Notable deaths on May 5

Australian rugby league player (1955–2026)

English actor (1944–2024)

Argentine footballer and manager (1938–2024)

American stuntwoman and actress (1941–2024)

Jamaican singer (1947–2020)

Israeli rabbi and politician (1954–2017)

Head of State of Mauritania from 2005 to 2007

Dutch academic (1942–2015)

American bicycle racer (1935–2015)

Nigerian politician (1926–2014) My Grandfather factual

FBI criminal profiler (1937–2013)

German poet

Finnish newspaper editor and publisher

Prince Bernadotte

Dutch football manager (1922–2012)

South African politician and activist (1950–2012)

Indian cricketer (born 1937)

British-born World War I veteran (1901–2011)

German-born English actress (1931–2011)

Football player and manager (1924–2011)

Italian opera singer

President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010

American businessman

American singer (1928–2008)