Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In August - 05

1927  Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies on August - 05.   

1929  On August - 05 death of millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847)   

1931  On this day in history ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43   

1932  Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies on August - 05.   

1934  On August - 05 neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for S Africa), dies at 26   

1940  Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 on August - 05.   

1943  On August - 05 adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55   

1944  On August - 05 maurice Turnbull, cricketer (England)/rugby (Wales), dies   

1946  On this day in history death of wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)   

1947  On this day in history joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies   

1950  Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1952  On this day in history death of sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)   

1955  On August - 05 carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42   

1957  Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 on August - 05.   

1958  Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1959  On August - 05 edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77   

1960  On August - 05 death of arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)   

1961  Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1962  On this day in history death of marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35   

1963  On August - 05 death of salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)   

1964  Moa Martinson, writer, dies on August - 05.   

1966  Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies on August - 05.   

1968  On this day in history death of luther Perkins American guitarist   

1971  On August - 05 josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74   

1972  Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1976  On this day in history adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88   

1977  On this day in history charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87   

1978  Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 on August - 05.   

1980  Death of Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924) on August - 05.   

1982  Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72 on August - 05.   

1983  On this day in history judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66   

1984  On this day in history howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66   

1985  On this day in history theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67   

1987  On this day in history zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79   

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1301  On this day in history birth of edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)   

1397  On August - 05 birth of guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)   

1461  Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506) was born on August - 05.   

1540  Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating was born on this day in history.   

1604  On this day in history birth of john Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized   

1607  Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer was born on this day in history.   

1623  Antonio Cesti, composer was born on this day in history.   

1624  On August - 05 birth of william, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America