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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of November 1138 | EVENT | Ly Anh Tong is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign. |
| 5th of November 1499 | EVENT | Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. |
| 5th of November 1530 | EVENT | The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands. |
| 5th of November 1605 | EVENT | Gunpowder Plot: A conspiracy led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the House of Lords. |
| 5th of November 1688 | EVENT | The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham. |
| 5th of November 1743 | EVENT | Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. |
| 5th of November 1757 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach. |
| 5th of November 1768 | EVENT | Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies. |
| 5th of November 1780 | EVENT | French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle. |
| 5th of November 1831 | EVENT | Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. |
| 5th of November 1838 | EVENT | The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation. |
| 5th of November 1854 | EVENT | Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman. |
| 5th of November 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time. |
| 5th of November 1862 | EVENT | Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved. |
| 5th of November 1872 | EVENT | Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. |
| 5th of November 1895 | EVENT | George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. |
| 5th of November 1911 | EVENT | After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica. |
| 5th of November 1913 | EVENT | King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. |
| 5th of November 1916 | EVENT | The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police. |
| 5th of November 1916 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. |
| 5th of November 1917 | EVENT | October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date). |
| 5th of November 1917 | EVENT | St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
| 5th of November 1937 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people. |
| 5th of November 1942 | EVENT | The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt. |
| 5th of November 1945 | EVENT | Colombia joins the United Nations. |
| 5th of November 1967 | EVENT | The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees. |
| 5th of November 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24). |
| 5th of November 1983 | EVENT | Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured. |
| 5th of November 1986 | EVENT | USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China -- the first US Naval visit to China since 1949. |
| 5th of November 1987 | EVENT | Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason. |
| 5th of November 1990 | EVENT | Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel. |
| 5th of November 1995 | EVENT | Andre Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. |
| 5th of November 1996 | EVENT | President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan. |
| 5th of November 2006 | EVENT | Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982. |
| 5th of November 2007 | EVENT | China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon. |
| 5th of November 2009 | EVENT | US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 30 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting at a US military installation. |
| 5th of November 1271 | BIRTHDAY | Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304) |
| 5th of November 1494 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Sachs, German mastersinger (d. 1576) |
| 5th of November 1549 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623) |
| 5th of November 1592 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672) |
| 5th of November 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691) |
| 5th of November 1615 | BIRTHDAY | Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648) |
| 5th of November 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719) |
| 5th of November 1701 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785) |
| 5th of November 1715 | BIRTHDAY | John Brown, English writer (d. 1766) |
| 5th of November 1722 | BIRTHDAY | William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798) |
| 5th of November 1742 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821) |
| 5th of November 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893) |
| 5th of November 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902) |
| 5th of November 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869) |
| 5th of November 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919) |
| 5th of November 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923) |
| 5th of November 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and banking executive (d. 1920) |
| 5th of November 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) |
| 5th of November 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913) |
| 5th of November 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926) |
| 5th of November 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944) |
| 5th of November 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Flack, Australian athlete (d. 1935) |
| 5th of November 1881 | BIRTHDAY | George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961) |
| 5th of November 1884 | BIRTHDAY | James Flecker, English writer (d. 1915) |
| 5th of November 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981) |
| 5th of November 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1961) |
| 5th of November 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Zrzavy, Czech painter (d. 1977) |
| 5th of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964) |
| 5th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956) |
| 5th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956) |
| 5th of November 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972) |
| 5th of November 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 5th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Cooney Weiland, Canadian hockey player (d. 1985) |
| 5th of November 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 5th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004) |
| 5th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944) |
| 5th of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 5th of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 5th of November 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967) |
| 5th of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005) |
| 5th of November 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000) |
| 5th of November 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007) |
| 5th of November 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Myron Floren, American accordianist (d. 2005) |
| 5th of November 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978) |
| 5th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 5th of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 1994) |
| 5th of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Fawzia of Egypt |
| 5th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010) |
| 5th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Cecil Underwood, American politician (d. 2008) |
