November 5

Events
Up to 1900
1138 - Ly Anh Tong becomes Emperor of Vietnam at the age of two years, starting a 37-year reign.
1530 - The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
1605 - The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament fails. Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators are arrested, ending the plot led by Robert Catesby.
1688 - Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham. James II of England is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.
1743 - Coordinated scientific observations of the planet Mercury are organised by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
1757 - Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1811 - Priest Jose Matias Delgado begins El Salvador's 1811 independence campaign.
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader, is tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1838 - The Federal Republic of Central America begins to dissolve when Nicaragua breaks away.
1844 - James K. Polk is elected President of the United States.
1854 - Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman takes place.
1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union army for the second, and final, time.
1872 - Susan B. Anthony defies the ban on female suffrage (voting), by voting in the United States Presidential election; In the election, Ulysses S. Grant is elected to a second term.
1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first US patent for an automobile.
1901 2000
1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, Italy takes control of Tripoli and Cyrenaica in present-day Libya.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States. William Taft, in finishing third (behind Theodore Roosevelt running for the Progressive Party), scores the worst-ever result of a US President seeking re-election.
1913 - Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, the Prince-Regent, who becomes Ludwig III of Bavaria.
1914 - World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
1916 - The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed.
1917 - The provisional government of Estonia is overthrown, in the run-up to the October Revolution in Russia, which is so named because of the Julian Calendar in use in Russia at the time.
1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to serve a record third term as President of the United States.
1942 - World War II: The United Kingdom wins the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
1943 - World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
1945 - Colombia joins the UN.
1967 - A train crash at Hither Green, in Southeast London, kills 49 people.
1968 - Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, over Hubert H. Humphrey.
1970 - Vietnam War: The US Military Assistance command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years, at 24.
1982 - The Itaipu Dam is opened on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. Sao Paulo is among the places that it supplies electricity to.
1987 - Anti-Apartheid activist Govan Mbeki is released after 24 years in prison.
1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after giving a speech in a New York City hotel.
1994 - President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease in order to raise public awareness of the disease.
1994 - George Foreman wins the Heavyweight World Boxing Title, 20 years after his win in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974.
1995 - Andre Dallaire attempts to kill Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien.
1996 - Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari dismisses Benazir Bhutto's government, and dissolves Pakistan's National Assembly.
1996 - Flooding is caused in thinly-inhabited parts of Iceland, after the volcano under the Grimsvotn ice cap erupts.
1996 - Bill Clinton is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, defeating Senator Bob Dole.
From 2001
2003 - Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
2006 - Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity. He is sentenced to death.
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
2009 - United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan goes on a shooting rampage, killing 13, and wounding 30 people at Fort Hood, Texas. It is the worst mass shooting ever to take place at a US military base.
2013 - The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (Magalyaan) is successfully launched by the ISRO.
2013 - US Elections: Democrat Bill de Blasio is elected Mayor of New York City over Joseph Lhota; Democrat Terry McAuliffe is elected Governor of Virginia over Ken Cuccinelli; Republican Chris Christie is re-elected Governor of New Jersey over Barbara Buono.
2017 - Sutherland Springs church shooting: 26 people are killed in a shooting in at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
2017 - Paradise Papers: The Suddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from offshore firm Appleby, revealing business dealings (including controversial tax arrangements) of celebrities, politicians (and their close associates), major companies and business leaders. The documents are shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Births
Up to 1800
1271 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 - Hans Sachs, German meistersinger (d. 1576)
1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born President of Harvard College (d. 1672)
1607 - Anna Maria von Schurman, Dutch-German polymath (d. 1678)
1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1648)
1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer (d. 1729)
1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
1705 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist (d. 1770)
1739 - Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglington, Scottish peer, composer and politician (d. 1819)
1754 - Alejandro Malaspina, Italian-Spanish admiral and nobleman (d. 1809)
1779 - Washington Allston, American painter and writer (d. 1843)
1787 - John Richardson, Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer (d. 1865)
1801 1900
1810 - Alphonso Taft, United States Attorney General, father of William Howard Taft (d. 1891)
1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
1851 - Charles Dupuy, Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist (d. 1941)
1855 - Leon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
1857 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
1864 - Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, English-Scottish artist and designer (d. 1933)
1870 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian politician (d. 1925)
1873 - Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player (d. 1935)
1878 - Kuzma Petrov-Vadkin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1885 - Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
1887 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
1889 - Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (d. 1994)
1890 - Jan Zrzavy, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1891 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (d. 1973)
1892 - John Alcock, British pilot (d. 1919)
1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
1893 - Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (d. 1986)
1895 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d. 1956)
1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1901 1950
1904 - Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (d. 1980)
1905 - John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
1906 - Fred Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
1911 - Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010)
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1914 - Emmanuel Nsubuga, Archbishop of Kampala (d. 1991)
1916 - Willoughby Gray, English actor (d. 1993)
1917 - Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1920 - Douglass North, American economist (d. 2015)
1920 - John H. Land, American politician, Mayor of Apopka, Florida (d. 2014)
1921 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 2004)
1921 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen of Iran (d. 2013)
1922 - Cecil H. Underwood, 25th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
1923 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (d. 2002)
