Famous Deaths In October - 05

0578  Justinus II, Byzantine emperor (565-78), dies on October - 05.  

1056  Henry III, RC German King (1039-56), dies on October - 05.  

1111  Robrecht II of Jerusalem, Count of Flanders (1st Crusader), dies on this day in history.  

1112  On October - 05 death of sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler  

1285  On this day in history philippe III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85), dies  

1399  On this day in history raymundus of Capua, Italian general, dies  

1496  Ferdinand II, king of Naples, dies on this day in history.  

1528  Death of Richard Foxe, English churchman on this day in history.  

1557  Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter, dies at 63 on October - 05.  

1564  On this day in history death of pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer  

1565  Death of Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522) on this day in history.  

1606  Death of Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546) on this day in history.  

1631  Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies on this day in history.  

1707  On this day in history daniel Speer, composer, dies at 71  

1714  On October - 05 death of kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)  

1740  Death of Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721) on October - 05.  

1763  August III, king of Poland, dies at 66 on October - 05.  

1777  Death of Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704) on this day in history.  

1787  On this day in history thomas Stone, US attorney/signer (Dec of Ind), dies at about 44  

1791  Death of Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739) on October - 05.  

1799  On this day in history antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68  

1805  Death of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738) on this day in history.  

1813  Etienne Ozi, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

1837  Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54 on this day in history.  

1848  Death of Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781) on this day in history.  

1861  On this day in history death of antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)  

1867  Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer, dies at 67 on October - 05.  

1880  On this day in history death of jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)  

1892  On this day in history bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende, dies  

1899  Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1911  On October - 05 charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer, dies at 58  

1913  On October - 05 death of hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)  

1915  On this day in history jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28  

1918  Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies on October - 05.  

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1458  Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint was born on October - 05.  

1609  Paul Fleming, writer was born on October - 05.  

1626  Johann Schop, composer was born on October - 05.  

1641  On this day in history birth of françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)  

1658  Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718) was born on this day in history.  

1684  On this day in history birth of johann Jacob de Neufville, composer  

1695  On October - 05 birth of john Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)  

1703  Jonathan Edwards, US, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin) was born on this day in history.