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Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.
Notable Deaths on October 5
2011 — Steve Jobs
American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1955)
October 5 has 103 recorded notable deaths across history, from 659 BC to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
103 source records
659 BC – 2024
Today in history
Major events on October 5
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1944 The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women. Source
- 1914 World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time. Source
- 1988 A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt. Source
- 1968 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police. Source
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General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator.
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(1969), which was the first of four films he would do with director Russ Meyer.
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Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group the Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1961 until 1971.
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Jacques Offenbach is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
More major people who died on October 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1805
Charles Cornwallis
1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1738)
General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator.
2011
Charles Napier
American actor and singer (born 1936)
Charles Lewis Napier was an American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films.
1992
Eddie Kendricks
American singer-songwriter (born 1939)
Edward James Kendrick, better known as Eddie Kendricks, was an American tenor singer and songwriter.
1880
Jacques Offenbach
German-French cellist and composer (born 1819)
Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
2015
Joker Arroyo
Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1927)
Ceferino "Joker" Paz Arroyo Jr. was a Filipino statesman and key figure in the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
1996
Seymour Cray
American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (born 1925)
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray…
2015
Grace Lee Boggs
American philosopher, author, and activist (born 1915)
Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s.
1225
Al-Nasir
Abbasid caliph (born 1158)
Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Hasan al-Mustaḍīʾ, better known by his laqab al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh or simply as al-Nasir, was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1180 until his death.
1967
Clifton Williams
American astronaut (born 1932)
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space.
1942
Dorothea Klumpke
American astronomer (born 1861)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was an American astronomer. In 1893, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate degree at the Sorbonne University.
1524
Joachim Patinir
Flemish landscape painter (born c. 1480)
Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier, was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects.
2006
Antonio Peña
Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (born 1953)
Antonio Hipolito Peña Herrada was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter who founded the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion in 1992.
2001
Mike Mansfield
American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (born 1903)
Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953 and United States Senate from 1953 to 1977.
1941
Louis Brandeis
American lawyer and jurist (born 1856)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939.
1885
Thomas C. Durant
American railroad tycoon (born 1820)
Thomas Clark Durant was an American physician, businessman, and financier who played a central role in the formation of the Union Pacific Railroad.
1950
Frederic Lewy
German-American neurologist and academic (born 1885)
Friedrich "Fritz" Heinrich Lewy, known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist.
1927
Sam Warner
Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (born 1887)
Samuel Louis Warner was an American film producer who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of Warner Bros. He established the studio along with his brothers Harry, Albert, and Jack L. Warner.
2004
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of…
1813
Tecumseh
American tribal leader (born 1768)
Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands.