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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of June 0070 | EVENT | Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem. |
| 5th of June 1257 | EVENT | Krakow, Poland receives city rights. |
| 5th of June 1798 | EVENT | The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. |
| 5th of June 1817 | EVENT | The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. |
| 5th of June 1829 | EVENT | HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. |
| 5th of June 1832 | EVENT | The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe. |
| 5th of June 1837 | EVENT | Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. |
| 5th of June 1849 | EVENT | Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution. |
| 5th of June 1851 | EVENT | Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper. |
| 5th of June 1862 | EVENT | As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans. |
| 5th of June 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. |
| 5th of June 1883 | EVENT | The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. |
| 5th of June 1888 | EVENT | The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place. |
| 5th of June 1900 | EVENT | Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. |
| 5th of June 1915 | EVENT | Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. |
| 5th of June 1916 | EVENT | Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. |
| 5th of June 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". |
| 5th of June 1933 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. |
| 5th of June 1941 | EVENT | Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. |
| 5th of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. |
| 5th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. |
| 5th of June 1945 | EVENT | The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power. |
| 5th of June 1946 | EVENT | A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people. |
| 5th of June 1947 | EVENT | Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe. |
| 5th of June 1949 | EVENT | Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament. |
| 5th of June 1956 | EVENT | Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. |
| 5th of June 1959 | EVENT | The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. |
| 5th of June 1963 | EVENT | British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair. |
| 5th of June 1963 | EVENT | Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers. |
| 5th of June 1964 | EVENT | DSV Alvin is commissioned. |
| 5th of June 1967 | EVENT | Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. |
| 5th of June 1968 | EVENT | U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day. |
| 5th of June 1969 | EVENT | The International communist conference begins in Moscow. |
| 5th of June 1975 | EVENT | The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. |
| 5th of June 1975 | EVENT | The United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC). |
| 5th of June 1976 | EVENT | Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States. |
| 5th of June 1977 | EVENT | The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale. |
| 5th of June 1977 | EVENT | A coup takes place in Seychelles. |
| 5th of June 1981 | EVENT | The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS. |
| 5th of June 1984 | EVENT | Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. |
| 5th of June 1989 | EVENT | The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
| 5th of June 1995 | EVENT | The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. |
| 5th of June 1998 | EVENT | A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks). |
| 5th of June 2001 | EVENT | Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history. |
| 5th of June 2003 | EVENT | A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50?C (122?F) in the region. |
| 5th of June 2006 | EVENT | Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. |
| 5th of June 1341 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402) |
| 5th of June 1493 | BIRTHDAY | Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555) |
| 5th of June 1523 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573) |
| 5th of June 1553 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617) |
| 5th of June 1554 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of Charles IX of France (d. 1592) |
| 5th of June 1640 | BIRTHDAY | Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715) |
| 5th of June 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684) |
| 5th of June 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744) |
| 5th of June 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779) |
| 5th of June 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790) |
| 5th of June 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808) |
| 5th of June 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852) |
| 5th of June 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851) |
| 5th of June 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860) |
| 5th of June 1819 | BIRTHDAY | John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892) |
| 5th of June 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908) |
| 5th of June 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930) |
| 5th of June 1868 | BIRTHDAY | James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916) |
| 5th of June 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature (d. 1957) |
| 5th of June 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920) |
| 5th of June 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Willard Miller, American sailor (d. 1959) |
| 5th of June 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923) |
| 5th of June 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985) |
| 5th of June 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907) |
| 5th of June 1883 | BIRTHDAY | John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946) |
| 5th of June 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957) |
| 5th of June 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976) |
| 5th of June 1895 | BIRTHDAY | William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972) |
| 5th of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936) |
| 5th of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960) |
| 5th of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992) |
| 5th of June 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |
| 5th of June 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Powell Davies, American religious minister (d. 1957) |
| 5th of June 1905 | BIRTHDAY | John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996) |
| 5th of June 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jock Cameron, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d. 1935) |
| 5th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003) |
