On this day: 5 November
Events, births and deaths on 5 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Ronald Venetiaan
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · John Berger
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1011 · Deaths · Mathilda of Essen
- 1009 · Events · Battle of Cantich
Events · 27
- 1009(Julian date)Battle of Cantich — 1009 battle
- 1556Battle of Panipat — 1556 battle
- 1605(Julian date)Gunpowder Plot — failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland
- 1757Battle of Rossbach — 1757 battle
- 1768Treaty of Fort Stanwix — 1768 treaty between Great Britain and Iroquois Six Nations
- 1780(Julian date)Augustin de La Balme — French cavalry officer who served the United States during the American Revolution
- 18111811 Independence Movement — 1811 revolt against Spanish rule in colonial El Salvador
- 1854Battle of Inkerman — battle on 5 November 1854 during the Crimean War
- 19121912 United States presidential election — 32nd quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1916Act of 5th November — 1916 Central Powers promise of Polish independence
- 1916Everett Massacre — November 5, 1916 armed confrontation between local vigilante "deputies" and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- 19224th World Congress of the Comintern — communist international gathering
- 19401940 United States presidential election — 39th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1944Bombing of Singapore — 1944 military campaign conducted by the Allied air forces during World War II
- 1950Battle of Pakchon — 1950 battle of the Korean War
- 19681968 United States presidential election — 46th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1990assassination of Meir Kahane — assassination of far-right Israeli activist Meir Kahane
- 19961996 United States presidential election — 53rd quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1999PetroChina Company Limited — Chinese oil and gas company
- 2007Open Handset Alliance — organization
- 20092009 Fort Hood shooting — mass murder that took place on November 5, 2009
- 2010JS Air Flight 201 — plane crash in Pakistan in 2010
- 2015Bento Rodrigues dam disaster — iron ore tailings dam failure in Brazil, disaster which occurred on 5 November 2015
- 2017Sutherland Springs church shooting — mass shooting in Texas
- 20212021 Sierra Leone oil tanker collision — fuel tank truck collision in Freetown, Sierra Leone
- 20212021 Astroworld stampede — 2021 stampede in Houston, Texas
- 20242024 United States presidential election — 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
Births · 60
- 1271(Julian date)Ghazan I — the seventh Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1295–1304)
- 1494(Julian date)
- 1607Anna Maria van Schurman — artist, scientist and philosopher from the Northern Netherlands (1607-1678)
- 1615Ibrahim I — 18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1640–1648)
- 1798Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry — Two Sicilian Royal (1798-1870)
- 1851Charles Dupuy — French politician (1851-1923)
- 1854Paul Sabatier — French chemist (1854–1941)
- 1855Eugene V. Debs — American labor and political leader (1855–1926)
- 1857Ida Tarbell — American journalist (1857-1944)
- 1870Chittaranjan Das — Bengali lawyer, politician, author and leader of the Bengali Swaraj Party (1870-1925)
- 1873Edwin Flack — Australian middle distance runner and tennis player (1873-1935)
- 1885Will Durant — American historian, philosopher and writer (1885-1981)
- 1892J.B.S. Haldane — Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)
- 1893Raymond Loewy — French-born American industrial designer (1893-1986)
- 1905Joel McCrea — American actor (1905–1990)
- 1906Fred Lawrence Whipple — American astronomer
- 1911Roy Rogers — American actor and singer (1911-1998)
- 1913Vivien Leigh — British actress (1913–1967)
- 1920Douglass North — American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015)
- 1921Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt — queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948
- 1921György Cziffra — Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer (1921-1994)
- 1926John Berger — British painter, writer and art critic (1926-2017)
- 1931Ike Turner — American musician (1931–2007)
- 1936Uwe Seeler — German association football player (1936–2022)
- 1938Joe Dassin — French-American musician (1938–1980)
Deaths · 60
- 1235(Julian date)Elisabeth of Swabia — Queen consort of Castile and Léon
- 1370Casimir III the Great — King of Poland from 1333 to 1370
- 1459John Fastolf — English knight
- 1515(Julian date)Mariotto Albertinelli — Italian painter (1474-1515)
- 1559(Julian date)Kanō Motonobu — Japanese painter (1476-1559)
- 1660Alexandre de Rhodes — Jesuit missionary from Avignon and Rome (1593-1660)
- 1714Bernardino Ramazzini — Italian malariologist (1633-1714)
- 1758Hans Egede — missionary to Greenland, Lutheran pastor (1686-1758)
- 1807Angelica Kauffmann — Swiss artist (1741–1807)
- 1872Thomas Sully — American painter (1783-1872)
- 1876Theodor von Heuglin — German explorer and ornithologist (1824-1876)
- 1879James Clerk Maxwell — Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
- 1930Christiaan Eijkman — Dutch physician (1858–1930)
- 1930Luigi Facta — Italian politician (1861-1930)
- 1931Konrad Stäheli — sport shooter (1866-1931)
- 1938Thomas Dewing — American artist (1851–1938)
- 1942George M. Cohan — American entertainer, composer and playwright (1878–1942)
- 1944Alexis Carrel — French surgeon and biologist
- 1946Joseph Stella — American artist (1877-1946)
- 1951Reggie Walker — South African athlete, Olympic medalist (1889–1951)
- 1955Maurice Utrillo — French painter (1883-1955)
- 1956
- 1960Mack Sennett — Canadian-American actor, producer and director (1880–1960)
- 1960Ward Bond — American actor (1903–1960)
- 1960August Gailit — Estonian writer (1891–1960)
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