Deaths on 5 September
2000s
Rebecca Cheptegei
2024
Ugandan athlete (1991–2024)
Herbie Flowers
2024
English musician (1938–2024)
Radha Charan Gupta
2024
Indian historian of mathematics (1935–2024)
Sérgio Mendes
2024
Brazilian musician (1941–2024)
Rich Homie Quan
2024
American rapper (1989–2024)
Laurent Tirard
2024
French film director and screenwriter (1967–2024)
Sarah Harding
2021
English singer, model, and actress (1981–2021)
Francisco Toledo
2019
Mexican artist (1940–2019)
Bhagwatikumar Sharma
2018
Indian author and journalist (1934–2018)
Beatriz Segall
2018
Brazilian actress (1926–2018)
Nicolaas Bloembergen
2017
Dutch–American physicist (1920–2017)
Hugh O'Brian
2016
American actor (1925–2016)
Phyllis Schlafly
2016
American activist (1924–2016)
Goh Eng Wah
2015
Aadesh Shrivastava
2015
Indian musician
Chester Stranczek
2015
American politician
Bruce Morton (journalist)
2014
American journalist
Mara Neusel
2014
Mathematician
Edwin Bideau
2013
American politician
Geoffrey Goodman
2013
British journalist, broadcaster and writer (1922–2013)
Isamu Jordan
2013
American journalist, musician, and professor
Ian Dick (Australian sportsman)
2012
Australian cricketer and field hockey player
Victoria Fyodorova
2012
American actress
John Oaksey
2012
British peer, amateur jockey and racing journalist (1929–2012)
Hedley Beare
2010
Australian academic
Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
2010
Dutch artist
Gani Fawehinmi
2009
Nigerian lawyer (1938–2009)
Jennifer Dunn
2007
American politician (1941–2007)
Paul Gillmor
2007
American politician (1939–2007)
Thomas Hansen (musician)
2007
Norwegian alternative country musician
D. James Kennedy
2007
American pastor, televangelist, and writer (1930–2007)
Nikos Nikolaidis
2007
Greek film director
Roberto Viaux
2005
Chilean Army General
Gisele MacKenzie
2003
Canadian singer and actress (1927–2003)
David Todd Wilkinson
2002
American cosmologist (1935–2002)
Justin Wilson (chef)
2001
American chef, actor and writer (1914–2001)
Vladimir Žerjavić
2001
Croatian economist and demographer
Roy Fredericks
2000
West Indian cricketer
1900s
Alan Clark
1999
British politician and author (1928–1999)
Allen Funt
1999
American television producer (1914–1999)
Bryce Mackasey
1999
Canadian politician
Ferdinand Biondi
1998
Canadian radio host (1909–1998)
Willem Drees Jr.
1998
Dutch politician (1922–1998)
Verner Panton
1998
Danish furniture designer (1926–1998)
Leo Penn
1998
American director (1921–1998)
Leon Edel
1997
American literary critic and historian
Eddie Little Sky
1997
American film and television actor (1926–1997)
Georg Solti
1997
Hungarian-British conductor (1912–1997)
Mother Teresa
1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)
Basil Salvadore D'Souza
1996
Indian Roman Catholic Bishop
Benyamin Sueb
1995
Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (1939–1995)
Salil Chowdhury
1995
Indian music director and singer-songwriter (1925–1995)
Shimshon Amitsur
1994
Israeli mathematician (1921–1994)
John Newman (Australian politician)
1994
Australian politician (1946–1994)
Claude Renoir
1993
French cinematographer
Fritz Leiber
1992
American fantasy, horror, and SF writer (1910–1992)
Sharad Joshi
1991
Indian poet and writer (1931–1991)
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon
1990
English colonial administrator and diplomat (1907–1990)
Jerry Iger
1990
American cartoonist (1903–1990)
Ivan Mihailov
1990
Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia
Philip Baxter
1989
British chemical engineer (1905–1989)
Gert Fröbe
1988
German actor (1913–1988)
Neerja Bhanot
1986
Indian flight attendant of Pan Am Flight 73 (1963–1986)
Johannes Hint
1985
Estonian scientist
Adam Malik
1984
Vice President of Indonesia from 1978 to 1983
Jane Roberts
1984
American poet and psychic (1929–1984)
Douglas Bader
1982
British World War II flying ace (1910–1982)
Don Banks
1980
Australian composer
Alberto di Jorio
1979
Roman Catholic Cardinal
Marcel Thiry
1977
Belgian poet
Alice Catherine Evans
1975
American microbiologist (1881–1975)
Jack Fournier
1973
American baseball player (1889–1973)
Alan Kippax
1972
Australian cricketer
Jochen Rindt
1970
Racing driver (1942–1970)
Dezső Lauber
1966
Hungarian sportsman and architect
Tom Johnston (British politician)
1965
Scottish socialist and politician
Lewis Akeley
1961
American academic (1981–1961)
Haydn Bunton Sr.
