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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of March 0363 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. |
| 5th of March 1046 | EVENT | Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama. |
| 5th of March 1279 | EVENT | the Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
| 5th of March 1496 | EVENT | King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. |
| 5th of March 1766 | EVENT | Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. |
| 5th of March 1770 | EVENT | Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams. |
| 5th of March 1824 | EVENT | First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. |
| 5th of March 1836 | EVENT | Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. |
| 5th of March 1850 | EVENT | The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. |
| 5th of March 1860 | EVENT | Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. |
| 5th of March 1868 | EVENT | Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premiere performance at La Scala. |
| 5th of March 1872 | EVENT | George Westinghouse patents the air brake. |
| 5th of March 1906 | EVENT | Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. |
| 5th of March 1912 | EVENT | Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. |
| 5th of March 1931 | EVENT | The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population. |
| 5th of March 1933 | EVENT | Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions. |
| 5th of March 1933 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. |
| 5th of March 1940 | EVENT | Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre. |
| 5th of March 1943 | EVENT | First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom. |
| 5th of March 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman : Botosani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR. |
| 5th of March 1946 | EVENT | Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri. |
| 5th of March 1946 | EVENT | Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc. |
| 5th of March 1960 | EVENT | Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. |
| 5th of March 1960 | EVENT | Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. |
| 5th of March 1965 | EVENT | March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. |
| 5th of March 1966 | EVENT | BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124. |
| 5th of March 1970 | EVENT | The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. |
| 5th of March 1974 | EVENT | Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. |
| 5th of March 1975 | EVENT | First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club |
| 5th of March 1978 | EVENT | The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. |
| 5th of March 1979 | EVENT | Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. |
| 5th of March 1979 | EVENT | America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles. |
| 5th of March 1981 | EVENT | The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. |
| 5th of March 1984 | EVENT | 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery. |
| 5th of March 1988 | EVENT | The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised. |
| 5th of March 1999 | EVENT | Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut. |
| 5th of March 2003 | EVENT | In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre. |
| 5th of March 1133 | BIRTHDAY | Henry II of England, King of England (d. 1189) |
| 5th of March 1324 | BIRTHDAY | King David II of Scotland (d. 1371) |
| 5th of March 1326 | BIRTHDAY | Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382) |
| 5th of March 1512 | BIRTHDAY | Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594) |
| 5th of March 1563 | BIRTHDAY | John Coke, English politician (d. 1644) |
| 5th of March 1575 | BIRTHDAY | William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660) |
| 5th of March 1585 | BIRTHDAY | John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656) |
| 5th of March 1658 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730) |
| 5th of March 1693 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754) |
| 5th of March 1696 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770) |
| 5th of March 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768) |
| 5th of March 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783) |
| 5th of March 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776) |
| 5th of March 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773) |
| 5th of March 1739 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physican and statesman (d. 1819) |
| 5th of March 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810) |
| 5th of March 1748 | BIRTHDAY | William Shield, English musician (d. 1829) |
| 5th of March 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805) |
| 5th of March 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872) |
| 5th of March 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1870) |
| 5th of March 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889) |
| 5th of March 1815 | BIRTHDAY | John Wentworth, American politician and Member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois (d. 1888) |
| 5th of March 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894) |
| 5th of March 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929) |
| 5th of March 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911) |
| 5th of March 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934) |
| 5th of March 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952) |
| 5th of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952) |
| 5th of March 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902) |
| 5th of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919) |
| 5th of March 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961) |
| 5th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965) |
| 5th of March 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963) |
| 5th of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Dora Marsden, British editor, writer (d. 1960) |
| 5th of March 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (d. 1969) |
| 5th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Dong Biwu, Chinese Communist Party figure (d. 1975) |
| 5th of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959) |
| 5th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960) |
| 5th of March 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976) |
| 5th of March 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003) |
| 5th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984) |
| 5th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990) |
| 5th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990) |
| 5th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992) |
| 5th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002) |
| 5th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager |
| 5th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006) |
| 5th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) |
| 5th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 5th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Aboulker, Jewish Communist (d. 2009) |
| 5th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998) |
| 5th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | James Noble, American actor |
| 5th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975) |
| 5th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Tisch, American investor (d. 2003) |
| 5th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976) |
| 5th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver |
