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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of October 0610 | EVENT | Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius |
| 5th of October 0869 | EVENT | The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople. |
| 5th of October 1143 | EVENT | King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom. |
| 5th of October 1550 | EVENT | Foundation of Concepcion, city in Chile. |
| 5th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 5th of October 1665 | EVENT | The University of Kiel is founded. |
| 5th of October 1789 | EVENT | French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris. |
| 5th of October 1793 | EVENT | French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. |
| 5th of October 1857 | EVENT | The City of Anaheim is founded. |
| 5th of October 1864 | EVENT | The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die. |
| 5th of October 1869 | EVENT | The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer. |
| 5th of October 1877 | EVENT | Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles. |
| 5th of October 1895 | EVENT | The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London. |
| 5th of October 1903 | EVENT | Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices. |
| 5th of October 1905 | EVENT | Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908. |
| 5th of October 1910 | EVENT | In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared . |
| 5th of October 1914 | EVENT | World War I: first aerial combat resulting in a kill. |
| 5th of October 1915 | EVENT | Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers. |
| 5th of October 1921 | EVENT | Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time. |
| 5th of October 1930 | EVENT | British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage. |
| 5th of October 1936 | EVENT | The Jarrow March sets off for London. |
| 5th of October 1944 | EVENT | Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France. |
| 5th of October 1944 | EVENT | Suffrage is extended to women in France. |
| 5th of October 1945 | EVENT | Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios. |
| 5th of October 1947 | EVENT | The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. |
| 5th of October 1948 | EVENT | The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000. |
| 5th of October 1953 | EVENT | The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. |
| 5th of October 1962 | EVENT | Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released. |
| 5th of October 1966 | EVENT | Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor. |
| 5th of October 1968 | EVENT | Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland : considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles. |
| 5th of October 1969 | EVENT | The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC. |
| 5th of October 1970 | EVENT | The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded. |
| 5th of October 1970 | EVENT | Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis. |
| 5th of October 1973 | EVENT | Signature of the European Patent Convention. |
| 5th of October 1974 | EVENT | Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian. |
| 5th of October 1981 | EVENT | Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary U.S. citizen. |
| 5th of October 1982 | EVENT | Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths. |
| 5th of October 1984 | EVENT | Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. |
| 5th of October 1986 | EVENT | Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed -- the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal". |
| 5th of October 1988 | EVENT | The Chilean opposition coalition Concertacion (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year. |
| 5th of October 1990 | EVENT | After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. |
| 5th of October 1991 | EVENT | An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137. |
| 5th of October 1991 | EVENT | The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released. |
| 5th of October 1999 | EVENT | The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people. |
| 5th of October 2000 | EVENT | Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution. |
| 5th of October 2001 | EVENT | Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks. |
| 5th of October 1338 | BIRTHDAY | Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390) |
| 5th of October 1520 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589) |
| 5th of October 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Francoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707) |
| 5th of October 1658 | BIRTHDAY | Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718) |
| 5th of October 1695 | BIRTHDAY | John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773) |
| 5th of October 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758) |
| 5th of October 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793) |
| 5th of October 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784) |
| 5th of October 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789) |
| 5th of October 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Chateauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744) |
| 5th of October 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) |
| 5th of October 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844) |
| 5th of October 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873) |
| 5th of October 1820 | BIRTHDAY | David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890) |
| 5th of October 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908) |
| 5th of October 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886) |
| 5th of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934) |
| 5th of October 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919) |
| 5th of October 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910) |
| 5th of October 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942) |
| 5th of October 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Lumiere, French film pioneer (d. 1948) |
| 5th of October 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965) |
| 5th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970) |
| 5th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945) |
| 5th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Cassin, French jurist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976) |
| 5th of October 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936) |
| 5th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969) |
| 5th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948) |
| 5th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Nachum Gutman, Israeli painter (d. 1980) |
| 5th of October 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1963) |
| 5th of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996) |
| 5th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975) |
| 5th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984) |
| 5th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989) |
| 5th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987) |
| 5th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | John Hoyt, American film and television actor (d. 1991) |
| 5th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997) |
| 5th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988) |
| 5th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Malinosky, American baseball player |
| 5th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966) |
| 5th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist |
| 5th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Fischer, Nazi war criminal (d. 2003) |
| 5th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007) |
| 5th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Stetson Kennedy, American writer |
| 5th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981) |
| 5th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995) |
