What happened on March 5 ?

1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)

1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)

1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)

1605 - Pope Clement VIII (b. 1536)

1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)

1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)

1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)

1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician

1778 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (b. 1710)

1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)

1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)

1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)

1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)

1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)

1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)

1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828

1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier (b. 1810)

1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)

1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)

1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)

1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)

1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)

1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)

1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)

1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)

1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)

1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)

1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)

1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)

1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)

1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)

1965 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (b. 1904)

1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)

1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)

1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)

1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)

1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)

1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)

1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)

1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)

1984 - William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)

1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)

1995 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician, artist, actor, writer, Bonzo Dog Band (b. 1943

1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)

1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)

1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)

2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (b. 1970)

2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)

2006 - Richard Kuklinski, Mafia hit man (b. 1935)