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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of September 1590 | EVENT | Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. |
| 5th of September 1661 | EVENT | Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers. |
| 5th of September 1666 | EVENT | Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died. |
| 5th of September 1698 | EVENT | In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry. |
| 5th of September 1725 | EVENT | Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczynska. |
| 5th of September 1774 | EVENT | First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 5th of September 1781 | EVENT | Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War. |
| 5th of September 1793 | EVENT | French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror. |
| 5th of September 1798 | EVENT | Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. |
| 5th of September 1800 | EVENT | Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain. |
| 5th of September 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses. |
| 5th of September 1816 | EVENT | Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber"). |
| 5th of September 1836 | EVENT | Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. |
| 5th of September 1839 | EVENT | The First Opium War begins in China. |
| 5th of September 1840 | EVENT | Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan. |
| 5th of September 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign. |
| 5th of September 1862 | EVENT | James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon. |
| 5th of September 1864 | EVENT | Achille Francois Bazaine becomes Marshall of France. |
| 5th of September 1877 | EVENT | Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. |
| 5th of September 1882 | EVENT | The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City. |
| 5th of September 1887 | EVENT | Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186 |
| 5th of September 1905 | EVENT | Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war. |
| 5th of September 1906 | EVENT | The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22 : 0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin). |
| 5th of September 1914 | EVENT | World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital. |
| 5th of September 1915 | EVENT | The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins. |
| 5th of September 1918 | EVENT | Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia |
| 5th of September 1927 | EVENT | The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures. |
| 5th of September 1932 | EVENT | The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger. |
| 5th of September 1937 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls. |
| 5th of September 1938 | EVENT | Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre. |
| 5th of September 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War. |
| 5th of September 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign. |
| 5th of September 1944 | EVENT | Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux. |
| 5th of September 1945 | EVENT | Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama. |
| 5th of September 1945 | EVENT | Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War. |
| 5th of September 1948 | EVENT | In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. |
| 5th of September 1957 | EVENT | Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos. |
| 5th of September 1960 | EVENT | The poet Leopold Sedar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. |
| 5th of September 1960 | EVENT | The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome. |
| 5th of September 1961 | EVENT | The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade. |
| 5th of September 1969 | EVENT | My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai. |
| 5th of September 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien-Hue Province. |
| 5th of September 1972 | EVENT | Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day. |
| 5th of September 1975 | EVENT | Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. |
| 5th of September 1977 | EVENT | Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered. |
| 5th of September 1977 | EVENT | Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay. |
| 5th of September 1978 | EVENT | Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland. |
| 5th of September 1980 | EVENT | The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo. |
| 5th of September 1984 | EVENT | STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. |
| 5th of September 1984 | EVENT | Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. |
| 5th of September 1986 | EVENT | Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport. |
| 5th of September 1990 | EVENT | Eastern University massacre, massacre of 158 Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan army at the Eastern University in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. |
| 5th of September 1991 | EVENT | The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force. |
| 5th of September 2000 | EVENT | Tuvalu joins the United Nations. |
| 5th of September 2000 | EVENT | The Haverstraw : Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage. |
| 5th of September 2005 | EVENT | Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground. |
| 5th of September 2007 | EVENT | Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. |
| 5th of September 0973 | BIRTHDAY | Abu Rayhan Biruni, Khwarezmi-born Persian polymath (d. 1048) |
| 5th of September 1187 | BIRTHDAY | Louis VIII of France (d. 1226) |
| 5th of September 1567 | BIRTHDAY | Date Masamune, Japanese Samurai and Daimyo (d. 1636) |
| 5th of September 1568 | BIRTHDAY | Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639) |
| 5th of September 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Andres Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694) |
| 5th of September 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Louis XIV of France (d. 1715) |
| 5th of September 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733) |
| 5th of September 1695 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770) |
| 5th of September 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763) |
| 5th of September 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Etienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799) |
| 5th of September 1735 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782) |
| 5th of September 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774) |
| 5th of September 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847) |
| 5th of September 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840) |
| 5th of September 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Martin Diez, Spanish guerrilla (d. 1825) |
| 5th of September 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer, editor and music publisher (d. 1858) |
| 5th of September 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850) |
| 5th of September 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864) |
| 5th of September 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Armand Dufrenoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857) |
| 5th of September 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Christophe Leon Louis Juchault de Lamoriciere, French general (d. 1865) |
| 5th of September 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886) |
| 5th of September 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Montt Torres, Chilean politician (d. 1880) |
| 5th of September 1826 | BIRTHDAY | John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884) |
| 5th of September 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849) |
| 5th of September 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Justiniano Borgono, President of Peru (d. 1921) |
| 5th of September 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882) |
| 5th of September 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Daniel, Creator of Jack Daniel's (d. 1911) |
| 5th of September 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d. 1935) |
| 5th of September 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944) |
| 5th of September 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959) |
| 5th of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Abdelaziz Thaalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944) |
| 5th of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956) |
| 5th of September 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938) |
| 5th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975) |
| 5th of September 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973) |
| 5th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian |
| 5th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (d. 1980) |
| 5th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Scelba, Italian politician (d. 1991) |
| 5th of September 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979) |
| 5th of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983) |
| 5th of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979) |
| 5th of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005) |
| 5th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Josue de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (d. 1973) |
| 5th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991) |
| 5th of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933) |
| 5th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981) |
| 5th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Leila Mackinlay, British romance writer (d.1996) |
| 5th of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | John Cage, American composer (d. 1992) |
| 5th of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004) |
| 5th of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Kristina Soderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001) |
| 5th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and mathematician |
| 5th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991) |
| 5th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002) |
| 5th of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Soren Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008) |
| 5th of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992) |
| 5th of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie Poitras, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2009) |
| 5th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-born German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945) |
| 5th of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007) |
| 5th of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004) |
| 5th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dietzel, American college football coach |
| 5th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Volcker, American economist |
| 5th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer of Kathak style (d. 2004) |
| 5th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004) |
| 5th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian |
| 5th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, Chilien Catholic archbishop |
| 5th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer |
| 5th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Briggs, English actor |
| 5th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Josef Cordes, German Roman Catholic Cardinal |
| 5th of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | John Danforth, American politician |
| 5th of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player |
| 5th of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist |
| 5th of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Burns, Canadian politician |
| 5th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Wesley, South African cricketer |
| 5th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer |
| 5th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | William Devane, American actor |
| 5th of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) |
| 5th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott) |
| 5th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008) |
| 5th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006) |
| 5th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | George Lazenby, Australian actor |
| 5th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Raquel Welch, American actress |
| 5th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
| 5th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Herzog, German film director |
| 5th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995) |
| 5th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Fabre French television presenter. |
| 5th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007) |
| 5th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996) |
| 5th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter |
| 5th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Dugan, American actor and film director |
| 5th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer |
| 5th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born English singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991) |
| 5th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer |
| 5th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008) |
| 5th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician |
| 5th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist |
| 5th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer |
| 5th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Patti McGuire, American model and television producer |
