Deaths on 5 October
2000s
Robert Coover
2024
American novelist (1932–2024)
Eberhard van der Laan
2017
Dutch politician
Brock Yates
2016
American motorsport journalist (1933–2016)
Chantal Akerman
2015
Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator (1950–2015)
Joker Arroyo
2015
Filipino politician (1927–2015)
Grace Lee Boggs
2015
American social activist, author (1915–2015)
Henning Mankell
2015
Swedish author (1948–2015)
David Chavchavadze
2014
American writer (1924–2014)
Andrea de Cesaris
2014
Italian racing driver (1959–2014)
Geoffrey Holder
2014
Trinidadian-American actor and dancer (1930–2014)
Yuri Lyubimov
2014
Soviet and Russian stage actor and director
Ruth R. Benerito
2013
American scientist and inventor (1916–2013)
Carlo Lizzani
2013
Italian film director, screenwriter and critic
Yakkun Sakurazuka
2013
Japanese comedian and voice actor
Keith Campbell (biologist)
2012
British biologist and university professor (1954–2012)
Vojin Dimitrijević
2012
Serbian law professor, intellectual and human rights activist
James W. Holley III
2012
American politician
Edvard Mirzoyan
2012
Armenian composer
Claude Pinoteau
2012
French film director and scriptwriter
Derrick Bell
2011
American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist
Bert Jansch
2011
Scottish folk musician (1943–2011)
Steve Jobs
2011
American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)
Charles Napier (actor)
2011
American actor (1936–2011)
Fred Shuttlesworth
2011
American civil rights activist (1922–2011)
Gökşin Sipahioğlu
2011
Turkish photographer and journalist
Bernard Clavel
2010
French writer
Mary Leona Gage
2010
American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
Steve Lee (singer)
2010
Swiss Musical artist (1963–2010)
Antonio Peña
2006
Mexican professional wrestler and promoter (1951–2006)
Rodney Dangerfield
2004
American stand-up comedian (1921–2004)
William H. Dobelle
2004
American medical researcher (1941–2004)
Maurice Wilkins
2004
New Zealand-born British biophysicist (1916–2004)
Dan Snyder (ice hockey)
2003
Ice hockey player
Timothy Treadwell
2003
American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, and documentary filmmaker (1957–2003)
Chuck Rayner
2002
Canadian hockey goaltender (1920–2002)
Mike Mansfield
2001
American politician and diplomat (1903–2001)
Johanna Döbereiner
2000
Brazilian agronomist (1924–2000)
Cătălin Hîldan
2000
Romanian footballer
1900s
Brian Pillman
1997
American professional wrestler (1962–1997)
Seymour Cray
1996
American supercomputer architect (1925–1996)
Eddie Kendricks
1992
American singer and songwriter (1939–1992)
Mike Burgmann
1986
Australian racing driver (1947–86)
Hal B. Wallis
1986
American film producer (1898-1986)
James H. Wilkinson
1986
English mathematician and computer scientist
Karl Menger
1985
Austrian–American mathematician
Humberto Mauro
1983
Brazilian director
Earl Tupper
1983
American businessman and inventor (1907–1983)
Gloria Grahame
1981
American actress (1923–1981)
Barbara Nichols
1976
American actress (1928–1976)
Lars Onsager
1976
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
Clifton Williams
1967
American astronaut (1932–1967)
Joe Jagersberger
1952
American engineer (1884–1952)
Frederic Lewy
1950
American neurologist (1885–1950)
Leon Roppolo
1943
American jazz clarinetist (1902-1943)
Dorothea Klumpke
1942
American astronomer
Louis Brandeis
1941
US Supreme Court justice from 1916 to 1939 (1856–1941)
Ballington Booth
1940
American Christian minister (1857–1940)
Lincoln L. McCandless
1940
US politician (1859–1940)
Silvestre Revueltas
1940
Mexican composer (1899–1940)
Faustina Kowalska
1938
Nun and saint from Poland
Albert Ranft
1938
Swedish theatre director and actor (1858–1938)
J. Slauerhoff
1936
Dutch poet, writer and doctor (1898–1936)
Renée Adorée
1933
French actress (1898–1933)
Nikolai Yudenich
1933
Russian general (1862–1933)
Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson
1930
British politician
Varghese Payyappilly
1929
Indian Catholic priest (1876–1929)
Sam Warner
1927
American film studio executive (1887–1927)
John Storey (politician)
1921
20th Premier of New South Wales
Roland Garros (aviator)
1918
20th-century early French pilot
Albert Solomon
1914
Australian lawyer and politician
Hans von Bartels
1913
German painter
1800s
Ralph Tollemache
1895
English clergyman (1826–1895)
Thomas C. Durant
1885
Railroad promoter, financier
Jacques Offenbach
1880
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski
1861
Catholic archbishop (1778 – 1861)
Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg
1848
Politician from Austria (1781–1848)
William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry
1827
Anglo-Irish politician (1761–1827)
Tecumseh
1813
Shawnee Native American military leader (1768-1813)
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
1805
British Army officer (1738–1805)
Sanité Bélair
1802
Haitian revolutionary
Before 1800
Johann Andreas Segner
1777
Hungarian scientist (1704–1777)
Jean-Philippe Baratier
1740
German scholar (1721–1740)
Kaibara Ekken
1714
Japanese Confucianist Philosopher, Pre-Linnaean botanist
Heribert Rosweyde
1629
Jesuit hagiographer
Philippe Desportes
1606
French poet
Lodovico Ferrari
1565
Italian mathematician (1522–1565)
Pierre de Manchicourt
1564
French renaissance composer
Helius Eobanus Hessus
1540
German Latin poet and Lutheran humanist
Richard Foxe
1528
15th- and 16th-century English churchman
Joachim Patinir
1524
Flemish painter (c. 1480 – 1524)
Raymond of Capua
1399
Leading member of the Dominican Order
Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France
1398
Queen of France in 1350
Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan)
1354
Medieval Italian cardinal and statesman (1290–1354)
Philip III of France
1285
King of France from 1270 to 1285
Al-Nasir
1225
Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad (r. 1180–1225)
Alfonso VIII of Castile
1214
King of Castile and Toledo from 1158 to 1214
Sigebert of Gembloux
1112
Medieval author
Robert II, Count of Flanders
1111
Count of Flanders from 1093 to 1111
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
1056
Holy Roman Emperor from 1046 to 1056
Henry III, Duke of Bavaria
989
Phocas
610
Roman emperor from 602 to 610
Justin II
578
Roman emperor from 565 to 578
Pradyota dynasty
-659
Dynasty of Avanti