Did you know
Astrud Gilberto was the first wife of Brazilian bossa nova guitarist João Gilberto, whose surname she continued to use professionally after their divorce in 1964.
Notable Deaths on June 5
2023 — Astrud Gilberto
Brazilian singer (born 1940)
June 5 has 89 recorded notable deaths across history, from 301 to 2023. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
89 source records
301 – 2023
Today in history
Major events on June 5
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. Source
- 1873 Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain. Source
- 2024 The Boeing Starliner is launched on its first crewed flight, carrying astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station. Source
- 1949 Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament. Source
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Richard Keith Johnson was an English stage and screen actor, writer and producer.
Did you know
A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
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Alan Bond is also remembered for bankrolling the successful challenge for the 1983 America's Cup, the first time the New York Yacht Club had lost it in its 132-year history.
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The best known member of a musical family dynasty, by the 1610s he was the leading composer and organist in England, with a career cut short by his untimely death in 1625.
More major people who died on June 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2015
Richard Johnson
English actor (born 1927)
Richard Keith Johnson was an English stage and screen actor, writer and producer.
2016
Jerome Bruner
American psychologist (born 1915)
Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.
2015
Alan Bond
English-Australian businessman (born 1938)
Alan Bond was a UK-born Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings.
1625
Orlando Gibbons
English organist and composer (born 1583)
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.
1920
Rhoda Broughton
Welsh-English author (born 1840)
Rhoda Broughton was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. Her early novels earned a reputation for sensationalism, so that her later, stronger work tended to be neglected by critics, although she was called a queen…
1722
Johann Kuhnau
German organist and composer (born 1660)
Johann Kuhnau was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today.
1791
Frederick Haldimand
Swiss-Canadian general and politician, 22nd governor of Quebec (born 1718)
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB was a Swiss army officer and colonial administrator best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War and the American…
1716
Roger Cotes
English mathematician and academic (born 1682)
Roger Cotes was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication.
1434
Yuri IV
Russian grand prince (born 1374)
Yury Dmitrievich, also known as George II of Moscow, Yury of Zvenigorod and Jurij Zwenihorodski, was the second son of Dmitry Donskoy. He was the Duke of Zvenigorod and Galich from 1389 until his death.
1930
Eric Lemming
Swedish athlete (born 1880)
Eric Otto Valdemar Lemming was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed at the 1900, 1906, 1908 and 1912 Olympics in a wide variety of events, which mostly involved throwing and jumping.
928
Louis the Blind
king of Provence
Louis the Blind was king in Provence and Lower Burgundy from 890 to 928, and also king of Italy from 900 to 905, and also the emperor between 901 and 905, styled as Louis III.
2012
Hal Keller
American baseball player and manager (born 1928)
Harold Kefauver Keller was an American professional baseball player and executive who served as the fourth general manager in the history of the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (1984–85).
754
Boniface
English missionary and martyr (born 675)
Boniface was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century.
1424
Braccio da Montone
Italian nobleman (born 1368)
Braccio da Montone, born Andrea Fortebraccio, was a renowned Italian condottiero in the early 15th century.
2015
Tariq Aziz
Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1936)
Tariq Aziz was an Iraqi politician and journalist who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1991. He was a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein.
1998
Sam Yorty
American soldier and politician, 37th mayor of Los Angeles (born 1909)
Samuel William Yorty was an American politician, attorney, and radio host from Los Angeles, California.
2002
Dee Dee Ramone
American singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1951)
Douglas Glenn Colvin, better known by his stage name Dee Dee Ramone, was an American musician. He was the bassist, occasional lead vocalist and a founding member of the punk rock band the Ramones.
1530
Mercurino Gattinara
Italian statesman and jurist (born 1465)
Mercurino Arborio, marchese di Gattinara, was an Italian statesman and jurist who served, from 1518 to 1530, as the principal chancellor of Charles V, the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor.
1910
O. Henry
American short story writer (born 1862)
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction.