May 5th Deaths |
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| May 5th, 2008 (May 05 2008) | Death | Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (born in 1917) | |
| May 5th, 2007 (May 05 2007) | Death | Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor (born in 1927) | |
| May 5th, 2006 (May 05 2006) | Death | Naushad Ali, Indian composer (born in 1919) | |
| May 5th, 2004 (May 05 2004) | Death | Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (born in 1959) | |
| May 5th, 2003 (May 05 2003) | Death | Walter Sisulu, South African activist (born in 1912) | |
| May 5th, 2002 (May 05 2002) | Death | Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (born in 1926) | |
| May 5th, 2002 (May 05 2002) | Death | Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (born in 1904) | |
| May 5th, 2002 (May 05 2002) | Death | George Sidney, American film director (born in 1916) | |
| May 5th, 2001 (May 05 2001) | Death | Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher | |
| May 5th, 2001 (May 05 2001) | Death | Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler | |
| May 5th, 2000 (May 05 2000) | Death | Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (born in 1914) | |
| May 5th, 1997 (May 05 1997) | Death | Walter Gotell, German actor (born in 1924) | |
| May 5th, 1995 (May 05 1995) | Death | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player, grandmaster and world champion (born in 1911) | |
| May 5th, 1992 (May 05 1992) | Death | Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927) | |
| May 5th, 1988 (May 05 1988) | Death | Michael Shaara, American author (born in 1928) | |
| May 5th, 1985 (May 05 1985) | Death | Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (born in 1901) | |
| May 5th, 1983 (May 05 1983) | Death | Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (born in 1901) | |
| May 5th, 1981 (May 05 1981) | Death | Bobby Sands, Irish activist (born in 1954) | |
| May 5th, 1977 (May 05 1977) | Death | Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (born in 1897) | |
| May 5th, 1971 (May 05 1971) | Death | Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (born in 1887) | |
| May 5th, 1962 (May 05 1962) | Death | Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (born in 1889) | |
| May 5th, 1959 (May 05 1959) | Death | Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1878) | |
| May 5th, 1947 (May 05 1947) | Death | Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (born in 1917) | |
| May 5th, 1945 (May 05 1945) | Death | Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (born in 1926) | |
| May 5th, 1942 (May 05 1942) | Death | Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (born in 1920) | |
| May 5th, 1941 (May 05 1941) | Death | Natalija Obrenovic, Queen of Serbia (born in 1859) | |
| May 5th, 1931 (May 05 1931) | Death | Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (born in 1899) | |
| May 5th, 1921 (May 05 1921) | Death | Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1864) | Alfred Nobel Quotes |
| May 5th, 1900 (May 05 1900) | Death | Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (born in 1817) | |
| May 5th, 1896 (May 05 1896) | Death | Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (born in 1839) | |
| May 5th, 1892 (May 05 1892) | Death | August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (born in 1818) | |
| May 5th, 1859 (May 05 1859) | Death | Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (born in 1805) | |
| May 5th, 1855 (May 05 1855) | Death | Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (born in 1786) | |
| May 5th, 1827 (May 05 1827) | Death | Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (born in 1750) | |
| May 5th, 1821 (May 05 1821) | Death | Napoleon I of France (born in 1769) | |
| May 5th, 1811 (May 05 1811) | Death | Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (born in 1734) | |
| May 5th, 1808 (May 05 1808) | Death | Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (born in 1757) | |
| May 5th, 1766 (May 05 1766) | Death | Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born in 1684) | |
| May 5th, 1760 (May 05 1760) | Death | Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (born in 1720) | |
| May 5th, 1705 (May 05 1705) | Death | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1640) | |
| May 5th, 1672 (May 05 1672) | Death | Samuel Cooper, English painter (born in 1609) | |
| May 5th, 1671 (May 05 1671) | Death | Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (born in 1602) | |
| May 5th, 1604 (May 05 1604) | Death | Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (born in 1533) | |
| May 5th, 1586 (May 05 1586) | Death | Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born in 1529) | |
| May 5th, 1525 (May 05 1525) | Death | Frederick III of Saxony (born in 1463) | |
| May 5th, 1309 (May 05 1309) | Death | King Charles II of Naples | |
| May 5th, 1219 (May 05 1219) | Death | King Leo II of Armenia (born in 1150) | |
| May 5th, 1194 (May 05 1194) | Death | King Casimir II of Poland (born in 1138) | |
| May 5th, 1028 (May 05 1028) | Death | King Alfonso V of Castile, Leon, and Galicia | |
| May 5th, 0984 (May 05 0984) | Death | Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia | |
| May 5th, 0311 (May 05 0311) | Death | Galerius, Roman Emperor | |
| May 5th, 0200 (May 05 0200) | Death | Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (born in 175) | |
