Births on 5 October
2000s
Jacob Tremblay
2006
Canadian actor (born 2006)
1900s
Washington Sundar
1999
Indian cricketer (born 1999)
Exequiel Palacios
1998
Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Michael Hoecht
1997
Canadian American football player (born 1997)
Jewell Loyd
1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Wakamotoharu Minato
1993
Japanese professional sumo wrestler
Kevin Magnussen
1992
Danish racing driver (born 1992)
Cody Zeller
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Pär Lindholm
1991
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1991)
Tornike Shengelia
1991
Georgian basketball player (born 1991)
Nathan Peats
1990
Australian professional rugby league footballer
Kelsey Adrian
1989
Canadian basketball player
Marcel Baude
1989
German footballer
Ify Ibekwe
1989
Nigerian basketball player (born 1989)
Travis Kelce
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Benny Howell
1988
English cricketer (born 1988)
Bahar Kizil
1988
German singer
Maja Salvador
1988
Filipino actress (born 1988)
Dillon Francis
1987
American electronic music producer and DJ (born 1987)
Michael Grabner
1987
Austrian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Jesse Joensuu
1987
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1987)
Kevin Mirallas
1987
Belgian association football player (born 1987)
Tim Ream
1987
American soccer player (born 1987)
Park So-yeon (singer)
1987
South Korean singer (born 1987)
Luigi Vitale
1987
Italian footballer
Brandan Wright
1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Mladen Bartulović
1986
Croatian footballer
Tanner Roark
1986
American baseball pitcher (born 1986)
Nicola Roberts
1985
British singer-songwriter (born 1985)
Brooke Valentine
1985
American singer
Naima Adedapo
1984
American singer and dancer
Kenwyne Jones
1984
Trinidadian football player and manager (born 1984)
Nathalie Kelley
1984
Peruvian-Australian actress
Nate Thompson
1984
American ice hockey player (born 1984)
Angel Perkins
1984
American sprinter (born 1984)
Jesse Eisenberg
1983
American actor, playwright, and filmmaker (born 1983)
Nicky Hilton
1983
American socialite, fashion designer, and model (born 1983)
Florian Mayer
1983
German tennis player
Mashrafe Mortaza
1983
Former Bangladeshi cricketer and politician
Michael Roos
1982
Estonian-born American football player (born 1982)
Steve Williams (rugby union, born 1982)
1982
Rugby player
Jeanette Antolin
1981
American gymnast (born 1981)
Joel Lindpere
1981
Estonian footballer
Andy Nägelein
1981
German footballer (born 1981)
Yuta Tabuse
1980
Japanese basketball player (born 1980)
Good Charlotte
1980
American rock band
James Toseland
1980
British former motorcycle racer
Joakim Brodén
1980
Swedish heavy metal singer (born; 1980)
Vince Grella
1979
Australian soccer player (born 1979)
Curtis Sanford
1979
Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
Steinar Nickelsen
1978
Musical artist
Jesse Palmer
1978
Canadian player of American football
Shane Ryan (Dublin Gaelic footballer)
1978
Irish sportsman (born 1978)
James Valentine (musician)
1978
American guitarist (born 1978)
Morgan Webb
1978
American television presenter and producer
Hugleikur Dagsson
1977
Icelandic artist
Vinnie Paz
1977
American rapper (born 1977)
Konstantin Zyryanov
1977
Russian footballer and manager
Ramzan Kadyrov
1976
Head of Chechen Republic since 2007
Royston Tan
1976
Singaporean filmmaker (born 1976)
J. J. Yeley
1976
American racing driver (born 1976)
Bobo Baldé
1975
Guinean footballer and manager (born 1975)
Carson Ellis
1975
Canadian-born American artist (born 1975)
Hutch Harris
1975
American songwriter and musician
Parminder Nagra
1975
British actress (born 1975)
Monica Rial
1975
American voice actress (born 1975)
Scott Weinger
1975
American actor (born 1975)
Kate Winslet
1975
English actress (born 1975)
Rich Franklin
1974
American mixed martial arts fighter
Heather Headley
1974
Trinidadian-American singer
Anousjka van Exel
1974
Dutch tennis player
Cédric Villani
1973
French mathematician and politician (born 1973)
Annely Akkermann
1972
Estonian politician
Aaron Guiel
1972
Canadian baseball player (born 1972)
Grant Hill
1972
American basketball executive and player (born 1972)
Thomas Roberts (television journalist)
1972
American television journalist
Tonia Antoniazzi
1971
Welsh politician (born 1971)
Mauricio Pellegrino
1971
Argentine football player and manager
Josie Bissett
1970
American actress (born 1970)
Matthew Knights
1970
Australian rules footballer (born 1970)
