Did you know
Charlton Heston won an Academy Award, a David di Donatello Award, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Notable Deaths on April 5
2008 — Charlton Heston
American actor, director, and political activist (born 1923)
April 5 has 244 recorded notable deaths across history, from 517 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
244 source records
517 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on April 5
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1933 Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage. Source
- 1992 Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War. Source
- 1818 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead. Source
- 1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. Source
Did you know
Douglas MacArthur is one of only five people to hold the rank of General of the Army, and the only person to hold the rank of Field Marshal in the Philippine Army.
Did you know
John Pinette toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television.
Did you know
Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution.
Did you know
Whilst being the only Swedish monarch called Frederick, he was Frederick I of Hesse-Kassel and thus Frederick I also of Sweden, though other Swedish monarchs with non-repeating names had not been enumerated.
More major people who died on April 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1964
Douglas MacArthur
American general (born 1880)
Douglas MacArthur was an American general who served as a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army.
2014
John Pinette
American comedian (born 1964)
John Paul Pinette was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and Broadway performer. He toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television.
1794
Georges Danton
French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1759)
Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution.
1751
Frederick I
prince consort and king of Sweden (born 1676)
Frederick I was King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730.
1205
Isabella I of Jerusalem
queen regnant of Jerusalem (born 1172)
Isabella I was the queen of Jerusalem who reigned from the early 1190s to her death.
1693
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans
French noblewoman (born 1627)
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie, Duchess of Montpensier.
1941
Nigel Gresley
Scottish-English engineer (born 1876)
Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway…
1986
Manly Wade Wellman
American writer (born 1903)
Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of…
1983
Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari
Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer. (born 1907)
Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari was a Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer, born and raised in Medina under Ottoman and Hashemite rule into a Khazraji family.
1804
Jean-Charles Pichegru
French general (born 1761)
Divisional-General Jean-Charles Pichegru was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars.
1258
Juliana of Liège
Belgian canoness and saint
Juliana of Liège, was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium.
1928
Roy Kilner
English cricketer and soldier (born 1890)
Roy Kilner was an English professional cricketer who played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. An all-rounder, he played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927.
1950
Hiroshi Yoshida
Japanese painter (born 1876)
Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker.
1974
A. Y. Jackson
Canadian painter (born 1882)
Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven.
1906
Eastman Johnson
American painter (born 1824)
Jonathan Eastman Johnson was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance.
1948
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
American socialite and philanthropist (born 1874)
Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family through her marriage to financier and philanthropist John D.
2022
Jimmy Wang Yu
Taiwanese actor (born 1943)
Jimmy Wang Yu was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.
1982
Abe Fortas
American lawyer and jurist (born 1910)
Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969.
2006
Allan Kaprow
American painter and educator (born 1927)
Allan Kaprow was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory.