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December 5 Deaths in History - December 5 Birthdays - December 5 Events
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



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