On This Day — October 5
4191 noted people were born and 1853 died on October 5 in our archive, including Emiliano Aguirre, Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica and Hyman Bass.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 5
Emiliano Aguirre
1925 – 2021
Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica
b. 1963
Hyman Bass
b. 1932
M. King Hubbert
1903 – 1989
Mariano Barbacid
b. 1949
Nathan Jacobson
1910 – 1999
Reinhard Selten
1930 – 2016
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
b. 1955
Alexander Rinnooy Kan
b. 1949
Amina Mohamed
b. 1961
Anatolii Yahoferov
b. 1948
Andrey Shokhin
b. 1961
Bing Xin
1900 – 1999
Cédric Villani
b. 1973
Douglas Massey
b. 1952
Fidji Simo
b. 1985
Frank Francis
1901 – 1988
Georges Berger
1834 – 1910
James H. McClellan
b. 1947
Jean-Baptiste Robin
b. 1976
Johannes Brøndsted
1890 – 1965
John Erskine
1879 – 1951
José Camón Aznar
1898 – 1979
José Luis Machinea
b. 1946
Karl Schlögl
1924 – 2007
Laura Borràs i Castanyer
b. 1970
Nick Robinson
b. 1963
Pierre Dansereau
1911 – 2011
Pierre Legendre
b. 1946
Ray Kroc
1902 – 1984
Robert V. Kohn
1953 – 2026
Ruben Safrastyan
b. 1955
Sean M. Carroll
b. 1966
Sunney Chan
1936 – 2025
Thomas Little Heath
1861 – 1940
Thomas Mathiesen
1933 – 2021
Václav Havel
1936 – 2011
Walter Bedell Smith
1895 – 1961
Wilhelm Heinrich Solf
1862 – 1936
William L. Jorgensen
b. 1949
Witold Spirydowicz
b. 1958
Yip Wing-sie
b. 1960
Abdukhalim Raimjanov
b. 1943
Abraham Garrod Thomas
1853 – 1931
Adam Hochschild
b. 1942
Adil Hussain
b. 1963
Agneta Karlsson
b. 1962
Agustín Parrado y García
1872 – 1946
Akihiro Ohata
b. 1947
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Mikhailov
b. 1944
Alexander Krivoshein
1857 – 1921
Alfonso Dastis
b. 1955
Alfred Meyer
1891 – 1945
Alisa Koonen
1889 – 1974
Andrea Gamarnik
b. 1964
André Kuipers
b. 1958
Anthony Dickenson
b. 1952
Arthur Zimmermann
1864 – 1940
Autherine Lucy
1929 – 2022
Barbara Slater
b. 1959
Bart D. Ehrman
b. 1955
Baruch Placzek
1834 – 1922
Ben Cardin
b. 1943
Beniamino Brocca
1934 – 2024
Bernard Bolzano
1781 – 1848
Boris Katz
b. 1947
Boris Shcherbina
1919 – 1990
Brent W. Jett
b. 1958
Brian Lehrer
b. 1952
Catherine Miranda
b. 1964
Charles Bixler Heiser
1920 – 2010
Charles F. D. Belden
1870 – 1931
Charles Tegart
1881 – 1946
Charlotte Watts
b. 1962
Claire Hédon
b. 1962
Damian Conway
b. 1964
David Mellor
1930 – 2009
Denny Rehberg
b. 1955
Edmund Murton Walker
1877 – 1969
Eduardo Duhalde
b. 1941
Eiichi Baba
1879 – 1937
Eldrid Lunden
b. 1940
Emil Votoček
1872 – 1950
Emomali Rahmon
b. 1952
Enrico dal Covolo
b. 1950
Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said
1940 – 2026
Fanny Carter Edson
1887 – 1952
Francesco Verducci
b. 1972
Fred Gage
b. 1950
Frederic Fisher
1851 – 1943
Geoffrey Bourne, Baron Bourne
1902 – 1982
Georges Bidault
1899 – 1983
Giorgio Abetti
1882 – 1982
Gonzalo Himiob
b. 1969