| 5th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager |
| 5th of June 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Scarry, American author/illustrator (d. 1994) |
| 5th of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974) |
| 5th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963) |
| 5th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006) |
| 5th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Art Donovan, American football star |
| 5th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Richardson, British film director (d. 1991) |
| 5th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 5th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996) |
| 5th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990) |
| 5th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 5th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher |
| 5th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981) |
| 5th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Moyers, American journalist |
| 5th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Cixous, French writer, poet |
| 5th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Karin Balzer, German hurdler |
| 5th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada |
| 5th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Drabble, English novelist |
| 5th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist |
| 5th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots |
| 5th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter |
| 5th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004) |
| 5th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician |
| 5th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Lesko, American author |
| 5th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer |
| 5th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Carlos, American athlete |
| 5th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1) |
| 5th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Bach, Welsh actor |
| 5th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone) |
| 5th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Anderson, American performance artist |
| 5th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Evans, English musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983) |
| 5th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Follett, Welsh author |
| 5th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author |
| 5th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d. 1990) |
| 5th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d. 1977) |
| 5th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality |
| 5th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Biden, American educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden |
| 5th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Katzen, American classical musician |
| 5th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001) |
| 5th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden) |
| 5th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer |
| 5th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor |
| 5th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player |
| 5th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Butler, English singer (The Psychedelic Furs) |
| 5th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny G, American saxophonist |
| 5th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros |
| 5th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician |
| 5th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lloyd, English musician (The Nightingales) |
| 5th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Margo Lanagan, Australian author |
| 5th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Hendrix, American actress |
| 5th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Aldo Costa, Italian engineer |
| 5th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999) |
| 5th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006) |
| 5th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Garlin, American comedian |
| 5th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Astrid of Belgium |
| 5th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Rudan, Hungarian heavy metal singer |
| 5th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Cholodenko, American filmmaker |
| 5th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Riordan, American author |
| 5th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile) |
| 5th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sandrine Piau, French soprano |
| 5th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Michael E. Brown, American astronomer |
| 5th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joe DeLoach, American athlete |
| 5th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Lankford, American baseball player |
| 5th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Livingston, American actor |
| 5th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brian McKnight, American musician |
| 5th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player |
| 5th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Miyuki Komatsu, Japanese actress |
| 5th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress |
| 5th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver |
| 5th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Wahlberg, American rapper and actor |
| 5th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Klosterman, American journalist |
| 5th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor |
| 5th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler |
| 5th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lamon Brewster, American boxer |
| 5th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Gildenlow, Swedish musician and songwriter |
| 5th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Galilea Montijo, Mexican actress |
| 5th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka |
| 5th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Allen, American actor |
| 5th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | P-Nut, American bassist (311) |
| 5th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Ortiz, American baseball player |
| 5th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player |
| 5th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete |
| 5th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Giannis Giannoulis, Greek basketball player |
| 5th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Torry Holt, American football player |
| 5th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Ross, Scottish footballer |
| 5th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Noble, English comedian |
| 5th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist |
| 5th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter |
| 5th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nourhanne, Lebanese singer |
