Famous Deaths on October 5

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

Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805)

1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general and colonial administrator (leading British general in the American War of Independence), dies of fever at 66

1813 Etienne Ozi, French composer, dies at 58

Tecumseh (c. 1768-1813)

Shawnee Chief (Battle of Thames), dies in battle at 45

1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, dies at 34
1837 Hortense de Beauharnais, French Queen of Holland (1806-10), dies at 54
1848 Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
1861 Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
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

Doc Durant (1820-1885)

American financier and railroad promoter (Transcontinental Railroad-Union Pacific), dies at 65

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
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 (b. 1856)
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 stunt flyer, dies
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 Renee Adoree, actress (Big Parade), dies 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, dies at 84
1943 Leon Roppolo, American early jazz clarinetist, dies at 41
1950 Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1952 Joe Jagersberger, Austrian-American racing driver, dies at 68
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 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, American actress (Crossfire, Sudden Fear, Rich Man Poor Man), dies of peritonitis and breast cancer at 55
1981 Jud Strunk, American singer and comedian (Laugh-In), dies in a plane crash at 48
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
1986 Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
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
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
2004 Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born English physicist (Nobel 1962-X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) proved crucial to the determination of DNA’s molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick), dies at 87 [1] [2]

Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)

American comedian and actor (Caddyshack), dies at 82

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 Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
2007 Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
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 musician (Pentangle), 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)

Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)

American civil rights activist, dies at 89

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

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple, dies of respiratory arrest related to cancer at 56

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
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 (World Series 1968, 70; MLB All Star 1966, 67; Baltimore Orioles), 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