Famous Deaths on 5th June

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535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
754 - Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79
754 - Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered
1017 - Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1288 - Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
1443 - Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 - Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded
1568 - Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1568 - Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41
1667 - Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies
1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1722 - Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62
1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1785 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1826 - Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39
1852 - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
1861 - John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle
1861 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55
1864 - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 39
1866 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
1868 - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73
1880 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52
1885 - Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80
1894 - Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70
1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
Novelist Stephen Crane (1900) 1900 - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1908 - Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71
1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1915 - Brzeska, sculptor, dies
1916 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65
1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1923 - George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65
1927 - Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89
1930 - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies
1932 - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies
1939 - Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies
US President Abraham Lincoln (1902) 1939 - Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
1944 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
1953 - Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60
1953 - Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65
1953 - William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter), dies at 76
1966 - Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69
1967 - Edna Park Edwards, entertainer, dies at 72
1970 - "Jopie" Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
1970 - Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
1973 - Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82
1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1976 - Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101
1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
1977 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric), dies at 74
1978 - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71
1979 - Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
1980 - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70
1981 - Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru), dies
1984 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
1988 - Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
1990 - J Zeldenrust, pathology-anatomy, dies
1990 - Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1992 - Laurence Naismith, actor (Scrooge, Gypsy Girl), dies at 83
1992 - Max Lerner, US writer/columnist (NY Post), dies at 88
1993 - Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), dies in surgery at 59
1994 - Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn A Bogue], cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86
1994 - Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67
1995 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer, dies at 75
1996 - Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner, dies at 59
1996 - Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78
1997 - J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide at 64
1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan (2004) 2004 - Ronald Reagan, American radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California, and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
2005 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2005 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
2009 - Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
2009 - Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)
2012 - Ray Bradbury, American author, dies at 91
2012 - Barry Unsworth, British novelist, dies from lung cancer at 81