Did you know
Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band and one of the most renowned Native American figures of the nineteenth century.
Notable Deaths on September 5
1877 — Crazy Horse
American tribal leader (born 1849)
September 5 has 123 recorded notable deaths across history, from 590 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
123 source records
590 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on September 5
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1984 Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. Source
- 1905 Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war. Source
- 1836 Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. Source
- 1960 Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal. Source
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Sarah Harding's professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the girl group Girls Aloud.
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Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers.
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Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films.
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Paul Bern was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became the assistant to producer Irving Thalberg.
More major people who died on September 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2021
Sarah Harding
English singer, member of Girls Aloud (born 1981)
Sarah Harding was an English singer, model, and actress. Her professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the…
1986
Neerja Bhanot
Indian flight purser, known for her heroic actions on Pan Am Flight 73, during which she was killed (born 1963)
Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization…
1988
Gert Fröbe
German actor and singer (born 1913)
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films.
1932
Paul Bern
German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889)
Paul Bern was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became the assistant to producer Irving Thalberg.
1997
Georg Solti
Hungarian conductor and director (born 1912)
Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony…
1995
Salil Chowdhury
Indian music composer (born 1922)
Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages.
1945
Clem Hill
Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1877)
Clement Hill was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests, winning five and losing five.
1972
Alan Kippax
Australian cricketer and businessman (born 1897)
Alan Falconer Kippax was a cricketer for New South Wales (NSW) and Australia.
1629
Domenico Allegri
Italian singer-songwriter (born 1585)
Domenico Allegri was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School.
1786
Jonas Hanway
English merchant and philanthropist (born 1712)
Jonas Hanway, FRSA, was an English merchant, writer and philanthropist. He was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking.
1954
Eugen Schiffer
German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1860)
Eugen Schiffer was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He served as Minister of Finance and deputy head of government in the Weimar Republic from February to April 1919.
1982
Douglas Bader
English captain and pilot (born 1910)
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, who achieved great success despite loss of the lower part of both his legs after a 1931 air crash, one…
1548
Catherine Parr
Queen Consort of England and sixth wife of Henry VIII (born c. 1512)
Catherine Parr was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until Henry's death on 28 January 1547.
1838
Charles Percier
French architect and interior decorator (born 1764)
Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days.
1994
Shimshon Amitsur
Israeli mathematician and scholar (born 1921)
Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. A leading figure in twentieth-century noncommutative algebra, he is best known for his wide-ranging contributions to ring theory, including the theory of rings with…
2013
Isamu Jordan
American journalist and academic (born 1975)
Isamu Jordan was an American journalist, musician, and professor. When he was 15 years old, he joined the staff of The Spokesman-Review, where he wrote articles for Our Generation, the teen section of the newspaper.
2024
Rich Homie Quan
American rapper (born 1990)
Dequantes Devontay Lamar, known professionally as Rich Homie Quan, was an American rapper.
1984
Adam Malik
Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (born 1917)
Adam Malik Batubara was an Indonesian politician, diplomat, and journalist, who served as the third vice president of Indonesia from 1978 until 1983, under President Suharto.
2012
Ian Dick
Australian cricketer and field hockey player (born 1926)
Ian Robinson Dick was an Australian cricketer and field hockey player who played one first-class cricket match for Western Australia in 1950 and also captained Australia in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer…