What happened on October 5 ?
Deaths
578 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor
877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823)
1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1528 - Richard Fox, English churchman
1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1714 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
1861 - Antoni Melchior Fija?kowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
1938 - Saint Faustina Polish religious (b. 1905)
1940 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1950 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1969 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1981 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (b,1923)
1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1986 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
1986 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1992 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (b. 1939)
1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1995 - Linda Gary, voice actress (b. 1944)
1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)
1997 - Brian Pillman, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)
2000 - Catalin Haldan, Romanian football player (b. 1976)
2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2003 - Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
Roman festivals - mundus patet: one of the three days that the mundus was opened for public.
Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910
International World Teachers' Day [1]
French Republican Calendar - Réséda (Mignonette) Day, fourteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
BBC: On This Day
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