28 notable people died on June 5, including Alexander the Great, Gleb Svyatoslavich, Bayezid II.
21st Century
2 deaths
Eliana Navarro
poetwriter
Chilean writer (1920-2006)
Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak
architect
Polish architect (1920–2018)
20th Century
14 deaths
Cesáreo Fernández Duro
historianmilitary personnel
Spanish naval historian
Stefan Hanka-Kulesza
engineermilitary officer
Polish officer (1892-1964)
Antonio Lussich
arboristnaturalist
Uruguayan writer (1848–1928)
Nello Carrara
physicistuniversity teacher
Italian physicist (1900-1993)
Dolores Sucre
poetwriter
Ecuadorian poet (1837-1917)
Jeanne Hersch
philosopheruniversity teacher
Swiss philosopher (1910-2000)
Dieter Roth
artistdesigner
Swiss artist (1930-1998)
Emil Mayer
entrepreneurjurist
Austrian photographer (1871–1938)
Dezső Wein
artistic gymnastdentist
Hungarian gymnast (1873–1944)
Nuri Yamut
politiciansoldier
Turkish military officer (1890–1961)
Eduardo Sívori
painter
Argentine painter (1847-1918)
LG
Luc Gillon
Catholic priestnuclear physicist
Belgian priest, physicist and university director in Congo
MH
Marie Holzer
authorjournalist
Austrian writer and journalist
MB
Muhammad Salim Barakat
poettranslator
Syrian poet
19th Century
5 deaths
François Désiré Roulin
explorerlibrarian
French explorer and scientist
John Richardson
biologistbotanical collector
Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (1787–1865)
Bodawpaya
monarch
1745-1819, sixth king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma.
Michael Treschow
historianjudge
Danish Supreme Court justice and prefect of Roskilde County (1741-1816)
Louis Royer
paintersculptor
Belgian sculptor (1793–1868)
18th Century
2 deaths
Jonas Erickson Sundahl
architectengineer
German architect
Giovanni Gaetano Bottari
archaeologistart historian
Italian scholar and critic
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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