What happened on August 5 ?

882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)

1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, Welsh prince

1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)

1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)

1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)

1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)

1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)

1743 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)

1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)

1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)

1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvec?ur de Perthes, French archaelogist (b. 1788)

1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)

1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)

1923 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)

1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)

1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)

1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b.1917)

1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)

1957 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

1959 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)

1960 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)

1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)

1984 - Richard Burton, British actor (b. 1925)

1991 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)

1992 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954)

1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)

2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)

2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, actor (b. 1982)

2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)

2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)

2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)

2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)