Famous Deaths on December 5

Belgian mathematician (1930–2021)

Italian politician (1930–2020)

Ukrainian resistance leader (1920–2021)

Russian film director, screenwriter and actor (1930–2014)

Estonian equestrian, lawyer and politician (1930-2019)

Greek writer (1931–2014)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Literature (1924)

Mexican politician (1871-1930)

Physicist (1892-1973)

Jain religious scholar

Brazilian journalist, lawyer, diplomat and writer (1841-1913)

Austrian-German writer and theatre manager (1891-1958)

Literary historian, politician (1874–1933)

Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)

New Zealand botanist, university professor, conservationist (1910-1980)

Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor (1843-1916)

Bengali chemist (1892–1986)

Canadian photographer (1849–1925)

Austrian violist and composer

Painter (1872-1946)

Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens was a french physiologist, the first to demonstrate the function of most of the vertebrates central nervous system. (1794-1867)

American botanist, geologist, chemist and lecturer in medical colleges (1784-1867)

Scottish writer, poet, abolitionist (1789-1834)

Greek architect, painter and sculptor (1787-1825)

Serbian writer and philologist

Swedish historian (1707-1787)

Japanese mathematician

Balinese slave-turned-warlord

Swiss botanist (1560-1624)

Spanish fencer

Spanish theologian, jurist and scientist

German theologian

Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)