Deaths in History on October 5

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

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)
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

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
1906 Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter, dies at 58
1913 Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918 Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies
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
1936 Jan J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship doc/writer (Seaman's Grave), dies 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
1941 Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, dies at 84
1950 Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1953 Friedrich Wolf, writer, dies at 64
1960 Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist and author (Anthropologist looks at History), dies at 84
1967 Clifton Williams, American major and NASA astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
1972 Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist (originator of the concept of taphonomy) and author (Andromeda Nebula), dies at 64
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
1983 Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware), dies of a heart attack at 76
1986 James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1990 Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League, assassinated at 58
1992 Cornelis "Cees" Berkhouwer, Dutch politician (VVD), dies
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 Fred Fehl, Austrian-American photographer, dies at 89
1996 Seymour Cray, American inventor (Cray Research, Cray I supercomputer), dies after a car accident at 71
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 Lou Zara, American writer (Stump the Authors), dies at 91
2001 Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
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]
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)
2007 Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
2007 Walter Kempowski, German writer (German Chronicle), dies at 78
2010 Bernard Clavel, French novelist (b. 1923)
2011 Derrick Bell, American legal scholar and civil rights advocate (b. 1930)

Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)

American civil rights activist, dies at 89

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

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

2012 Keith H.S. Campbell, British biologist, dies at 58
2014 Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, Soviet and Russian director (Taganka Theatre), dies at 97
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