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 José Matías 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. São 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 – André Dallaire attempts to kill Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien.
 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 Süddeutsche 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 – Léon 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 – César 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 Lévy, 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 González, 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 – Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
 1960 – Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
 1975 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist (b. 1909)
 1977 – René 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 – Bülent 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 – Héctor 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