Notable Deaths on December 5

Q: Who died on December 5?

Notable people who died on December 5 include: Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Li Ban, Ealhswith, Ramon Berenguer II, Dirk van Are.

Q: What is Albert Gore known for?

Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (born 1907)

105 people 63 BC – 2025

December 5 has seen 105 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 63 BC – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1998 — Albert Gore

Sr., American lawyer and politician (born 1907)

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was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1953 to 1971

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He was the father of Al Gore, who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 until 2001, and who held Tennessee's other U.S

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From 1932 to 1936 he was superintendent of schools for Smith County

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Night Law School, now the Nashville School of Law, from which he graduated in 1936.

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representative from the state's 4th congressional district from 1939 to 1953

Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura

Roman politician (born 114 BC)

Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura was one of the chief figures in the Catilinarian conspiracy. He was also the step-father of the future triumvir Mark Antony.

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Li Ban

emperor of Cheng Han (born 288)

Li Ban (李班) (288–334), courtesy name Shiwen (世文), also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Ai of Cheng (Han) (成(漢)哀帝), was briefly an emperor of the Di-led Cheng-Han dynasty of China.

334

Ealhswith

queen consort and wife of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex

Ealhswith or Ealswitha was the wife of King Alfred the Great. She was the mother of King Edward the Elder who succeeded King Alfred to the Anglo-Saxon throne. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman…

902

Ramon Berenguer II

Count of Barcelona (born 1053)

Ramon Berenguer II the Towhead or Cap de estopes was Count of Barcelona from 1076 until his death. He was the son of Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona, and Almodis de La Marche. The Chronicle of San Juan de la Pena…

1082

Dirk van Are

bishop and lord of Utrecht

Dirk van Are, also Dietrich II of Are, was bishop and lord of Utrecht in the thirteenth century. He appears to be one of those martial churchmen who were better qualified for the camp than the choir. He was Bishop of…

1212

Joan

Countess of Flanders and Hainault (born 1199 or 1200)

Joan, often called Joan of Constantinople, ruled as Countess of Flanders and Hainaut from 1205 until her death. She was the elder daughter of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, and Marie of Champagne.

1244

John III

Duke of Brabant (born 1300)

John III was Duke of Brabant, Lothier (1312–1355) and Limburg, the last Brabant male to rule them.

1355

Francis II of France (born 1544)

Francis II was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death in 1560.

1560

Johan Friis

Danish politician (born 1494)

Johan Friis was a Danish statesman. He served as Chancellor under King Christian III of Denmark.

1570

Gaspard Bauhin

Swiss botanist and physician (born 1560)

Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin, was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of…

1624

Jean François Sarrazin

French author and poet (born 1611)

Jean François Sarasin was a French writer.

1654

Severo Bonini

Italian organist and composer (born 1582)

Severo Bonini was an Italian composer, organist, and writer on music.

1663

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes

sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (born 1685)

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye was a military officer, fur trader, and explorer. In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there. They…

1749

Johann Friedrich Fasch

German violinist and composer (born 1688)

Johann Friedrich Fasch was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant.

1758

James Stirling

Scottish mathematician and surveyor (born 1692)

James Stirling was a Scottish mathematician. He was nicknamed "The Venetian".

1770

Phillis Wheatley

Senegal-born slave, later American poet (born 1753)

Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly, was an American writer who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the…

1784

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer and musician (born 1756)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera,…

1791

Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg

German poet and lawyer (born 1750)

Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg, was a German lawyer, and translator. He was also a poet of the Sturm und Drang and early Romantic periods.

1819

Henry Ross

Canadian-Australian gold miner (born 1829)

Henry Ross was a Canadian-Australian gold miner who died in the Eureka Rebellion at the Ballarat gold fields in the British Colony of Victoria, now the state of Victoria in Australia. Ross is particularly remembered for…

1854

Alexandre Dumas

French novelist and playwright (born 1802)

Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.

1870

Eliza R. Snow

American poet and songwriter (born 1804)

Eliza Roxey Snow was a Mormon Pioneer, poet, and second Relief Society general president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which she re-established in the Utah Territory in 1866. She was also one of…

1887

Pedro II of Brazil (born 1825)

Dom Pedro II, known as "the Magnanimous", was the second and final emperor of the Empire of Brazil. He reigned from 1831 until his deposition in the military coup of 1889, presiding over the longest and most stable…

1891

Schalk Willem Burger

South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (born 1852)

Schalk Willem Burger was a South African military leader, lawyer, politician, and statesman who was acting president of the South African Republic from 1900 to 1902, whilst Paul Kruger was in exile. At the age of 21,…

1918

Władysław Reymont

Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)

Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.

