Famous people died on December 5

Kirstie Alley  49 

American Actress

Jayalalithaa  2 

Indian Politician

Don Meredith  3 

American Athlete

William McIlvanney  3 

Scottish Writer

Colin Wilson  199 

British Writer

Roone Arledge  21 

American Journalist

Jim Rohn  114 

American Businessman

Alexy II of Moscow  1 

 

Karlheinz Stockhausen  25 

German Composer

George Brecht  5 

American Artist

Edward Lewis Wallant  6 

American Writer

Bob Dole  30 

American Politician

Satyananda Saraswati  2 

 

Clair Cameron Patterson  3 

 

Norman Lear  29 

American Producer

Dave Brubeck  35 

American Musician

Nelson Mandela  244 

South African President

Robert Aldrich  2 

American Director

Alfonso A. Ossorio  2 

Filipino Artist

Amrita Sher-Gil  23 

Hungarian Painter

Jimmy Cannon  4 

American Journalist

Oscar Niemeyer  47 

Brazilian Architect

Caryl Brahms  4 

English Critic

David K. E. Bruce  5 

American Diplomat

Aleksandr Vasilevsky  6 

 

Shoeless Joe Jackson  7 

American Athlete

Vachel Lindsay  10 

American Poet

Sri Aurobindo  224 

Indian Philosopher

Claude Monet  101 

French Artist

George Whyte-Melville  5 

Scottish Novelist

Alexandre Dumas  117 

French Writer

Louis Poinsot  1 

French Mathematician

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  34 

Austrian Composer

Phillis Wheatley  15 

American Poet

Nicolas Steno  4