| 5th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Breitner, German footballer |
| 5th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Keaton, American actor |
| 5th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive |
| 5th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Austin, West Indian cricketer |
| 5th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings) |
| 5th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete |
| 5th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Marc-Andre Hamelin, Canadian pianist |
| 5th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor |
| 5th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Phillips, English actor |
| 5th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X) |
| 5th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver |
| 5th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Brantley, American baseball player |
| 5th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kristian Alfonso, American actress |
| 5th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Farina, Australian footballer |
| 5th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Ooms, Swedish actress |
| 5th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Norman, American basketball player |
| 5th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Saunderson American electronic music producer |
| 5th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Morris, English satirist |
| 5th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | David Brabham, Australian racing driver |
| 5th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Gore, American filmmaker |
| 5th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Rincon, Colombian matador |
| 5th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Milinko Pantic, Serbian footballer |
| 5th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Achero Manas, Spanish actor and film director |
| 5th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | India Hicks, English model |
| 5th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player |
| 5th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Scott, American basketball player |
| 5th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine) |
| 5th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer |
| 5th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer |
| 5th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dweezil Zappa, American musician |
| 5th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model |
| 5th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly) |
| 5th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 5th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Hollioake, England cricketer |
| 5th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 5th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Sewell, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 5th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress |
| 5th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Paddy Considine, English actor |
| 5th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry |
| 5th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer |
| 5th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 5th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Barajas, American baseball player |
| 5th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | George Boateng, Dutch footballer |
| 5th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper |
| 5th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Carice van Houten, Dutch actress |
| 5th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast |
| 5th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Marsland, Australian comedian/writer and radio personality |
| 5th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger |
| 5th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rosevelt Colvin, American football player |
| 5th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin) |
| 5th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 5th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player |
| 5th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
| 5th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Bertram, Canadian actress |
| 5th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer |
| 5th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player |
| 5th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Nan, Chinese actress |
| 5th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | John Carew, Norwegian footballer |
| 5th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster |
| 5th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Holden, English scrabble player |
| 5th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer |
| 5th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer |
| 5th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper |
| 5th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Eichinger, German actress |
| 5th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | AnnMarie, American pornographic actress |
| 5th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player |
| 5th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Moreno, Spanish professional bicyclist |
| 5th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer |
| 5th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician |
| 5th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer |
| 5th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer |
| 5th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier Susai, Australian comedian |
| 5th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Antony Sweeney, Hartlepool United footballer |
| 5th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Anker S?rensen, Danish professional bicyclist |
| 5th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Guy, American soccer player |
| 5th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Colt McCoy, American football player |
| 5th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer |
| 5th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Pierre Casiraghi of Monaco |
| 5th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Silvestre Rasuk, American actor |
| 5th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer |
| 5th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Katerina Graham, American actress/singer/dancer |
| 5th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Youngs, English rugby union Scrum-Half |
| 5th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer |
| 5th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater |
| 5th of September 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Skandar Keynes, English actor |
| 5th of September 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Gage Golightly, American actress |
