Famous Deaths on October 5

• 578 Justin II, Byzantine emperor (565-78) nephew of Justinian I, dies
• 1056 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56), dies at 38
• 1111 Robrecht II of Jerusalem, Count of Flanders (1st Crusader), dies

• 1112 Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
• 1285 Philip III “the Bold”, King of France (1270-85), dies of dysentery at 40
• 1392 Yusuf II, ruler of Granada (1391-92), dies possibly killed by a poisoned tunic (b. c. 1356)
• 1399 Raymond of Capua, Italian Master General of the Dominican monastic order, dies at about 69
• 1496 Ferdinand II, King of Naples (1495-96), dies at 27
• 1528 Richard Foxe, English churchman
• 1557 Il Bacchiacca [Franceso Ubertini], Italian Renaissance painter, dies at 63
• 1564 Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer, dies at about 54 [birth date uncertain]
• 1565 Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician known for solving the quartic equation, dies at 43 of arsenic poisoning administered by his sister [1]
• 1606 Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
• 1631 Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies
• 1707 Daniel Speer, German composer, dies at 71
• 1714 Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)

• 1740 Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
• 1763 August III, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1733-63), Elector of Saxony, dies of a stroke at 66
• 1777 Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician, dies at 72
• 1787 Thomas Stone, US attorney and signer of the US Declaration of Independence, dies at about 44
• 1799 Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68

• 1813 Etienne Ozi, French composer, dies at 58

• 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, dies at 34

• 1848 Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician, dies at 67
• 1855 Sir Thomas Mitchell, Scottish surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australian, dies at 63
• 1861 Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Warsaw (1856-61), dies at 83
• 1864 Imre Madách, Hungarian writer known for “The Tragedy of Man”, dies at 41
• 1867 Thomas Täglichsbeck, German violinist and composer, dies at 67
• 1871 Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and folklorist, dies at 45
• 1878 George B. Vashon, American, lawyer, academic and poet, first African American lawyer, dies of yellow fever at 54
• 1880 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffman), dies at 61
• 1883 Joachim Barrande, French paleontologist and geologist (fossils in Bohemia, opposed Darwin’s Theory of Evolution), dies at 84

