Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 05-Feb

Died on This Day (05-Feb)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Andy Nisbet	Andrew Nisbet was a Scottish mountaineer, guide, climbing instructor, and editor of climbing guidebooks.	Scottish mountaineer	65	1
	Cardiss Collins	Cardiss Hortense Collins was an American politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997.	American politician	81	7
	Brian Jacques	James Brian Jacques was an English novelist known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series.	English writer	71	9
	Gnassingbe Eyadema	General Gnassingbé Eyadéma was the President of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005.	President of Togo	69	15
	Manfred von Brauchitsch	Manfred Georg Rudolf von Brauchitsch was a German auto racing driver who drove for Mercedes-Benz in the famous "Silver Arrows" of Grand Prix motor racing in the 1930s.	German racing driver	97	17
	G. E. M. de Ste. Croix	Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, , known informally as Croicks, was a British historian who specialised in examining the classical era from a Marxist perspective.	British academic	89	20
	Edgar Herschler	Edgar Jacob Herschler was an American politician and attorney who served as the 28th Governor of Wyoming from 1975 to 1987.	American politician	71	30
	Ad Swigler	Adam William "Ad" Swigler , nicknamed "Doc", was an American professional baseball pitcher.	American baseball player	79	45
	Denise Bloch	Denise Madeleine Bloch ; 21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive organization in the Second World War.	French secret agent	29	75
	John Christopher Guise	Lieutenant General John Christopher Guise was a British Army officer and English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.	Recipient of the Victoria Cross	68	125

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Leopoldo María Panero	Leopoldo María Panero was a Spanish poet, commonly placed in the Novísimos group.	Spanish poet	65	6
	Jo Zwaan	Jo Zwaan was a Dutch sprinter. He competed in the Men's 100 m and 4 × 100 m relay events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.	Sprinter	89	8
	John Paul Getty III	John Paul Getty III was the grandson of American oil tycoon J.	American businessman	53	10
	Thomas Hinman Moorer	Thomas Hinman Moorer was an admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1967 to 1970, and as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974.	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	91	16
	Angela du Maurier	Angela du Maurier was an English novelist who also wrote two volumes of autobiography, It's Only the Sister and Old Maids Remember.	British writer	97	18
	Doug McClure	Douglas Osborne McClure was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s.	American actor	59	25
	Hans Croon	Hans Croon was a Dutch football manager who won the 1976 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final with Anderlecht.	Dutch football manager	48	35
	Ben F. Jensen	Benton Franklin Jensen served thirteen consecutive terms as a U.	American businessman and politician	77	50
	Adrien Lavieille	Adrien Lavieille was a French painter. Son of the landscape painter Eugène Lavieille, and nephew of the wood engraver Jacques Adrien Lavieille, he was a painter of the country : near Paris, in Brittany, near Cancale and on the riverside of the Vilaine in the south of Rennes, in Touraine, at Saint-Jean-de-Monts in Vendée, where he was invited by a friend, the painter and engraver Auguste Lepère, around Vendôme where he sojourned in the home of his daughter, Andrée Lavieille, so a painter, and of his son-in-law, the man of letters, Paul Tuffrau.	French painter	71	100
	Thomas Harry Saunders	Thomas Harry Saunders , usually called T. H. Saunders, was a British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks, and also a philanthropist.	British businessman	56	150