| 5th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Liza Weil, American actress |
| 5th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Martucci, American musician |
| 5th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Navi Rawat, American actress |
| 5th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player |
| 5th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Bisbal, Spanish singer |
| 5th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer |
| 5th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jason White, American racing driver |
| 5th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy) |
| 5th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Fisher, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player |
| 5th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Goody, British television personality (d. 2009) |
| 5th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 5th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) |
| 5th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Baron Geisler, Filipino actor |
| 5th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Bray, American baseball player |
| 5th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marques Colston, American football player |
| 5th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Barbieri, Canadian-born Italian rugby player |
| 5th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist |
| 5th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian tennis player |
| 5th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Baracat, German rugby player |
| 5th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Gholston, American football player |
| 5th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Crew, Canadian actress |
| 5th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Clements, English actor |
| 5th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer |
| 5th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Megumi Nakajima, Filipina-Japanese voice actress & singer |
| 5th of June 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer |
| 5th of June 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Joazhino Arroe, Peruvian footballer |
| 5th of June 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Troye Sivan, South African/Australian actor and singer |
| 5th of June 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Urdangarin y de Borbon, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain |
| 5th of June 0301 | DEATH | Sima Lun, Chinese usurper |
| 5th of June 0535 | DEATH | Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople |
| 5th of June 1017 | DEATH | Emperor Sanjo of Japan (Born 976) |
| 5th of June 1118 | DEATH | Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (Born 1049) |
| 5th of June 1296 | DEATH | Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (Born 1245) |
| 5th of June 1316 | DEATH | King Louis X of France (Born 1289) |
| 5th of June 1383 | DEATH | Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (Born 1324) |
| 5th of June 1568 | DEATH | Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (Born 1522) |
| 5th of June 1625 | DEATH | Orlando Gibbons, English composer (Born 1583) |
| 5th of June 1667 | DEATH | Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (Born 1607) |
| 5th of June 1688 | DEATH | Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (Born 1667) |
| 5th of June 1716 | DEATH | Roger Cotes, English mathematician (Born 1682) |
| 5th of June 1722 | DEATH | Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (Born 1660) |
| 5th of June 1738 | DEATH | Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (Born 1659) |
| 5th of June 1791 | DEATH | Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born colonial governor (Born 1718) |
| 5th of June 1816 | DEATH | Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Born 1741) |
| 5th of June 1819 | DEATH | Bodawpaya, King of Burma (Born 1745) |
| 5th of June 1825 | DEATH | Odysseas Androutsos, national hero in the Greek War of Independence (Born 1788) |
| 5th of June 1826 | DEATH | Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (Born 1786) |
| 5th of June 1866 | DEATH | John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (Born 1815) |
| 5th of June 1900 | DEATH | Stephen Crane, American author (Born 1871) |
| 5th of June 1902 | DEATH | Louis J. Weichmann, American witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (Born 1842) |
| 5th of June 1906 | DEATH | Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (Born 1842) |
| 5th of June 1910 | DEATH | O. Henry, American author (Born 1862) |
| 5th of June 1913 | DEATH | Chris von der Ahe, German-born baseball pioneer (Born 1851) |
| 5th of June 1916 | DEATH | Lord Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal (Born 1850) |
| 5th of June 1920 | DEATH | Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (Born 1840) |
| 5th of June 1921 | DEATH | Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Born 1862) |
| 5th of June 1930 | DEATH | Pascin, Bulgarian painter (Born 1885) |
| 5th of June 1967 | DEATH | Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (Born 1878) |
| 5th of June 1975 | DEATH | Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (Born 1916) |
| 5th of June 1976 | DEATH | Violet Wilkey, American actress (Born 1903) |
| 5th of June 1993 | DEATH | Conway Twitty, American musician (Born 1933) |
| 5th of June 1998 | DEATH | Jeanette Nolan, American actress (Born 1911) |
| 5th of June 1998 | DEATH | Sam Yorty, American mayor of Los Angeles (Born 1909) |
| 5th of June 1999 | DEATH | Mel Torme, American singer, composer, and actor (Born 1925) |
| 5th of June 2000 | DEATH | Don Liddle, American baseball player (Born 1925) |
| 5th of June 2001 | DEATH | Pedro Lain Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher and humanist (Born 1908) |
| 5th of June 2002 | DEATH | Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (Born 1912) |
| 5th of June 2002 | DEATH | Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (Born 1951) |
| 5th of June 2003 | DEATH | Jurgen Mollemann, German politician (Born 1945) |
| 5th of June 2003 | DEATH | Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (Born 1904) |
| 5th of June 2004 | DEATH | Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (Born 1941) |
| 5th of June 2004 | DEATH | Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (Born 1911) |
| 5th of June 2005 | DEATH | Susi Nicoletti, German actress (Born 1918) |
| 5th of June 2005 | DEATH | Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Mexican politician (Born 1949) |
| 5th of June 2006 | DEATH | Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (Born 1909) |
| 5th of June 2007 | DEATH | Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (Born 1922) |
| 5th of June 2009 | DEATH | Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (Born 1978) |
| 5th of June 2009 | DEATH | Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (Born 1912) |