147,472 People died the day i was born.... Natural disasters in 1991 Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak 1991 Bangladesh cyclone Halloween Blizzard Mount Pinatubo Ormoc tragedy 1991 Racha earthquake Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1991 West Virginia Derecho People who died on May 05 (various years) 2007 - Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor 2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer 2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter 2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist 2002 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator 2002 - George Sidney, American film director 2001 - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler 2001 - Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher 2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist 1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor 1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player 1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927) 1988 - Michael Shaara, American author 1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer 1983 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician 1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish activist 1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor 1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer 1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player 1942 - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician 1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia 1931 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter 1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician 1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist 1859 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician 1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony 1821 - Napoleon I of France 1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect 1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist 1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar 1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) 1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter 1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician 1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer 1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1525 - Frederick III of Saxony 1309 - King Charles II of Naples 1219 - King Leo II of Armenia 1194 - King Casimir II of Poland 1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia 984 - Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia 311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor 200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)