10 notable people died on June 5, including Alexander the Great, Bayezid II, Gleb Svyatoslavich.
20th Century
1 death
Antonio Lussich
arboristnaturalist
Uruguayan writer (1848–1928)
19th Century
3 deaths
John Richardson
biologistbotanical collector
Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (1787–1865)
François Désiré Roulin
explorerlibrarian
French explorer and scientist
Bodawpaya
monarch
1745-1819, sixth king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma.
18th Century
1 death
Jonas Erickson Sundahl
architectengineer
German architect
17th Century
1 death
Johannes Walaeus
academicanatomist
Dutch physician and anatomist
16th Century
2 deaths
Bayezid II
monarch
The eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512)
Abderrahman El Mejdoub
mysticpoet
Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic (1506–1568)
11th Century
1 death
Gleb Svyatoslavich
monarch
Prince of Tmutarakan and Prince of Novgorod
4th Century BC
1 death
Alexander the Great
military leadermonarch
King of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC)
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