| 5th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Bailey, English actor (d. 1999) |
| 5th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007) |
| 5th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Froilan Gonzalez, Argentine race car driver |
| 5th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985) |
| 5th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Bil Keane, American cartoonist |
| 5th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Gu?mundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994) |
| 5th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Berrigan, American peace activist (d. 2002) |
| 5th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Glynis Johns, British actress |
| 5th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer (d. 1954) |
| 5th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Dana, American actor |
| 5th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007) |
| 5th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Thaves, American cartoonist Frank and Ernest (comic strip) (d. 2006) |
| 5th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996) |
| 5th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997) |
| 5th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979) |
| 5th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974) |
| 5th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Wirtz, American ice hockey executive (d. 2007) |
| 5th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999) |
| 5th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut |
| 5th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999) |
| 5th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009) |
| 5th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate |
| 5th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006) |
| 5th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Cilento, Australian actress |
| 5th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian ambassador to Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis |
| 5th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002) |
| 5th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Arlene Saunders, American soprano |
| 5th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic |
| 5th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Switzer, American football coach |
| 5th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist |
| 5th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Laforet, French singer and actress |
| 5th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright |
| 5th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
| 5th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist |
| 5th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Milena Dravic, Serbian actress |
| 5th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Byrne Cooke, American novelist and photographer; son of Alistair Cooke |
| 5th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Thom Christopher, American actor |
| 5th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina |
| 5th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Street, American singer (The Temptations) |
| 5th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Cardin, American politician, junior senator of Maryland |
| 5th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Miller, American musician (Steve Miller Band) |
| 5th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997) |
| 5th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow) |
| 5th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist |
| 5th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach |
| 5th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Johnson, English singer (AC/DC) |
| 5th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Carter Cornelius, American musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (d. 1991) |
| 5th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Zoran Zivkovic, Serbian writer |
| 5th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk) |
| 5th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician |
| 5th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bill James, American baseball writer |
| 5th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988) |
| 5th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motorhead, Fastway) |
| 5th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Edward P. Jones, American writer |
| 5th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Conaway, American actor |
| 5th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Allen, American actress |
| 5th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist |
| 5th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor |
| 5th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Barker, English writer |
| 5th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gigi Sabani, Italian TV host (d. 2007) |
| 5th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter |
| 5th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress |
| 5th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Molina, Spanish actress |
| 5th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Geragos, American attorney |
| 5th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008) |
| 5th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Thompson, English saxophonist (Madness), vocalist |
| 5th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Kuipers, Dutch astronaut |
| 5th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Neil DeGrasse Tyson, American Astrophysicist |
| 5th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Lin, American sculptor/architect |
| 5th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Baldwin, American actor |
| 5th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Evangelia Tzampazi, Greek politician |
| 5th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
| 5th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Careca, Brazilian footballer |
| 5th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist |
| 5th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and George Polk Award winner |
| 5th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Andretti, American race car driver |
| 5th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Herbst, German footballer |
| 5th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004) |
| 5th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Davies, English golfer |
| 5th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician |
| 5th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman |
| 5th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor |
| 5th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Trace Armstrong, American football player |
| 5th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee |
| 5th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Byrd, American football player |
| 5th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Terri Runnels, Former Wrestling manager and valet |
| 5th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Chapman, American basketball player |
| 5th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor |
| 5th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Josie Bissett, American actress |
| 5th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996) |
| 5th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | South Park Mexican, American rapper |
| 5th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine former footballer |
| 5th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor |
| 5th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Roberts, American news anchor |
| 5th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Hill, American basketball player |
| 5th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball outfielder |
| 5th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer |
| 5th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Franklin, American Mixed Martial Artist |
| 5th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists) |
| 5th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Weinger American actor |
| 5th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bobo Balde, Guinean footballer |
| 5th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Parminder Nagra, English actress |
| 5th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Winslet, English actress |
| 5th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Carson Ellis, American artist |
| 5th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor |
| 5th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Yeley, American race car driver |
| 5th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Royston Tan, Singaporean screenwriter & director |
| 5th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President |
| 5th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer |
| 5th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player |
| 5th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter |
| 5th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5) |
| 5th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Chambers, American television reporter |
| 5th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot singer-songwriter |
| 5th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Vincenzo Grella, Australian footballer |
| 5th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 5th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | James Toseland, British motorcycle racer |
| 5th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer |
| 5th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Williams, Australian-born German rugby player |
| 5th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Eisenberg, American actor |
| 5th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 5th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Hilton, American heiress |
| 5th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress |
| 5th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tiana Benjamin, British actress |
| 5th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer |
| 5th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud) |
| 5th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mladen Bartulovic, Croatian footballer |
| 5th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver |
| 5th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer |
| 5th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Bahar K?z?l, German Singer (Monrose) |
| 5th of October 0578 | DEATH | Justin II, Byzantine Emperor |
| 5th of October 1056 | DEATH | Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1017) |
| 5th of October 1112 | DEATH | Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler |
| 5th of October 1214 | DEATH | King Alfonso VIII of Castile (Born 1155) |
| 5th of October 1285 | DEATH | King Philip III of France (Born 1245) |
| 5th of October 1528 | DEATH | Richard Foxe, English churchman |
| 5th of October 1540 | DEATH | Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (Born 1488) |
| 5th of October 1564 | DEATH | Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer |
| 5th of October 1565 | DEATH | Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (Born 1522) |
| 5th of October 1606 | DEATH | Philippe Desportes, French poet (Born 1546) |
| 5th of October 1714 | DEATH | Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (Born 1630) |
| 5th of October 1740 | DEATH | Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (Born 1721) |
| 5th of October 1777 | DEATH | Jan Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (Born 1704) |
| 5th of October 1791 | DEATH | Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (Born 1739) |
| 5th of October 1805 | DEATH | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (Born 1738) |
| 5th of October 1813 | DEATH | Tecumseh, Shawnee leader (Born 1768) |
| 5th of October 1848 | DEATH | Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (Born 1781) |
| 5th of October 1861 | DEATH | Antoni Melchior Fija?kowski, Polish bishop (Born 1778) |
| 5th of October 1880 | DEATH | Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (Born 1819) |
| 5th of October 1895 | DEATH | Ralph Tollemache, British clergyman (Born 1826) |
| 5th of October 1913 | DEATH | Hans von Bartels, German painter (Born 1856) |
| 5th of October 1918 | DEATH | Roland Garros, French pilot (Born 1888) |
| 5th of October 1930 | DEATH | Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (Born 1875) |
| 5th of October 1933 | DEATH | Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (Born 1862) |
| 5th of October 1933 | DEATH | Renee Adoree, French actress (Born 1898) |
| 5th of October 1936 | DEATH | J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (Born 1898) |
| 5th of October 1938 | DEATH | Saint Faustina, Polish saint (Born 1905) |
| 5th of October 1940 | DEATH | Ballington Booth, English-born American religious leader (Born 1857) |
| 5th of October 1940 | DEATH | Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican musician (Born 1889) |
| 5th of October 1940 | DEATH | Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (Born 1859) |
| 5th of October 1941 | DEATH | Louis Dembitz Brandeis, American jurist (Born 1856) |
| 5th of October 1943 | DEATH | Leon Roppolo, American musician (Born 1902) |
| 5th of October 1950 | DEATH | Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (Born 1885) |
| 5th of October 1952 | DEATH | Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (Born 1884) |
| 5th of October 1975 | DEATH | Lady Constance Malleson, British actor and writer (Born 1895) |
| 5th of October 1976 | DEATH | Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1903) |
| 5th of October 1976 | DEATH | Barbara Nichols, American actress (Born 1929) |
| 5th of October 1981 | DEATH | Gloria Grahame, American actress (Born 1923) |
| 5th of October 1983 | DEATH | Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (Born 1897) |
| 5th of October 1983 | DEATH | Earl Tupper, American inventor (Born 1907) |
| 5th of October 1986 | DEATH | Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (Born 1898) |
| 5th of October 1986 | DEATH | James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (Born 1919) |
| 5th of October 1986 | DEATH | Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (Born 1947) |
| 5th of October 1992 | DEATH | Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (Born 1939) |
| 5th of October 1993 | DEATH | Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (Born 1951) |
| 5th of October 1995 | DEATH | Linda Gary, American voice actress (Born 1944) |
| 5th of October 1996 | DEATH | Seymour Cray, American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect (Born 1925) |
| 5th of October 1997 | DEATH | Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (Born 1962) |
| 5th of October 2000 | DEATH | Catalin Hildan, Romanian footballer (Born 1976) |
| 5th of October 2001 | DEATH | Mike Mansfield, American politician (Born 1903) |
| 5th of October 2002 | DEATH | Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1920) |
| 5th of October 2003 | DEATH | Denis Quilley, English actor (Born 1927) |
| 5th of October 2003 | DEATH | Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1978) |
| 5th of October 2003 | DEATH | Timothy Treadwell, American bear attack victim (Born 1957) |
| 5th of October 2004 | DEATH | Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (Born 1921) |
| 5th of October 2004 | DEATH | Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1916) |
| 5th of October 2004 | DEATH | William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer (Born 1941) |
| 5th of October 2006 | DEATH | Antonio Pena, Mexican lucha libre promoter (Born 1953) |
| 5th of October 2006 | DEATH | Jennifer Moss, English actress (Born 1945) |
| 5th of October 2007 | DEATH | Justin Tuveri, Italian WWI veteran (Born 1898) |
| 5th of October 2009 | DEATH | Mike Alexander, English bassist (Evile) (Born 1977) |
| 5th of October 2010 | DEATH | Bernard Clavel, French novelist (Born 1923) |
| 5th of October 2010 | DEATH | Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (Born 1939) |
| 5th of October 2010 | DEATH | Steve Lee, Swiss musician and vocalist (Gotthard) (Born 1963) |