Tord Gustavsen
1970
Norwegian jazz pianist and composer (born 1970)
Cal Wilson
1970
New Zealand stand-up comedian (1970–2023)
Rex Chapman
1967
American basketball player (born 1967)
Guy Pearce
1967
Australian actor (born 1967)
Dennis Byrd
1966
American football player (1966–2016)
Sean M. Carroll
1966
American theoretical physicist (born 1966)
Fredrik Olausson
1966
Swedish ice hockey player and coach
Jan Verhaas
1966
Dutch snooker and pool referee (born 1966)
Mario Lemieux
1965
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)
Patrick Roy
1965
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)
Korina Sanchez
1964
Filipino journalist (born 1964)
Laura Davies
1963
English professional golfer (born 1963)
Tony Dodemaide
1963
Australian cricketer
Michael Hadschieff
1963
Austrian speed skater
Michael Andretti
1962
American racing driver (born 1962)
Thomas Herbst (footballer)
1962
German footballer and manager
Caron Keating
1962
British television presenter (1962–2004)
Daniel Baldwin
1960
American actor (born 1960)
Careca
1960
Brazilian footballer (born 1960)
David Kirk
1960
NZ international rugby union player
Kenan Ä°pek
1959
Maya Lin
1959
American designer and artist (born 1959)
Kelly Joe Phelps
1959
American musician and songwriter (1959–2022)
André Kuipers
1958
Dutch astronaut (born 1958)
Neil Peart (footballer)
1958
Australian rules footballer (born 1958)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1958
American astrophysicist (born 1958)
Bernie Mac
1957
American comedian and actor (1957–2008)
Lee Thompson (saxophonist)
1957
English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer
John Alexander (footballer, born 1955)
1955
English footballer
Jean-Jacques Lafon
1955
French singer-songwriter and painter (born 1955)
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
1955
British businessman (born 1955)
Philip Hampton
1953
British businessman (born 1953)
Roy Laidlaw
1953
British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player
Clive Barker
1952
English author, film director and visual artist (born 1952)
Harold Faltermeyer
1952
German musician (born 1952)
Imran Khan
1952
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022
Karen Allen
1951
American actress (born 1951)
Bob Geldof
1951
Irish singer-songwriter and political activist (born 1951)
Jeff Conaway
1950
American actor (1950–2011)
Edward P. Jones
1950
American novelist and short story writer
James Rizzi
1950
American painter
Peter Ackroyd
1949
English author (born 1949)
Michael Gaughan (Irish republican)
1949
Provisional IRA hunger striker (1949–1974)
Ralph Goodale
1949
Canadian politician and diplomat
Bill James
1949
American baseball writer and statistician
Yashiki Takajin
1949
Japanese singer (1949–2014)
Russell Mael
1948
American musician and co-founder of the band Sparks
Brian Johnson
1947
English singer (born 1947)
Michèle Pierre-Louis
1947
Haitian Prime Minister
Zahida Hina
1946
Pakistani journalist
Robin Lane Fox
1946
British historian, educator and writer (born 1946)
Jean Perron
1946
Canadian ice hockey coach
David Watson (footballer, born 1946)
1946
English footballer
Brian Connolly
1945
Scottish singer-songwriter (1945–1997)
Richard Rosser, Baron Rosser
1944
British politician and peer (1944–2024)
Ben Cardin
1943
American lawyer and former politician (born 1943)
Steve Miller (musician)
1943
American guitarist and singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Michael Morpurgo
1943
British children's writer (born 1943)
Etela Farkašová
1943
Slovak philosopher and writer (born 1943)
Richard Street
1942
American singer (1942–2013)
Stephanie Cole
1941
English stage, television, radio and film actor (born 1941)
Eduardo Duhalde
1941
Interim President of Argentina from 2002 to 2003
Frank Stagg (Irish republican)
1941
Irish hunger striker (1942–1976)
Bob Cowper
1940
Australian cricketer (1940–2025)
Terry Trotter
1940
American pianist (born 1940)
Marie-Claire Blais
1939
Canadian writer (1939–2021)
A. R. Penck
1939
German painter
Consuelo Ynares-Santiago
1939
Filipino judge (born 1939)
Johnny Duncan (country singer)
1938
American singer-songwriter (1938–2006)
Teresa Heinz
1938
American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1938)
Barry Switzer
1937
American football player and coach (born 1937)
Václav Havel
1936
Last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)
Adrian Smith (basketball)
1936
American basketball player
Kenneth D. Taylor
1934
Canadian diplomat (1934–2015)
Angelo Buono Jr.
