Did you know
Eusébio was the first ever player to win European Golden Boot, World Cup Golden Boot and UCL Golden Boot.
Notable Deaths on January 5
2014 — Eusébio
Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1942)
January 5 has 97 recorded notable deaths across history, from 842 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
97 source records
842 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on January 5
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 2005 The dwarf planet Eris is discovered by Palomar Observatory-based astronomers, later motivating the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term planet for the first time. Source
- 1967 Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is established following the seizure of power from local city officials by revolutionaries. Source
- 1944 The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Source
- 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third-oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University. Source
Did you know
was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author.
Did you know
Among his numerous roles, he voiced Captain Hook and George Darling in Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953), Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons, Professor Waldo P.
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Joseph Radetzky von Radetz commanded the Austrian forces at the Battle of Custoza in 1848 and the Battle of Novara in 1849 during the First Italian War of Independence.
Did you know
Samuel Huntington was the first United States governor to have died while in office.
More major people who died on January 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1979
Charles Mingus
American bassist, composer, bandleader (born 1922)
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author.
1982
Hans Conried
American actor (born 1917)
Hans Georg Conried Jr. was an American actor and comedian. Among his numerous roles, he voiced Captain Hook and George Darling in Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953), Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons,…
1858
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
Austrian field marshal (born 1766)
Johann Josef Wenzel Anton Franz Karl, Graf Radetzky von Radetz was a Czech nobleman and Austrian field marshal.
1796
Samuel Huntington
American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (born 1731)
Samuel Huntington was a Founding Father of the United States and a lawyer, jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut.
1996
Thung Sin Nio
Dutch–Indonesian activist (born 1902)
Betsy Thung Sin Nio was an Indonesian-Dutch women's rights activist, physician, economist and politician.
1985
Eithne Coyle
Irish Republican, President of Cumann na mBan (born 1897)
Eithne Coyle was an Irish republican activist. She was a leading figure within Cumann na mBan and a member of the Gaelic League.
1987
Herman Smith-Johannsen
Norwegian-Canadian skier (born 1875)
Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, was a Norwegian skier and supercentenarian.
1982
Edmund Herring
Australian general and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (born 1892)
Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, was a senior Australian Army officer during the Second World War, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
2003
Félix Loustau
Argentine footballer (born 1922)
Félix Loustau was an Argentine footballer who was a key player on the River Plate squad known as La Máquina.
2010
Kenneth Noland
American painter (born 1924)
Kenneth Noland was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter.
2018
Karin von Aroldingen
German ballerina (born 1941)
Karin Anny Hannelore Reinbold von Aroldingen was a German ballet dancer.
2018
Thomas Bopp
American astronomer best known as the co-discoverer of comet Hale–Bopp (born 1949)
Thomas Joel Bopp was an American amateur astronomer. In 1995, he discovered comet Hale–Bopp; Alan Hale discovered it independently at almost the same time, and it was thus named after both of them.
1524
Marko Marulić
Croatian poet (born 1450)
Marko Marulić Splićanin was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist. He is the national poet of Croatia. According to George J.
1942
Tina Modotti
Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (born 1896)
Tina Modotti was an Italian and American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern.
1951
Andrei Platonov
Russian journalist and author (born 1899)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet.
2020
Tafazzul Haque Habiganji
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (born 1938)
Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh is a right-wing Deobandi Islamist advocacy group based out of the network of Qawmi madrasas consisting mostly of religious teachers (Ulama) and students in Bangladesh.
2014
Carmen Zapata
American actress (born 1927)
Carmen Margarita Zapata often referred to as "The First Lady of the Hispanic Theater" was an American actress best known for her role in the PBS bilingual children's program Villa Alegre.
1430
Philippa of England
Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (born 1394)
Philippa of England, also known as Philippa of Lancaster, was Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from 1406 to 1430 by marriage to King Eric of the Kalmar Union.
1963
Rogers Hornsby
American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1896)
Rogers Hornsby, nicknamed "the Rajah", was an American professional baseball player, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the St.