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Acontecimientos
- 1009Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the Battle of Qantish.
- 1138Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1499The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
- 1556Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar.
- 1605Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
- 1757Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1768The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1780French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
- 1811Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
- 1828Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
- 1834Founding of the Free University of Brussels by Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
- 1862American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
- 1862American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.
- 1872Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1881In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field forces led by Minister of Native Affairs John Bryce march on the pacifist Māori settlement at Parihaka, evicting upwards of 2000 residents, and destroying the settlement in the context of the New Zealand land confiscations.
- 1895George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- 1898Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
- 1911After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1912Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
- 1913King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
- 1914World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1916The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1916The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
- 1917Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 1925Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1940World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser is sunk by the German pocket battleship .
- 1940Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
- 1943World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
- 1945The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence.
- 1950Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1955After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- 1956Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
- 1968Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
- 1970The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
- 1983The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1986, and visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.
- 1990Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1991Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.
- 1995André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
- 1996Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
- 1996Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
- 2006Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
- 2007China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2007The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
- 2009U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
- 2010JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.
- 2013India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
- 2015An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
- 2015Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2017Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
- 2021The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
- 2024Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
Nacimientos
- 1271Ghazan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (died 1304)
- 1436Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, Earl of Tankerville, 1450–1460 (died 1466)
- 1494Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (died 1576)
- 1549Philippe de Mornay, French theologian and author (died 1623)
- 1592Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (died 1672)
- 1607Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (died 1678)
- 1613Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (died 1691)
- 1615Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (died 1648) fecha discutida
- 1666Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (died 1729)
- 1667Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (died 1719)
- 1688Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1757) juliano y gregoriano
- 1701Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (died 1785)
- 1705Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (died 1770) juliano y gregoriano
- 1715John Brown, English author and playwright (died 1766)
- 1722William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (died 1798)
- 1739Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (died 1819)
- 1742Richard Cosway, English painter (died 1821)
- 1789William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (died 1868)
- 1818Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1893)
- 1835Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (died 1902)
- 1846Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1869)
- 1850Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (died 1919)
- 1851Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (died 1923)
- 1854Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (died 1920)
- 1854Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
- 1855Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (died 1926)
- 1855Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (died 1913)
- 1857Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (died 1944)
- 1870Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1925)
- 1873Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (died 1935)
- 1879Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (died 1963)
- 1881George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (died 1961)
- 1883P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (died 1940)
- 1884James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1915)
- 1885Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (died 1981)
- 1886Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (died 1961)
- 1887Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (died 1961)
- 1890Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1977)
- 1892J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (died 1964)
- 1892John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, copilot of the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight (died 1919)
- 1893Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (died 1986)
- 1894Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (died 1960)
- 1895Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (died 1956)
- 1895Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1956)
- 1899Margaret Atwood Judson, American historian and author (died 1991)
- 1900Natalie Schafer, American actress (died 1991)
- 1900Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (died 1993)
- 1901Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (died 2004)
- 1901Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge and politician (died 1972) las demás fuentes: 5 nov 1900
- 1901Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (died 1979)
- 1904Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1985)
- 1905Joel McCrea, American actor (died 1990)
- 1905Louis Rosier, French racing driver (died 1956)
- 1905Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (died 1973)
- 1906Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (died 1944)
- 1906Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (died 2004)
- 1910John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (died 1997)
- 1911Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (died 2010)
- 1911Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor (died 1998)
- 1912W. Allen Wallis, American economist and statistician (died 1998)
- 1913Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter and cinematographer (died 2005) juliano y gregoriano
- 1913Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (died 1967)
- 1913John McGiver, American actor (died 1975)
- 1914Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (died 2005)
- 1917Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (died 2000)
- 1917Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (died 2007)
- 1917James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (died 2002)
- 1917Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player
- 1919Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (died 1978)
- 1919Myron Floren, American accordionist and pianist (died 2005)
- 1920Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (died 2012)
- 1920Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
- 1921Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1994)
- 1921Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (died 2013)
- 1922Violet Barclay, American illustrator (died 2010)
- 1922Yitzchok Scheiner, American-Israeli rabbi (died 2021)
- 1922Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (died 2008)
- 1923Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel (died 2002)
- 1926John Berger, English author, poet, painter and critic (died 2017)
- 1927Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (died 2009)
- 1930Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)
- 1930Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (died 2015)
- 1931Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist and academic (died 2013)
- 1931Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (died 2016)
- 1931Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (died 1971)
- 1931Diane Pearson, British book editor and novelist (died 2017)
- 1931Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2007)
- 1932Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (died 2001)
- 1933Herb Edelman, American actor (died 1996)
- 1934Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (died 2014)
- 1935Lester Piggott, English flat racing jockey and trainer (died 2022)
- 1935Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (died 2015)
- 1936Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (died 2001)
- 1936Uwe Seeler, German footballer (died 2022)
- 1936Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (died 2015)
- 1937Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
- 1937Harris Yulin, American actor (died 2025)
- 1938Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (died 1980)
- 1938Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
- 1939Lobsang Tenzin, Tibetan religious leader
- 1940Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
- 1940Elke Sommer, German actress
- 1941Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
- 1941Bill Schlesinger, American baseball player (died 2023)
- 1942Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)
- 1943Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (died 2007)
- 1943Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper (died 2022) las demás fuentes: 5 nov 1942
- 1943Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (died 2017)
- 1945Peter Pace, American general
- 1945Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
- 1945Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
- 1946Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)
- 1947Quint Davis, American director and producer
- 1947Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1947Tonin Çobani, Albanian folklorist and writer.
