Famous Deaths on December 5, Who Died on December 5
Here is a list who died on December 5. Famous deaths for the 5th of December. See which celebrities, musicians, actors, historical figures, scientists and other famous people were died on December 5. Also you can find some answers for the following questions;
Famous people who died in December 5th?
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Who died on December 5?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 0063 | Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman politician (b. 114 BC) |
| 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) |
| 334 | Li Ban, emperor of Cheng Han (b. 288) |
| 902 | Ealhswith, queen consort and wife of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex |
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