On this day: 5 January
Events, births and deaths on 5 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Costas Simitis
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Pierre Boulez
100 years ago1926
- Births · Veikko Karvonen
- Births · W. D. Snodgrass
- Births · J. B. Jeyaretnam
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1066 · Deaths · Edward the Confessor
- 940 · Deaths · Minamoto no Muneyuki
Events · 18
- 1675Battle of Turckheim — 1675 battle
- 1809Treaty of the Dardanelles — 1809 treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain
- 1911Kappa Alpha Psi — historically Black fraternity
- 1912(Julian date)
- 1919German Workers' Party — predecessor of the Nazi Party
- 1948Semiramis Hotel bombing — January 1948 bomb attack at Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem, January 1948
- 1957Eisenhower Doctrine — policy of Eisenhower and the United States
- 1967January Storm — political event in China in January 1967 during the Cultural Revolution
- 1969Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 — 1969 aviation accident
- 19701970 Spantax Convair crash — Aviation accident in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1975Tasman Bridge disaster — bridge collapse in Hobart, Tasmania
- 1976Democratic Kampuchea — former totalitarian state in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge
- 1976Kingsmill massacre — 1976 sectarian massacre during The Troubles in Northern Ireland
- 1991
- 2003Tel Aviv central bus station massacre — terrorism
- 20082008 Georgian presidential election — extraordinary direct presidential election in Georgia on 5 January 2008, won by Mikheil Saakashvili
- 20232023 Sinaloa unrest — cartel violence in Mexico
- 2024Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on 5 January 2024 — 2024 aviation accident
Births · 60
- 1209(Julian date)Richard of Cornwall — King of the Romans, Earl of Cornwall, English royalty
- 1548(Julian date)Francisco Suárez — Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian (1548-1617)
- 1767Jean-Baptiste Say — French economist and businessman (1767–1832)
- 1838Camille Jordan — French mathematician (1838-1922)
- 1846Rudolf Christoph Eucken — (1846-1926) German philosopher
- 1855King Camp Gillette — American entrepreneur (1855–1932)
- 1874Joseph Erlanger — American doctor (1874-1965)
- 1876Konrad Adenauer — German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
- 1893Paramahansa Yogananda — Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship (1893-1952)
- 1900
- 1909Stephen Cole Kleene — American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist (1909–1994)
- 1914George Reeves — American actor (1914–1959)
- 1917Jane Wyman — American actress (1917–2007)
- 1920Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli — Italian pianist
- 1921Friedrich Dürrenmatt — Swiss author and dramatist (1921–1990)
- 1921Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg — Monarch of Luxembourg (1964-2000)
- 1923Sam Phillips — American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ (1923–2003)
- 1928Zulfikar Ali Bhutto — 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)
- 1928Walter Mondale — Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1928–2021)
- 1931Robert Duvall — American actor and director (1931–2026)
- 1931Alvin Ailey — African-American dancer, choreographer and activist (1931-1989)
- 1931Alfred Brendel — Austrian composer and pianist (1931–2025)
- 1932Umberto Eco — Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
- 1932Raisa Gorbacheva — wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1932–1999)
- 1938Juan Carlos I of Spain — King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
Deaths · 60
- 842Al-Mu'tasim — 8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842)
- 1066(Julian date)Edward the Confessor — Anglo-Saxon King of England from 1042 to 1066
- 1173(Julian date)Bolesław IV the Curly — High Duke of Poland
- 1286(Julian date)Chinkim — Son of Kublai Khan and his successor (1243-1286); CBDB ID = 115091
- 1430(Julian date)Philippa of England — Queen Consort of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Royal Princess of England
- 1465Charles I, Duke of Orléans — French duke and poet (1394-1465)
- 1477(Julian date)Charles the Bold — last Valois Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477)
- 1524(Julian date)Marko Marulić — Croatian national poet and European humanist
- 1527Felix Manz — Swiss martyr
- 1589Catherine de' Medici — queen-consort and regent of France (1519–1589)
- 1740Antonio Lotti — Italian Baroque composer (1667–1740)
- 1762Elizabeth I of Russia — sixth Empress of Russia from 1741 to 1762 (lived 1709-1762)
- 1796Samuel Huntington — American statesman; 18th Governor of Connecticut (1731-1796)
- 1828Kobayashi Issa — Japanese writer (1763-1828)
- 1858Joseph Radetzky von Radetz — Czech nobleman and Austrian general (1766-1858)
- 1860John Neumann — Czech christian missionary and saint (1811–1860)
- 1888Henri Herz — Austrian musician (1803–1888)
- 1904Karl Alfred von Zittel — German geologist and paleontologist (1839–1904)
- 1910Léon Walras — French mathematical economist (*1834 – †1910)
- 1922Ernest Shackleton — Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
- 1933Calvin Coolidge — president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
- 1942Tina Modotti — Italian photographer, activist and actress (1896–1942)
- 1943George Washington Carver — African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
- 1950John Rabe — German businessman (1882–1950)
- 1951Soh Jaipil — Korean-American independence activist and journalist (1864–1951)
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