1925

Claude Monet

French painter (born 1840)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most…

1926

Vachel Lindsay

American poet (born 1879)

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.

1931

Alexander Atabekian

Armenian physician and anarchist publisher (born 1869)

Alexander Movsesi Atabekian was an Armenian physician, publisher and anarchist communist.

1933

Jan Kubelík

Czech violinist and composer (born 1880)

Jan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.

1940

Amrita Sher-Gil

Hungarian-Pakistani painter (born 1913)

Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian–Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age,…

1941

Jock Delves Broughton

English captain (born 1883)

Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 11th Baronet, DL, was a British baronet who is chiefly known for standing trial for the murder of the 22nd Earl of Erroll. The event was the basis of the film White Mischief and of the…

1942

Louis Dewis

Belgian-French painter and educator (born 1872)

Louis Dewis (1872–1946) was the pseudonym of Belgian Post-Impressionist painter Louis DeWachter, who was also an innovative and highly successful businessman. He helped organize and managed the first department store…

1946

Shoeless Joe Jackson

American baseball player and manager (born 1887)

Joseph Jefferson Jackson, nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 20th century. His .356 career batting average is one of the…

1951

Abanindranath Tagore

Indian painter, author, and academic (born 1871)

Abanindranath Tagore was an Indian painter who was the principal artist and creator of the Indian Society of Oriental Art in 1907. He was also the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art. He founded the…

1951

William Sterling Parsons

American admiral (born 1901)

William Sterling "Deak" Parsons was an American naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He is best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay, the aircraft which…

1953

Glenn L. Martin

American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (born 1886)

Glenn Luther Martin was an early American aviation pioneer. He designed and built his own aircraft and was an active pilot, as well as an aviation record-holder. He founded an aircraft company in 1912 which through…

1955

Emil Fuchs

German-American lawyer and businessman (born 1878)

Emil Edwin "Judge" Fuchs was a German-born American baseball owner and executive.

1961

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

German composer and educator (born 1905)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.

1963

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1892)

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the fifth prime minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957 and before that as the prime minister of Bengal from 1946 to 1947. He is regarded…

1963

V. Veerasingam

Sri Lankan educator and politician (born 1892)

Visuvalingam Veerasingam MBE was a Ceylon Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

1964

Joseph Erlanger

American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)

Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who is best known for his contributions to the field of neuroscience. Together with Herbert Spencer Gasser, he identified several varieties of nerve fiber and established the…

1965

Fred Clark

American actor (born 1914)

Frederick Leonard Clark was an American movie and television character actor, often playing in authoritative roles.

1968

Claude Dornier

German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (born 1884)

Claude (Claudius) Honoré Désiré Dornier was a Franco-German airplane designer and founder of Dornier GmbH. His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most…

1969

Princess Alice of Battenberg

mother of Prince Philip of the United Kingdom (born 1885)

Princess Alice of Battenberg was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, and paternal grandmother of King Charles III. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in…

1969

Robert Watson-Watt

Scottish engineer, invented the radar (born 1892)

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio engineer and pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.

1973

Constance McLaughlin Green

American historian and author (born 1897)

Constance Winsor Green, best known as Constance McLaughlin Green, was an American historian. She who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 (1962).

1975

Katherine Milhous

American author and illustrator (born 1894)

Katherine Milhous (1894–1977) was an American artist, illustrator, and writer. She is known best as the author and illustrator of The Egg Tree, which won the 1951 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration. Born…

1977

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (born 1895)

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky was a Soviet general who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, he served as the chief of the General…

1977

Jesse Pearson

American actor, singer, and screenwriter (born 1930)

Jesse Pearson was an American actor, singer, director, and writer.

1979

Robert Aldrich

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1918)

Robert Burgess Aldrich was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies,…

1983

Cecil M. Harden

American politician (born 1894)

Cecil Murray Harden was an American educator who became a Republican politician and an advocate of women's rights. She served five terms in the U.S. Representative representing Indiana's 6th congressional district.…

1984

Edward Youde

Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (born 1924)

Sir Edward Youde was a British administrator, diplomat, and Sinologist. He served as Governor of Hong Kong from 20 May 1982 until his death on 5 December 1986.

1986

John Pritchard

English conductor and director (born 1921)

Sir John Michael Pritchard, was an English conductor. He was known for his interpretations of Mozart operas and for his support of contemporary music.