- 1948Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
- 1948Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1948Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
- 1948William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949Armin Shimerman, American actor
- 1949Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)
- 1950Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
- 1950James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
- 1952Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
- 1952Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
- 1952Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2024)
- 1953Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author and academic
- 1954Vincenzo D'Amico, Italian footballer (died 2023)
- 1954Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2020)
- 1954Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
- 1955Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
- 1955Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman
- 1955Nestor Serrano, American actor
- 1955Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
- 1956Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (died 1999)
- 1956John Harwood, American journalist
- 1956Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
- 1956Michael Sorridimi, Australian rugby league player
- 1956Jeff Watson, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1957Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1958Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter and producer
- 1958Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter
- 1958Robert Patrick, American actor
- 1959Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
- 1959Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
- 1960René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1960Tilda Swinton, English actress
- 1960Mark West, American basketball player
- 1961Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (died 2012)
- 1962Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (died 2015)
- 1962Michael Gaston, American actor
- 1962Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager las demás fuentes: 5 nov 1964
- 1962Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author
- 1963Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout
- 1963Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
- 1963Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
- 1963Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
- 1963Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter fecha discutida
- 1965Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist
- 1965Angelo Moore, American singer and musician
- 1966James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster
- 1966Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1966Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
- 1967Judy Reyes, American actress and producer
- 1968Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director and businessman (died 2013)
- 1968Seth Gilliam, American actor
- 1968Sam Rockwell, American actor
- 1969Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
- 1970Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
- 1971Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1971Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
- 1971Corin Nemec, American actor, producer and screenwriter
- 1971Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
- 1973Johnny Damon, American baseball player
- 1973Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
- 1974Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1974Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter
- 1974Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach
- 1974Taine Randell, New Zealand rugby player
- 1974Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1975Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1976Sebastian Arcelus, American actor
- 1977Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
- 1977Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
- 1978Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (died 2011)
- 1978Bubba Watson, American golfer
- 1979Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
- 1979Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer las demás fuentes: 5 nov 1978
- 1979Keith McLeod, American basketball player
- 1979David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
- 1980Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
- 1980Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
- 1981Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
- 1982Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1983Alexa Chung, English model and television host
- 1984Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
- 1984Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1984Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
- 1984Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long-distance runner
- 1984John Sutton, Australian rugby league player
- 1984Nick Tandy, English racing driver
- 1984Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1985Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1985Annet Mahendru, American actress
- 1986BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actress
- 1986Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
- 1986Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
- 1986Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
- 1987Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
- 1987Jason Kelce, American football player
- 1987O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
- 1988Yannick Borel, French fencer
- 1988Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1989D. J. Kennedy, American basketball player
- 1991Flume, Australian DJ and producer
- 1991Jon Gray, American baseball player
- 1991Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1992Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
- 1992Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 1993Dastonbek Otabolaev, Uzbekistani karateka
- 1994Astou Ndour-Fall, Senegalese-Spanish basketball player las demás fuentes: 22 ago 1994
- 1995Trey Lyles, Canadian basketball player
- 1998Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer
- 2002Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player
Fallecimientos
- 425Atticus, archbishop of Constantinople las demás fuentes: 10 oct 425
- 964Fan Zhi, chancellor of the Song Dynasty (born 911)
- 1011Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (born 949)
- 1176Diego Martínez de Villamayor, Castilian nobleman
- 1235Elisabeth of Swabia, queen consort of Castile and León (born 1205)
- 1370Casimir III the Great, Polish king (born 1310)
- 1450John IV, Count of Armagnac (born 1396)
- 1459John Fastolf, English soldier (born 1380)
- 1515Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter and educator (born 1474)
- 1559Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and educator (born 1476)
- 1605Nyaungyan Min, Birmese king (born 1555)
- 1660Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (born 1591)
- 1660Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (born 1599)
- 1701Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1659)
- 1714Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (born 1633)
- 1752Carl Andreas Duker, German scholar and jurist (born 1670)
- 1758Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (born 1686)
- 1807Angelica Kauffman, painter (born 1741)
