March 5
day of the year
March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events change
Up to 1900 change
- 1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his book Safarnameh.
- 1279 - The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- 1496 – England King Henry VII issued letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover of unknown lands.
- 1616 - Nicolaus Copernicus' book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1689 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
- 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
- 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
- 1784 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
- 1793 – French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
- 1811 - Peninsular War: A French force under command of Marshal Victor is heavily defeated while trying to prevent an English-Spanish-Portuguese army from ending the Siege of Cadiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
- 1821 – James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
- 1824 – First Burmese War: The British officially declares war on Burma.
- 1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
- 1842 – Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
- 1848 – Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
- 1849 – Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States.
- 1850 – The Britannia Bridge, a railway bridge, linking the Isle of Anglesey to mainland Wales across the Menai Strait, opens.
- 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 1861 – The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
- 1861 – Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln
- 1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
- 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
- 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
- 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
- 1878 - Manchester United Football Club is founded under the name of Newton Heath LYR FC.
- 1888 – Samuel Teleki and Ludwig von Hoehnal reach Lake Rudolf, present-day Lake Turkana in the Great Rift Valley. It lies in what is now Kenya.
- 1894 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1901 - 1950 change
- 1904 – Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
- 1905 – Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
- 1907 – The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
- 1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
- 1915 – World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
- 1916 – Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
- 1916 - Off Santos, Brazil, Spanish luxury liner Principe de Asturias hits a rock and sinks within five minutes, killing 445 people.
- 1917 – Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
- 1918 – Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
- 1919 - The main railway station in Helsinki opens.
- 1924 – Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
- 1929 – LanChile airline begins operations.
- 1931 – Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
- 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- 1933 – In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
- 1936 – First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.
- 1940 – Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 22000 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.
- 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
- 1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
- 1946 - The Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the left bloc.
- 1948 – US rocket flies a record 4800 km/h to 126 km height.
- 1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1951 - 2000 change
- 1953 – Both Josef Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev die in Soviet Union.
- 1955 – President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union.
- 1956 – Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen.
- 1956 – "King Kong" first televised.
- 1958 – Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
- 1958 – Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
- 1960 - Alberto Korda takes the famous "Guerrillero Heroico" photograph of Che Guevara.
- 1960 – Elvis Presley is discharged from a 2-year hitch in the United States Army.
- 1963 – Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
- 1964 – Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
- 1964 – Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
- 1965 – First performance of Walter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
- 1966 – A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan killing 124
- 1966 – In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
- 1966 – Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
- 1968 – US launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
- 1970 – A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
- 1970 – Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
- 1971 – First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
- 1973 – Two Spanish aircraft collide in mid-air over France, killing 68 people.
- 1973 – Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
- 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 1974 – "Candide", by Leonard Bernstein, opens at Broadway Theatre in NYC for 740 performances.
- 1976 – British pound falls below $2 US for the first time.
- 1978 – Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
- 1979 – Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
- 1979 – Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.
- 1980 – Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
- 1981 – Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
- 1982 – SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room.
- 1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
- 1983 – Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
- 1983 - In the oldest regular match in international rugby union, Scotland achieves its most recent away win over England to-date, winning 22-12 at Twickenham Stadium in London.
- 1984 - 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
- 1985 – The body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena is found.
- 1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
- 1991 – Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners
- 1993 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
- 1998 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
- 1998 – NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
- 1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
From 2001 change
- 2001 – In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
- 2001 – In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
- 2002 – MTV begins airing The Osbournes.
- 2003 – University of Manchester and UMIST announce agreement to merge operations.
- 2003 – Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
- 2003 – Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal.
- 2006 - The BBC's major nature documentary series "Planet Earth" is broadcast for the first time.
- 2013 - President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez dies, after a Presidency of over 14 years, of complications from cancer.
Births change
Up to 1800 change
- 1133 – King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
- 1324 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
- 1326 – King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
- 1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish map maker (d. 1594)
- 1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
- 1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
- 1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
- 1658 - Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
- 1685 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
- 1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
- 1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
- 1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
- 1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
- 1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
- 1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
- 1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physician and statesman (d. 1819)
- 1756 - Nathaniel Alexander, 13th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1808)
- 1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
1801 – 1900 change
- 1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
- 1832 - Isaac Israel Hayes, American physician and polar explorer (d. 1881)
- 1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
- 1853 - Howard Pyle, American writer and illustrator (d. 1911)
- 1855 - Archduchess Sophie of Austria (d. 1857)
- 1858 - José Relvas, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1929)
- 1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
- 1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
- 1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
- 1870 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
- 1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, German Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
- 1874 – Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
- 1879 – William Henry Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
- 1882 - Arthur Hussey, American golfer (d. 1915)
- 1886 - Dong Biwu, Chinese politician (d. 1975)
- 1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
- 1888 - Jeff Tesreau, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- 1890 - Wilhelm Boden, German politician (d. 1961)
- 1893 - Konstantin Muraviev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1973)
- 1897 - Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (d. 1960)
- 1898 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-living person (d. 2015)
- 1898 – Soong May-ling, First Lady of the Republic of China (d. 2003)
- 1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese Communist politician (d. 1976)
- 1900 - Anna Henderson, American supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1901 - 1950 change
- 1901 - Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (d. 1974)
- 1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
- 1908 – Rex Harrison, British actor (d. 1990)
- 1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer and playwright (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2007)
- 1910 - Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter (d. 1972)
- 1912 - Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
- 1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
- 1915 - Henry Hicks, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
- 1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- 1918 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
- 1918 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
- 1920 - José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director (d. 1975)
- 1923 - Andrea Aureli, Italian actor
- 1924 - Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (d. 2015)
- 1929 - J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1930 - John Ashley, NHL referee (d. 2008)
- 1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
- 1931 - Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (d. 2019)
- 1933 - Don L. Anderson, American geophysicist (d. 2014)
- 1933 - Walter Kasper, German cardinal
- 1933 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (d. 2018)
- 1933 – Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1982)
- 1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist
- 1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
- 1935 - Philip K. Chapman, Australian astronaut and scientist
- 1936 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
- 1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, two-time former President of Nigeria
- 1938 – Lynn Margulis, American evolutionary biologist (d. 2011)
- 1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- 1940 – Josef Piontek, German footballer
- 1940 - John W. Carlin, 40th Governor of Kansas
- 1942 – Felipe Gonzalez, former Prime Minister of Spain
- 1942 - Mike Resnick, American science fiction writer
- 1943 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
- 1943 - Christian Führer, German pastor and activist (d. 2014)
- 1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist
- 1946 - Murray Head, British actor and singer
- 1947 - John Kitzhaber, former Governor of Oregon
- 1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
- 1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British musician
- 1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
- 1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
- 1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German politician
1951 – 1975 change
- 1952 – Alan Clark, British musician (Dire Straits)
- 1952 - Fernando de Piedade Dios dos Santos, former Prime Minister of Angola
- 1953 – Michael Sandel, American political philosopher
- 1954 - Steve Prestwich, English-Australian musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1955 - Penn Jillette, American illusionist, comedian, musician and writer
- 1956 - Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and writer
- 1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1957 - Mark E. Smith, English musician (d. 2018)
- 1958 – Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
- 1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
- 1959 - David Fury, American television and producer
- 1962 – The Proclaimers, Scottish singers and musicians
- 1963 - Lotta Engberg, Swedish singer
- 1963 - Joel Osteen, American televangelist
- 1964 - Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
- 1966 - Oh Eun-Sun, South Korean mountaineer
- 1968 – Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary
- 1968 – Theresa Villiers, British politician
- 1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1972 - Brian Grant, American basketball player
- 1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian guitarist and songwriter
