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August 5, 2002 Josh Ryan Evans, actor, Passions, dies at 20 August 5, 2000 Sir Alec Guinness, actor, Bridge on the River Kwai, dies at 86 August 5, 1998 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Politician August 5, 1997 Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61 August 5, 1996 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72 August 5, 1996 Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46 August 5, 1996 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68 August 5, 1995 Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73 August 5, 1995 Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81 August 5, 1994 Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39 August 5, 1994 Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82 August 5, 1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 August 5, 1994 Terry Hibbitt, soccer star, dies at 47 August 5, 1992 Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 August 5, 1992 Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies August 5, 1991 Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82 August 5, 1991 Soichiro Hondo, CEO and founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 August 5, 1990 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies August 5, 1989 Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68 August 5, 1987 Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79 August 5, 1985 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 August 5, 1984 Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 August 5, 1984 R Hagelstange, writer, dies August 5, 1984 Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 58 August 5, 1984 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fur ein Lacheln), dies at 72 August 5, 1983 Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66 August 5, 1982 Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72 August 5, 1978 Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 August 5, 1977 Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87 August 5, 1976 Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88 August 5, 1972 Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 August 5, 1971 Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74 August 5, 1964 Moa Martinson, writer, dies August 5, 1962 Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35 August 5, 1961 Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63 August 5, 1961 Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67 August 5, 1959 Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 August 5, 1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 August 5, 1957 Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 August 5, 1955 Carmen Miranda, singer and actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42 August 5, 1950 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73 August 5, 1947 Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies August 5, 1943 Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55 August 5, 1940 Frederick A Cook, U.S., explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 August 5, 1940 Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer August 5, 1932 Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies August 5, 1931 Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43 August 5, 1916 George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31 August 5, 1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46 August 5, 1910 Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42 August 5, 1907 Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66 August 5, 1901 Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60 August 5, 1900 James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 August 5, 1895 Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies August 5, 1891 Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73 August 5, 1889 Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80 August 5, 1870 Ethan A. Hitchcock, American Soldier August 5, 1864 Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 August 5, 1863 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53 August 5, 1862 Thomas Williams, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47 August 5, 1856 Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61 August 5, 1852 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53 August 5, 1834 Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 August 5, 1830 Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68 August 5, 1792 Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60 August 5, 1792 Lord North, British Statesman August 5, 1778 Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22 August 5, 1644 J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 August 5, 1157 Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies |