Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024
-
1956 - Art Tatum, black pianist, dies at age 46 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1977 - Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader ("Auld Lang Syne"), dies in Houston, Texas, at age 75.
1985 - Death of Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1895).
1989 - Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), dies at age 49 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1991 - Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons), dies at age 84.
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born American billionaire publisher (New York Daily News), is found floating dead in the Atlantic Ocean, at age 68 (born 1923).
1997 - Death of James Robert Baker, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1946).
2003 - Death of Bobby Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (born 1940).
2003 - Death of Dorothy Fay, American actress (born 1915).
2006 - Death of Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (born 1924).