• 1892 Bill Powers, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas
• 1892 Bob Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (leader of the Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 23
• 1892 Dick Broadwell, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 30
• 1892 Grat Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 31
• 1899 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Austrian composer, dies at 57
• 1903 Bradley Tyler Johnson, American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army (First Battle of Winchester), dies at 74
• 1906 Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter, dies at 58
• 1911 Charles Malherbe, French violinist and composer, dies at 58
• 1913 Hans von Bartels, German painter (Three Dutch Fisher Girls), dies at 56
• 1915 José María Usandizaga, Spanish Basque composer (Mendi Mendiyan – High in the Mountains), dies of tuberculosis at 28
• 1915 Otto Valdemar Malling, Danish organist and composer (Det hellige Land, opus 46), dies at 67
• 1918 Roland Garros, French pioneering aviator and WWI pilot, shot down and killed during WWI at 28
• 1919 Jean Louis Nicodé, Prussian pianist and composer, dies at 66
• 1924 Joseph Vézina, Canadian conductor (Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, 1902-24), and composer (Le Rajah), dies at 75
• 1924 Tom Campbell, South African cricket wicket keeper (5 Tests, 8 dismissals), dies in a railway accident at 42
• 1930 Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
• 1933 Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general, dies at 71
• 1933 Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71
• 1933 Renée Adorée [Jeanne de la Fontein], French actress (The Big Parade), dies of tuberculosis at 35
• 1933 William Veeck, Sr, American sportswriter and baseball executive (Chicago Cubs president, 1919-33), dies at 57 [1]
• 1934 Jean Vigo, French actor and director (Zero For Conduct, L’Atlante), dies of complications from tuberculosis at 29
• 1936 J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet, writer and ship’s doctor (Seaman’s Grave), dies of ill health at 38
• 1938 Sister Faustina [Helena Kowalska], Polish Roman Catholic saint, nun and mystic, dies of suspected tuberculosis at 33
• 1940 Ballington Booth, English Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of America
• 1940 Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher and politician, dies at 81
• 1940 Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican classical violinst, conductor, and composer (Cuauhnáhuac; Planos), dies of pneumonia at 40
• 1941 Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States (1916-39), dies at 84
• 1943 Leon Roppolo, American early jazz clarinetist, dies at 41
• 1950 Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
• 1953 Friedrich Wolf, writer, dies at 64
• 1954 Flor Alpaerts, Flemish composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel, Pallieter), dies at 78
• 1954 Oscar Charleston, American Baseball HOF CF (NgL Triple Crown 1921 St. Louis Giants, 1924, 25 Harrisburg Giants) and manager (NgL WS 1933, 35, 36 Pittsburgh Crawfords), dies of a stroke at 57
• 1960 Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist and author (Anthropologist looks at History), dies at 84
• 1961 Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter and composer (Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane), dies of uremia at 23
• 1961 Don Barbour, American singer (The Four Freshmen), dies at 34
• 1965 Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, Swedish composer, dies at 79
• 1967 Clifton Williams, American Marine Corps major and NASA astronaut, dies in T-38 jet crash at 35
• 1972 Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist (originator of the concept of taphonomy) and author (Andromeda Nebula), dies at 64
• 1976 Barbara Nichols, American actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly), dies of complications from organ damage at 47
• 1976 Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1979 Charlie Smith, self-proclaimed oldest American (137 year), dies; post-mortem research posits age 100 or 105
• 1979 Ken Strong, American College/Pro Football HOF fullback/halfback (NYU; NFL C’ship 1934 NY Giants; 4 × First-team All-Pro), dies from a heart attack at 73
• 1981 Gloria Grahame [Hallward], American actress (Crossfire; Sudden Fear; Rich Man, Poor Man), dies of peritonitis and cancer at 57
• 1981 Jud Strunk, American singer-songwriter (“Daisy a Day”), and comedian (Laugh-In), dies of aheart attack while piloting a private plane in Maine at 45
• 1983 Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware), dies of a heart attack at 76
• 1983 Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director (Ganga Bruta), dies at 86
• 1984 Leonard Rossiter, British actor (Rising Damp, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), dies of a heart attack at 57
• 1985 Brian Keenan, American rock drummer (The Chamber Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 42
• 1985 Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician (dimension theory), dies at 83
• 1986 Emanuel Sayles, American jazz banjo player (Preservation Hall Jazz Band), dies at 79
• 1986 Hal B. Wallis [Aaron Blum Wolowicz], American movie producer (Casablanca; Maltese Falcon; Martin & Lewis; Elvis movies; Barefoot in the Park), dies at 87
• 1986 James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (numerical analysis), dies of a heart attack at 67
• 1988 Lois Wilson (née Burnham), American co-founder of Al-Anon also known as “Lois W.”, dies at 97
• 1990 Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League, assassinated at 58
• 1992 Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations, 1960-71 – “I Can’t Get Next To You”; “Just My Imagination”), dies of lung cancer at 52
• 1992 Laurie Anders, American actress and singer, dies of cancer at 70
• 1992 Paul Acket, Dutch publisher (Music Express) and impresario (North Sea Jazz Festival), dies of lung cancer at 69
• 1993 Jane Nigh, American actress (Lorelei-Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67
• 1993 Karl Gordon Henize, American astronomer and NASA astronaut (STS-51-F), dies of high altitude pulmonary edema during an expedition on Mount Everest at 66
• 1994 Luc Journet, Belgian physician and religious leader (Order of Zonnetempel), dies in a mass murder-suicide at 46
• 1995 Dick Henry Jurgen, American swing bandleader, and songwriter (“Elmer’s Tune”), dies of cancer at 85
• 1995 Fred Fehl, Austrian-American photographer, dies at 89
• 1995 Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
• 1996 Seymour Cray, American inventor (Cray Research, Cray I supercomputer), dies after a car accident at 71
• 1997 Andrew Keir, Scottish character actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics), dies at 71
• 1997 Arthur Tracy [Avrom Tracovutsky], Ukrainian-American radio personality, vocalist, and accordion player (The Street Singer), dies at 98
• 1997 Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler, dies at 35
• 1997 Dave Marr, American golfer (PGA Championship 1965), and broadcaster, dies of stomach cancer at 63
• 2000 Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
• 2000 Keith Roberts, English writer (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell), dies at 65
• 2000 Sidney R. Yates, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois), dies at 91
• 2001 Aldo Jones [Albert Mansis], American rockabilly bassist and singer (Ben Vaughn Combo), dies of leukemia at 41
• 2001 Lou Zara, American writer (Stump the Authors), dies at 91
• 2001 Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
• 2001 Peter Burge, Australian cricket batsman (42 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 181; Queensland CA), dies of a heart attack at 69
• 2003 Denis Quilley, British actor (Anything Goes, The Lady’s Not For Burning, Masada), dies from liver cancer at 75
• 2003 Neil Postman, American cultural critic (Amusing Ourselves to Death), dies at 72