- 1872Thomas Sully, English-American painter (born 1783)
- 1876Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (born 1824)
- 1879James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (born 1831)
- 1923Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (born 1880)
- 1928Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (born 1872)
- 1930Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
- 1930Luigi Facta, Italian politician, journalist and Prime Minister of Italy (born 1861)
- 1931Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (born 1866)
- 1933Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (born 1884)
- 1933Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (born 1856) las demás fuentes: 5 nov 1934
- 1938Thomas Dewing, American painter and educator (born 1851)
- 1939Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary (born 1860)
- 1941Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (born 1905)
- 1942George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner (born 1878)
- 1944Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1873)
- 1946Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (born 1877)
- 1950Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (born 1863)
- 1951Reggie Walker, South African runner (born 1889)
- 1955Maurice Utrillo, French painter (born 1883)
- 1956Art Tatum, American pianist and composer (born 1909)
- 1960Ward Bond, American actor (born 1903)
- 1960Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (born 1895)
- 1960August Gailit, Estonian author and poet (born 1891)
- 1960Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1925)
- 1960Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1880)
- 1963Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (born 1902)
- 1964Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (born 1916)
- 1964Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1893)
- 1971Sam Jones, American baseball player (born 1925)
- 1972Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (born 1898)
- 1975Edward Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1909)
- 1975Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (born 1905)
- 1977René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (born 1926)
- 1977Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (born 1902)
- 1977Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (born 1906)
- 1979Al Capp, American cartoonist (born 1909)
- 1980Louis Alter, American musician (born 1902)
- 1981Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (born 1924)
- 1985Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (born 1898)
- 1985Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1895)
- 1986Adolf Brudes, German race car driver (born 1899)
- 1986Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1930)
- 1986Bobby Nunn, American singer (born 1925)
- 1987Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (born 1922)
- 1989Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (born 1903)
- 1991Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (born 1923)
- 1991Fred MacMurray, American actor and businessman (born 1908)
- 1992Adile Ayda, Russian-Turkish engineer and diplomat (born 1912) las demás fuentes: 5 oct 1992
- 1992Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (born 1903)
- 1992Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1900)
- 1996Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (born 1934)
- 1997James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (born 1946)
- 1997Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (born 1909)
- 1997Peter Jackson, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster (born 1964)
- 1999James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (born 1931)
- 1999Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (born 1920)
- 2000Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (born 1899)
- 2000Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (born 1926)
- 2001Roy Boulting, English director and producer (born 1913) fecha discutida
- 2001Milton William Cooper, American radio host, author, and activist (born 1943)
- 2003Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
- 2004Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (born 1932)
- 2005John Fowles, English novelist (born 1926)
- 2005Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (born 1912)
- 2005Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)
- 2006Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1925)
- 2007Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1922)
- 2009Félix Luna, Argentinian lawyer, historian, and academic (born 1925)
- 2010Jill Clayburgh, American actress and singer (born 1944)
- 2010Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (born 1943)
- 2010Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (born 1931)
- 2011Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (born 1926)
- 2012Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (born 1920)
- 2012Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (born 1908)
- 2012Leonardo Favio, Argentinian actor, singer, director and screenwriter (born 1938)
- 2012Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1936)
- 2012Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (born 1926)
- 2013Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (born 1932)
- 2013Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (born 1934)
- 2013Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (born 1919)
- 2013Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (born 1948)
- 2013Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (born 1959)
- 2013Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1930)
- 2014Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (born 1921)
- 2014Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (born 1951)
- 2014Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (born 1927)
- 2014Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (born 1946)
- 2015George Barris, American engineer and car designer (born 1925)
- 2015Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (born 1923)
- 2015Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)
- 2015Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (born 1925)
- 2015Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (born 1930)
- 2020Geoffrey Palmer, English actor (born 1927)
- 2021Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer (born 1995)
- 2022Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer and actor (born 1987)
- 2023Pat E. Johnson, American martial artist and actor (born 1939)
- 2024Ben Baldanza, American economist and business executive (born 1961)
- 2024Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (born 1949)
Celebraciones
- Bank Transfer Day (United States)
- Colón Day (Panama)
- Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), and its related observances:
- West Country Carnival (English West Country)
- Cinco de noviembre (Negros, Philippines)
- Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka, India)
Santoral
- All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds
- Saint Domninus of Grenoble
- Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg
- Berthild of Chelles
- Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist
- Galation
- Blessed Gomidas Keumurdjian
- Blessed Guido Maria Conforti
- Blessed Hryhoriy Lakota
- November 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)