Deaths on 5 March
2000s
Kurt Moll
2017
German operatic bass (1938–2017)
Hassan al-Turabi
2016
Sudanese religious and political leader (1932–2016)
Ray Tomlinson
2016
American computer programmer (1941–2016)
Al Wistert
2016
American football player (1920–2016)
Vlada Divljan
2015
Serbian musician
Edward Egan
2015
American Catholic cardinal (1932–2015)
Geoff Edwards
2014
American actor and game show host
Ailsa McKay
2014
Scottish economist (1963–2014)
Leopoldo María Panero
2014
Spanish poet (1948–2014)
Ola L. Mize
2014
United States Army officer (1931–2014)
Paul Bearer
2013
American professional wrestling manager (1954–2013)
Hugo Chávez
2013
President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013
Duane Gish
2013
American creationist (1921–2013)
Paul Haines (fiction writer)
2012
New Zealand-born writer
Philip Madoc
2012
Welsh actor (1934–2012)
William O. Wooldridge
2012
United States Army soldier and the first Sergeant Major of the Army
Manolis Rasoulis
2011
Musical artist
Charles B. Pierce
2010
American filmmaker and actor (1938–2010)
Richard Stapley
2010
English actor and screenwriter (1923–2010)
Joseph Weizenbaum
2008
German-American computer scientist (1923–2008)
David Sheppard
2005
English cleric and cricketer (1929–2005)
Lolo Ferrari
2000
French pornographic actress (1963–2000)
1900s
Richard Kiley
1999
American actor (1922–1999)
Samm Sinclair Baker
1997
American writer (1909–1997)
Jean Dréville
1997
French film director
Whit Bissell
1996
American character actor (1909–1996)
Vivian Stanshall
1995
English musician and author (1943–1995)
Gary Merrill
1990
American actor (1915–1990)
Alberto Olmedo
1988
Argentine comedian and actor
Tito Gobbi
1984
Italian baritone (1913–1984)
William Powell
1984
American actor (1892–1984)
John Belushi
1982
American actor (1949–1982)
Yip Harburg
1981
American lyricist (1896–1981)
Jay Silverheels
1980
Canadian Mohawk actor and athlete (1912–1980)
Tom Pryce
1977
British racing driver (1949–1977)
Otto Tief
1976
Estonian politician and lawyer (1889–1976)
John Samuel Bourque
1974
Canadian politician (1894–1974)
Billy De Wolfe
1974
American actor (1905–1974)
Sol Hurok
1974
Russian-American impresario (1888–1974)
Robert C. O'Brien (author)
1973
American novelist (1918–1973)
Allan Nevins
1971
American historian and journalist (1890–1971)
Mischa Auer
1967
Russian-American actor (1905–1967)
Mohammad Mosaddegh
1967
Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953
Georges Vanier
1967
Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967
Anna Akhmatova
1966
Russian and Soviet poet (1889–1966)
Chen Cheng
1965
Chinese politician and general (1898–1965)
Pepper Martin
1965
American baseball player (1904–1965)
Patsy Cline
1963
American country singer (1932–1963)
Cowboy Copas
1963
American country music singer (1913–1963)
Hawkshaw Hawkins
1963
American country music singer (1921–1963)
Antanas Merkys
1955
Lithuanian politician and lawyer
Herman J. Mankiewicz
1953
American screenwriter (1897–1953)
Sergei Prokofiev
1953
Russian composer and pianist (1891–1953)
Joseph Stalin
1953
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Edgar Lee Masters
1950
American poet (1868–1950)
Roman Shukhevych
1950
Ukrainian nationalist militant (1907–1950)
Alfredo Casella
1947
Italian composer, pianist, and conductor
Lena Baker
1945
African American wrongful execution victim (1900-1945)
Max Jacob
1944
French poet, painter, writer and critic
George Plant
1942
Cai Yuanpei
1940
Chinese educator and statesman (1868–1940)
Roque Ruaño
1935
Spanish civil engineer
Reşit Galip
1934
Turkish politician
David Dunbar Buick
1929
Inventor and the founder of Buick Motor Company
Franz Mertens
1927
Polish-Austrian mathematician
Johan Jensen (mathematician)
1925
Danish mathematician and engineer (1859–1925)
Friedrich Blass
1907
German classical scholar (1843–1907)
1800s
Nikolai Leskov
1895
Russian writer and novelist (1831–1895)
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
1895
British army officer, politician and Orientalist (1810–1895)
Hippolyte Taine
1893
French critic, historian, and philosopher (1828–1893)
Mary Louise Booth
1889
American editor, translator and writer
Marie d'Agoult
1876
Franco-German romantic author and historian (1805–1876)
David Scott (painter)
1849
Scottish historical painter
John Adams (mutineer)
1829
Last Bounty mutineer (1767–1829)
Pierre-Simon Laplace
1827
French polymath (1749–1827)
Alessandro Volta
1827
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
Franz Mesmer
1815
German physician (1734–1815)
Before 1800
Thomas Arne
1778
18th-century English composer
Crispus Attucks
1770
African-American stevedore; first victim of the Boston Massacre (c.1723-1770)
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
1726
English aristocrat
Henry Wharton (writer)
1695
Ranuccio I Farnese
1622
Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1592 to 1622
Shimazu Yoshihisa
1611
Japanese feudal lord of Satsuma Province
Guido Panciroli
1599
Italian jurist, professor, historian and antiquarian
Nuno da Cunha
1539
Portuguese colonial administrator
Kaspar Ursinus Velius
1539
German humanist scholar, poet and historian
Antonio da Correggio
1534
Italian Renaissance painter (1489–1534)
Manuel III of Trebizond
1417
Emperor of Trebizond from 1390 to 1417
Matthew of Kraków
1410
German-Polish scholar and priest
Hermann Balk
1239
Landmeister in Livland (d. 1239)
Suppo I
824
Pope Lucius I
254
Head of the Catholic Church from 253 to 254