Events

Up to 1900 
 610  Coronation of Emperor Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire.
 1143  King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a kingdom.
 1450  Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
 1502  Christopher Columbus names Costa Rica.
 1550  The city of Concepcion, Chile is founded.
 1582  This day does not exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, as the Gregorian calendar is introduced. In those countries, October 4 is followed by October 15.
 1665  The University of Kiel is founded.
 1762  British troops occupy Manila, Philippines.
 1789  French Revolution: Women in Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his intention to hold on to the system of feudalism.
 1793  French Revolution: Christianity is removed as the official state religion of France.
 1813  The Battle of Thames is fought in Canada, in which American forces defeat British ones.
 1857  The city of Anaheim, California is founded.
 1864  Calcutta, India, is almost completely destroyed by a cyclone, killing 60,000 people.
 1869  In weather, the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy along the maritime provinces of Eastern Canada.
 1877  Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to US General Nelson A. Miles.
 1895  The first individual time trial for cyclists takes place in London.

1901  2000 
 1903  Samuel Griffith becomes the first Chief Justice of Australia.
 1905  Wilbur Wright pilots the Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stuck until 1908.
 1908  Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 1910  Portugal becomes a Republic.
 1914  World War I: First aerial combat resulting in a death, in international conflict.
 1915  Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
 1921  Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
 1933  In Germany, the Nazis take total control of the press.
 1938  In Germany, under Nazi rule, Jews' passports are declared illegal.
 1943  World War II: 98 American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
 1944  World War II: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
 1944  Women in France are given the right to vote.
 1947  The first televised White House address is given by Harry S. Truman.
 1948  A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes present-day Turkmenistan, killing over 100,000 people.
 1951  The first Mediterranean Games begin in Alexandria, Egypt.
 1955  Disneyland Hotel opens in Anaheim, California.
 1962  The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released.
 1962  Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, is released in the United Kingdom.
 1968  Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, considered to be the beginning of the Troubles.
 1969  Monty Python's Flying Circus is first shown on BBC One.
 1970  The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
 1970  In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, British trade commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the Front de liberation du Quebec, starting the October Crisis.
 1973  Signature of the European Patent Convention.
 1974  The Guildford pub bombings are carried out by the Provisional IRA, killing 4 British soldiers and 1 civilian.
 1984  Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
 1986  Israel's secret nuclear weapons are revealed.
 1988  The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
 1989  Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1991  An Indonesian military transport plane crashes after take-off from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 137, including two on the ground. Only one on board survives.
 1992  Lennart Meri becomes President of Estonia.
 1999  The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
 2000  Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to the resignation of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.

From 2001 
 2001  In baseball, Barry Bonds overtakes Mark McGwire's single-season home run record, hitting his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season respectively.
 2004  At 27.25 degrees Celsius, Germany records its warmest October 5th in 125 years.
 2011  Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc., dies aged 56, leading to widespread reaction on social media.
 2014  Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi suffers serious injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, leading to his death in July 2015.
 2017  Allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, starting the #MeToo movement.
 2018  Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Births

Up to 1900 
 1338  Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390)
 1520  Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
 1640  Françoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, mistress to King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
 1658  Mary of Modena, Queen of England (d. 1718)
 1703  Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (d. 1758)
 1712  Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
 1713  Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784)
 1717  Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
 1743  Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian opera composer (d. 1818)
 1781  Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
 1789  William Scoresby, British sailor and explorer (d. 1857)
 1829  Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
 1844  Francis William van Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
 1848  Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
 1850  Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910)
 1858  Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist (d. 1929)
 1861  Ismael Montes, President of Bolivia (d. 1933)
 1862  Wilhelm Solf, German politician and diplomat (d. 1936)
 1864  Louis Lumière, French cinema pioneer (d. 1948)
 1878  Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
 1879  Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist (d. 1970)
 1881  Robert Stangland, American athlete (d. 1953)
 1882  Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
 1882  Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1982)
 1885  Ida Rubinstein, Russian dancer, actress and choreographer (d. 1960)
 1887  Max Ackermann, German painter (d. 1975)
 1887  René Cassin, French jurist (d. 1976)
 1888  Mary Fuller, American actress and comedienne (d. 1973)
 1889  Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan novelist (d. 1936)
 1892  Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
 1894  Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
 1895  Walter Bedell Smith, American general (d. 1961)
 1898  Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
 1899  Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1963)