| 5th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007) |
| 5th of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 5th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Piggott, British jockey |
| 5th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist |
| 5th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Dertouzos, Greek-born American computer scientist (d. 2001) |
| 5th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Chan Sek Keong, Singaporian jurist |
| 5th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Harris Yulin, American actor |
| 5th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Steranko, American graphic artist |
| 5th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980) |
| 5th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer |
| 5th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lobsang Tenzin, the 5th Samdhong Rinpoche, Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister) of the Tibetan Government-in-exile |
| 5th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Elke Sommer, German actress |
| 5th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Kulongoski, American politician |
| 5th of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Art Garfunkel, American musician |
| 5th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002) |
| 5th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007) |
| 5th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor |
| 5th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Pace, American military officer |
| 5th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Aleka Papariga, Greek politician |
| 5th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Brood, Dutch musician and artist (d. 2001) |
| 5th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973) |
| 5th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Quint Davis, American festival producer |
| 5th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Juarez, Argentine bandoneonist (d. 2010) |
| 5th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Noone, English musician (Herman's Hermits) |
| 5th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Barr, American politician |
| 5th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hammill, British musician (Van der Graaf Generator) |
| 5th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Hridayananda dasa Goswami, ISKCON guru |
| 5th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 5th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard-Henri Levy, French public intellectual |
| 5th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Armin Shimerman, American actor |
| 5th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 5th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Thorbj?rn Jagland, Norwegian statesman |
| 5th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer |
| 5th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator |
| 5th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist |
| 5th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Maynard, American writer |
| 5th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Florentino V. Floro, Filipino judge |
| 5th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist |
| 5th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and political analyst |
| 5th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Nestor Serrano, American actor |
| 5th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984) |
| 5th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Don Falcone, American musician and producer |
| 5th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Patrick, American actor |
| 5th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Adams, Canadian musician |
| 5th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tilda Swinton, English actress |
| 5th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 5th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer |
| 5th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus J. Ranum, American computer software designer |
| 5th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea McArdle, American actress |
| 5th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tatum O'Neal, American actress |
| 5th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Wheat, American musician (Tesla) |
| 5th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Helga van Niekerk, South African radio presenter |
| 5th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress |
| 5th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte of Bulgaria |
| 5th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | James Allen, British journalist |
| 5th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress |
| 5th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nayim, Spanish footballer |
| 5th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Reyes, Dominican American actress |
| 5th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper |
| 5th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Rockwell, American film actor |
| 5th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Spanish actress |
| 5th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Javy Lopez, baseball player |
| 5th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress |
| 5th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 5th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead) |
| 5th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster |
| 5th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Jones, English footballer |
| 5th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer |
| 5th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Corin Nemec, American actor |
| 5th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Damon, American baseball player |
| 5th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 5th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Danniella Westbrook, English actress |
| 5th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Gossow, German vocalist (Arch Enemy) |
| 5th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Adams, American musician |
| 5th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dado Prso, Croatian footballer |
| 5th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player |
| 5th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter |
| 5th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Klein, American musician |
| 5th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Arcelus, American voice actor |
| 5th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress |
| 5th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wright, English footballer |
| 5th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Romi Dames, Japanese/American atress |
| 5th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek/Cypriot songwriter and singer |
| 5th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Grzanna, German rugby player |
| 5th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver |
| 5th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Gonzalez, Spanish model and beauty queen |
| 5th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christoph Metzelder, German footballer |
| 5th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Umit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer |
| 5th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Chapman, Australian footballer |
| 5th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Muller, German actor |
| 5th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alexa Chung, British TV presenter and former fashion model |
| 5th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hanke, German footballer |
| 5th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Hayden-Smith, British TV presenter and actor |
| 5th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Swire, Australian record producer, singer and keyboardist (Pendulum) |
| 5th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Enstrom, Swedish hockey player |
| 5th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Folk, American football player |
| 5th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player |
| 5th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer (Young Divas) |
| 5th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Koki Tanaka, Japanese singer (KAT-TUN) |
| 5th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | BoA, Korean singer |
| 5th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer |
| 5th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Jonas, American guitarist (Jonas Brothers) |
| 5th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | O. J. Mayo, American basketball player |
| 5th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer |
| 5th of November 1370 | DEATH | King Casimir III the Great of Poland (Born 1310) |
| 5th of November 1515 | DEATH | Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (Born 1474) |
| 5th of November 1559 | DEATH | Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (Born 1476) |
| 5th of November 1660 | DEATH | Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (Born 1599) |
| 5th of November 1660 | DEATH | Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (Born 1591) |
| 5th of November 1701 | DEATH | Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (Born c. 1659) |
| 5th of November 1714 | DEATH | Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (Born 1633) |
| 5th of November 1752 | DEATH | Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (Born 1670) |
| 5th of November 1758 | DEATH | Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (Born 1686) |
| 5th of November 1828 | DEATH | Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (Born 1759) |
| 5th of November 1836 | DEATH | Karel Hynek Macha, Czech poet (Born 1810) |
| 5th of November 1879 | DEATH | James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (Born 1831) |
| 5th of November 1923 | DEATH | Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen, French novelist (Born 1880) |
| 5th of November 1930 | DEATH | Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1858) |
| 5th of November 1933 | DEATH | Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (Born 1884) |
| 5th of November 1933 | DEATH | Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (Born 1856) |
| 5th of November 1941 | DEATH | Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (Born 1905) |
| 5th of November 1942 | DEATH | George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (Born 1878) |
| 5th of November 1944 | DEATH | Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1873) |
| 5th of November 1951 | DEATH | Reggie Walker, South African athlete (Born 1889) |
| 5th of November 1955 | DEATH | Maurice Utrillo, French artist (Born 1883) |
| 5th of November 1956 | DEATH | Art Tatum, American musician (Born 1909) |
| 5th of November 1960 | DEATH | Johnny Horton, American country music singer (Born 1925) |
| 5th of November 1960 | DEATH | Ward Bond, American actor (Born 1903) |
| 5th of November 1960 | DEATH | Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (Born 1880) |
| 5th of November 1964 | DEATH | Buddy Cole, American jazz pianist and orchestra leader (Born 1916) |
| 5th of November 1964 | DEATH | Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (Born 1893) |
| 5th of November 1971 | DEATH | Sam Jones, American baseball player (Born 1925) |
| 5th of November 1974 | DEATH | Stafford Repp, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 5th of November 1975 | DEATH | Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (Born 1887) |
| 5th of November 1975 | DEATH | Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (Born 1905) |
| 5th of November 1975 | DEATH | Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1909) |
| 5th of November 1977 | DEATH | Rene Goscinny, French comic book writer (Born 1926) |
| 5th of November 1977 | DEATH | Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (Born 1902) |
| 5th of November 1979 | DEATH | Al Capp, American cartoonist (Born 1909) |
| 5th of November 1981 | DEATH | Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (Born 1924) |
| 5th of November 1982 | DEATH | E. H. Carr, British historian (Born 1892) |
| 5th of November 1982 | DEATH | Jacques Tati, French actor and director (Born 1908) |
| 5th of November 1985 | DEATH | Spencer W. Kimball, American religious figure (Born 1895) |
| 5th of November 1985 | DEATH | Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (Born 1898) |
| 5th of November 1986 | DEATH | Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (Born 1925) |
| 5th of November 1986 | DEATH | Claude Jutra, Quebecois actor and film director (Born 1930) |
| 5th of November 1987 | DEATH | Eamonn Andrews, Irish television presenter (Born 1922) |
| 5th of November 1989 | DEATH | Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (Born 1903) |
| 5th of November 1991 | DEATH | Fred MacMurray, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 5th of November 1991 | DEATH | Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (Born 1923) |
| 5th of November 1992 | DEATH | Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (Born 1903) |
| 5th of November 1996 | DEATH | Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (Born 1934) |
| 5th of November 1997 | DEATH | James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (Born 1946) |
| 5th of November 1997 | DEATH | Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (Born 1959) |
| 5th of November 1997 | DEATH | Isaiah Berlin, Latvian historian (Born 1909) |
| 5th of November 2000 | DEATH | Jimmie Davis, American singer and politician (Born 1899) |
| 5th of November 2000 | DEATH | Victor Grinich, American businessman (Born 1924) |
| 5th of November 2000 | DEATH | Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (Born 1926) |
| 5th of November 2001 | DEATH | Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (Born 1913) |
| 5th of November 2001 | DEATH | Milton William Cooper, American writer, shortwave broadcaster (Born 1943) |
| 5th of November 2001 | DEATH | Barry Horne, British animal activist (Born 1952) |
| 5th of November 2002 | DEATH | Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (Born 1936) |
| 5th of November 2003 | DEATH | Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (Born 1940) |
| 5th of November 2005 | DEATH | Rod Donald, New Zealander environmentalist (Born 1957) |
| 5th of November 2005 | DEATH | John Fowles, English writer (Born 1926) |
| 5th of November 2005 | DEATH | Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (Born 1912) |
| 5th of November 2006 | DEATH | Bulent Ecevit, Turkish politician (Born 1925) |
| 5th of November 2007 | DEATH | Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (Born 1922) |
| 5th of November 2009 | DEATH | Felix Luna, Argentine historian (Born 1925) |
| 5th of November 2010 | DEATH | Jill Clayburgh, American actress (Born 1944) |
| 5th of November 2010 | DEATH | Adrian Paunescu, Romanian poet and politician (Born 1943) |
| 5th of November 2010 | DEATH | Shirley Verrett, American operatic mezzo-soprano (Born 1931) |