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 – 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