1901  1950 
 1901  John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
 1902  Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
 1905  John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991)
 1908  Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)
 1911  Brian O'Nolan, Irish writer (d. 1966)
 1914  Zhang Zhen, Chinese general (d. 2015)
 1916  Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011)
 1919  Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
 1920  Meliton Kantaria, Soviet-Georgian soldier, raised Soviet Flag on the Reichstag (d. 1993)
 1921  Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
 1922  José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (d. 2013)
 1922  Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (d. 1985)
 1923  Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994)
 1923  Glynis Johns, British actress
 1923  Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)
 1924  Bill Dana, American actor
 1924  Frederic Morton, Austrian-American writer (d. 2015)
 1924  Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (d. 2015)
 1925  Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015)
 1927  Bruce Millan, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
 1929  Robert F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
 1930  Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
 1930  Reinhard Selten, German economist (d. 2016)
 1931  Derek Grierson, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
 1932  Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (d. 2019)
 1932  Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and writer
 1933  Diane Cilento, Australian actress (d. 2011)
 1936  Václav Havel, Czech playwright and former President of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia (d. 2011)
 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
 1941  Eduardo Duhalde, former President of Argentina
 1943  Michael Morpurgo, English writer
 1944  Cesare Nosiglia, Italian archbishop
 1944  Nils Malmros, Danish movie director and screenwriter
 1946  Thomson Allan, Scottish footballer
 1946  Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
 1947  Michèle Pierre-Louis, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
 1947  Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter (AC/DC)
 1948  Drew Jarvie, Scottish footballer
 1948  Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
 1949  Peter Ackroyd, English author
 1949  Klaus Ludwig, German racing driver
 1950  Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011)
 1950  Eddie Clarke, English guitarist

1951  1975 
 1951  Bob Geldof, Irish musician and humanitarian activist
 1951  Karen Allen, American actress
 1951  Willie Donachie, Scottish footballer
 1952  Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tajikistan
 1952  Vladimir Nevzorov, Russian judoka
 1954  Jimmy Hartwig, German footballer and actor
 1955  Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
 1955  Caroline Loeb, French actress and singer
 1955  Angela Molina, Spanish actress
 1957  Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist
 1957  Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
 1958  Antonio Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
 1958  André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
 1958  Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
 1960  David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player
 1960  Daniel Baldwin, American actor
 1960  Careca, Brazilian footballer
 1962  Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
 1962  Michael Andretti, American racing driver
 1963  Laura Davies, British golfer
 1963  Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater
 1963  Charlotte Link, German author
 1963  Nick Robinson, English journalist
 1964  Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
 1965  Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
 1966  Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
 1967  Guy Pearce, Australian actor
 1967  Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster
 1970  Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scottish politician
 1971  Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine footballer
 1972  Grant Hill, American basketball player
 1974  Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
 1975  Kate Winslet, English actress
 1975  Parminder Nagra, English actress
 1975  Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
 1975  Monica Rial, American voice actress

From 1976 
 1976  Song Seung-heon, South Korean actor and singer
 1976  Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
 1976  Royston Ten, Singaporean director, producer and screenwriter
 1977  Konstantin Zyryanov, Russian footballer
 1977  Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic artist
 1978  James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
 1979  Vince Grella, Australian footballer
 1979  Joe Lipari, American writer, comedian and moviemaker
 1980  Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
 1980  James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
 1981  Zhang Yining, Chinese table tennis player
 1981  Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer
 1982  Brandi Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1983  Florian Mayer, German tennis player
 1983  Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
 1983  Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain
 1984  Zlatko Dedic, Slovenian footballer
 1984  Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
 1984  Clint Jones, American ski jumper
 1985  Nicola Roberts, British singer (Girls Aloud)
 1987  Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
 1987  Park So Yeon, South Korean singer
 1987  Hadleigh Parkes, New Zealand-Welsh rugby union player
 1988  Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter (Monrose)
 1988  Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby player
 1989  Asmirandah, Indonesian actress, singer, writer and model
 1991  Arthur Pic, French racing driver
 1992  Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver
 1992  Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress and singer