| 5th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Del Crandall, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Othon Aristides, French comics artist |
| 5th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player |
| 5th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (d. 2005) |
| 5th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Linoxilakis, Greek footballer |
| 5th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1982) |
| 5th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate |
| 5th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | James B. Sikking, American actor |
| 5th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Philip K. Chapman, Australian astronaut and scientist |
| 5th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Stockwell, American actor |
| 5th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003) |
| 5th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Olusegun Obasanjo, 5th & 12th President of Nigeria |
| 5th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter |
| 5th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Williamson, American football player and actor |
| 5th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Margulis, American biologist |
| 5th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer |
| 5th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Eggar, English actress |
| 5th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef |
| 5th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Hebden, English actor |
| 5th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Gonzalez, Prime Minister of Spain (1982-1996) |
| 5th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Resnick, American science fiction author |
| 5th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Backus, American boxer |
| 5th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998) |
| 5th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner |
| 5th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Brandes, Danish artist |
| 5th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Head, British actor and singer |
| 5th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lova Moor, French singer and dancer |
| 5th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bell, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 2007) |
| 5th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kent Tekulve, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer |
| 5th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer |
| 5th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer |
| 5th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hickox, English musical conductor |
| 5th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Paige, English singer and actress |
| 5th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984) |
| 5th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Leszek B?azynski, Polish boxer (d. 1992) |
| 5th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Josef Jung, German federal minister of defence |
| 5th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor |
| 5th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Burkhard Segler, German footballer |
| 5th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Datuk Mohammad Nor Khalid, Malaysian cartoonist |
| 5th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Castro Hagee, American evangelist and author, wife of John Hagee |
| 5th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits) |
| 5th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Sandel, American philosopher |
| 5th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Marsha Warfield, American actress |
| 5th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Lee Fairchild, American convicted murderer (d. 1995) |
| 5th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Julien Dray, French politician |
| 5th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian |
| 5th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Papastamkos, Greek politician |
| 5th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress |
| 5th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Teena Marie, American singer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and author |
| 5th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall) |
| 5th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Suarez, American journalist and author |
| 5th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988) |
| 5th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician and 7th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999) |
| 5th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | David Fury, American television writer and producer |
| 5th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | David Tibet, English musician (Current 93) |
| 5th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant |
| 5th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers) |
| 5th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Osteen, American religious figure |
| 5th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bertrand Cantat, French singer and murderer |
| 5th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Irvin, American football player |
| 5th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player |
| 5th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian |
| 5th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian politician |
| 5th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Blackthorne, British actor |
| 5th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Danny King, British author |
| 5th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Moussa Saib, former Algerian footballer |
| 5th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | MC Solaar, French rapper |
| 5th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers) |
| 5th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Brown, American basketball coach |
| 5th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress |
| 5th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) |
| 5th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Lowenthal, American actor and author |
| 5th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian mountainbiker |
| 5th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Mosier, American producer |
| 5th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Grant, American basketball player |
| 5th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody) |
| 5th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer |
| 5th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Franklin, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian |
| 5th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Jeremies, German footballer |
| 5th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Lucas, English comedian |
| 5th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Mendes, American actress |
| 5th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Niki Taylor, American model |
| 5th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jolene Blalock, American actress |
| 5th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver |
| 5th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sasho Petrovski, Australian soccer player |
| 5th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player |
| 5th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Katerina Matziou, Greek actress |
| 5th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Konerko, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial artist |
| 5th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player |
| 5th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mike MacDougal, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player |