1989

Alfonso A. Ossorio

Filipino-American painter and sculptor (born 1916)

Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio was a Filipino American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic, Filipino,…

1990

Richard Speck

American mass murderer (born 1941)

Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night…

1991

Harry Horner

Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (born 1910)

Harry Horner was a Czech-born American art director who made a successful career in Hollywood as an Oscar-winning art director and as a feature film and television director. He was the father of Academy Award-winning…

1994

L. B. Cole

American illustrator and publisher (born 1918)

Leonard Brandt Cole, commonly known as L. B. Cole, was a comic book artist, editor, and publisher who worked during the Golden Age of Comic Books, producing work in various genres. Cole was particularly known for his…

1995

Charles Evans

English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (born 1918)

Sir Robert Charles Evans was a British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator. He was leader of the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition and deputy leader of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, both of which were…

1995

Gwen Harwood

Australian poet and playwright (born 1920)

Gwen Harwood was an Australian poet and librettist. Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won numerous poetry awards and prizes, and…

1995

Clair Cameron Patterson

American scientist (born 1922)

Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional…

1995

Eugen Cicero

Romanian-German jazz pianist (born 1940)

Eugen Cicero, nicknamed "Mister Golden Hands", was a Romanian-German jazz pianist who performed in the mixed classical-swing style.

1997

Franco Rasetti

Italian-American physicist and academic (born 1901)

Franco Dino Rasetti was an Italian physicist, paleontologist and botanist. Together with Enrico Fermi, he discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the Manhattan Project on moral…

2001

Roone Arledge

American sportscaster and producer (born 1931)

Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to…

2002

Ne Win

Burmese general and politician, 4th President of Burma (born 1911)

Ne Win was a Burmese general and politician who served as Burma's head of government from 1958 to 1960 and again from 1962 to 1974; and also as head of state from 1962 to 1981. Ne Win was Burma's military dictator…

2002

Edward L. Masry

American lawyer and politician (born 1932)

Edward Louis Masry was an American lawyer, a partner in the law firm of Masry & Vititoe, and also a mayor and city councilman for the City of Thousand Oaks, California. With the help of his legal assistant Erin…

2005

David Bronstein

Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (born 1924)

David Ionovich Bronstein was a Soviet and Russian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's…

2006

Andrew Imbrie

American composer and academic (born 1921)

Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist.

2007

George Paraskevaides

Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Joannou & Paraskevaides (born 1916)

George Paraskevaides was a Cypriot philanthropist and businessman who focused on the construction business in Europe and the Middle East. Paraskevaides was one of the co-founders of Joannou & Paraskevaides with fellow…

2007

Karlheinz Stockhausen

German composer and academic (born 1928)

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in…

2007

Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (born 1929)

Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

2008

George Brecht

American chemist and composer (born 1926)

George Brecht, born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson,…

2008

Nina Foch

Dutch-American actress (born 1924)

Nina Foch was an American actress who later became a drama instructor. Her career spanned 6 decades, consisting of over 50 feature films and over 100 television credits. She was the recipient of numerous accolades,…

2008

Beverly Garland

American actress and businesswoman (born 1926)

Beverly Lucy Garland was an American actress. Her work in feature films primarily consisted of small parts in a few major productions or leads in low-budget action and science-fiction movies; however, she had prominent…

2008

Anca Parghel

Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1957)

Anca Parghel was a Romanian jazz singer, composer, arranger, pianist, choir conductor, and music teacher. As a jazz vocalist, she excelled in scat, vocal percussion, and improvisation. Her voice had a four octave range,…

2008

William Lederer

American soldier and author (born 1912)

William Julius Lederer, Jr. was an American author and naval officer.

2009

Alan Armer

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Alan A. Armer was an American television producer, best known for his Emmy Award winning tenure as the producer of The Fugitive. He also produced The Invaders, The Untouchables and the first year of Cannon.

2010

Don Meredith

American football player, sportscaster, and actor (born 1938)

Joseph Donald Meredith, nicknamed "Dandy Don", was an American football player, sports commentator, and actor. He was a quarterback for nine seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He…

2010

Peter Gethin

English racing driver (born 1940)

Peter Kenneth Gethin was a British racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1974. Gethin won the 1971 Italian Grand Prix with BRM.

2011

Gennady Logofet

Russian footballer and manager (born 1942)

Gennady Olegovich Logofet was a Soviet and Russian football player and football coach.

