Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 5 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 5
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 5
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 0063 | 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 2008 | Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (b. 1929) |
| 2009 | William Lederer, American soldier and author (b. 1912) |
| 2010 | Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
| 2011 | Peter Gethin, English racing driver (b. 1940) |
| 2012 | Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (b. 1920) |
| 2013 | Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (b. 1917) |
| 2014 | Ernest C. Brace, American captain and pilot (b. 1931) |
| 2015 | Vic Eliason, American clergyman and radio host, founded VCY America (b. 1936) |
| 2016 | Tyruss Himes ("Big Syke"), American rapper (b. 1968)[38] |
| 2017 | Michael I of Romania, fifth and last king of Romania (b. 1921) |
| 2019 | Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940) |
| 2020 | Peter Alliss, English professional golfer (b. 1931) |
| 2021 | Bob Dole, American politician (b. 1923) |
| 2022 | Kirstie Alley, American actress and producer (b. 1951) |
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