October 5

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 610 &ndash; Coronation of Emperor Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1143 &ndash; King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a kingdom.
* 1450 &ndash; Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
* 1502 &ndash; Christopher Columbus names Costa Rica.
* 1550 &ndash; The city of Concepcion, Chile is founded.
* 1582 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The University of Kiel is founded.
* 1762 &ndash; British troops occupy Manila, Philippines.
* 1789 &ndash; 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 &ndash; French Revolution: Christianity is removed as the official state religion of France.
* 1813 &ndash; The Battle of Thames is fought in Canada, in which American forces defeat British ones.
* 1857 &ndash; The city of Anaheim, California is founded.
* 1864 &ndash; Calcutta, India, is almost completely destroyed by a cyclone, killing 60,000 people.
* 1869 &ndash; In weather, the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy along the maritime provinces of Eastern Canada.
* 1877 &ndash; Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to US General Nelson A. Miles.
* 1895 &ndash; The first individual time trial for cyclists takes place in London.

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

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; 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 &ndash; At 27.25 degrees Celsius, Germany records its warmest October 5th in 125 years.
* 2011 &ndash; Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc., dies aged 56, leading to widespread reaction on social media.
* 2014 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, starting the #MeToo movement.
* 2018 &ndash; Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
* 1902 &ndash; Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
* 1905 &ndash; John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991)
* 1908 &ndash; Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)
* 1911 &ndash; Brian O'Nolan, Irish writer (d. 1966)
* 1914 &ndash; Zhang Zhen, Chinese general (d. 2015)
* 1916 &ndash; Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011)
* 1919 &ndash; Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
* 1920 &ndash; Meliton Kantaria, Soviet–Georgian soldier, raised Soviet Flag on the Reichstag (d. 1993)
* 1921 &ndash; Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
* 1922 &ndash; José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (d. 2013)
* 1922 &ndash; Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (d. 1985)
* 1923 &ndash; Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994)
* 1923 &ndash; Glynis Johns, British actress
* 1923 &ndash; Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)
* 1924 &ndash; Bill Dana, American actor
* 1924 &ndash; Frederic Morton, Austrian–American writer (d. 2015)
* 1924 &ndash; Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (d. 2015)
* 1925 &ndash; Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015)
* 1927 &ndash; Bruce Millan, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
* 1929 &ndash; Robert F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
* 1930 &ndash; Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
* 1930 &ndash; Reinhard Selten, German economist (d. 2016)
* 1931 &ndash; Derek Grierson, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
* 1932 &ndash; Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (d. 2019)
* 1932 &ndash; Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and writer
* 1933 &ndash; Diane Cilento, Australian actress (d. 2011)
* 1936 &ndash; Václav Havel, Czech playwright and former President of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia (d. 2011)
* 1937 &ndash; Barry Switzer, American football coach
* 1938 &ndash; Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of US Senator John Kerry and part of the family that owns the Heinz ketchup company
* 1941 &ndash; Eduardo Duhalde, former President of Argentina
* 1943 &ndash; Michael Morpurgo, English writer
* 1944 &ndash; Cesare Nosiglia, Italian archbishop
* 1944 &ndash; Nils Malmros, Danish movie director and screenwriter
* 1946 &ndash; Thomson Allan, Scottish footballer
* 1946 &ndash; Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
* 1947 &ndash; Michèle Pierre-Louis, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
* 1947 &ndash; Brian Johnson, English singer–songwriter (AC/DC)
* 1948 &ndash; Drew Jarvie, Scottish footballer
* 1948 &ndash; Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
* 1949 &ndash; Peter Ackroyd, English author
* 1949 &ndash; Klaus Ludwig, German racing driver
* 1950 &ndash; Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011)
* 1950 &ndash; Eddie Clarke, English guitarist

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

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

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

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

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