Deaths on August 5
This archive lists notable deaths associated with August 5 across multiple years.
Ana Luísa Amaral
Portuguese poetDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Joseph P. Johnson
American politicianDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
John Michael Herndon
American actor (300: Rise of an EmpireDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Rudolf Knez
Slovenian Olympic ice hockey player (1968Died on Saturday August 6th 2022
Judith Durham
Australian singer (The Seekers)Died on Saturday August 6th 2022
Gorima Hazarika
Indian dancerDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Gretchen Grauer Vanderhoof
American coloristDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Auh June-sun
South Korean politicianDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
John Tingle
Australian politicianDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Mike Johnson
American politicianDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Evan Jones
Australian poetDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Carl Kabat
American priest and anti-nuclear weapons activistDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Jack Bowman
American politicianDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Jimmy Burson
American football player (St. Louis CardinalsDied on Saturday August 6th 2022
Shirley Barrett
Australian film director and screenwriter (Love Serenade)Died on Saturday August 6th 2022
John H. Logie
American politicianDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Salvador Escrihuela Quiles
Spanish football playerDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Christian Dumont
French Olympic biathlete (1988Died on Friday August 6th 2021
Betty Lou Varnum
American television presenter (The Magic Window)Died on Friday August 6th 2021
Moisés Torres
Bolivian journalistDied on Friday August 6th 2021
María Ester Feres
Chilean politician and academicDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Santiago Bernal Gutiérrez
Spanish photographerDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Alejandro Oviedo
Costa Rican sports journalistDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Gabriel Gutiérrez Mojica
Mexican stage actorDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Guillermo González Mosquera
Colombian engineer and politicianDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Yuri Trutnev
Russian physicistDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Herbert Schlosser
American television executiveDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Jakob Skarstein
Norwegian journalistDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Wang Wenjuan
Chinese performer in Yue operaDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Graeme Whitnall
Australian rules footballerDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Maurice Brun
French politicianDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Galina Korotkevich
Russian actress (Spring in MoscowDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Reg Gorman
Australian actor (The SullivansDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Yūsuke Kinoshita
Japanese baseball playerDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Doris Willens
American folk singer-songwriter (The Baby Sitters) and journalistDied on Friday August 6th 2021
Eva Horáková
Slovak dancerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Wayne Fontana
English singer ("The Game of Love")Died on Thursday August 6th 2020
Fernanda Lapa
Portuguese actressDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Isabelle Weingarten
French actress (Four Nights of a DreamerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Aritana Yawalapiti
70–71Died on Thursday August 6th 2020
Shyamal Chakraborty
Indian politicianDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Horace Clarke
American baseball player (YankeesDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Jean-Paul Grangaud
Algerian doctor and professorDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Samir Sharma
Indian actor (Kahaani Ghar Ghar KiiDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Elmer Petersen
American sculptor (World's Largest Buffalo)Died on Thursday August 6th 2020
Yolanda Huergo
Spanish politicianDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Werner Düggelin
Swiss theatre directorDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
John Okell
British linguistDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Manabendra Bandyopadhyay
Bengali-Indian author and translatorDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
M. S. Sellasamy
Sri Lankan unionist and politicianDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
2020 Beirut explosions
French architectDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Ihor Bezuhlyi
Ukrainian footballerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Frances E. Allen
computer scientistDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Jean-Marc Bonfils
French architectDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
John Chang Yik
South Korean Roman Catholic prelateDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Sameer Sharma
Indian actor (Kahaani Ghar Ghar KiiDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Mukund Lath
Indian cultural historianDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Murray Cheater
New Zealand athleteDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Gésio Amadeu
Brazilian actor (They Don't Wear Black Tie)Died on Thursday August 6th 2020
Igor Bezugliy
Ukrainian footballerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Murad Zadikashvili
Russian footballerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Blanca Rodríguez
Venezuelan socialiteDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Cecil Leonard
American football player (New York JetsDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
E. T. Narayanan Mooss
Indian Ayurvedic physicianDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy
Indian politicianDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Jesús Berardinelli
Venezuelan sporting executiveDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Doris Buffett
American philanthropist and writerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Jelko Yuresha
Croatian-born British ballet dancer and choreographerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
H. George Frederickson
American academicDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Ernie Bowman
American baseball player (San Francisco Giants)Died on Monday August 5th 2019
Harald Nickel
German footballerDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Henri Belolo
French music producerDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Lizzie Grey
American rock musician (LondonDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Schoschana Rabinovici
French-born Lithuanian-Israeli Holocaust survivor and writerDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Diana Henderson
British solicitorDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Richard M. Thorne
American physicistDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Charles Hardnett
American basketball player and coachDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Gus Stager
American swimming coachDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Bjorg Lambrecht
Belgian racing cyclistDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Asif Mohseni
Afghani Marja'Died on Monday August 5th 2019
Francesco Durante
Italian television director (Inspector Montalbano)Died on Monday August 5th 2019
Prudencio Cardona
Colombian boxerDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Salinda Dissanayake
Sri Lankan politicianDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Josef Kadraba
Czech football playerDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Jaume Casanovas i Escussol
Spanish politicianDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Lewis Pérez
Venezuelan politicianDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Darlene Tompkins
American actress (Blue Hawaii)Died on Monday August 5th 2019
Yuu Shimaka
Japanese voice actor (Goofy)Died on Monday August 5th 2019
Manuel Busquets
Colombian actorDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Alain Borner
Swiss politicianDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Kazimierz Orzechowski
Polish priest and actor (The Maids of WilkoDied on Monday August 5th 2019
Syahiran
Indonesian politicianDied on Monday August 5th 2019