October 5

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 Francoise-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 Lumiere, 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 Rene 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 Jose Froilan Gonzalez, 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 Vaclav 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 Michele 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 Andre 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 Balde, 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 Kizil, 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 Renee 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 Jose 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 Victor 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)
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