November 5 Births

November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
1549 – Philippe de Mornay, French theologian and author (d. 1623)
1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (d. 1672)
1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (d. 1691)
1615 – Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (d. 1785)
1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770)
1715 – John Brown, English author and playwright (d. 1766)
1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1798)
1739 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (d. 1819)
1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
1789 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (d. 1868)
1816 – Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (d. 1885)
1818 – Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
1835 – Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (d. 1902)
1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
1851 – Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (d. 1944)
1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935)
1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963)
1881 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961)
1883 – P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (d. 1940)
1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1915)
1885 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (d. 1981)
1886 – Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (d. 1961)
1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961)
1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977)
1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
1892 – John Alcock (RAF officer), captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919)
1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960)
1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
1895 – Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956)
1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1972)
1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 – Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
1905 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (d. 1956)
1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997)
1911 – Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (d. 2010)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1998)
1913 – Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2005)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
1913 – John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
1914 – Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic (d. 1978)
1919 – Myron Floren, American accordion player and pianist (d. 2005)
1920 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (d. 2012)
1920 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
1922 – Yitzchok Scheiner, rabbi
1922 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
1926 – John Berger, English author, poet, painter, and critic
1930 – Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1930 – Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (d. 2015)
1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
1931 – Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (d. 2016)
1931 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (d. 1971)
1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2007)
1932 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
1933 – Herb Edelman, American actor (d. 1996)
1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
1935 – Lester Piggott, English jockey and trainer
1935 – Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer and actor
1936 – Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter, and arranger (d. 2015)
1937 – Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
1938 – Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentinian footballer and manager
1938 – Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
1939 – Lobsang Tenzin, Singaporean religious leader
1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (d. 2007)
1943 – Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper
1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
1945 – Peter Pace, American general
1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
1945 – Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1946 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
1947 – Quint Davis, American director and producer
1947 – Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneon player (d. 2010)
1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
1950 – James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
1952 – Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
1952 – Brian Muehl, American puppeteer
1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster
1953 – Florentino Floro, Filipino lawyer and judge
1953 – Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author, and academic
1954 – Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
1955 – Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman
1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
1956 – John Harwood, American journalist
1956 – Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1958 – Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1958 – Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter
1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1959 – Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter
1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2012)
1962 – Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (d. 2015)
1962 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager
1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author
1963 – Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout
1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
1963 – Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter
1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
1965 – Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist
1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager
1966 – James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster
1966 – Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
1967 – Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper
1967 – Judy Reyes, American actress and producer
1968 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director, and businessman (d. 2013)
1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
1969 – Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1970 – Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1971 – Chris Addison, Welsh-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1971 – Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter
1971 – Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
1971 – Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and producer
1971 – Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1973 – Peter Emmerich, American illustrator and educator
1973 – Gráinne Seoige, Irish journalist
1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter
1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach
1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American actor, singer, and producer
1976 – Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
1976 – Jeff Klein, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
1978 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
1978 – Bubba Watson, American golfer
1979 – Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
1979 – Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
1979 – Keith McLeod, American basketball player
1979 – David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver
1980 – Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman, and politician
1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 – Orkun Uşak, Turkish footballer
1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
1982 – Leah Culver, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Pownce
1982 – Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
1982 – Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1982 – Matthew Williams, Welsh footballer
1983 – Alexa Chung, English model and television host
1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 – Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
1983 – David Pipe, Welsh footballer
1984 – Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
1984 – Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
1984 – Nick Tandy, English race car driver
1984 – Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1985 – Michel Butter, Dutch runner
1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter
1985 – Alo Dupikov, Estonian footballer
1985 – Rimo Hunt, Estonian footballer
1985 – Pınar Saka, Turkish sprinter
1986 – BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1986 – Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1986 – Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
1987 – Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
1989 – Andrew Boyce, English footballer
1991 – Flume, Australian DJ and producer
1992 – Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
1993 – Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model

Source: Wikipedia