Died On May 5th
Discover the most famous people who died on May 5. The list includes people like Napoleon Bonaparte, Bobby Sands, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Bret Harte, Carlos Saavedra Lamas. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, actors and revolutionaries and from other domains of life. This list includes people from Germany, United Kingdom, United States & France and many more countries.
Bobby SandsIrish
Napoleon BonaparteFrench
Emperor of the French
Peter Gustav Lejeune DirichletGerman
Mathematician
Bret HarteAmerican
Author & Poet
Josiah HensonAmerican
Abolitionist
Carlos Saavedra LamasArgentinian
First Latin American Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
David ReimerCanadian
Dana WynterBritish, American
Television actor, Film actor, Actor
Leopold I, Holy Roman EmperorAustrian, Hungarian
Composer
Al IndelicatoAmerican
Umaru Musa Yar'AduaNigerian
President
Ludwig ErhardGerman
Economist, Politician, University teacher
NaushadIndian
Screenwriter, Composer, Film score composer
Claude ChoulesBritish
Soldier
Isao TomitaJapanese
Musical composer
Walter GotellGerman
Actor
Walter SisuluSouth African
Politician
Arthur LaurentsAmerican
Screenwriter, Librettist, Playwright, Writer
Maurice MaeterlinckBelgian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Essayist, Playwright,
Mikhail BotvinnikRussian, Russian
Electrical engineer, Chess Champion
Gino BartaliItalian
Cyclist
August Wilhelm von HofmannGerman
Chemist, University teacher
Miklós NyiszliHungarian, Romanian
Physician, Writer
Hugo BanzerBolivian
Officer, Politician
William Friese-GreeneBritish
Photographer, Inventor
George SidneyAmerican
Film director
Frank TashlinAmerican
Animator
Robert Stanford TuckBritish
Fighter pilot
Martiros SaryanArmenian
Painter
James Branch CabellAmerican
Author
Bertha PalmerAmerican
Businesswoman
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Irving HoweAmerican
Literary Critic
Ai QingPoet, Writer, Painter, Journalist
Isaac ButtIrish
Barrister
Eva GonzalèsFrench
Painter, Model
Mór JókaiHungarian
Novelist
Morris GravesAmerican
Painter
Henry SidneyBritish
Politician
Alfred Hermann FriedAustrian
Austrian journalist
Max PalevskyAmerican
Art Collector
Samuel CooperBritish
Painter
Henri LaurensFrench
Sculptor
Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of ManchesterBritish
General
Peter G. L. DirichletGerman