5 August Deaths

August 5 is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

Deaths

553 – Xiao Ji, prince of the Liang dynasty (b. 508)
642 – Eowa, king of Mercia
642 – Oswald, king of Northumbria (b. 604)
824 – Heizei, Japanese emperor (b. 773)
877 – Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan, Abbasid vizier
882 – Louis III, Frankish king (b. 863)
890 – Ranulf II, duke of Aquitaine (b. 850)
910 – Eowils and Halfdan, joint kings of Northumbria
917 – Euthymius I of Constantinople (b. 834)
940 – Li Decheng, Chinese general (b. 863)
1063 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1364 – Kōgon, Japanese emperor (b. 1313)
1415 – Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (b. 1375)
1415 – Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (b. 1370)
1447 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b. 1395)
1579 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (b. 1504)
1600 – John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (b. 1577)
1610 – Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and politician, Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1552)
1633 – George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (b. 1562)
1678 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican tenor and composer (b. 1619)
1729 – Thomas Newcomen, English engineer, invented the eponymous Newcomen atmospheric engine (b. 1664)
1743 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English courtier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (b. 1696)
1778 – Charles Clémencet, French historian and author (b. 1703)
1778 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (b. 1756)
1792 – Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
1799 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician (b. 1726)
1868 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788)
1877 – Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b. 1830)
1880 – Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816)
1881 – Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823)
1895 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
1901 – Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
1904 – George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
1911 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
1916 – George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
1921 – Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
1929 – Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
1933 – Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
1935 – David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
1939 – Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
1944 – Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
1946 – Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1948 – Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
1952 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
1955 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
1957 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1959 – Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
1960 – Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (b. 1926)
1963 – Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1964 – Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)
1967 – György Bródy, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1908)
1968 – Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
1978 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (b. 1893)
1980 – Harold L. Runnels, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
1983 – Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (b. 1913)
1983 – Joan Robinson, English economist and author (b. 1903)
1984 – Richard Burton, Welsh-Swiss actor and producer (b. 1925)
1985 – Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
1987 – Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1910)
1991 – Paul Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1908)
1991 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, founded Honda (b. 1906)
1992 – Robert Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
1994 – Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908)
1994 – Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1922)
1998 – Otto Kretschmer, German commander (b. 1912)
1998 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
2000 – Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920)
2000 – Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-Italian pilot and painter (b. 1910)
2000 – Alec Guinness, English actor (b. 1914)
2001 – Otema Allimadi, Ugandan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
2001 – Christopher Skase, Australian-Spanish businessman (b. 1948)
2002 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (b. 1916)
2002 – Franco Lucentini, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
2002 – Matt Robinson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2005 – Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast and coach (b. 1936)
2005 – Jim O'Hora, American football player and coach (b. 1915)
2005 – Raul Roco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 31st Filipino Secretary of Education (b. 1941)
2007 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (b. 1926)
2007 – Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1943)
2008 – Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (b. 1932)
2008 – Reg Lindsay, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1929)
2009 – Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1914)
2011 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish farmer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1954)
2011 – Aziz Shavershian, Russian-born Australian Bodybuilder and internet sensation (b. 1989)
2012 – Erwin Axer, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2012 – Michel Daerden, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2012 – Fred Matua, American football player (b. 1984)
2012 – Martin E. Segal, Russian-American businessman, co-founded Film Society of Lincoln Center (b. 1916)
2012 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1919)
2012 – Roland Charles Wagner, French author and translator (b. 1960)
2013 – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor and educator (b. 1926)
2013 – Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1966)
2013 – George Duke, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1946)
2013 – Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
2013 – Roy Rubin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
2013 – May Song Vang, American activist (b. 1951)
2013 – Rob Wyda, American commander and judge (b. 1959)
2014 – Harold J. Greene, American general (b. 1962)
2014 – Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (b. 1936)
2014 – Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1914)
2014 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1927)
2015 – Arthur Walter James, English journalist and politician (b. 1912)
2015 – Tony Millington, Welsh footballer (b. 1943)

Source: wikipedia