October 5
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[change] Births
- 1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
- 1848 - Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
- 1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
- 1938 - Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of US Senator John Kerry and part of the family that owns the Heinz ketchup company
- 1947 - Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter (AC/DC)
- 1954 - Bob Geldof, English musician
- 1975 - Kate Winslet, English actress
- 1978 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
- 1983 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain
[change] Deaths
- 578 - Justin II, Byantine Emperor
- 877 - Charles the Bald
- 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
- 1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
- 1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
- 1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman
- 1813 - Tecumseh, Native American leader
- 1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France
- 1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter
- 1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air
- 1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898)
- 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1943 - Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902)
- 1969 - Walter Hagen, champion golfer
- 1976 - Lars Onsager, physical chemist
- 1983 - Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware
- 1986 - Hal B. Wallis, film producer
- 1986 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1992 - Eddie Kendricks, singer
- 1995 - Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944)
- 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer
- 2003 - Denis Quilley, British actor
- 2003 - Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player
- 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916)