1926 - John Berger, English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (d. 2017)
1929 - Lennart Johansson, Swedish football official, former UEFA President
1930 - Clifford Irving, American author (d. 2017)
1930 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
1931 - Charles Taylor, Canadian philosopher
1931 - Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
1931 - Geoffrey Bolton, Australian historian (d. 2015)
1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
1935 - Lester Piggott, British jockey
1936 - Uwe Seeler, German footballer
1938 - Joe Dassin, American singer (d. 1980)
1938 - Cesar Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
1938 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
1939 - Lobsang Tenzin, 5th Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile
1940 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British tenor (d. 2010)
1940 - Elke Sommer, German actress
1940 - Ted Kulongoski, American politician and former Governor of Oregon
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
1941 - Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
1942 - Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
1943 - Sam Shepard, American actor, writer and playwright (d. 2017)
1946 - Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1947 - Peter Noone, British singer
1947 - Franco Trappoli, Italian politician
1948 - Bob Barr, American politician
1948 - William Daniel Phillips, American physicist
1948 - Bernard-Henri Levy, French writer
1950 - Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian politician
1951 1975
1951 - Tony Evers, American politician, elected 66th Governor of Wisconsin
1952 - Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player
1953 - Joyce Maynard, American author
1954 - Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and coach
1954 - Jeffrey Sachs, American economist
1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
1955 - Kris Jenner, American television personality
1957 - Kellen Winslow, American football player
1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
1958 - Mo Gaffney, American actress and comedienne
1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and songwriter
1960 - Tilda Swinton, British actress
1961 - Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
1962 - Turid Birkeland, Norwegian politician (d. 2015)
1963 - Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress
1963 - Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer
1963 - Tatum O'Neal, American actress
1964 - Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer
1964 - Famke Janssen, Dutch actress, director, producer, screenwriter and model
1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
1967 - Judy Reyes, American actress
1968 - Sam Rockwell, American actor
1969 - Pat Kilbane, American actor and comedian
1970 - Tamzin Outhwaite, British actress
1970 - Shaun Murphy, Irish-Australian footballer
1971 - Chris Addison, English comedian
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, English musician (Radiohead)
1971 - Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
1971 - Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1973 - Danniella Westbrook, British actress
1974 - Ryan Adams, American singer
1974 - Dado Prso, Croatian footballer
1974 - Chris Sununu, American politician, 82nd Governor of New Hampshire
1975 - Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter (Steps)
From 1976
1976 - Claudia Llosa, Peruvian movie director
1977 - Yonas Kifle, Eritrean runner
1977 - Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress
1978 - Bubba Watson, American golfer
1978 - Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
1979 - Keith McLeod, American basketball player
1979 - David Suazo, Honduran footballer
1979 - Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
1979 - Patrick Owomoyela, German footballer
1980 - Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 - Eva Gonzalez, Spanish model and beauty queen
1980 - Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
1981 - Ksenia Sobchak, Russian television personality and politician
1982 - Rob Swire, Australian singer, musician and record producer
1983 - Alexa Chung, British television presenter and former fashion model
1983 - Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
1984 - Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1986 - BoA, South Korean singer
1986 - Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1986 - Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
1986 - Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
1987 - O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
1987 - Kevin Jonas, American musician (The Jonas Brothers)
1988 - Bailey Jay, American pornographic actress
1988 - Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
1992 - Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
1992 - Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
1994 - AJ Pritchard, English dancer and choreographer
Deaths
Up to 1950
1370 - Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)
1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1476)
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzani, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1807 - Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (b. 1741)
1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1759)
1876 - Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist (b. 1858)
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress and musician (b. 1884)
1933 - Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
1937 - Hadji Ali, vaudeville performance artist (b. between 1887 and 1892)
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer and composer (b. 1878)
1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1951 2000
1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 - Art Tatum, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
1960 - Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
1975 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist (b. 1909)
1977 - Rene Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
1981 - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1924)
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious figure (b. 1895)
1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and TV host (b. 1922)
1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (b. 1903)
1990 - Meir Kahane, rabbi (b. 1932)
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (b. 1923)
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
1992 - Adile Ayda, Turkish diplomat (b. 1912)
1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (b. 1909)
2000 - Jimmie Davis, American country music singer and politician (b. 1899)
From 2001
2001 - Gholam Reza Azhari, Prime Minister of Iran
2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (b. 1925)
2003 - Bob Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2006 - Bulent Ecevit, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
2006 - Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
2007 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
2010 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
2010 - Shirley Verrett, American opera singer (b. 1931)
2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
2014 - Manitas de Plata, French flamenco guitarist (b. 1921)
2014 - Lane Evans, American politician (b. 1951)
2014 - Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965)
2015 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
2015 - George Barris, American automobile designer (b. 1925)
2015 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (b. 1930)
2015 - Czeslaw Kiszczak, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1925)
2017 - Nancy Friday, American author (b. 1933)
2017 - Devin Patrick Kelley, American mass shooter (b. 1991)
2017 - Robert Knight, American singer (b. 1973)
2017 - Dionatan Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1992)
2017 - Mansour bin Muqrin, Saudi businessman and politician (b. 1973
2017 - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (b. 1956)
2018 - Keith Christiansen, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1944)
2018 - Hector Ferrer, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1970)
2019 - Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author (b. 1933)
Holidays
Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, Canada and New Zealand
November 05