- Apr 5 Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, pamphleteer and revolutionary leader (his oratory led to storming of the Bastille), guillotined at 34
- Apr 5 Fabre d'Églantine, French dramatist and revolutionary politician, created French Republican calendar, executed by guillotine for fraud at 43
Georges Danton (1759-1794)
Apr 5 French politician and revolutionary (1st president of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution), executed by guillotine at 34
Assassination
Drug Overdose
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Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide