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December 5 Deaths in History - December 5 Birthdays - December 5 Events
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December 5, 2002 Roone Arledge, TV innovator, crated NFL Monday Night Football, dies at 71 December 5, 1997 Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at 67 December 5, 1997 Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer, dies at 93 December 5, 1996 Peter Hall, folklorist/musician, dies at 60 December 5, 1996 Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91 December 5, 1995 Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77 December 5, 1995 Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79 December 5, 1995 Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday December 5, 1994 Harry Horner, Czech/US set designer/director (Our Town), dies at 84 December 5, 1994 Richard Brian Waring Barton-Chapple, writer, dies at 69 December 5, 1994 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78 December 5, 1993 Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (Harem), dies at 87 December 5, 1993 Arthur Staal, Dutch architect (Shell Tower Amsterdam), dies at 86 December 5, 1993 Douglas Hopkins, guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32 December 5, 1992 Hilary Tindall, dies of cancer at 54 December 5, 1992 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41 December 5, 1991 Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies December 5, 1991 Jill Browne, dies at 54 December 5, 1991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday December 5, 1990 Steven Shaw, dies at 25 December 5, 1989 John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68 December 5, 1987 "Fat" Larry James, U.S. drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38 December 5, 1986 Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer December 5, 1983 Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65 December 5, 1975 Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies December 5, 1974 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (U.S. Open 1909-11), dies at 87 December 5, 1974 Henry Wadsworth, actor (Applause, Ceiling Zero), dies at 72 December 5, 1974 Pietro Germi, actor and director (Serafino, Climax), dies at 60 December 5, 1971 Hugh Wakefield, actress (Blithe Spirit), dies December 5, 1968 Fred Clark, actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54 December 5, 1966 Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies at 57 December 5, 1964 Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70 December 5, 1963 Herbert H Lehman, (Gov-D-NY), dies December 5, 1963 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer, dies at 58 December 5, 1958 Ferdinand Bruckner, writer, dies at 67 December 5, 1955 Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73 December 5, 1951 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies December 5, 1942 Buck Jones, Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried December 5, 1940 Jan Kubelik, composer, dies at 60 December 5, 1938 Christina "Dina" Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer, dies at 54 December 5, 1935 Frans, [MJ Francois] Erens, literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78 December 5, 1931 Vachel Lindsay, American Poet December 5, 1928 Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61 December 5, 1926 Claude Monet, French Artist December 5, 1925 Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78 December 5, 1922 Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies December 5, 1916 Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73 December 5, 1902 Henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78 December 5, 1891 JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies December 5, 1886 Peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84 December 5, 1870 A Dumas Da, writer, dies at 68 December 5, 1859 Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 December 5, 1853 Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80 December 5, 1842 MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82 December 5, 1835 August vs. Platen, writer, dies at 39 December 5, 1818 Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60 December 5, 1799 Robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61 December 5, 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35 December 5, 1784 Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston December 5, 1770 James Stirling, Scot mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78 December 5, 1758 Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70 December 5, 1745 Christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52 December 5, 1675 John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73 December 5, 1663 Severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80 December 5, 1594 Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82 December 5, 1560 Francois II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16 December 5, 1355 Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies December 5, 1244 Johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies December 5, 1212 Derek II of Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies |