Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In August - 05

1927  On August - 05 tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies   

1929  Death of Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847) on August - 05.   

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 this day in history neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for S Africa), dies at 26   

1940  On this day in history frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75   

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

1944  On this day in history maurice Turnbull, cricketer (England)/rugby (Wales), dies   

1946  Death of Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863) on August - 05.   

1947  Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies on August - 05.   

1950  On August - 05 emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73   

1952  Death of Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917) on August - 05.   

1955  On this day in history carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42   

1957  On August - 05 heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80   

1958  On August - 05 joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80   

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

1960  On this day in history death of arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)   

1961  On this day in history eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63   

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

1963  Death of Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898) on August - 05.   

1964  On this day in history moa Martinson, writer, dies   

1966  On this day in history austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies   

1968  Death of Luther Perkins American guitarist on this day in history.   

1971  Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74 on August - 05.   

1972  Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 on August - 05.   

1976  On August - 05 adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88   

1977  Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1978  Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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

1982  On this day in history wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72   

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

1984  On August - 05 howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66   

1985  Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1987  Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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1301  On August - 05 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  On this day in history birth of alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506)   

1540  On this day in history birth of joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating   

1604  On August - 05 birth of john Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized   

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

1623  On August - 05 birth of antonio Cesti, composer   

1624  William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America was born on this day in history.