Deaths on August 5
This archive lists notable deaths associated with August 5 across multiple years. For the specific 2026 archive, see Deaths on August 5, 2026.
Kiripi Katembo
Congolese photographer and documentary filmmaker
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
James Herbert Laycraft
Canadian lawyer and judge
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Svetlana Boym
Soviet-born American scholar and author
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Antti Leppänen
Finnish ice hockey player
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
George Cole
English actor (Minder
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Raphy Leavitt
Puerto Rican composer and founder of the salsa orchestra "La Selecta
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Hiroyuki Agawa
Japanese writer (The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Jerzy Płażewski
Polish film historian and critic
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Tony Millington
Welsh footballer (Swansea City
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Ellen Vogel
Dutch actress
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Ana Hatherly dead at age 86, writer, artist
Ana Hatherly, the Portuguese writer and artist who helped pioneer experimental poetry and experimental literature in Portugal,
died on August 5, 2015, aged 86. Born in Porto on May 8,…
Quraish Pur
Pakistani scholar
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Qaqambile Matanzima
South African tribal leader and politician
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Hector Luisi
Uruguayan politician
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Lin Chieh-liang
Taiwanese physician and toxicologist
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Robert Häusser
German photographer
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Willie Dunn
Canadian Mi'kmaq folk singer
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
George Duke
American Grammy Award-winning jazz fusion keyboardist
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Jaime Luiz Coelho
Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Shawn Burr
Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Malcolm Barrass
English footballer (Bolton Wanderers)
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Ruth Asawa
American sculptor
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
May Song Vang
Laotian-born American Hmong community leader
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Frank Valdor
German band leader
Died on Monday August 5th 2013
Pran Kumar Sharma
Indian cartoonist (Chacha Chaudhary)
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Marilyn Burns
American actress (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Yoshiki Sasai
Japanese biologist (RIKEN)
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Elfriede Brüning
German writer
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Rodrigo de Triano
English thoroughbred
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Diann Blakely
American poet
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Chapman Pincher
British journalist and historian
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Arvind Apte
Indian cricketer
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Vladimir Orlov
Russian novelist
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Dmitri Anosov
Russian mathematician
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Richard Olson
American politician
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Angéla Németh
Hungarian javelin thrower
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Joe McManemin
New Zealand athletics coach and sports administrator
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Khalil Morsi
Egyptian actor
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Edward Leffingwell
American art critic and curator
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Dave Hereora
New Zealand politician
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Harold J. Greene
American military officer
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Yakov Yakovlevich Etinger
Russian historian and political activist
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Emanuel Tanay
American physician and Holocaust survivor
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Hans V. Engström
Swedish actor (Rederiet)
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Ronnie Stonham
British army officer and broadcasting adviser
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Scott Ciencin
American adaption novelist (Godzilla
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
American naval officer and physician
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014
Ruth Sacks Caplin
American screenwriter (Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont)
Died on Tuesday August 5th 2014