2011

Dave Brubeck

American pianist and composer (born 1920)

David Warren Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms,…

2012

Elisabeth Murdoch

Australian philanthropist (born 1909)

Dame Elisabeth Joy Murdoch, Lady Murdoch, also known as Elisabeth, Lady Murdoch, was an Australian philanthropist and matriarch of the Murdoch family. She was the wife of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch…

2012

Oscar Niemeyer

Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of Brasília (born 1907)

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his…

2012

Ignatius IV of Antioch

Syrian patriarch (born 1920)

Patriarch Ignatius IV was the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All The East from 1979 to 2012.

2012

Fred Bassetti

American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (born 1917)

Fred Bassetti was a Pacific Northwest architect and teacher. His architectural legacy includes some of the Seattle area's more recognizable buildings and spaces. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) described his…

2013

William B. Edmondson

American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Africa (born 1927)

William Brockway Edmondson was an American diplomat in the United States Foreign Service, who served as the United States Ambassador to South Africa from 1978-1981.

2013

Nelson Mandela

South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and the first elected in…

2013

Ernest C. Brace

American captain and pilot (born 1931)

Ernest Cary Brace was the longest-held civilian prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War. A decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot and mustang, Brace was court-martialed in 1961 for attempting to fake his own death.…

2014

Fabiola

Queen of Belgium (born 1928)

Fabiola Fernanda María-de-las-Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Baudouin from their marriage in 1960 until his death in 1993. The couple had no children, as all…

2014

Talât Sait Halman

Turkish poet, translator, and historian (born 1931)

Talât Sait Halman, GBE was a Turkish poet, translator and cultural historian. He was the first Minister of Culture of Turkey. From 1998 onward, he taught at Bilkent University as the dean of the Faculty of Humanities…

2014

Jackie Healy-Rae

Irish hurdler and politician (born 1931)

John Patrick Healy, known as Jackie Healy-Rae, was an Irish independent politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1997 to 2011.

2014

Silvio Zavala

Mexican historian and author (born 1909)

Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions.

2014

Vic Eliason

American clergyman and radio host, founded VCY America (born 1936)

Victor Carl "Vic" Eliason was an American evangelical clergyman who founded the VCY America Radio Network, a conservative Christian broadcasting ministry, based in Milwaukee, along with Milwaukee television station…

2015

Tibor Rubin

Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1929)

Tibor "Ted" Rubin was a Hungarian-American Army Corporal. A Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the U.S. in 1948, he fought in the Korean War and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war, as a…

2015

Chuck Williams

American businessman and author, founded Williams Sonoma (born 1915)

Charles Edward Williams was the American founder of Williams Sonoma and author and editor of more than 100 books on the subject of cooking. Williams is credited for playing a major role in introducing French cookware…

2015

Tyruss Himes ("Big Syke")

American rapper (born 1968)

Tyruss Gerald Himes, better known by his stage names Big Syke and Mussolini, was an American rapper best known for his work with the American hip-hop groups Thug Life and Outlawz. His stage name "Big Syke" is a revision…

2016

Michael I of Romania

fifth and last king of Romania (born 1921)

Michael I was the last king of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947.

2017

August Ames

Canadian American pornographic actress (born 1994)

Mercedes Grabowski, known professionally as August Ames, was a Canadian pornographic actress. She appeared in more than 100 films, including a non-pornographic film in 2016, and was nominated for several AVN Awards.…

2017

Robert Walker

American actor (born 1940)

Robert Hudson Walker Jr. was an American actor who appeared in films including Easy Rider (1969). He was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s.

2019

Peter Alliss

English professional golfer (born 1931)

Peter Alliss was an English professional golfer, television presenter, commentator, author and golf course designer. Following the death of Henry Longhurst in 1978, as lead golf analyst for the BBC and an analyst for…

2020

Bob Dole

American politician (born 1923)

Robert Joseph Dole was an American politician, attorney, and U.S. Army officer who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate during the final 11…

2021

Kirstie Alley

American actress and producer (born 1951)

Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. From 1997 to 2000, Alley…

2022

Norman Lear

American screenwriter and producer (born 1922)

Norman Milton Lear was an American screenwriter and producer who wrote and produced more than 100 television shows during a career that lasted over 70 years. Lear created and produced numerous popular 1970s sitcoms,…

2023

Jacques Roubaud

French poet, writer, and mathematician (born 1932)

Jacques Roubaud was a French poet, writer, and mathematician.

2024

Frank Gehry

Canadian-American architect and designer (b. 1929)

Frank Owen Gehry was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa…

2025

Michael Annett

American Former NASCAR Driver (b. 1986)

Michael Wayne Annett was an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro SS for JR Motorsports.

2025

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Deaths on this date105 (63 BC – 2025)

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