deaths
August 5, 1916
George Butterworth, British composer (born 1885)
George Butterworth
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the fighting at Pozières in the First World War, and died in the Battle of the Somme.
August 5
August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 148 days remain until the end of the year.