Grant Hill
b. 1972
Hans-Werner Wanzlick
1917 – 1988
Harold Howitt
1886 – 1969
Helmut Koch
1932 – 2024
Hendrik Willem Tilanus
1884 – 1966
Henry L. Roosevelt
1879 – 1936
Hillel Cohen
b. 1961
Iain William Mattaj
b. 1952
Ian Tattersall
b. 1945
Ignacy Hołowiński
1807 – 1855
Inna Churikova
1943 – 2023
J. C. King
1900 – 1977
Jack Hathaway
b. 1982
Jacques-Joseph Champollion
1778 – 1867
Jakob Nielsen
b. 1957
James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde
1844 – 1919
James Hamblin
b. 1982
James Rizzi
1950 – 2011
Jaume Matas
b. 1956
Javid Iqbal
1924 – 2015
Jean Ter-Merguerian
1935 – 2015
John Addington Symonds
1840 – 1893
Joseph Wenglein
1845 – 1919
José Donoso
1924 – 1996
Jérôme Deschamps
b. 1947
Karen Allen
b. 1951
Kohei Otsuka
1959 – 2026
Louis Marchegay
1869 – 1933
Ludwig Knaus
1829 – 1910
Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti
1876 – 1945
Léon Ginain
1825 – 1898
Marcel Otte
b. 1948
Marcus Wallenberg
1899 – 1982
Martin Vingron
b. 1961
Mati Meos
b. 1946
Merritt Lyndon Fernald
1873 – 1950
Michael Morpurgo
b. 1943
Milena Dravić
1940 – 2018
Mykola Liubynsky
1891 – 1938
Neil deGrasse Tyson
b. 1958
Nikolai Nadezhdin
1804 – 1856
Nikolay Smirnov
1917 – 1992
Oserheimen Osunbor
b. 1951
Paul Wild
1925 – 2014
Pavel Andreyevich Taran
1916 – 2005
Pedro Casares Hontañón
b. 1983
Percy Joske
1895 – 1981
Percy Spender
1897 – 1985
Peter Ackroyd
b. 1949
Pyotr Averyanov
1867 – 1937
Rahmon Nabiyev
1930 – 1993
Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta
1897 – 1992
Raisa Struchkova
1925 – 2005
Ramzan Kadyrov
b. 1976
Reidar Jørgensen
1904 – 1985
Richard Cragun
1944 – 2012
Richard F. Gordon
1929 – 2017
Richard Heaton
b. 1965
Richard N. Current
1912 – 2012
Richard Schoemaker
1886 – 1942
Robert H. Goddard
1882 – 1945
Robert Kee
1919 – 2013
Roberto Donoso-Barros
1921 – 1975
Robin Lane Fox
b. 1946
Robyn Ochs
b. 1958
Roland Wiesendanger
b. 1961
Roman Abramovsky
b. 1973
Rudolf Haym
1821 – 1901
Rudolph Snellius
1546 – 1613
Saori Yoshida
b. 1982
Sarah Hainsworth
b. 1967
Satabdi Roy
b. 1969
Seiko Hashimoto
b. 1964
Sergey Ivanov
b. 1956
Stanisław Żaryn
1913 – 1964
Susanne S. Renner
b. 1954
Takamine Hideo
1853 – 1910
Takashi Sasagawa
b. 1935
Takehiko Endo
1938 – 2019
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
b. 1970
Tokugawa Yoshichika
1886 – 1976
Vadim Skuratovsky
b. 1941
Willi Unsoeld
1926 – 1979
William Scoresby
1789 – 1857
Yuly Shokalsky
1856 – 1940
Yun Il-sun
1896 – 1987
Yuval Peres
b. 1963
Yvonne Knibiehler
1922 – 2025
Zaharia Stancu
1902 – 1974
Zeineb Jammeh
b. 1977
Zoran Živković
b. 1948
Ágnes Gergely
b. 1933
Édouard Chavannes
1865 – 1918
A. R. Penck
1939 – 2017
Adam Ferency
b. 1951
Adrian Smith
1936 – 2026
Afanasy Shchapov
1831 – 1876
Alberto Arenas
b. 1965
Alberto Bombassei
b. 1940
Aleksander Tupalski
1900 – 1980
Aleksandr Novyukhov
b. 1975
Alex Hamilton
b. 1993
Alex Martelli
b. 1955
Alex McMurtrie, Jr.