1934
American serial killer (1934–2002)
Doug Bailey
1933
Billy Lee Riley
1933
American singer-songwriter (1933–2009)
Neal Ascherson
1932
Scottish journalist and writer (born 1932)
Dean Prentice
1932
Canadian ice hockey player (1932–2019)
Michael John Rogers
1932
English ornithologist
Rosalie Gower
1931
Pavel Popovich
1930
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut (1930–2009)
Reinhard Selten
1930
German economist and Nobel Laureate (1930–2016)
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
1929
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1929–2017)
Bill Wirtz
1929
American businessman (1929–2007)
Louise Fitzhugh
1928
American novelist
Marjorie Finlay
1928
American opera singer (1928–2003)
Avraham Adan
1926
Israeli military officer and author
Willi Unsoeld
1926
American mountaineer
Gail Davis
1925
American actress and horseback rider
Herbert Kretzmer
1925
English journalist and lyricist (1925–2020)
Walter Dale Miller
1925
American politician
Bill Dana
1924
American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
José Donoso
1924
Chilean writer, journalist and professor (1924 – 1996)
Barbara Kelly
1924
Canadian-British actress (1923–2007)
Frederic Morton
1924
American novelist
Bob Thaves
1924
American cartoonist (1924–2006)
Philip Berrigan
1923
American anti-war activist (1923–2002)
Stig Dagerman
1923
Swedish writer
Albert Guðmundsson (footballer, born 1923)
1923
Icelandic footballer (1923–1994)
Glynis Johns
1923
British actress (1923–2024)
Kailashpati Mishra
1923
Indian politician
José Froilán González
1922
Argentine racing driver (1922–2013)
Bil Keane
1922
American cartoonist (1922–2011)
Jock Stein
1922
Scottish football player and manager (1922–1985)
Bill Willis
1921
American football player (1921–2007)
Donald Pleasence
1919
English actor (1919–1995)
Allen Ludden
1917
American radio and television personality (1917–1981)
Magda Szabó
1917
Hungarian novelist
Stetson Kennedy
1916
American author, folklorist, anti–Ku Klux Klan crusader (1916–2011)
Zhang Zhen (general)
1914
Eugene B. Fluckey
1913
Fritz Fischer (medical doctor)
1912
Nazi German human experimenter (1912–2003)
Pierre Dansereau
1911
Canadian ecologist (1911–2011)
Flann O'Brien
1911
Irish writer (1911–1966)
Mehmet Ali Aybar
1908
Turkish politician
Joshua Logan
1908
American director and writer (1908–1988)
Mrs. Miller
1907
American singer (1907–1997)
Ragnar Nurkse
1907
Estonian-American economist
John Hoyt
1905
American actor (1905–1991)
Harriet MacGibbon
1905
American actress (1905–1987)
M. King Hubbert
1903
American geologist (1903–1989)
Larry Fine
1902
American comedian and actor (1902–1975)
Ray Kroc
1902
American business magnate (1902–1984)
John Alton
1901
American-Hungarian cinematographer (1901–1996)
1800s
Elda Emma Anderson
1899
American physicist (1899–1961)
Nachum Gutman
1898
Moldovan-born Israeli artist (1898–1980)
Bevil Rudd
1894
South African athlete
Remington Kellogg
1892
American paleontologist
Teresa de la Parra
1889
Venezuelan novelist
Mary Fuller
1888
American actress
René Cassin
1887
French jurist and Nobel laureate
Manny Ziener
1887
German actress (1887–1972)
Arunachalam Mahadeva
1885
Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and diplomat
Ernst Pittschau
1883
German actor (1883–1951)
Robert H. Goddard
1882
American physicist and inventor (1882–1945)
Francis Peyton Rous
1879
American scientist (1879–1970)
Louise Dresser
1878
American actress (1878–1965)
Mike O'Neill (baseball)
1877
Irish baseball player (1877–1959)
Lucien Mérignac
1873
French fencer (1873–1941)
Louis Lumière
1864
French inventor (1864–1948)
Helen Churchill Candee
1858
American novelist (1858–1949)
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich
1856
Irish writer and politician (1856–1942)
Sergey Muromtsev
1850
Russian lawyer and politician (1850-1910)
Guido von List
1848
Austrian occultist and writer (1848–1919)
Francis William Reitz
1844
South African politician and statesman
Philipp Mainländer
1841
German philosopher and poet (1841–1876)
Chester A. Arthur
1829
President of the United States from 1881 to 1885
Henry Chadwick (writer)
1824
American baseball writer and statistician (1824–1908)
David Wilber
1820
American politician
Ursula Frayne
1816
Irish nun (1816–1885)
Friedrich Bernhard Westphal
1803
German painter (1803–1844)
Before 1800
Alexander Keith (politician)
1795
Canadian politician (1795–1873)
Joseph Crosfield
1792
Bernard Bolzano
1781
Bohemian polymath (1781–1848)
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
1743
Italian composer (1743–1818)
Chevalière d'Éon
1728
French diplomat, spy and soldier
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
1715
French physiocrat economist (1715–1789)
Denis Diderot
1713
French philosopher and writer (1713–1784)
Francesco Guardi
1712
Italian painter (1712–1793)
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
1703
American preacher and philosopher (1703–1758)
Maria Maddalena Martinengo
1687
Italian Roman Catholic nun
Mary of Modena
1658
Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1685 to 1688
Madame de Montespan
1641
Most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV
Paul Fleming (poet)
1609
German physician and poet (1609–1640)
Rani Durgavati
1524
Queen Regent of Gondwana (1524:-1564)
Alessandro Farnese (cardinal)
1520
Italian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)
Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg
1487
German nobleman
Catherine, Princess of Asturias
1422
Princess of Asturias
Louis II of Anjou
1377
King of Naples (1377-1417)
Alexios III of Trebizond
1338
Emperor of Trebizond from 1349 to 1390
Al-Dhahabi
1274
Muslim historian and traditionist (1274–1348)