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Celebrities who died on 5 May
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Romalı Perihan
Turkish opera singer , model, and actress

Lena Horne
American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer

Gino Bartali
Italian road cyclist

Ronald Poulton-Palmer
English rugby union player

David F. Swensen
American businessman

Arthur Laurents
playwright, theatre director, screenwriter

Naushad
Indian composer

Baby Lillian Wade
American child actress

Pudhumaipithan
Indian writer

Hermann Schmitz
German philosopher

Don Kindt
American football player

Millie Small
singer-songwriter

Cal Tjader
American musician

Del Crandall
American baseball player and coach

Edna Mayo
American actress

Irving Howe
American historian

Ciro Pessoa
Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist and poet

Kevin Samuels
American YouTuber

Arsenio Iglesias
Spanish football player and manager

Dana Wynter
actress

George Jung
major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s

Chris Strachwitz
German-born American record label executive and record producer

Norma Miller
American dancer

Albert Dekker
actor, politician

Lucinda Franks
American journalist

Frank Tashlin
American animator, screenwriter, film director

Max Palevsky
American businessman

Philipose Mar Chrysostom
Metropolitan Emeritus of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India

Stanley Falkow
American microbiologist

Didi Kempot
Indonesian singer-songwriter

Carlos M. Padilla
Philippine politician

John Williams
English actor

Kiing Shooter
American rapper

Kadir Mısıroğlu
Turkish lawyer and writer

José María Íñigo
Spanish broadcaster

Siiri Rantanen
Finnish cross-country skier

Eddie Cicotte
Major League Baseball pitcher

Jean-Claude Pascal
French comedian and singer

Ann McBride Norton
American activist and executive

Harm Ottenbros
Dutch racing cyclist

Valery Baranov
People's Deputy of Ukraine

Siné
French cartoonist

Hani Shukrallah
Egyptian journalist

Bill Lucas
American baseball executive

Du'Vonta Lampkin
American football player

Emine Işınsu
Turkish writer, poet and editor

Kjell Karlsen
jazz musician

Charles Shipman Payson
American baseball player