• 2004 William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 nominee), dies at 62
• 2006 Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
• 2006 Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist, dies at 79
• 2006 Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
• 2007 Walter Kempowski, German writer (German Chronicle), dies at 78
• 2008 Ken Ogata [Akinobu Ogata], Japanese actor (Okinawan Boys, Taikōki), dies of liver cancer at 71
• 2010 Bernard Clavel, French novelist (b. 1923)
• 2010 Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
• 2010 Steve Lee [Stefan Alois], Swiss rock musician and vocalist (Gotthard), dies in a vehicle crash at 47
• 2011 Bert Jansch, Scottish folk guitarist, singer, dulcimer player, and songwriter dies of lung cancer at 67
• 2011 Charles Napier, American actor (Night Stalker, Rambo), dies at 75
• 2011 Derrick Bell, American legal scholar and civil rights advocate (b. 1930)

• 2011 Graham Dilley, English cricket fast bowler (41 Tests, 138 wickets; Kent CCC, Worcestershire CCC), dies from oesophageal cancer at 52

• 2012 Edvard Mirzoyan, Armenian composer, dies at 91
• 2012 Keith H.S. Campbell, British biologist, dies at 58
• 2014 Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, choreographer, singer, director and painter (Annie; The Wiz), dies at 84
• 2014 Yuri “Petrovich” Lyubimov, Soviet and Russian director (Taganka Theatre), dies at 97
• 2015 Chantal Akerman, Belgian feminist filmmaker (Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, Je Tu II Elle), dies at 65
• 2015 Grace Lee Boggs (née Grace Chin Lee), American philosopher, author (The Next American Revolution), civil rights activist and feminist, dies at 100
• 2015 Henning Mankell, Swedish playwright and author (Wallander novels), dies of cancer at 67
• 2015 Henry Bartholomay, American Naval aviator and recipient of the Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross, dies at 70
• 2016 Michal Kováč, ist President of Slovakia (1993-98), dies at 86
• 2016 Pompeiu Hărăşteanu, Romanian basso profondo singer (Opera Bonn, 1968-72; Romanian National Opera, 1972-2012), dies at 81
• 2018 Bobby Notkoff, American rock and blues violinist (Crazy Horse; The Rockets), dies at 80
• 2019 Andy Etchebarren, American baseball catcher (Baltimore Orioles – World Series champion 1966, 1970; MLB All Star 1966,1967), dies at 76
• 2019 Larry Junstrom, American rock bassist (.38 Special), dies at 70
• 2019 Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor (Metropolitan Opera, 1993-2008), dies of a heart attack at 56
• 2021 Jerry Shipp, American basketball forward (Olympic gold 1964; 3× AAU All-American 1962–64 SE Oklahoma State), dies at 86
• 2022 Wolfgang Kohlhaase, German actor, director and writer (Solo Sunday), dies at 91
• 2023 Dick Butkus, American College-Pro Football HOF linebacker (Uni of Illinois; NFL Defensive Player of the Year 1969, 70; 5×First-team All-Pro; 8xPro Bowl; Chicago Bears), sportscaster (CBS, ESPN) and actor (My Two Dads), dies at 80 [1]

October 5 Highlights