Deaths on 5 January
2000s
Mike Rinder
2025
American Scientology critic (1955–2025)
Costas Simitis
2025
Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004
Joseph Lelyveld
2024
American journalist (1937–2024)
Mário Zagallo
2024
Brazilian footballer and manager (1931–2024)
Kim Mi-soo
2022
South Korean actress (1992–2022)
Colin Bell (footballer, born 1946)
2021
English professional footballer (1946–2021)
John Georgiadis
2021
British violinist and conductor (1939–2021)
Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
2020
Bangladeshi Islamic advocacy group
Bernice Sandler
2019
American women's rights activist (1928–2019)
Dragoslav Šekularac
2019
Yugoslav and Serbian footballer and coach (1937–2019)
Asghar Khan
2018
First native Pakistani Air Chief (1921-2018)
Thomas Bopp
2018
American astronomer (1949–2018)
Karin von Aroldingen
2018
German ballet dancer
Jill Saward
2017
English campaigner and author
Pierre Boulez
2016
French composer and conductor (1925–2016)
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
2015
French racing driver and motorcycle road racer (1937–2015)
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin
2015
Catholic bishop (1912–2015)
Eusébio
2014
Portuguese footballer (1942–2014)
Carmen Zapata
2014
American actress (1927–2014)
Qazi Hussain Ahmad
2013
Islamist political party president (1938 – 2013)
Isaac Díaz Pardo
2012
Spanish artist
Frederica Sagor Maas
2012
American playwright, screenwriter, and memoirist (1900–2012)
Willie Mitchell (musician)
2010
American trumpeter, arranger and record producer (1928–2010)
Kenneth Noland
2010
American abstract painter (1924–2010)
Griffin Bell
2009
American judge
Momofuku Ando
2007
Taiwanese-Japanese inventor and businessman (1910–2007)
Merlyn Rees
2006
British politician (1920–2006)
Norman Heatley
2004
English biologist (1911–2004)
Roy Jenkins
2003
British politician (1920–2003)
Félix Loustau
2003
Argentine footballer (1922–2003)
Kumar Ponnambalam
2000
Sri Lankan politician (1938-2000)
1900s
Sonny Bono
1998
American singer, record producer, comedian, actor, and politician (1935–1998)
André Franquin
1997
Belgian comics artist (1924–1997)
Burton Lane
1997
American composer (1912–1997)
Thung Sin Nio
1996
Dutch East Indies teacher and women's rights activist (1902–1996)
Tip O'Neill
1994
American politician (1912–1994)
Vasko Popa
1991
Serbian poet (1922–1991)
Arthur Kennedy
1990
American actor (1914–1990)
Margaret Laurence
1987
Canadian novelist and short story writer
Herman Smith-Johannsen
1987
Norwegian skier and supercentenarian (1875–1987)
Eithne Coyle
1985
Irish republican activist
Robert Surtees (cinematographer)
1985
American cinematographer (1906-1985)
Hans Conried
1982
American actor (1917–1982)
Edmund Herring
1982
Australian general and judge (1892–1982)
Harold Urey
1981
American physical chemist (1893–1981)
Lanza del Vasto
1981
Italian activist
Billy Bletcher
1979
American actor (1894–1979)
Charles Mingus
1979
American jazz musician (1922–1979)
Wyatt Emory Cooper
1978
American writer and actor (1927–1978)
John A. Costello
1976
Taoiseach (1948–1951, 1954–1957)
Lev Oborin
1974
Soviet pianist (1907–1974)
Douglas Shearer
1971
Canadian sound designer and recording director
Max Born
1970
German–British theoretical physicist (1882–1970)
Roberto Gerhard
1970
Spanish and British composer (1896–1970)
Rogers Hornsby
1963
American baseball player, coach and manager (1896–1963)
Mistinguett
1956
French actress and singer (1873–1956)
Rabbit Maranville
1954
American baseball player and manager (1891–1954)
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
1952
British politician and statesman (1887–1952)
Hristo Tatarchev
1952
Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (1869–1952)
Philip Jaisohn
1951
Korean American physician and politician (1864–1951)
Andrei Platonov
1951
Russian author
George Washington Carver
1943
American botanist and inventor (1864–1943)
Tina Modotti
1942
Italian-born photographer and actress, active in the US and Mexico
Lisandro de la Torre
1939
Argentine politician (1868–1939)
Calvin Coolidge
1933
President of the United States from 1923 to 1929
Ernest Shackleton
1922
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
Isobel Lilian Gloag
1917
English painter (1865–1917)
Léon Walras
1910
French mathematical economist (1834–1910)
Karl Alfred von Zittel
1904
German palaeontologist (1839–1904)
1800s
Ezra Otis Kendall
1899
American professor, astronomer and mathematician
Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński
1889
Polish art collector
Henri Herz
1888
19th-century Austrian musician
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1885
19th-century Norwegian writer
Charles Tompson
1883
Australian public servant and poet (1807–1883)
John Neumann
1860
19th-century Czech Catholic missionary, bishop, and saint
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
1858
Austrian field marshal (1766–1858)
Alfred Thomas Agate
1846
American painter and botanical illustrator
Robert Smirke (painter)
1845
English painter
George Johnston (Royal Marines officer)
1823
Royal Marines officer and colonial administrator (1764–1823)
Before 1800
Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)
1796
American Founding Father and politician (1731–1796)
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
1771
18th-century British statesman
Elizabeth of Russia
1762
Empress of Russia from 1741 to 1762
Antonio Lotti
1740
Italian composer (1667–1740)
Jean Chardin
1713
French-born English jeweller, traveller and writer (1643–1713)
Catherine de' Medici
1589
Queen of France from 1547 to 1559
Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg
1580
German noblewoman (1542–1580)
Giulio Clovio
1578
Croatian-Italian Renaissance painter, miniaturist
Felix Manz
1527
Co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement (1498–1527)
Marko Marulić
1524
Croatian national poet and European humanist
Charles the Bold
1477
Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477
Philippa of England
1430
Queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (1394–1430)
John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
1400
English nobleman (c. 1350–1400)
Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster
1382
Medieval English princess
Bolesław IV the Curly
1173
High Duke of Poland
Edward the Confessor
1066
King of England from 1042 to 1066
Zhang Yanhan
941
Al-Mu'tasim
842
8th Abbasid caliph (r. 833–842)