Notable deaths on April 5

American rock singer (1959–2024)

Taiwanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1943–2022)

American actor and painter (1919–2022)

English actor (1966–2021)

South African biologist and Nobel prize winner (1927–2019)

Japanese musician (1987–2019)

Japanese filmmaker and producer (1935–2018)

American chess grandmaster (1929–2017)

Romanian canoeist

Italian cyclist (1943–2017)

Finnish ice hockey player (1958–2017)

Japanese poet and literary critic (1931–2017)

Italian actor

Italian-American computer scientist (1926–2017)

American composer, musician, and record producer (1956–2017)

British racing driver (1932–2017)

Greek-Turkish footballer and manager

American physician (1949–2015)

Musical artist

Scottish painter and musician (1920–2014)

American comedian and actor (1964–2014)

Brazilian actor and director (1944–2014)

Spanish cyclist (1939–2014)

American novelist (1927–2014)