December 5th Deaths |
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| December 5th, 2007 (December 05 2007) | Death | Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (born in 1928) | Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes |
| December 5th, 2007 (December 05 2007) | Death | Andrew Imbrie, American composer (born in 1921) | |
| December 5th, 2006 (December 05 2006) | Death | David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (born in 1924) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Ed Masry, American lawyer (born in 1932) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (born in 1949) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (born in 1905) | |
| December 5th, 2002 (December 05 2002) | Death | Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (born in 1931) | |
| December 5th, 2002 (December 05 2002) | Death | Ne Win, Burmese leader (born in 1911) | |
| December 5th, 2001 (December 05 2001) | Death | Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (born in 1901) | |
| December 5th, 1998 (December 05 1998) | Death | Al Gore, Sr., American politician (born in 1907) | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Death | Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (born in 1920) | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Death | Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (born in 1959) | |
| December 5th, 1994 (December 05 1994) | Death | Harry Horner, American art director (born in 1910) | |
| December 5th, 1993 (December 05 1993) | Death | Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (born in 1961) | |
| December 5th, 1991 (December 05 1991) | Death | Robert Karvelas, American actor (born in 1921) | |
| December 5th, 1991 (December 05 1991) | Death | Richard Speck, American mass murderer (born in 1941) | |
| December 5th, 1989 (December 05 1989) | Death | Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (born in 1921) | |
| December 5th, 1986 (December 05 1986) | Death | Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (born in 1924) | |
| December 5th, 1984 (December 05 1984) | Death | Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (born in 1917) | |
| December 5th, 1983 (December 05 1983) | Death | Robert Aldrich, American film director (born in 1918) | |
| December 5th, 1977 (December 05 1977) | Death | Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (born in 1895) | Aleksandr Vasilevsky Quotes |
| December 5th, 1973 (December 05 1973) | Death | Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (born in 1892) | |
| December 5th, 1969 (December 05 1969) | Death | Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (born in 1884) | |
| December 5th, 1968 (December 05 1968) | Death | Fred Clark, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| December 5th, 1966 (December 05 1966) | Death | Sylvere Maes, Belgian cyclist (born in 1909) | |
| December 5th, 1965 (December 05 1965) | Death | Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1874) | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Death | Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (born in 1905) | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Death | Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Indian Hindu mystic | |
| December 5th, 1963 (December 05 1963) | Death | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born in 1892) | |
| December 5th, 1955 (December 05 1955) | Death | Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (born in 1886) | |
| December 5th, 1953 (December 05 1953) | Death | Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (born in 1911) | |
| December 5th, 1951 (December 05 1951) | Death | "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (born in 1889) | |
| December 5th, 1951 (December 05 1951) | Death | Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (born in 1871) | |
| December 5th, 1950 (December 05 1950) | Death | Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (born in 1872) | |
| December 5th, 1940 (December 05 1940) | Death | Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (born in 1893) | |
| December 5th, 1940 (December 05 1940) | Death | Jan Kubelik, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist (born in 1880) | |
| December 5th, 1931 (December 05 1931) | Death | Vachel Lindsay, American poet (born in 1879) | |
| December 5th, 1926 (December 05 1926) | Death | Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (born in 1840) | |
| December 5th, 1925 (December 05 1925) | Death | Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born in 1867) | |
| December 5th, 1895 (December 05 1895) | Death | Chief Gall, Sioux chief (born in 1840) | |
| December 5th, 1891 (December 05 1891) | Death | Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (born in 1825) | |
| December 5th, 1887 (December 05 1887) | Death | Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (born in 1804) | |
| December 5th, 1870 (December 05 1870) | Death | Alexandre Dumas, pere, French writer (born in 1802) | Alexandre Dumas Quotes |
| December 5th, 1819 (December 05 1819) | Death | Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (born in 1750) | |
| December 5th, 1791 (December 05 1791) | Death | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (born in 1756) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes |
| December 5th, 1784 (December 05 1784) | Death | Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (born in 1753) | |
| December 5th, 1770 (December 05 1770) | Death | James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (born in 1692) | |
| December 5th, 1758 (December 05 1758) | Death | Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (born in 1688) | |
| December 5th, 1749 (December 05 1749) | Death | Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Verendrye, New French explorer and trader (born in 1685) | |
| December 5th, 1663 (December 05 1663) | Death | Severo Bonini, Italian composer (born in 1582) | |
| December 5th, 1654 (December 05 1654) | Death | Jean Francois Sarrazin, French writer | |
| December 5th, 1624 (December 05 1624) | Death | Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (born in 1560) | |
| December 5th, 1570 (December 05 1570) | Death | Johan Friis, Danish statesman (born in 1494) | |
| December 5th, 1560 (December 05 1560) | Death | King Francis II of France (born in 1544) | |
| December 5th, 1355 (December 05 1355) | Death | John III, Duke of Brabant (born in 1300) | |
| December 5th, 1082 (December 05 1082) | Death | Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona | |
| December 5th, 0749 (December 05 0749) | Death | Saint John of Damascus, theologian | |
