Deaths in History on June 5

1738 Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor, dies at 79
1791 Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1825 Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence (Chani of Gravia,), executed for supposedly collaborating with the Ottomans at 37
1861 John Garland, US Union colonel and brigadier general, dies in battle
1864 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 39
1866 John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer, dies at 50
1877 Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca tribe Chief Standing Bear, dies during forced removal to Oklahoma Indian Reservation
1880 Jacob Cremer, Dutch painter and author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)

American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher, dies of stomach cancer at 69

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

American novelist (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28

1902 Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk who was the chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, dies at 59
1906 Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)

O. Henry (1862-1910)

American short story writer (Cabbages and Kings), dies of cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes complications and an enlarged heart at 47

1915 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor, killed fighting in WWI at 23

British General who commanded British forces during the Battle of Omdurman (Sudan) and the Second Boer War who became British Secretary of State for War during WWI (1914-16), drowns at 65 after the HMS Hampshire struck a German mine

1920 Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1923 George H. Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter, dies at 65
1930 Jules Pascin [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian American painter and cartoonist, commits suicide at 45
1931 John Lawson Stoddard, American lecturer, photographer, and author, considered the father of travelogue, dies at 81
1939 Elijah Beardsworth, British world quick shaving champion, dies
1939 Frank Van de Goes, Dutch writer and Marxist theorist, dies at 80
1963 Donat Raymond, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame builder (head Canadian Arena Company, Montreal Forum rebuilt in 1968) and politician, dies at 83
1965 Thornton W. Burgess, American conservationist & author (The Bedtime Story-Books; Now I Remember: Autobiography of an Amateur Naturalist), dies at 91
1970 "Jopie" Pengel [Johan A], Premier of Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
1970 Jay Irving, American cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
1975 Kenneth Horne, British writer and playwright (Fools Rush In; The Coming-Out Party), dies of cancer at 75
1976 Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101
1978 John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71
1979 Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
1980 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70
1984 Frederick Stratten Russell, English marine biologist (plankton life history and long-term changes in marine ecosystems), dies at 86
1984 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
1988 Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., African-American chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88), dies at 57
1990 Jan Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist and anatomist, dies at 83
1990 Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1992 Max Lerner, American writer/columnist (NY Post), dies at 88
1994 Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67
1996 Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner, dies at 59
1997 J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide at 64
1998 Alfred Kazin, American writer and literature critic (The Inmost Leaf), dies at 83
1998 Sam Yorty, American politician, Mayor of Los Angeles (1961-73), dies at 88
2001 Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist, dies at 93
2003 Jürgen Möllemann, German politician, German Vice Chancellor (1992-3), dies in a parachuting accident at 57
2005 Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2006 Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer, dies at 85
2012 Barry Unsworth, British novelist, dies from lung cancer at 81
2012 Ray Bradbury, American author (Fahrenheit 451), dies at 91
2013 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish paramilitary and political leader of Sinn Féin, dies at 80
2015 Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician and close adviser to Saddam Hussein, dies at 79
2018 Kate Spade, American fashion designer, commits suicide by hanging at 55