| 5th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Crouch, Australian rules footballer |
| 5th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly McCullough, American actress |
| 5th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hessman, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Papoose, American rapper |
| 5th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter |
| 5th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder |
| 5th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor |
| 5th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Martin, American ice hockey player |
| 5th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player |
| 5th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model |
| 5th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Crowley, Australian rules footballer |
| 5th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor |
| 5th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | David Marshall, Scottish footballer |
| 5th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Mills, American baseball player |
| 5th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberlee Green, Australian netball player |
| 5th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matty Fryatt, English footballer |
| 5th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Whitaker, English show jumper |
| 5th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player |
| 5th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Bjarni Vi?arsson, Icelandic footballer |
| 5th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer |
| 5th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sterling Knight, American actor |
| 5th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Lloyd, American actor |
| 5th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Smithies, English footballer |
| 5th of March 1534 | DEATH | Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (Born 1489) |
| 5th of March 1539 | DEATH | Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (Born 1487) |
| 5th of March 1592 | DEATH | Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (Born 1499) |
| 5th of March 1611 | DEATH | Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (Born 1533) |
| 5th of March 1622 | DEATH | Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (Born 1569) |
| 5th of March 1695 | DEATH | Henry Wharton, English writer (Born 1664) |
| 5th of March 1726 | DEATH | Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician |
| 5th of March 1770 | DEATH | Crispus Attucks, American Revolution figure |
| 5th of March 1776 | DEATH | Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (Born 1694) |
| 5th of March 1778 | DEATH | Thomas Arne, English composer (Born 1710) |
| 5th of March 1815 | DEATH | Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (Born 1734) |
| 5th of March 1827 | DEATH | Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (Born 1749) |
| 5th of March 1827 | DEATH | Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (Born 1745) |
| 5th of March 1829 | DEATH | John Adams, British mutineer (Born 1766) |
| 5th of March 1849 | DEATH | David Scott, Scottish painter (Born 1806) |
| 5th of March 1876 | DEATH | Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (Born 1805) |
| 5th of March 1893 | DEATH | Hippolyte Taine, French historian (Born 1828) |
| 5th of March 1895 | DEATH | Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (Born 1810) |
| 5th of March 1895 | DEATH | Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (Born 1831) |
| 5th of March 1903 | DEATH | George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (Born 1854) |
| 5th of March 1904 | DEATH | John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British Army officer (Born 1829) |
| 5th of March 1907 | DEATH | Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (Born 1843) |
| 5th of March 1925 | DEATH | Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (Born 1859) |
| 5th of March 1926 | DEATH | Clement Ader, French aviation pioneer (Born 1841) |
| 5th of March 1927 | DEATH | Franz Mertens, German mathematician (Born 1840) |
| 5th of March 1929 | DEATH | David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile executive (Born 1854) |
| 5th of March 1931 | DEATH | Fr. Arthur Tooth, British religious figure (Born 1839) |
| 5th of March 1940 | DEATH | Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (Born 1868) |
| 5th of March 1944 | DEATH | Max Jacob, French poet and writer (Born 1876) |
| 5th of March 1945 | DEATH | Lena Baker, American convicted murderer (Born 1901) |
| 5th of March 1947 | DEATH | Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (Born 1883) |
| 5th of March 1953 | DEATH | Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (Born 1891) |
| 5th of March 1953 | DEATH | Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (Born 1878) |
| 5th of March 1953 | DEATH | Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (Born 1897) |
| 5th of March 1955 | DEATH | Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (Born 1888) |
| 5th of March 1963 | DEATH | Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (Born 1921) |
| 5th of March 1963 | DEATH | Cowboy Copas, American singer (Born 1913) |
| 5th of March 1963 | DEATH | Patsy Cline, American singer (Born 1932) |
| 5th of March 1965 | DEATH | Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (Born 1897) |
| 5th of March 1965 | DEATH | Pepper Martin, American baseball player (Born 1904) |
| 5th of March 1966 | DEATH | Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (Born 1889) |
| 5th of March 1967 | DEATH | Georges Vanier, Canadian politician (Born 1888) |
| 5th of March 1967 | DEATH | Mohammad Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (Born 1882) |
| 5th of March 1973 | DEATH | Michael Jeffery, British music manager (Born 1933) |
| 5th of March 1974 | DEATH | Sol Hurok, Russian-born American impresario (Born 1888) |
| 5th of March 1974 | DEATH | Billy De Wolfe, American actor (Born 1907) |
| 5th of March 1977 | DEATH | Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (Born 1949) |
| 5th of March 1980 | DEATH | Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (Born 1912) |
| 5th of March 1980 | DEATH | Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (Born 1897) |
| 5th of March 1981 | DEATH | Yip Harburg, American lyricist (Born 1896) |
| 5th of March 1982 | DEATH | John Belushi, American actor (Born 1949) |
| 5th of March 1984 | DEATH | Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Born 1915) |
| 5th of March 1984 | DEATH | William Powell, American actor (Born 1892) |
| 5th of March 1988 | DEATH | Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (Born 1933) |
| 5th of March 1990 | DEATH | Gary Merrill, American film actor (Born 1915) |
| 5th of March 1993 | DEATH | Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (Born 1957) |
| 5th of March 1995 | DEATH | Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (Born 1943) |
| 5th of March 1995 | DEATH | Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (Born 1952) |
| 5th of March 1996 | DEATH | Whit Bissell, American actor (Born 1909) |
| 5th of March 1997 | DEATH | Samm Sinclair Baker, American dietician and author (Born 1909) |
| 5th of March 1999 | DEATH | Richard Kiley, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 5th of March 2000 | DEATH | Rena Dor, Greek actress and singer (Born 1917) |
| 5th of March 2000 | DEATH | Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (Born 1962) |
| 5th of March 2004 | DEATH | Walt Gorney, American actor (Born 1912) |
| 5th of March 2006 | DEATH | Richard Kuklinski, American organized crime figure (Born 1935) |
| 5th of March 2008 | DEATH | Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born American computer science professor (Born 1923) |