b. 1935
Alexander Keith
1795 – 1873
Alexander Yakobson
b. 1959
… and 3,991 more
Died on October 5
Johann Andreas Segner
1704 – 1777
Alfred L. Kroeber
1876 – 1960
André Grabar
1896 – 1990
Bruce N. Ames
1928 – 2024
Derrick Bell
1930 – 2011
Edward Wotton
1492 – 1555
George Rowley
1782 – 1836
George S. Hammond
1921 – 2005
Giovanni Caselli
1815 – 1891
Guillermo Fernández Vara
1958 – 2025
Harald Cramér
1893 – 1985
Henry de Jouvenel
1876 – 1935
Hozumi Yatsuka
1860 – 1912
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs
1842 – 1899
Karl Menger
1902 – 1985
Lars Onsager
1903 – 1976
Leopold Horner
1911 – 2005
Leopoldo Elia
1925 – 2008
Lewis Boss
1846 – 1912
Major Greenwood
1880 – 1949
Maurice Wilkins
1916 – 2004
Mike Mansfield
1903 – 2001
Nikolay Slavyanov
1854 – 1897
Seymour Cray
1925 – 1996
Solomon Lefschetz
1884 – 1972
Sylke Tempel
1963 – 2017
Wilbur Lucius Cross
1862 – 1948
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury
1932 – 2024
Abdurrauf Fitrat
1885 – 1938
Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen
1840 – 1897
Alberto Lista
1775 – 1848
Aleksander Burba
1918 – 1984
Ales Savitsky
1924 – 2015
Alfred Tozzer
1877 – 1954
Anita Newcomb McGee
1864 – 1940
Anne-Lise Grobéty
1949 – 2010
Appa Sahib Pant
1912 – 1992
Bartolo Longo
1841 – 1926
Bhagwati Charan Verma
1903 – 1981
Borge Mogensen
1914 – 1972
Chantal Akerman
1950 – 2015
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
1738 – 1805
Charles-Mathias Simons
1802 – 1874
Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson
1875 – 1930
Clyde L. Choate
1920 – 2001
Dwight Morrow
1873 – 1931
Eberhard van der Laan
1955 – 2017
Edvard Mirzoyan
1921 – 2012
Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
1834 – 1886
Ernst von Leyden
1832 – 1910
Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti
1890 – 1977
Federico Zeri
1921 – 1998
Francesco Carpino
1905 – 1993
Francis Grant
1803 – 1878
Frederic Lewy
1885 – 1950
Friedrich Wolf
1888 – 1953
Georg Treu
1843 – 1921
Georg von Blumenthal
1490 – 1550
George Desvallières
1861 – 1950
Georges Balandier
1920 – 2016
Gilbert F. White
1911 – 2006
Giorgio Pressburger
1937 – 2017
Giuseppe Perrucchetti
1839 – 1916
Glynn Isaac
1937 – 1985
Grace Lee Boggs
1915 – 2015
Gustaf Hallström
1880 – 1962
Hege Skjeie
1955 – 2018
Henderson Haverfield Carson
1893 – 1971
Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández
1925 – 2024
Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
1938 – 2015
Israel Gelfand
1913 – 2009
István Bethlen
1874 – 1946
Ivan Yefremov
1907 – 1972
J. Slauerhoff
1898 – 1936
Jacques Offenbach
1819 – 1880
Jan Lenica
1928 – 2001
Jean-Baptiste Janssens
1889 – 1964
Johannes Fallati
1809 – 1855
John Arnup
1911 – 2005
John Knott
1938 – 2017
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim
1899 – 1985
Louis Brandeis
1856 – 1941
Margaret Lyons
1923 – 2019
Marian Zdziechowski
1861 – 1938
Michal Kováč
1930 – 2016
Mikhail Klokov
1896 – 1981
Mykola Rasheiev
1935 – 2021
Patrick Bishop
1900 – 1972
Patrick M. Hughes
1942 – 2024
Peter Klöckner
1863 – 1940
Philippe Vandevelde
1957 – 2019
Pin Malakul
1903 – 1995
Pushpak Bhattacharyya
1962 – 2025
Ralph A. Dungan
1923 – 2013
Rasmus Rasmussen
1871 – 1962
Risto Näätänen
1939 – 2023
Robert Coover
1932 – 2024
Ruth Klüger
1931 – 2020
Ruth R. Benerito
1916 – 2013
Sidney R. Yates
1909 – 2000
Suematsu Kenchō
1855 – 1920
Taijun Takeda
1912 – 1976
Theodor Fuchs
1842 – 1925
Thomas Megahy
1929 – 2008
Thomas Mitchell
1792 – 1855
Vojin Dimitrijević
1932 – 2012
Volodymyr Salskyi
1885 – 1940
Vyvyan Pope
1891 – 1941
William Lassell
1799 – 1880
Yury Lyubimov
1917 – 2014
Zalman Shazar
1889 – 1974
Zbigniew Ciesielski
1934 – 2020
Zoran Stanković
1954 – 2021
Álvaro Domecq y Díez
1917 – 2005
Aage Friis
1870 – 1949
Abdus Sattar
1906 – 1985
Achille Fould
1800 – 1867
Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi
1932 – 2025
Albert Solomon
1876 – 1914
Albert Tipton
1917 – 1997
Alessandro Martelli
1876 – 1934
Alexander Pohlmann
1865 – 1952
Alexander Thomas Glenny
1882 – 1965
Alice Lee
1858 – 1939
Andreas Karset
1859 – 1914
Anne Wiazemsky
1947 – 2017
Antin Sielava
1583 – 1655
Antoine de Chézy
1718 – 1798
Antonio de las Alas
1889 – 1983
Armin Delong
1925 – 2017
Asad Chowdhury
1943 – 2023
Augustin Barruel
1741 – 1820
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh
1830 – 1889
Augustus III of Poland
1696 – 1763
Augustus Short
1802 – 1883
Bankson T. Holcomb Jr.
1908 – 2000
Barbara Stamm
1944 – 2022
Bert Jansch
1943 – 2011
Billy Glenn
1877 – 1953
Bradley Tyler Johnson
1829 – 1903
Camilo Torres Tenorio
1766 – 1816
Carl Kiekhaefer
1906 – 1983
Carlo Lizzani
1922 – 2013
Carlos Walker Martínez
1842 – 1905
Charles Trochu
1898 – 1961
Charlotte, Princess Royal
1766 – 1828
Christoph von Lattermann
1753 – 1835
Christopher Brennan
1870 – 1932
Claudia Burton Bradley
1909 – 1967
Clifton Williams
1932 – 1967
Cyrus Cline
1856 – 1923
Cécile Brunschvicg
1877 – 1946
Daniel Alcides Carrión
1857 – 1885
Daniel Cramer
1568 – 1637
Dave Cummings
1940 – 2019
David Chavchavadze
1924 – 2014
David von Schlegell
1920 – 1992
Dick Butkus
1942 – 2023
Dick Clark
1933 – 2019
Dirk Bootsma
1936 – 2020
Ditlev Vibe
1670 – 1731
Elmer Darwin Ball
1870 – 1943
Francis Walker
1809 – 1874
Frank Coombs
1853 – 1934
Frank K. Richardson
1914 – 1999
Fred Shuttlesworth
1922 – 2011
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford
1794 – 1878
Gaston Alonzo Edwards
1875 – 1943
Geoffrey Holder
1930 – 2014
Georg Burchard Jersin
1767 – 1827
George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall
1769 – 1844
George E. Adams
1840 – 1917
George G. Fogg
1813 – 1881
George King
1928 – 2006
George Kok
1922 – 2013
Gerald D. Jones
1933 – 2021
Giovanni Ricci
1813 – 1892
Giovanni Spagnolli
1907 – 1984
Giselher Klebe
1925 – 2009
Giuseppe Da Prato
1936 – 2023
Gloria Grahame
1923 – 1981
Gregory Potyomkin
1739 – 1791
Hans Heinrich Schmid
1937 – 2014
Hans von Bartels
1856 – 1913
Harold Beauchamp
1858 – 1938
Harold Evans Hartney
1888 – 1947
Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878 – 1969
Harry Lehman
1935 – 2022
Helju Mikkel
1925 – 2017
Henry B. Metcalf
1829 – 1904
Herbert Carmichael Irwin
1894 – 1930
Herman Laroche
1845 – 1904
Hope Portocarrero
1929 – 1991
Iba Ndiaye
1928 – 2008
Ildar Dadin
1982 – 2024
Ira W. Wood
1856 – 1931
Irving Stringham
1847 – 1909
J. G. Jolly
1926 – 2013
Jack Somerville
1910 – 1999
Jacques Chonchol
1926 – 2023
… and 1,653 more