Deaths in History on August 5

Frederick North (1732-1792)

Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (Tory: 1770-82), "who lost America", dies at 60

1799 Richard Howe, British admiral, dies at 73
1834 Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, Dutch count and Minister of Foreign affairs (1813-14), dies at 71
1852 František Čelakovský, Czech slavist, linguist and poet, dies at 53
1862 Thomas Williams, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 47
1864 Griffin A. Stedman, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies in battle at 26
1868 Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (discovered flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley), dies at 79
1877 Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden, dies at 77
1880 Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1889 Willem Ruys J. Dz, Dutch ship owner, dies at 80

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, dies of throat cancer at 74

1900 James Augustine Healy, African American Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
1901 Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III, dies at 60
1923 Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian scholar of Slavic studies, dies at 85
1929 Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
1932 Israël Querido, Dutch writer (Jordan), dies at 59
1940 Frederick Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, dies at 75
1943 Adam Kuckhoff, German writer and resistance fighter, is executed during WWII at 55
1946 Wilhelm Marx, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (1923-25, 1926-28), dies at 83
1950 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist and biochemist, dies at 73
1952 Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
1957 Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927), dies at 80
1959 Edgar Albert Guest, American poet and newspaperman, dies at 77

Arthur Meighen (1874-1960)

9th Prime Minister of Canada (C: 1920-21, 1926), dies at 86

1961 Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (National: 1949-57), dies at 67
1964 Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), dies at 73
1972 Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1976 Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
1980 Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
1983 Bart [Bartholomeus Jan] Bok, Dutch-American astronomer (Milky Way), dies at 77
1984 Rudolf Hagelstange, German writer, dies at 72
1985 Theodore Sturgeon, American sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
1990 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
1991 Soichiro Hondo, Japanese CEO & founder of Honda, dies of liver cancer at 84

Robert Muldoon (1921-1992)

New Zealand politician (Prime Minister, 1975-1984), dies at 70

1994 Audrey Langford, English singing teacher, dies at 82
1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
1995 Agha Hasan Abedi, Pakistani banker and felon (BCCI), dies at 73
1995 Anthony Barber Doncaster, English bookseller, dies at 81
1996 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, Zanzibar-born revolutionary, politician and pan-Africanist, dies at 72
1996 Frank Marcus, German playwright and critic, dies at 68
1997 Clarence M. Kelley, American 2nd Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1973-77), dies at 85
1997 Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61
1998 Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander, dies at 86
1998 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria communist leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB), 1954-89, dies at 86
1999 D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman, dies at 97
2000 Dudley Randall, African-American poet who founded the pioneering publishing house "Broadside Press", dies at 84
2000 Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist, dies at 80
2001 Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
2002 Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
2005 Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
2006 Hugo Schiltz, Flemish lawyer and politician, dies at 78
2006 Susan Butcher, American dog musher and 4 x winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, dies of graft-versus-host disease while fighting acute myelogenous leukemia at 51
2007 Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (b. 1943)
2007 Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
2007 Oliver Hill, American civil rights attorney (Presidential Medal of Freedom 1999), dies at 100
2010 Robert Aitken, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha), dies at 93
2011 Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (Deputy Prime Minister of Poland), dies at 57
2014 Chapman Pincher, British journalist and author (about secret service), dies at 100
2014 Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 11th US Surgeon General (1969-73), dies at 87
2017 Mark White, American politician, lawyer, and 43rd Governor of Texas (1983-7), dies at 77

Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

American writer (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon), first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize (2010), dies at 88

2020 Aritana Yawalapiti, Brazilian indigenous cacique (leader) of Yawalapiti people, who sought to preserve the Amazon, dies of COVID-19 at 71
2022 Mark Paterson, New Zealand sailor (World C'ship gold Cherub 1978), dies at 74