler
  • 2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
  • 2002 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer (b. 1904)
  • 2002 – George Sidney, American director (b. 1916)
  • 2003 – Sam Bockarie, African commander (b. 1964)
  • 2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
  • 2004 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (Melocure) (b. 1959)
  • 2005 – Elisabeth Fraser, American actress (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974)
  • 2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
  • 2007 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist, created the first working laser (b. 1927)
  • 2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)
  • 2008 – Jerry Wallace, American singer (b. 1928)
  • 2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian politician, 12th president of Nigeria (b. 1951)
  • 2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (b. 1910)
  • 2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924)
  • 2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian navy officer (b. 1901)
  • 2012 – Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937)
  • 2012 – Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1916)
  • 2012 – James R. Browning, American judge (b. 1918)
  • 2012 – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist (b. 1932)
  • 2012 – George Knobel, Dutch football manager (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Roy Padayachie, South African politician (b. 1950)

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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)

    “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)

    “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)