Deaths on 5 December
2000s
Frank Gehry
2025
Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)
Michael Annett
2025
American racing driver (1986–2025)
Jacques Roubaud
2024
French poet, writer and mathematician (1932–2024)
Norman Lear
2023
American screenwriter and producer (1922–2023)
Kirstie Alley
2022
American actress (1951–2022)
Bob Dole
2021
American politician and attorney (1923–2021)
Peter Alliss
2020
English golfer and broadcaster (1931–2020)
Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)
2019
American actor (1940–2019)
Michael I of Romania
2017
King of Romania (r. 1927–1930, 1940–1947)
August Ames
2017
Canadian pornographic actress (1994–2017)
Big Syke
2016
American rapper
Vic Eliason
2015
American evangelical clergyman
Tibor Rubin
2015
Hungarian-American US Army Corporal and Medal of Honor recipient (1929–2015)
Chuck Williams (author)
2015
American businessperson and food writer (1915–2015)
Ernest C. Brace
2014
(1931–2014) American aviator
Fabiola of Belgium
2014
Queen of the Belgians from 1960 to 1993
Talât Sait Halman
2014
Turkish writer and historian (1931–2014)
Jackie Healy-Rae
2014
Irish politician (1931–2014)
Silvio Zavala
2014
Mexican historian (1909–2014)
Fred Bassetti
2013
American architect (1917–2013)
William B. Edmondson
2013
American diplomat (1927–2013)
Nelson Mandela
2013
President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
Dave Brubeck
2012
American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012)
Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
2012
Australian philanthropist (1909–2012)
Oscar Niemeyer
2012
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
Ignatius IV of Antioch
2012
20th and 21st-century Patriarch of Antioch
Peter Gethin
2011
British racing driver (1940–2011)
Gennady Logofet
2011
Soviet and Russian football player
Alan Armer
2010
American television writer, producer, and director
Don Meredith
2010
American football player, television sportscaster (1938–2010)
William Lederer
2009
American novelist
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
2008
15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
George Brecht
2008
American conceptual artist and composer (1926–2008)
Nina Foch
2008
American actress (1924–2008)
Beverly Garland
2008
American actress (1926–2008)
Anca Parghel
2008
Romanian musician
Andrew Imbrie
2007
American composer (1921–2007)
George Paraskevaides
2007
Cypriot philanthropist and businessman
Karlheinz Stockhausen
2007
German composer (1928–2007)
David Bronstein
2006
Soviet chess grandmaster (1924–2006)
Edward L. Masry
2005
American lawyer and politician
Roone Arledge
2002
American sports and news broadcasting executive (1931–2002)
Ne Win
2002
Leader of Burma (1958–1960; 1962–1988)
Franco Rasetti
2001
Italian physicist
1900s
Albert Gore Sr.
1998
American politician (1907–1998)
Eugen Cicero
1997
Romanian-German jazz pianist
L. B. Cole
1995
American cartoonist
Charles Evans (mountaineer)
1995
English mountaineer
Gwen Harwood
1995
Australian poet
Clair Patterson
1995
American geochemist (1922–1995)
Harry Horner
1994
American art director (1910–1994)
Richard Speck
1991
American mass murderer (1941–1991)
Alfonso A. Ossorio
1990
Filipino American abstract expressionist artist
John Pritchard (conductor)
1989
English conductor
Edward Youde
1986
British administrator, diplomat and sinologist (1924–1986)
Cecil M. Harden
1984
American politician (1894–1984)
Robert Aldrich
1983
American film director (1918–1983)
Jesse Pearson (actor)
1979
American actor (1930-1979)
Katherine Milhous
1977
American writer
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
1977
Soviet general (1895–1977)
Constance McLaughlin Green
1975
American historian
Robert Watson-Watt
1973
Scottish physicist who pioneered radio direction-finding and radar (1892–1973)
Claude Dornier
1969
German aircraft designer
Princess Alice of Battenberg
1969
Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1885–1969)
Fred Clark
1968
American actor (1914–1968)
Joseph Erlanger
1965
American physiologist (1874–1965)
V. Veerasingam
1964
Ceylon Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
1963
German composer
Huseyn Suhrawardy
1963
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957
Emil Fuchs (baseball)
1961
American baseball executive (1878–1961)
Glenn L. Martin
1955
American aviation pioneer (1886–1955)
William Sterling Parsons
1953
American naval officer (1901–1953)
Shoeless Joe Jackson
1951
American baseball player (1887–1951)
Abanindranath Tagore
1951
Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)
Louis Dewis
1946
Belgian Post-Impressionist painter
Jock Delves Broughton
1942
British baronet (1883–1942)
Amrita Sher-Gil
1941
Hungarian-Indian painter (1913–1941)
Jan Kubelík
1940
Czech violinist and composer (1880–1940)
Alexander Atabekian
1933
Armenian anarchist writer (1868–1933)
Vachel Lindsay
1931
American poet (1879–1931)
Claude Monet
1926
French painter (1840–1926)
Władysław Reymont
1925
Polish novelist (1867–1925)
Schalk Willem Burger
1918
South African politician (1852–1918)
1800s
Pedro II of Brazil
1891
Emperor of Brazil from 1831 to 1889
Eliza R. Snow
1887
American religious leader and poet
Alexandre Dumas
1870
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
Henry Ross
1854
Canadian-born gold miner in colonial Australia (1829–1854)
Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg
1819
German lawyer and translator (1750–1819)
Before 1800
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1791
Composer (1756–1791)
Phillis Wheatley
1784
American writer (c. 1753–1784)
James Stirling (mathematician)
1770
Scottish mathematician
Johann Friedrich Fasch
1758
German violinist and composer (1688–1758)
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
1749
18th-century French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer
Severo Bonini
1663
Italian composer (1582–1663)
Jean-François Sarasin
1654
French writer (1611–1654)
Gaspard Bauhin
1624
Swiss botanist (1560–1624)
Johan Friis
1570
Danish statesman (1494–1570)
Francis II of France
1560
King of France from 1559 to 1560
John III, Duke of Brabant
1355
14th century sovereign duke in modern-day Belgium
Joan, Countess of Flanders
1244
Countess of Flanders and Hainaut from 1205 to 1244
Dirk van Are
1212
Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
1082
Count of Barcelona from 1076 to 1082
Ealhswith
902
Consort of Alfred the Great from 871 to 899
Li Ban
334
Emperor of Cheng-Han
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
-63
Roman consul in 71 BC