| 5th of September 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Sunshine, American actress |
| 5th of September 1165 | DEATH | Emperor Nijo of Japan (Born 1143) |
| 5th of September 1201 | DEATH | Constance, Duchess of Brittany (Born 1161) |
| 5th of September 1235 | DEATH | Henry I, Duke of Brabant (Born 1165) |
| 5th of September 1548 | DEATH | Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (Born c.1512) |
| 5th of September 1607 | DEATH | Pomponne de Bellievre, chancellor of France (Born 1529) |
| 5th of September 1629 | DEATH | Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (Born c.1585) |
| 5th of September 1734 | DEATH | Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (Born 1664) |
| 5th of September 1786 | DEATH | Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (Born 1712) |
| 5th of September 1803 | DEATH | Francois Devienne, French composer (Born 1759) |
| 5th of September 1803 | DEATH | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (Born 1741) |
| 5th of September 1808 | DEATH | John Home, Scottish writer (Born 1722) |
| 5th of September 1836 | DEATH | Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (Born 1790) |
| 5th of September 1838 | DEATH | Charles Percier, French architect (Born 1764) |
| 5th of September 1857 | DEATH | Auguste Comte, French sociologist (Born 1798) |
| 5th of September 1876 | DEATH | Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (Born 1790) |
| 5th of September 1877 | DEATH | Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (Born 1849) |
| 5th of September 1898 | DEATH | Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (Born 1841) |
| 5th of September 1901 | DEATH | Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (Born 1853) |
| 5th of September 1902 | DEATH | Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (Born 1821) |
| 5th of September 1906 | DEATH | Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (Born 1844) |
| 5th of September 1912 | DEATH | Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (Born 1845) |
| 5th of September 1914 | DEATH | Charles Peguy, French poet, essayist and editor (Born 1873) |
| 5th of September 1917 | DEATH | Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (Born 1872) |
| 5th of September 1920 | DEATH | Robert Harron, American actor (Born 1893) |
| 5th of September 1922 | DEATH | Georgette Agutte, French painter (Born 1867) |
| 5th of September 1926 | DEATH | Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (Born 1890) |
| 5th of September 1930 | DEATH | Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (Born 1849) |
| 5th of September 1931 | DEATH | John Thomson, Scottish football player (Born 1909) |
| 5th of September 1932 | DEATH | Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (Born 1866) |
| 5th of September 1936 | DEATH | Federico Borrell Garcia, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (Born 1912) |
| 5th of September 1936 | DEATH | Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (Born 1859) |
| 5th of September 1942 | DEATH | Francois de Labouchere, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Liberation. (Born 1917) |
| 5th of September 1945 | DEATH | Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (Born 1877) |
| 5th of September 1948 | DEATH | Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (Born 1881) |
| 5th of September 1953 | DEATH | Richard Walther Darre, Nazi politician (Born 1895) |
| 5th of September 1954 | DEATH | Eugen Schiffer, German politician (Born 1860) |
| 5th of September 1965 | DEATH | Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (Born 1882) |
| 5th of September 1966 | DEATH | Dezso Lauber, Hungarian athlete (Born 1879) |
| 5th of September 1970 | DEATH | Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (Born 1942) |
| 5th of September 1973 | DEATH | Jack Fournier, American baseball player (Born 1889) |
| 5th of September 1975 | DEATH | Georg Ots, Estonian singer (Born 1920) |
| 5th of September 1977 | DEATH | Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and Walloon militant (Born 1897) |
| 5th of September 1979 | DEATH | Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (Born 1884) |
| 5th of September 1982 | DEATH | Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (Born 1910) |
| 5th of September 1983 | DEATH | Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (Born 1909) |
| 5th of September 1988 | DEATH | Gert Frobe, German actor (Born 1913) |
| 5th of September 1990 | DEATH | Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (Born 1896) |
| 5th of September 1992 | DEATH | Fritz Leiber, American author (Born 1910) |
| 5th of September 1993 | DEATH | Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Born1914) |
| 5th of September 1994 | DEATH | Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (Born 1921) |
| 5th of September 1997 | DEATH | Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1910) |
| 5th of September 1997 | DEATH | Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (Born 1912) |
| 5th of September 1998 | DEATH | Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (Born 1946) |
| 5th of September 1998 | DEATH | Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian broadcaster (Born 1909) |
| 5th of September 1998 | DEATH | Verner Panton, Danish designer (Born 1926) |
| 5th of September 1998 | DEATH | Leo Penn, American film director (Born 1921) |
| 5th of September 1999 | DEATH | Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (Born 1921) |
| 5th of September 1999 | DEATH | Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (Born 1914) |
| 5th of September 2001 | DEATH | Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian UN statistician (Born 1912) |
| 5th of September 2001 | DEATH | Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (Born 1914) |
| 5th of September 2002 | DEATH | David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer (Born 1935) |
| 5th of September 2003 | DEATH | Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (Born 1927) |
| 5th of September 2005 | DEATH | Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General (Born 1917) |
| 5th of September 2007 | DEATH | Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician (Born 1976) |
| 5th of September 2007 | DEATH | Jennifer Dunn, American politician (Born 1941) |
| 5th of September 2007 | DEATH | Paul Gillmor, American politician (Born 1939) |
| 5th of September 2007 | DEATH | D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (Born 1930) |
| 5th of September 2007 | DEATH | Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek film director and a writer (Born 1939) |
| 5th of September 2008 | DEATH | Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (Born 1971) |
| 5th of September 2010 | DEATH | Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), Belgian artist (Born 1922) |
| 5th of September 2010 | DEATH | Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (Born 1990) |