Deaths

Up to 1900 
 578  Justin II, Byantine Emperor (b. 520)
 877  Charles the Bald
 1056  Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
 1112  Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian and author (b. 1030)
 1214  King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
 1285  King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
 1606  Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
 1763  King Augustus III of Poland (b. 1696)
 1777  Johann Andreas Segner, Slovakian-German mathematician, physicist and physician (b. 1704)
 1791  Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
 1805  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general (b. 1738)
 1813  Tecumseh, Native American leader (b. 1768)
 1837  Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
 1853  Mahlon Dickerson, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1770)
 1855  Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer
 1861  Kinsley S. Bingham, Governor of Michigan (b. 1808)
 1880  Jacques Offenbach, French composer (b. 1819)

1901  2000 
 1913  Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
 1918  Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
 1927  Sam Warner, American movie producer (b. 1887)
 1930  Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air (b. 1876)
 1933  Renée Adoree, French actress (b. 1898)
 1936  J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898)
 1938  Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (b. 1905)
 1940  Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
 1941  Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1856)
 1943  Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902)
 1957  José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
 1969  Walter Hagen, champion golfer
 1976  Lars Onsager, Norwegian physical chemist (b. 1903)
 1976  Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
 1983  Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware (b. 1907)
 1983  Humberto Mauro, Brazilian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
 1986  Hal B. Wallis, movie producer
 1986  James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
 1992  Eddie Kendricks, singer (b. 1939)
 1995  Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944)
 1996  Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1926)

From 2001 
 2002  Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
 2003  Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
 2003  Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey player (b. 1978)
 2004  Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
 2004  Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916)
 2007  Walter Kempowski, German writer (b. 1929)
 2007  Justin Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (b. 1898)
 2009  Giselher Klebe, German composer (b. 1925)
 2009  Israel Gelfand, Soviet-born American mathematician (b. 1913)
 2010  Bernard Clavel, French writer (b. 1923)
 2011  Bert Jansch, Scottish musician (b. 1943)
 2011  Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and innovator, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
 2011  Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
 2012  Claude Pinoteau, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
 2013  Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor and movie director (b. 1922)
 2014  Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (b. 1917)
 2014  Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (b. 1959)
 2014  Anna Przybylska, Polish actress (b. 1978)
 2014  Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian actor, director, artist and dancer (b. 1930)
 2014  Anna Maria Gherardi, Italian actress (b. 1939)
 2014  Misty Upham, American actress (b. 1982)
 2015  Henning Mankell, Swedish writer (b. 1948)
 2015  Jos Vandeloo, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1925)
 2015  Grace Lee Boggs, American writer and activist (b. 1915)
 2015  Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director and artist (b. 1950)
 2015  Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (b. 1938)
 2016  Georges Balandier, French sociologist, ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1920)
 2016  Michal Kovac, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
 2016  Josh Samman, American mixed martial artist (b. 1988)
 2017  Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932)
 2017  Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician (b. 1955)
 2017  Giorgio Pressburger, Hungarian-Italian writer (b. 1937)
 2017  Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and novelist (b. 1947)
 2017  Sylke Tempel, German journalist and novelist (b. 1963)
 2018  Jimmy Duquennoy, Belgian cyclist (b. 1995)
 2018  Ray Galton, English screenwriter (b. 1930)
 2018  Ivar Odnes, Norwegian politician (b. 1963)
 2018  Víctor Pey, Spanish-Chilean engineer and political activist (b. 1915)
 2019  Andy Etcheburren, American baseball player (b. 1943)
 2019  Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor (b. 1963)
 2019  David Greaves, English snooker player (b. 1946)
 2019  Henry Keizer, Dutch politician and businessman (b. 1960)
 2019  Blaine Lindgren, American sprinter (b. 1939)
 2019  Margaret Lyons, Canadian radio executive (b. 1923)
 2019  Philippe Vandevelde, Belgian comic writer (b. 1957)

Observances 
 Republic Day (Portugal)
 International Teachers' Day (UNESCO)
 Teachers' Day (Pakistan, Russia)
 Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
 Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
 Stara Zagora (Bulgaria)

October 05