January 5th Deaths |
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| January 5th, 2008 (January 05 2008) | Death | Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (born in 1975) | |
| January 5th, 2007 (January 05 2007) | Death | Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (born in 1910) | |
| January 5th, 2007 (January 05 2007) | Death | Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (born in 1923) | |
| January 5th, 2006 (January 05 2006) | Death | Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (born in 1920) | |
| January 5th, 2005 (January 05 2005) | Death | Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (born in 1954) | |
| January 5th, 2004 (January 05 2004) | Death | Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (born in 1944) | |
| January 5th, 2003 (January 05 2003) | Death | Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (born in 1918) | |
| January 5th, 2003 (January 05 2003) | Death | Roy Jenkins, British politician (born in 1920) | |
| January 5th, 2003 (January 05 2003) | Death | Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (born in 1922) | |
| January 5th, 2003 (January 05 2003) | Death | Jean Kerr, American author (born in 1923) | |
| January 5th, 2001 (January 05 2001) | Death | Nancy Parsons, American actress (born in 1942) | |
| January 5th, 1998 (January 05 1998) | Death | Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (born in 1935) | Bono Quotes |
| January 5th, 1998 (January 05 1998) | Death | Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (born in 1943) | |
| January 5th, 1997 (January 05 1997) | Death | Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (born in 1912) | |
| January 5th, 1997 (January 05 1997) | Death | Andre Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (born in 1924) | |
| January 5th, 1996 (January 05 1996) | Death | Lincoln Kirstein, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur (born in 1907) | |
| January 5th, 1996 (January 05 1996) | Death | Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (born in 1966) | |
| January 5th, 1994 (January 05 1994) | Death | Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator (born in 1912) | |
| January 5th, 1994 (January 05 1994) | Death | Tip O Neill, American politician (born in 1912) | |
| January 5th, 1991 (January 05 1991) | Death | Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (born in 1922) | |
| January 5th, 1990 (January 05 1990) | Death | Arthur Kennedy, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| January 5th, 1988 (January 05 1988) | Death | Pete Maravich, American basketball player (born in 1947) | |
| January 5th, 1987 (January 05 1987) | Death | Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (born in 1875) | |
| January 5th, 1985 (January 05 1985) | Death | Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (born in 1906 | |
| January 5th, 1982 (January 05 1982) | Death | Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (born in 1892) | |
| January 5th, 1982 (January 05 1982) | Death | Hans Conried, American actor (born in 1917) | |
| January 5th, 1982 (January 05 1982) | Death | Harvey Lembeck, American actor (born in 1923) | |
| January 5th, 1981 (January 05 1981) | Death | Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1893) | |
| January 5th, 1981 (January 05 1981) | Death | Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (born in 1901) | Philo Quotes |
| January 5th, 1979 (January 05 1979) | Death | Charles Mingus, American musician (born in 1922) | |
| January 5th, 1976 (January 05 1976) | Death | John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (born in 1891) | |
| January 5th, 1976 (January 05 1976) | Death | Mal Evans, Beatles "roadie" (born in 1935) | Evans Quotes |
| January 5th, 1974 (January 05 1974) | Death | Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (born in 1907) | |
| January 5th, 1971 (January 05 1971) | Death | Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (born in 1899) | |
| January 5th, 1970 (January 05 1970) | Death | Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1882) | |
| January 5th, 1970 (January 05 1970) | Death | Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (born in 1896) | |
| January 5th, 1970 (January 05 1970) | Death | Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (born in 1896) | |
| January 5th, 1963 (January 05 1963) | Death | Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (born in 1896) | |
| January 5th, 1956 (January 05 1956) | Death | Mistinguett, French singer (born in 1875) | |
| January 5th, 1954 (January 05 1954) | Death | Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (born in 1891) | |
| January 5th, 1952 (January 05 1952) | Death | Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India (born in 1887) | |
| January 5th, 1951 (January 05 1951) | Death | Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (born in 1899) | Plato Quotes |
| January 5th, 1946 (January 05 1946) | Death | Kitty Cheatham, American singer (born in 1864) | |
| January 5th, 1943 (January 05 1943) | Death | George Washington Carver, American educator (born in 1864) | George Washington Quotes |
| January 5th, 1941 (January 05 1941) | Death | Amy Johnson, English aviator (born in 1903) | |
| January 5th, 1940 (January 05 1940) | Death | Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (born in 1885) | Humbert Wolfe Quotes |
| January 5th, 1939 (January 05 1939) | Death | Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (born in 1897) | |
| January 5th, 1937 (January 05 1937) | Death | Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (born in 1864) | William Booth Quotes |
| January 5th, 1933 (January 05 1933) | Death | Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (born in 1872) | Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| January 5th, 1922 (January 05 1922) | Death | Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (born in 1874) | |
| January 5th, 1910 (January 05 1910) | Death | Leon Walras, French economist (born in 1834) | |
| January 5th, 1904 (January 05 1904) | Death | Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (born in 1839) | |
| January 5th, 1891 (January 05 1891) | Death | Emma Abbott, American soprano (born in 1849) | |
| January 5th, 1888 (January 05 1888) | Death | Henri Herz, Austrian pianist (born in 1803) | |
| January 5th, 1883 (January 05 1883) | Death | Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (born in 1806) | |
| January 5th, 1860 (January 05 1860) | Death | Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (born in 1811) | |
| January 5th, 1858 (January 05 1858) | Death | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (born in 1766) | |
| January 5th, 1846 (January 05 1846) | Death | Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (born in 1812) | |
| January 5th, 1823 (January 05 1823) | Death | Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (born in 1764) | John Major Quotes |
| January 5th, 1771 (January 05 1771) | Death | John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (born in 1710) | John Russell Quotes |
| January 5th, 1762 (January 05 1762) | Death | Empress Elizabeth of Russia (born in 1709) | |
| January 5th, 1740 (January 05 1740) | Death | Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (born in 1667) | |
| January 5th, 1713 (January 05 1713) | Death | Jean Chardin, French explorer (born in 1643) | |
| January 5th, 1589 (January 05 1589) | Death | Catherine de Medici, queen of Henry II of France (born in 1519) | |
| January 5th, 1588 (January 05 1588) | Death | Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (born in 1528) | |
| January 5th, 1527 (January 05 1527) | Death | Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (born in 1498) | |
| January 5th, 1524 (January 05 1524) | Death | Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (born in 1450) | |
| January 5th, 1477 (January 05 1477) | Death | Charles, Duke of Burgundy (killed in battle) (born in 1433) | |
| January 5th, 1465 (January 05 1465) | Death | Charles, Duke of Orleans, French poet (born in 1394) | |
| January 5th, 1448 (January 05 1448) | Death | Christopher of Bavaria (born in 1416) | |
| January 5th, 1400 (January 05 1400) | Death | John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (born in ca. 1350) | |
| January 5th, 1387 (January 05 1387) | Death | King Peter IV of Aragon (born in 1319) | |
| January 5th, 1066 (January 05 1066) | Death | Edward the Confessor, King of England (born in 1004) | |
| January 5th, 0842 (January 05 0842) | Death | Al-Mu tasim, Abbasid caliph (born in 794) | |
