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January 5 Deaths in History - January 5 Birthdays - January 5 Events
January 5, 2004 Tug McGraw, American Athlete
January 5, 2003 Jean Kerr, writer, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, dies at 79
January 5, 2003 Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82
January 5, 2003 Neil Postman, American Educator
January 5, 2001 Nancy Parsons, actress, Porky's, dies at 58
January 5, 2000 David R. Brower, American Environmentalist
January 5, 1998 Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82
January 5, 1998 Sonny Bono, (Rep-R-Ca)/singer (Sonny and Cher), dies skiing at 62
January 5, 1998 Sonny Bono, politician/performer, Sonny and Cher, dies at 62
January 5, 1997 Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72
January 5, 1996 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86
January 5, 1996 Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84
January 5, 1996 Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator, dies at 88
January 5, 1996 Richard Versaille, tenor, dies at 63
January 5, 1995 Francis Lopez, Fren dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78
January 5, 1995 Mansour Satari, brig-gen/commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
January 5, 1995 Yahya Ayyash, PLO bomb maker, booby trapped cellular phone at 28
January 5, 1994 Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87
January 5, 1994 Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (D-Ma)/Speaker of House (1977-86), dies at 81
January 5, 1994 Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39
January 5, 1994 William Raynor, writer, dies at 73
January 5, 1994 Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician
January 5, 1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85
January 5, 1993 Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61
January 5, 1993 Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier, dies 60
January 5, 1993 Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65
January 5, 1993 Klaas Wiersma, Dutch sec of Justice (VVD), dies
January 5, 1993 Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84
January 5, 1993 Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered
January 5, 1993 Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns), dies of brain cancer at 52
January 5, 1993 Westley A Dodd, U.S. murderer, 1st hanging in U.S. since 1965
January 5, 1991 John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
January 5, 1991 Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
January 5, 1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
January 5, 1990 Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76
January 5, 1990 Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies
January 5, 1988 "Pistol Pete" Mavarich, NBAer (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40
January 5, 1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60
January 5, 1987 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian Athlete
January 5, 1982 Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), dies at 64
January 5, 1982 Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56
January 5, 1981 Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87
January 5, 1981 Paul Felix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67
January 5, 1979 Charles Mingus, U.S. jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56
January 5, 1977 Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74
January 5, 1976 Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84
January 5, 1975 Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning
January 5, 1975 Edward Lawrie Tatum, American Scientist
January 5, 1974 Roy Bargy, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79
January 5, 1973 Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP), dies at 79
January 5, 1971 Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36
January 5, 1970 Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered
January 5, 1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87
January 5, 1970 Roberto Gerhard, composer, dies at 73
January 5, 1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83
January 5, 1969 Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY
January 5, 1968 Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79
January 5, 1965 Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr. Kildare), dies at 73
January 5, 1965 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81
January 5, 1963 Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66
January 5, 1960 Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53
January 5, 1956 Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84
January 5, 1952 Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for Eng 3 for Ind), dies
January 5, 1952 Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64
January 5, 1951 Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51
January 5, 1951 Shoeless Joe Jackson, American Athlete
January 5, 1950 Sri Aurobindo, Indian Philosopher
January 5, 1945 Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65
January 5, 1944 Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80
January 5, 1943 George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81
January 5, 1942 Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered
January 5, 1940 Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Ital/Mexican communist, dies at 46
January 5, 1936 Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66
January 5, 1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60
January 5, 1933 Texas Guinan, American Businesman
January 5, 1931 Dwight Morrow, American Businessman
January 5, 1922 Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47
January 5, 1922 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer
January 5, 1918 Robert Baldwin Ross, French Celebrity
January 5, 1904 Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64
January 5, 1891 Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89
January 5, 1888 Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday
January 5, 1879 James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician
January 5, 1870 Alexander Dumas, French Novelist
January 5, 1867 Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet
January 5, 1862 Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81
January 5, 1860 St. John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male U.S. saint, dies
January 5, 1858 Johann JWAFK Radetzky von Radetz, Austr earl/field marshal, dies at 91
January 5, 1856 Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67
January 5, 1848 Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73
January 5, 1827 Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63
January 5, 1814 Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer, dies at 72
January 5, 1807 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79
January 5, 1799 Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet (Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41
January 5, 1796 Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64
January 5, 1788 Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85
January 5, 1783 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday
January 5, 1762 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52
January 5, 1759 Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Netherlands cardinal, dies at 79
January 5, 1746 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53
January 5, 1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
January 5, 1684 Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44
January 5, 1603 Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73
January 5, 1595 Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies
January 5, 1592 Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75
January 5, 1589 Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69
January 5, 1524 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73
January 5, 1477 Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43
January 5, 1425 John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned
January 5, 1387 Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67
January 5, 1066 Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies



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