- 1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
- 1974 – Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian
- 1974 – Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
- 1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
- 1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress
- 1975 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian writer (d. 2009)
From 1976 change
- 1976 – Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
- 1978 - Kimberly McCullough, American actress
- 1978 - Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
- 1981 – Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
- 1982 – Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby union player
- 1982 - Nikki Walker, Scottish rugby union player
- 1982 - Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
- 1984 - Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (d. 2015)
- 1985 - Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
- 1985 – David Marshall, Scottish footballer
- 1985 - Brad Mills, American baseball player
- 1986 - Ellen Whitaker, British equestrian showjumper
- 1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
- 1987 – Ishmael Miller, English footballer
- 1988 - Bjarni Vidarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1989 - Kensuke Nagai, Japanese footballer
- 1989 - Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
- 1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor
- 1990 - Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
- 1991 - Michael Hayböck, Austrian ski jumper
- 1993 - Harry Maguire, English footballer
- 1994 - Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
- 1999 - Madison Beer, American singer
Deaths change
Up to 1900 change
- 254 - Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
- 1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
- 1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician (b. 1487)
- 1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
- 1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
- 1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
- 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
- 1770 – Crispus Attucks, American revolutionary figure
- 1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (b. 1694)
- 1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
- 1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (b. 1734)
- 1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
- 1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor (b. 1745)
- 1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1901 – 2000 change
- 1925 – Jonas Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
- 1926 - Clement Ader, French engineer (b. 1841)
- 1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American engineer, inventor and industrialist (b. 1854)
- 1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
- 1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
- 1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
- 1950 - Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist (b. 1868)
- 1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
- 1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
- 1953 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
- 1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (b. 1888)
- 1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
- 1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
- 1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
- 1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
- 1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
- 1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
- 1967 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (b. 1882)
- 1967 - Georges Vanier, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
- 1974 - Sol Hurok, American impresario (b. 1888)
- 1976 - Otto Tief, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
- 1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (b. 1949)
- 1980 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
- 1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
- 1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
- 1984 - Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
- 1984 - Tito Cobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
- 1990 – Edmund Conen, German footballer (b. 1914)
- 1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1995 – Vivian Stanshall, British musician (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, singer and pornographic actress (b. 1963)
From 2001 change
- 2004 - Masanori Tokita, Japanese footballer (b. 1925)
- 2006 - Milan Babic, Serbian politician (b. 1956)
- 2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer science professor (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Philip Langridge, English operatic tenor (b. 1939)
- 2011 – Alberto Granado, Argentine biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (b. 1922)
- 2012 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (b. 1925)
- 2013 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
- 2013 - Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
- 2013 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (b. 1947)
- 2014 - Leopoldo Maria Panero, Spanish poet (b. 1948)
- 2014 - Geoff Edwards, American actor and presenter (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
- 2015 - Jim McCann, Irish musician (b. 1944)
- 2015 - Vlada Divljan, Serbian musician (b. 1958)
- 2016 - Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (b. 1932)
- 2016 - Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Al Wistert, American football player (b. 1920)
- 2016 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian cellist (b. 1929)
- 2016 - James Douglas, American actor (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Anthony C. Beilenson, American politician (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Douglas Henry, American politician (b. 1926)
- 2017 - Florence S. Jacobsen, American Mormon leader and missionary (b. 1913)
- 2017 - Jay Lynch, American cartoonist (b. 1945)
- 2018 - Trevor Baylis, British inventor (b. 1937)
- 2018 - John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
- 2018 - Tomas Aguon Camacho, Northern Marianas Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
- 2018 - Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (b. 1925)
- 2018 - André S. Labarthe, French actor and film director (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (b. 1926)
- 2018 - Jam Saqi, Pakistani politician (b. 1944)
- 2018 - Helmut Maucher, German businessman (b. 1927)
- 2018 - Stephan Tanneberger, German oncologist and chemist (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
- 2019 - Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman (b. 1928)
- 2019 - Jacques Loussier, French businessman (b. 1934)