Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
51961May.05Death1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911)
51962May.05Death1997 – Walter Gotell, German-English actor (b. 1924)
51963May.05Death1999 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
51964May.05Death2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
51965May.05Death2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
51966May.05Death2001 – Morris Graves, American painter and educator (b. 1910)
51967May.05Death2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918)
51968May.05Death2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
51969May.05Death2002 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)
51970May.05Death2002 – George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
51971May.05Death2003 – Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964)
51972May.05Death2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (b. 1912)
51973May.05Death2004 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (Melocure) (b. 1959)
51974May.05Death2005 – Elisabeth Fraser, American actress (b. 1920)
51975May.05Death2005 – Édgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974)
51976May.05Death2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
51977May.05Death2006 – Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
51978May.05Death2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927)
51979May.05Death2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)
51980May.05Death2008 – Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (b. 1928)
51981May.05Death2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
51982May.05Death2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 12th president of Nigeria (b. 1951)
51983May.05Death2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901)
51984May.05Death2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924)
51985May.05Death2011 – Dana Wynter, German-English actress (b. 1931)
51986May.05Death2012 – Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937)
51987May.05Death2012 – Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1916)
51988May.05Death2012 – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (b. 1932)
51989May.05Death2012 – George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
51990May.05Death2012 – Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (b. 1950)

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