Deaths in History on July 5

Stamford Raffles (1781-1826)

British statesman and founder of Singapore, dies at 44 of apoplexy

1833 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
1851 Juanita, Mexican, lynched by California gold diggers
1859 Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
1862 Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
1863 Lewis Armistead, Confederate brigadier general at Gettysburg (Pickett's Charge), dies of his injuries from the battle of Gettysburg at 46
1871 Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess and politician, dies at 63
1873 John Robertson, American politician, dies at 87
1886 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57
1887 August Pott, German philological (Etymology Forschungen), dies at 84
1894 Betty Paoli, writer, dies
1904 Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
1905 Carel Victor Gerritsen, Dutch politician and free thinker (husband of suffragette Aletta Jacobs), dies at 55
1906 Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (optics), committed suicide at 42
1907 Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler's eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever at 5
1908 Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (The Family at Gilje: A Domestic Story of the Forties), dies at 74
1911 George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
1920 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63
1927 Albrecht Kossel, German physician (Nobel 1910), dies at 73
1932 Sasha Chorny [Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg], Russian poet, dies at 51
1935 Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament expert, dies at 58

Chester Greenwood (1858-1937)

American inventor (invented earmuffs at 15), dies at 78

John Curtin (1885-1945)

Victoria, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor: 1941-45), dies of heart disease at 60

1948 G Bernanos, writer, dies at 60
1948 Piet Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25), dies at 77
1950 Private Kenneth Shadrick becomes the first identified American soldier killed in the Korean War
1950 Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
1957 Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
1966 George de Hevesy, Hungarian radiochemist (Nobel 1943), dies at 80
1969 Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65
1969 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
1983 Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
1985 Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86
1990 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
1991 Howard Nemerow, American poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies
1991 Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87
1993 Harrison Salisbury, American journalist and author (NY Times correspondent in Moscow), dies at 84
1994 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Asst Secretary of State, dies at 67
1995 Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69
1996 Anne Hummert, American radio pioneer and producer of daytime radio serials during the 1930s and 1940s (Just Plain Bill, The Romance of Helen Trent), dies at 91
1996 Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81
1996 Erik Wickberg, 9th Salvation Army general, dies at 91
1996 Lorna Young, Scottish promoter of Fairtrade products, dies at 44
2004 Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
2005 James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
2006 Kenneth Lay, American businessman (CEO and Chairman of Enron, 1985-2001), dies at 64
2011 Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
2014 Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian, dies at 82
2014 Rosemary Murphy, American actress (Margaret-Lucas Tanner), dies from esophageal cancer at 89
2015 Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2008), dies at 94
2016 Beatrice de Cardi, British archaeologist, dies at 102
2017 Irina Ratushinskaya, Soviet dissident poet (Beyond the Limit), dies of cancer at 63
2018 Saman Kunan, former Thai Navy SEAL, asphyxiates after delivering oxygen to 13 trapped people in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand at 38