What happened on November 5 ?

1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)

1559 - Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476)

1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)

1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)

1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician

1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)

1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)

1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)

1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)

1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)

1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)

1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)

1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)

1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)

1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)

1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)

1951 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)

1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)

1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)

1960 - Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)

1960 - Johnny Horton, Country music singer, (b.1925)

1960 - Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (b. 1880)

1974 - Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)

1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)

1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)

1977 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)

1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)

1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)

1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908)

1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)

1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)

1990 - Erich Heller, British philosopher, long resident in the U.S. (b. 1911)

1990 - Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist (b. 1932)

1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)

1991 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)

1992 - Árpád ÿl?, Hungarian physicist (b. 1903)

1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909)

2000 - Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)

2001 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)

2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)

2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)

2005 - John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)

2005 - Link Wray, American musician (b. 1929)