1955
Australian rules footballer (1911–1955)
Eugen Schiffer
1954
German lawyer and politician (1860–1954)
Richard Walther Darré
1953
Nazi politician (1895–1953)
Richard C. Tolman
1948
American physicist (1881–1948)
Clem Hill
1945
Australian cricketer (1877–1945)
François de Labouchere
1942
French aviator
Kathleen O'Melia
1939
Canadian religious sister (1869–1939)
Gustave Kahn
1936
French Symbolist poet and art critic (1859-1936)
Sidney Myer
1934
Australian businessman
Francisco Acebal
1932
Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist
Paul Bern
1932
German-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1889–1932)
John Thomson (footballer, born 1909)
1931
Scottish footballer
Robert Means Thompson
1930
American naval officer and businessman
Karl Harrer
1926
German journalist and politician
Georgette Agutte
1922
French painter and sculptor (1867–1922)
Robert Harron
1920
American actor
Marian Smoluchowski
1917
Polish physicist (1872–1917)
Arthur MacArthur Jr.
1912
American military general (1845–1912)
Louis Bouveault
1909
French chemist
Ludwig Boltzmann
1906
Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist (1844–1906)
Rudolf Virchow
1902
German doctor and polymath (1821–1902)
Ignacij Klemenčič
1901
Carniolan (Slovenian) physicist (1853-1901)
1800s
Sarah Emma Edmonds
1898
Canadian-born woman who served as a man during the American Civil War
George Stoneman
1894
Union Army General and governor of California (1822–1894)
Crazy Horse
1877
Lakota war leader (c. 1840–1877)
Manuel Blanco Encalada
1876
First President of Chile
Auguste Comte
1857
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
Charles Percier
1838
French architect (1764–1838)
Ferdinand Raimund
1836
Austrian actor and dramatist (1790–1836)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
1803
French novelist, official, freemason, and army general (1741–1803)
François Devienne
1803
French composer and professor
Before 1800
Jonas Hanway
1786
English merchant, writer and philanthropist (1712–1786)
Nicolas Bernier
1734
French composer
Domenico Allegri
1629
Italian composer
Pomponne de Bellièvre
1607
French statesman
Edmund Bonner
1569
Sixteenth-century English Catholic bishop (1500–1569)
Katharina Zell
1562
Protestant reformer and writer (1497/8–1562)
Catherine Parr
1548
Queen of England and Ireland from 1543 to 1547
Alonso de Salazar
1526
Spanish explorer (??–1526)
Charles d'Évreux
1336
Amadeus Aba
1311
14th-century Hungarian oligarch
Henry I, Duke of Brabant
1235
Duke of Brabant (from 1183) and Duke of Lower Lotharingia (from 1190)
Emperor Nijō
1165
Emperor of Japan from 1158 to 1165
Emperor Shang of Tang
714
Emperor of the Tang dynasty in 710
Authari
590
King of the Lombards from 584 to 590